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With a total of six Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the eleventh most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time. As a public figure, Douglas' gymnastics successes have led to her life story adaptation in the 2014 Lifetime biopic film, The Gabby Douglas Story , [ 8 ] as well as the acquisition of her own reality television series ...
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is an American retired gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
She is the tenth female gymnast and first American female gymnast to win a World medal on every event, and the first female gymnast since Daniela Silivaș in 1988 to win a medal on every event at a single Olympics or World Championships. Biles is the originator of the most difficult skill on women's vault, balance beam, and floor exercise and ...
In 1996, the women of the U.S. gymnastics team, ... Despite the odds, the 18-year-old nailed the routine and, ever so briefly, landed with both feet on the mat before hopping and then collapsing ...
Biles is 27 and the oldest American female gymnast since the 1950s when the sport was vastly different. She has said her age is a major consideration in how she prepares for competition.
Katelyn Michelle Ohashi (born April 12, 1997) is an American gymnast [1] who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles.She is a six-time All-American and was a four-time member of USA Gymnastics' Junior National Team, the 2011 junior national champion, [2] and the winner of the 2013 American Cup.
McKayla Rose Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American retired [3] artistic gymnast.She was a member of the American women's gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the team and an individual silver medal in the vault event.
The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV. Now in their 20s and beyond, these talented ladies are no longer competing on ...