Onodi married U.S. Olympic pentathlete Jimbo Haley and is now a U.S. citizen. Apart from 4 Commonwealth gold medals, British artistic gymnast Claudia Fragapane has also earned 3 European Championship silver medals and two World Championship bronze medals. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002. It was first included in 1978 and, after a gap of two Games, has featured in every Games since Auckland in 1990. Injuries kept Sofia Muratova from achieving what might have been next-level Olympic fame. In his seminal work, Gymnastik fr die Jugend (1793; Gymnastics for Youth ), Guts Muths envisioned two main divisions of gymnastics: natural gymnastics and artificial gymnastics. He Kexin officially retired from gymnastics in 2013 and has lived a relatively low-profile life since then. Labeled a diva throughout her career, Khorkina was actually tough as nails and a team player. Amelie Morgan is an English artistic gymnast who won the bronze medal in the women's artistic team all-around event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Scottish Gymnastics' major partner and funding agency is sportscotland. Humphrey was a police officer for almost five years in Missouri following her gymnastics career, then left the police department and continued coaching gymnastics in the area. Sacramone shouldered the blame for the team's failings in 2008, but experts pointed out the team was at a huge disadvantage going into Sacramone's events due to a big points deficit to China. Dawes has stayed busy since her gymnastics career ended, including when she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 2002. Kerri Strug Vaulted to Gold with an Injured Ankle in the 1996 Olympics The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta not only celebrated the centennial of the international sports competition, but also became part of sports record books when the . Tokyo 2020 home. Age: 30 Birthplace: Alicante, Spain Age: 47 Birthplace: Lleida, Spain Age: 36 Hailing from Farnborough, England, she studied engineering at Stanford University, having secured a scholarship to be part of their NCAA gymnastics team. John Buchan (1875 - 1940) Born in Perth, Buchan was a Scottish novelist and historian who served as Governor-General of Canada 1935-40. These gymnasts are among the most prominent in their field, and information about each well-known gymnast from Spain is included when available. Best known for being the first woman to score a perfect 10.0 in Olympic competition, Nadia Comanecis legacy extends beyond making the three digit scoreboards of Montreal 1976 obsolete. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Miller bounced back with two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, in balance beam and the team competition with the "Magnificent Seven" squad. Her father, Farhat Mustafina, won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling for the Soviet Union in 1976. She said: "You can clearly see how I am doing the physical preparation. Charles Simmons was part of the mens gymnastics team that won a bronze at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. She began a career as a singer in 2020, releasing two singles under the stage name "Ghost." She was on a Wheaties box. Scotland's most famous glen combines two essential qualities of the Highlands: dramatic scenery and a deep sense of history. 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American gymnast Simone Biles became an international superstar at the 2016 Olympics when she won four gold medals, including in all-around and floor exercise, along with leading the U.S. to the team gold medal. Amelie Morgan also had a prolific junior career; she won five medals at the 2018 Junior European Championships. In 2000, she was the first German gymnast inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Ellie Downie wrote in her joint statement with Becky that she was consistently told she was too heavy from around age 14. Off the events, Korbuts tears of disappointment after a botched uneven bars routine cost her any chance at the all-around gold medal drew fans in. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the most famous mythical monsters in the world and, even to this day, remains one of Scotland's most enduring mysteries. Medals: 3* (gold, all-around disqualified/gold, team all-around/silver, vault). How influential is Douglas? Two-time Commonwealth gold-winning gymnast Nile Wilson is also a World Championship silver medalist and an Olympic bronze medalist. The British Gymnastics head national coach, however, had to step down while investigations regarding physical mistreatment accusations against her were underway. Aly Raisman is one of the most influential gymnasts in Olympic history. British gymnast and Olympian Amanda Reddin has had a successful coaching career, too, with star players such as Beth Tweddle and Jennifer Pinches as her trainees. "I was told by a nutritionist to provide photo evidence of everything that entered my mouth," she wrote. Born: Oct. 7, 1952 (Grozny, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), 1976 (Montreal), Medals: 9 (1968, gold, team all-around; 1972, gold, team all-around/gold, all-around/gold, team all-around/silver, floor exercise/bronze, vault; 1976, silver, vault/silver, floor exercise/bronze, all-around). Olympic teammate Nastia Liukin, who won gold in the all-around in 2008, is the godmother to her only child. She's even credited with the development of an artificial spine disk known as the Charite Disc. Here