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Amanda Yvette Bingson (born February 20, 1990, in Victorville, California) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the hammer throw. She is the current American record holder in the event with a distance of set at the 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Bingson attends school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she is a school record holder and majors in interdisciplinary studies. She had only taken up the hammer throw in 2009 as a college freshman and has continued to improve since then. A month before the trials, she finished fourth at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships.〔http://www.unlvrebels.com/sports/w-track/mtt/bingson_amanda00.html〕 Prior to that, she was a shot put and discus thrower at Silverado High School in Paradise, where her team won the state championship twice and where she finished second in the 2008 shot put.〔http://www.athletic.net/trackandfield/Athlete.aspx?AID=574871〕〔http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jun/21/unlvs-amanda-bingson-going-london-olympics-hammer-/〕 She qualified to join the Olympic team by finishing second in the hammer throw at the United States Olympic Trials, throwing 71.78m (reaching the A standard) in the 4th round.〔http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-TF/Results/Results36-1.htm〕 At the Olympics, she did not advance past the qualifying round, finishing 28th overall. Bingson appeared on one of the covers for the 2015 ''ESPN The Magazine'' ''The Body Issue''. ==Education== * Silverado High School in Paradise, Nevada, 2008〔(Amanda Bingson profile page, K-State Sports, Track and Field )〕 * University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Interdisciplinary Studies, formerly Sociology,〔(2010 UNLV Track and Field Media Guide, page 6, left column, cites 2009 statistics )〕 2013〔(Amanda Bingson profile page, K-State Sports, Track and Field )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amanda Bingson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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