Leading Off
October 14, 2002
Body LanguageSports take, and make, all kinds of bodies, from tiny to towering, from buff to beefy. On this and the next two spreads are 72 of the 130 men and women—swimmers and shot-putters, jumpers and jockeys, powerlifters and point guards, runners and rhythmic gymnasts, a flyweight and a sumo-photographed by Howard Schatz for his book Athlete, published this month by HarperCollins.
Suzy Powell
Discus
5'11", 170 pounds
Tasha Schwikert
Gymnastics
5'1�", 110 pounds
Erin Aldrich
High Jump
6'1", 143 pound?
Dallas Friday
Wakeboarding
5'1", 113 pounds
Ruthie Bolton-Holifield
Basketball
5'8", 150 pounds
Jacquelyn Jampolsky
Rhythmic Gymnastics
5'6", 110 pounds
Bob Kennedy
Long-Distance Running
6'0", 146 pounds
Adam Setliff
Discus
6'4", 270 pounds
Nathan Leeper
High Jump
6'2", 180 pounds
King Kamali
Bodybuilding
5'10", 248 pounds