are some famous Scottish quotes to get you started on Gaelic life along with Mary Queen of Scots quotes. The same year, he also won a gold medal at the European Championships in Montpellier. when the world's best gymnasts compete for their countries and medals. It is one of the agencies responsible for overseeing the implementation of Reaching Higher - the Scottish Executive's national strategy for sport in Scotland. A two-time World Championship bronze medal winner, Ellie Downiealso won a gold medal at the 2017 European Championships, becoming the first Great Britain gymnast to receive a major all-around title. Moceanu, the last 14-year-old Olympic gymnast, seemed poised for superstardom at multiple Olympic games because of her age and talent, but came away with just one gold medal in the team competition in 1996. In 2003, he helped his team win the World Title of Trampoline World Championships in the team competition. On the flip side, she was past her prime when the 2012 Olympic trials rolled, around and she failed to make the U.S. team. Keleti was an Olympic . After a year away from the sport, Biles returned to competition in 2018. She won four medals at the 1988 Olympics, including helping lead her country to the gold medal in the team competition. Her gold in the uneven bars in 1996 was especially dramatic because she fell in the same event in the all-around competition just days earlier. A co-founder of Gymnasts for Change, she also campaigns against abuse. Moceanu was emancipated from her parents when she was 17 years old after accusing them of squandering most of the money earned during her time as an Olympic gymnast. It's called a triple-double. Via: dailyiowan.com. The most famous living gymnasts include Almudena Cid, Gervasio Deferr, and Tania Lamarca. American gymnast Shannon Miller didn't let her career become defined by the 1992 Olympics, where she set the record for most medals won in an Olympic games without winning a gold medal, when she brought home three silver medals and two bronze medals. She is now a successful trainer and a single mother. She participated in three Olympics for Romania and had her best showing in 2004, leading her country to the gold medal in the 2004 team competition, gold in the balance beam and gold in the floor exercise. Famous Scots in History Rob Roy Folk hero, outlaw and member of the MacGregor clan Mary Queen of Scots Find out more about her dramatic and tragic life, as well as her lasting legacy. Scotland is wild, both in culture and in nature. As of April 2022, 2 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Tania Lamarca and Lorena Gurndez. She was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2016. Maria Gorokhovskaya set the record with seven medals in a single Olympics in 1952, when she represented the Soviet Union with two golds, including the all-around, and five silver medals. For her final Olympics in 2016, she was chosen as Romania's flag bearer, which was the first time this honor was bestowed on a gymnast. We'll never know because the Romanian government, wanting to keep its thumb on Comaneci, did not allow her to compete. Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. She was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. Born in Singapore, she moved to Britain as a toddler and began training in gymnastics at age 6. Undeterred, the then 19-year-old Liukin persevered through to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Following the end of her career, Bosakova was a member of the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble before becoming a gymnastics coach in Czechoslovakia. 1 Beth Tweddle (Retired British Artistic Gymnast ) 42 12 Birthdate: April 1, 1985 Sun Sign: Aries Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa Known as Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle is a 3-time world champion and a 6-time European champion, apart from being an Olympic bronze medalist. Before the 2012 Olympic game, gymnast Gabby Douglas almost quit the sport. The way she floated back and forth between the bars heavily influenced the direction of the uneven bars, perhaps most notably in two-time Olympic uneven bars champion and compatriot Aliya Mustafina. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997 and became the first woman inducted into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame in 2020. 2. A pommel horse expert, he later won three more Olympic medals. Ludmilla Tourischeva's focused, understated persona is legendary in the sport. Caslavska went into hiding for over a decade after the incident, but returned to help train younger gymnasts in the early 2000s. She also reached the semi-finals of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing at 18, the second-youngest public figure on the show ever. Born: Dec. 18, 1931 (Miada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia), Died: Nov. 10, 1991 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Olympic years: 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome), Medals: 4 (1952, bronze, team all-around; 1956, silver, balance beam; 1960, gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around). Born: Feb. 4, 1988 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Olympic medals: 3 (2004, gold, all-around; 2004, silver, team all-around; 2004, silver, balance beam). Margit Korondi burst onto the international stage with six medals at the 1952 Olympics, including gold in the uneven bars. Before the International Gymnastics Federation changed the code of points