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{{short description|American sprinter}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
| name             = Chandra Cheeseborough
| image            = Chandra Cheeseborough 1975.jpg
|image_size = 230px
| caption          = Cheeseborough at the 1975 Pan American Games
| fullname         = Chandra Danette Cheeseborough
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|January 10, 1959}}
| birth_place      = [[Jacksonville, Florida]], U.S.
| height = 165 cm<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/chandra-cheeseborough-1.html |title=Chandra Cheeseborough |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417120853/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/chandra-cheeseborough-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-17}}</ref>
|weight = 58 kg
| sport = [[athletics (sport)|Athletics]]
|event = sprint
|pb= 100 m – 11.13 (1976)<br>200 m – 21.99 (1983)<br>400 m – 49.05 (1984)<ref name=sr/><ref name=tf>{{cite web |url=http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=424&Gender=W |title=Chandra Cheeseborough |website=trackfield.brinkster.net}}</ref>
| show-medals      = yes
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]] }}
{{MedalGold | 1984 Los Angeles | [[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|4 × 400 m]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1984 Los Angeles | [[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres|400 m]] }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1975 Pan American Games|1975 Mexico City]]|[[Athletics at the 1975 Pan American Games|200 m]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1975 Pan American Games|1975 Mexico City]]|[[Athletics at the 1975 Pan American Games|4 × 100 m]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]]|[[Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games|4 × 100 m]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Liberty Bell Classic]]<br/>(Olympic Boycott Games) }}
{{MedalGold | [[Liberty Bell Classic|1980 Philadelphia]] | [[Athletics at the 1980 Olympic Boycott Games|100 m]] }}
{{MedalGold | 1980 Philadelphia | [[Athletics at the 1980 Olympic Boycott Games|4 × 100 m]] }}
{{MedalSilver | 1980 Philadelphia | [[Athletics at the 1980 Olympic Boycott Games|200 m]] }}
}}

'''Chandra Danette Cheeseborough''' (later ''Shellman'', born January 10, 1959) is a retired American sprinter. She won two gold medals and a silver at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles.

==Track and field==
Cheeseborough broke onto the international track scene at age 16 by winning two gold medals at the 1975 [[Pan American Games]], taking the 200&nbsp;m in an American record time of 22.77 seconds. In 1976, she set the World junior record at 11.13 seconds by placing second at the U.S. Olympic trials, she then placed sixth in that event at the [[Montreal]] [[Olympic Games]].

Cheeseborough graduated from [[Jean Ribault High School]] in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] in 1977, where she set the still standing [[National Federation of State High School Associations|NFHS]] national high school records in both the 100 yard (10.3) and 220 yard (23.3) dashes. The federation converted record-keeping to metric distances shortly afterward.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 |title=National High School Sports Record Book |access-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115642/http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 }} National High School Record Book</ref> Next she attended [[Tennessee State]], where she was a member of national championship teams that set world indoor records of 1:08.9 minutes in the 640-yard relay and 1:47.17 in the 800-yard sprint medley relay. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott]]. She did however receive one of 461 [[List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients|Congressional Gold Medal]]s created especially for the spurned athletes.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|year=2008 |publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}}</ref> She won the national indoor 200-yard dash in 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1983.

Cheeseborough's breakthrough year in the 400&nbsp;m came in 1984, when she set two American records in the event, then placed second in the Los Angeles Olympics in a career best of 49.05. The 49.05 still ranks her as the #10 performer of all time.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/sprints/400-metres/outdoor/women/senior/ 400 Metres – women – senior – outdoor]. iaaf.org. Retrieved on September 18, 2017.</ref> She made history at the 1984 Games<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/chandra-cheeseborough|title=Chandra CHEESEBOROUGH - Olympic Athletics {{!}} United States of America|date=2016-06-16|website=International Olympic Committee|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> when she became the first woman to win gold medals in both relays, which were held less than an hour apart. Cheeseborough also became only the second athlete, after [[Paavo Nurmi]] 60 years earlier, to win two separate Olympic running events in a single day.<ref>{{Cite web | first=Chris | last=Lehourites | title=Nurmi set 2 Olympic records within an hour at 1924 Games | work=[[Associated Press]] | url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-olympic-games-finland-sports-general-7b369d866467eae2e564895fc124de5a | date=July 28, 2020 | access-date=December 14, 2022}}</ref>

==Coach==
Cheeseborough later became a coach and returned to Tennessee State. She was named head coach of both men and women in 1999. She also has served as an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1999 Junior Pan-Am Championships. In March 2007 it was announced that Cheeseborough would be the assistant coach for the 2008 Olympic team. Cheeseborough coached the sprints and hurdles for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As head women’s track and cross-country coach at Tennessee State, her alma mater, she led the Tigerbelles to six Ohio Valley Conference championships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20100807/SPORTS/801247088|title=Where are they now: Former Olympic track star Chandra Cheeseborough-Guice|last=Frenette|first=Gene|website=The Florida Times-Union|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{World Athletics}}
* {{USATF Hall of Fame|id=30}}
* {{YouTube|bnzPAJeyoZI|1984 Olympic Women's 400 meters}}

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