Candy Young
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Candy Young (born May 21, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete who was a record-setting hurdler at Beaver Falls High School in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
While running in the 1979 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Mt. SAC in Walnut, California she set the national high school record for the 100 metres hurdles at 12.95 (with an aiding wind of 1.5 mps) over full size .84 m (2 ft 9 in) hurdles. Just 26 days after her 17th birthday, that mark also still stands as the World Youth Best. Even the "best" for .764 m (2 ft 6 in) shorter hurdles is .13 slower. It also stands as the American Junior Record, tied ten years later by collegian Cinnamon Sheffield at altitude.[1] Earlier in the 1979 season, she had set the World Youth Best for the indoor 50 metres hurdles 5.95 at a meet in Edmonton. That mark also still stands. She was Sports Illustrated High School Athlete of the Year for 1979.[2] She was also Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year."[3]
