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American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. [2] A total of 90 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 62 medals at the Olympics – 11 in team all-around, 11 in individual all-around, 7 in vault, 10 in uneven bars, 11 in balance beam, and 12 in floor exercise.
In June 2007, Gaylord was named the seventh-best U.S. gymnast of all time by Yahoo Sports. [27] In 1990, he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [28] He was also named to the UCLA Hall of Fame in 1995, the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2005, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2009. [29] [30]
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 ...
Suni Lee competed in the Tokyo Olympics and won a gold medal for best all-around athlete at the time, in 2021. Last year, she began suffering from kidney ailments that hindered her ability to train.
From gold medals to grown-up and gorgeous! The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV.
Biles, the most decorated American Olympic gymnast of all time, appeared to have put together another stunning performance but landing out of bounds twice cost the US star six-tenths of a point ...
The United States women team is currently third in the all-time medal count for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The first American gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships was Cathy Rigby who won silver on beam in 1970. [3] The first female American gymnast to win a world title was Marcia Frederick in 1978 on the uneven ...
This section lists the female Artistic Gymnasts who have won at least one medal in every event (team final, all-around, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise) at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The years listed refer to the World Championships at which the gymnast won her first medal in the event; the dates of any ...