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In the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Gaylord led the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's gymnastics team, becoming the first American gymnast to score a perfect 10.00 in the Olympics. He also won the silver medal in vault, the bronze in parallel bars, and the bronze in the rings.
The event was won by Bart Conner of the United States, the nation's first victory in the parallel bars since 1904 and second overall. Another American, Mitch Gaylord, took bronze. Japan returned to the podium after the 1980 boycott broke its six-Games medal (and four-Games gold medal) streak, with Nobuyuki Kajitani's silver.
He is a graduate of West Springfield High School and UCLA, who competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, along with Bart Conner, Peter Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord. [1] There, Daggett scored a perfect 10 on the horizontal bar, assisting his team in winning a gold medal – the first for the U.S. men's gymnastics team in Olympic history. [2]
However, for teachers like Gaylord High School's David Beyers and his middle school counterpart Casey Stradling, the evidence their revamped strength and conditioning program is working comes from ...
Ty Bensigner won GHS's Bernie Kuras Most Valuable Male Athlete Award while Alexis Shepherd won the Kim Swem Most Valuable female athlete.
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not included in the Olympic program: 1904 St. Louis details: Anton Heida United States: George Eyser United States: William Merz United States: 1908–1920: not included in the Olympic program: 1924 Paris details: Josef Wilhelm Switzerland: Jean Gutweninger Switzerland: Antoine Rebetez Switzerland: 1928 Amsterdam details: Hermann Hänggi ...
The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus.