[2] Chaplin III represented United States in weightlifting in the 1990s and 2000s.

Chaplin was the only American man to win a world-level event for 16 years (Clarence "CJ" Cummings won 2016 Junior Worlds).

[3] In 1999, Chaplin set the American snatch record at 77 kilograms with a 157.5-kilogram lift.

Both of those American records stood from when he set them until the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) re-organized the bodyweight categories in 2018.

[3] He died in Savannah, Georgia on February 4, 2022, at the age of 41.