Topic: News: Cara Heads Making Comeback, Good Lifting at '07 Colorado State Games

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

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Cara Heads Making Comeback, Good Lifting at '07 Colorado State Games

COLORADO SPRINGS, August 5--The 2007 State Games of America ended a record-breaking four-day stint on Sunday in Colorado Springs, with almost 11,000 athletes from 47 states on hand. That obliterated the old Games’ record of 9,462 athletes who came to the city for the 2005 national sports festival for amateur athletes of all ages and skill levels. A Colorado Springs World Arena record crowd of 10,007 saw five-time World Champion and two-time Olympic figure skating medalist Michelle Kwan light the Games’ flame and get the event off to an emotional start on Thursday night. Over 7,000 medals were awarded in 29 sports over the long weekend.

In women’s weightlifting at the Olympic Training Center, Olympian Cara Heads, 30, of Colorado Springs won the gold in the women’s 69kg class in weightlifting as she continues a comeback from injury and sets her sights on making the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team for the Games in Beijing. She finished 7th in the 2000 Sydney Games in the women’s 75kg division. Kara Yessie, 25, of Colorado Springs upset favored Jackie Wah of West Sacramento, CA, in the Senior Women’s 75kg class….Wah is a former three-time silver medalist in the USA National Championships and two-time gold medal winner in the American Open….Yessie and Mah were the 2006 Rocky Mountain State Games and California State Games champions, respectively….Seven-time National Champion and six-time World Masters’ Champion Anne Lehman, 47, San Francisco, CA, won the gold medal in the Women’s 53kg class….