C.J. Cummings, USCB-affiliated Olympian, Lifts at Tokyo Games
Athletics
When USA Weightlifting announced its eight-person team for the 2021 Summer Olympic Games (July 23-Aug. 8, Tokyo), no one at USCB was surprised to see CJ Cummings’ name on the list. A native of Beaufort, Cummings participated in the USCB’s Sand Shark Scholars Program several years ago and is the youngest member of Team USA.
Cummings, 21, was a favorite to make the team last year before the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the XXXII Olympic Summer Games to this summer. He is a four-time consecutive Junior world Champion, two-time Youth World Champion and holder of three International Weightlifting Federation World Records and 23 American records.
CJ Cummings came up short in his pursuit of a rare U.S. weightlifting medal, placing ninth in the men's 73-kilogram division. But he has said he’ll return to the Olympics in four years in pursuit of a medal. Cummings has been lauded as a future star in American weightlifting; The Wall Street Journal once dubbed him "the LeBron James of weightlifting."
Weightlifter and Beaufort native CJ Cummings, a former member of USCB’s Sand Shark
Scholars Program, competed in the 2021 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.