| Charity Hufnagel | |
| Birth Name: | Charity Griffith |
| Nationality: | American |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | High Jump, Heptathlon, Pentathlon |
| Birth Date: | 18 June 2001 |
| Pb: | High jump: 1.94 (Eugene, 2024) Heptathlon: 5914 (Gainesville, 2024) |
Charity Hufnagel (nee Griffith) (born 18 June 2001) is an American high jumper and multi-event athlete.[1]
She attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana before transferring to the University of Kentucky.
Competing as Charity Griffith in 2022, she finished fifth in the NCAA Outdoor Championship high jump competition.[2]
In 2023, she was named the Most Valuable Performer of the 2023 Mid-American Conference Indoor track Championships and won titles in the pentathlon and the high jump.[3] In June 2023, she won the high jump competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championship held in Austin, Texas.[4] To do so, she set a new personal best height of 1.93m to upset defending champion and 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lamara Distin.[5] [6]
She won the pentathlon at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas in February 2024.[7]
She finished second in the heptathlon at the SEC Outdoor Championships in May 2024, with a personal best tally of 5914 points, in Gainesville, Florida.[8]
She won the 2024 United States Olympic trials with a clearance of 1.94 metres.[9] [10]
After marrying in July 2023, she took on the surname Hufnagel.[11]