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{{short description|American heptathlete}}
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| birth_name    = Lelia Kym Carter Begel
| birth_date    = March 12, 1964
| birth_place   = Inglewood, California
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'''Lelia Kym Carter Begel''' (born March 12, 1964, in [[Inglewood, California]]), also known as '''Kym Carter''', is a former [[heptathlon|heptathlete]] from the [[United States]], representing her native country at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona, Spain]]. There she finished in eleventh place.

Carter is the Carl Lewis Foundation's executive director and a board member of Sound Body Sound Mind, a program to increase physical fitness in high schools.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} She is the mother of twins.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Education==
* [[Wichita High School East]], class of 1982
* [[University of Houston]]
* [[Louisiana State University]]

==Corporate sponsors==
* [[Nike, Inc.]]
* [[Reebok]]

==IAAF World Indoor Championships==
* Silver medal in the [[pentathlon]] at the [[1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships]]
* Bronze medal in the pentathlon at the [[1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships]]

==Notable achievements==
In 1993, she earned her first World Ranking (No. 8) in the heptathlon and ended the season ranked number 1. It was the first time since 1985 that another American outranked [[Jackie Joyner-Kersee]] in the multi except for 1989 when Joyner-Kersee didn't compete.

In 1982, while at [[Wichita East High School]] (the same high school as national record holder in the mile, [[Jim Ryun]], she set the [[National Federation of State High School Associations|NFHS]] national high school record in the [[high jump]] at 6' 2 1/4".  The record lasted for three years.<ref>[http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 National High School Record Book]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115642/http://www.nfhs.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3247 |date=September 27, 2011 }}</ref>

==References==
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* [http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/1997/carter.asp Kym Carter] profile at [[USATF]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080606224649/http://www.soundbodysoundmind.com/website/about_board.asp Sound Body Sound Mind profile]

{{USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winners in women's pentathlon}}
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[[Category:Sportspeople from Inglewood, California]]
[[Category:Track and field athletes from California]]
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[[Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States]]
[[Category:Houston Cougars women's track and field athletes]]
[[Category:LSU Lady Tigers track and field athletes]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American sportswomen]]
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