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Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American 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. Strug performed the vault that clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured ...
Strug, Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Romanian gymnasts Simona Amânar and Gina Gogean, and Chinese gymnast Ji Liya had all received floor scores of 9.825 or higher earlier that night from the same judging panel. [5] Strug vaulted next as the anchor of the team and performed the same vault as Moceanu, also falling backward onto the mat.
Kerri Strug of the United States women's gymnastics team vaulted with an injured ankle and landed on one foot, winning the first women's team gold medal for the US. Shannon Miller won the gold medal on the balance beam event, the first time an American gymnast had won an individual gold medal in non-boycotted Olympic games.
The 21-year-old gymnast is a favorite to compete with Team USA this summer at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. ... Shilese was hit during a bad car accident, which broke her ankle and her back, ...
A college gymnastics star has announced her retirement from the sport after suffering a gruesome injury during the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday.. Auburn University senior ...
An epic floor routine from a UCLA female gymnast is going viral on social media. Nia Dennis, a 5-foot-1 senior gymnast from Columbus, Ohio, has gone viral on social media for her floor routines in ...
On July 25, 2009, at the Covergirl Classic in Des Moines, Iowa, Bross competed on the uneven bars, scoring a 13.150 (.050 better than her teammate Ivana Hong), but she was unable to compete on floor, beam or vault because of an ankle injury suffered during practice a few days earlier. She competed her bars routine without a dismount, thus ...
Jocelyn Moore’s career started with a pair of broken lamps and a shattered glass table. The Missouri gymnastics star, 7 years old at the time, had been going to recreational classes, joined a ...