in 2006 to an open ended system, 41 perfect scores were recorded in Olympic womens artistic gymnastics competition. I agree to receive email updates The story of Agnes Keleti's path to Olympic glory is unlike any athlete in Olympic history, and probably in all of sports. After her competitive career was over, Gutsu moved to the United States, where she's been a gymnastics coach in Michigan for the last two decades. She won both beam and floor and took second on uneven bars. She is known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, and is one of the Romania's top gymnasts of the decade. The incident took place at Dunedin Airport on Monday 27 February at 2pm. She was hurt again for the 1960 Olympics but gutted out a pair of silver medals in the all-around and vault, along with a bronze in the balance beam. Amy Tinkler is a British retired artistic gymnast who won the bronze medal for the Floor Exercise event in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Shushunova retired just two months after the 1988 Olympics and returned home to teach and coach gymnastics. Quaas holds the Guinness Book of. Amanar was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2007. She also had a guest-starring role on "Hart of Dixie" for six episodes. Born: May 16, 1955 (Hrodna, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1972 (Munich), 1976 (Montreal), Medals: 6 (1972, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise/silver, uneven bars; 1976, gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam), Few athletes can claim to be the one who changed their sport because of their sheer ability. Retton spent the next decade following her gold medal victory as one of the most popular athletes in America. She was a two-time Olympic captain for the United States' famed "Fierce Five" and "Final Five" squads in 2012 and 2016, leading the way to back-to-back gold medals in team competition. She and her sister had taken up gymnastics at age 6. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. Scottish poets are among the most famous poets writing in the English language: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson, Edwin Muir, Ivor Cutler. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. As a stunt performer, Walters received the 2010 Taurus World Stunt Award for the film Ninja Assassin. Medals: 10 (1952, gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/bronze, uneven bars/bronze, team, portable; 1956, gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/gold, team, portable/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around). Dawes pursued a career in acting for a while, including a role in the "Grease" Broadway musical in the early 2000s. At just her second competition back, the U.S. Championships, Biles won all five available gold medals. Mustafina deserves credit for being one of the most durable gymnasts in the history of Olympic competition and definitely one of the gymnasts who defined the 2010s, most notably with her back-to-back gold medals in the uneven bars at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Born: May 3, 1942 (Prague, Czechoslovakia), Died: Aug. 30, 2016 (Prague, Czech Republic), Olympic years: 1960 (Rome), 1964 (Tokyo), 1968 (Mexico City), Medals: 11 (1960, silver, team all-around; 1964, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around; 1968, gold, all-around/gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/gold, floor exercise/silver, team all-around/silver, balance beam). At Tokyo 2020, billions around the world will tune in to watch the top gymnasts on the planet, including arguably the greatest female of all time, displaying their physical and technical brilliance in pursuit of a gold medal and with a special place in history guaranteed for any athlete who innovates and breaks records on the biggest stage. Commonwealth gold-winning British gymnast and Olympian Lisa Mason retired at 19 but got back in the game in full swing at 31. Helena Rakoczy ( 1921 - 2014) With an HPI of 48.94, Helena Rakoczy is the 2nd most famous Polish Gymnast. Sam Langstaff, Scottish Gymnastics head of performance, said: "The 2016 championships are set to be an exciting event, fans will get the opportunity to watch some of Scotland's most talented . Olympic years: 2004 (Athens), 2012 (London), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro), Medals: 5 (2004, gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise; 2012, silver, floor exercise/bronze, team all-around). She became the first gymnast to be named to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Olympic medals: 9 (1976, gold, all-around/gold, uneven bars/gold, balance beam/silver, team all-around/bronze, floor exercise; 1980, gold, balance beam/gold, floor exercise/silver, all-around/silver, team alla-round). Her mother was killed as her family fled during the Nazis' siege of Leningrad in 1941. Apart from being a 3-time World champion and a 4-time European champion, Max Whitlock has also earned 6 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the British Gymnastics website. For Liukin, the daughter of Olympic champion Valeri Liukin and rhythmic gymnastics World champion Anna Liukin (nee-Kotchneva), at times Olympic gold seemed like destiny. In 2018, Tinkler tore ligaments in her ankle while practicing for the Birmingham World Cup and could not participate in the event. Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce was a nobleman from south-west Scotland. William Wallace Try some of our classes Enter your email and we'll send you some samples of our favorite classes. Tourischeva married one of the Soviet Union's greatest Olympians, sprinter Valeriy Borzov, who swept the 100-meter and 200-meter gold medals at the 1972 Olympics. In 2017, she auctioned off her Olympic medals for close to $340,000 dollars. Alicia Sacramone was an Olympic favorite heading into the 2008 games, but she came up short in the team competition, falling in two events that some said cost the U.S. the gold medal. They excelled on the world's biggest stage. However, she could not participate in many events like the floor exercise, the vault, and the balance beam as she tore her anterior cruciate ligament before the event. Shushunova died from complications from pneumonia in 2018, in her native Saint Petersburg, at just 49 years old. Gorokhovskaya set the standard by which all other Soviet Union gymnasts would be judged. One could make a case that the Hungarian national gymnastics team during this stretch was the equivalent of the Buffalo Bills in U.S. team sports. [2][4][5][6][7] Tweddle and Pat Hirst are the only British female gymnasts who have competed in at least three Olympics. Her performance at the 1972 Olympics redefined gymnastics from the sport it had been, with older, less mobile athletes to younger, more acrobatic athletes. Two-time European and Commonwealth Games champion gymnast Becky Downie didnt compete at the Tokyo Olympic trial due to her brothers sudden death. It is natural for a person to flinch when they fall or get hurt but gymnasts are expected to do the opposite. Lemhenyi-Tass medaled in three of those Olympics but only won gold once, in the now-shelved team/portable apparatus event in 1956. "Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England." Mary Queen of Scots. Courtney Kupets' career is a study in perseverance, determination and toughness. Shortly after her Olympic debut, Moceanu accused her parents of manipulation and violence and shocked the world when the then-16-year-old was emancipated.In 2012, she released her memoir, Off . She pioneered a back flip off the high bar and was among the first to do a back tuck on beam. She helped lead that U.S. team to the gold medal and her silver in the vault, despite how she looked, was still impressive. She has been named an MBE, too. Born in South Africa, she moved to England as a toddler and began training in gymnastics ate age 7. Though she had a short stint as a gymnast, Jennifer Pinches has already represented Britain in the Olympics, helping them gain the sixth position in the 2012 London games. Mary Lou Retton became an international superstar and one of the most beloved athletes in U.S. history with her performance at the 1984 Olympics. Though too young to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Liukins scores at the 2004 U.S. Championships would have ranked her third in the senior competition. She also loves traveling and sketching in her leisure time. She won a team gold medal at the world championships in 2003, tore her Achilles tendon that same year and came back to earn her spot on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. One of the most devastating injuries you can suffer in any sport is an Achilles tendon tear, which Izbasa went through in 2010. Suzanne Dando announced her retirement from gymnastics after the 1980 Olympics and then went on to work as a TV broadcaster for many channels, including Sky Sports, BBC One, and Channel 4. Amanar retired in 2000 and married Romanian attorney Cosmin Tabara in 2002. When Melanie Coleman, a gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died after falling off the uneven bars, veterans of the sport were stunned. B Frank Baines (gymnast) C Hamish Carter (gymnast) Adam Cox D Liam Davie F Steve Frew H Rosalie Hutton M Archibald MacLaren Svetlana Khorkina is one of them. She was removed from her position on the USA Gymnastics' Athletes' Council after 10 years when she shared a meme backing U.S. coaches and officials in the wake of the wide-ranging Olympic gymnastics scandal. She became one of the most respected orthopedic surgeons in the world. The list is in no particular order! Ukrainian gymnast Lilla Podkopayeva's amazing run at the 1996 Olympics can't be undersold. Born: Feb. 17, 1952 (Lubben, East Germany), Olympic years: 1968 (Mexico City), 1972 (Munich), Medals: 7 (1968, silver, uneven bars/bronze, team all-around; 1972, gold, vault/gold, uneven bars/silver, all-around/silver, team all-around/bronze, team all-around/bronze, balance beam). Shawn Johnson Shawn Machel Johnson East (born January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast. Podkopayeva won the Ukrainian version of "Dancing With The Stars" in 2007 and finished third in the Eurovision Dance Contest in 2008. Stoic and tough, Gina Gogean was actually only 13 years old when she participated in the 1992 Olympics. Gutsu's victory over American Shannon Miller by .012 in the all-around is still the closest margin of victory in Olympic history in that competition. From Alicia Sacramone to Betty Okino to Kim Zmeskal to Kristen Maloney to Dorothy Dalton to Marian Barone, the US gymnastics team has a rich history of success at the Olympics from both the individual and team sport. She also has a British Championship silver and a World Challenge Cup silver in her kitty and was part of the European Youth Olympic Festival. famous scottish gymnasts. Boginskaya, who was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2006, also sells gymnastics apparel online and spent years creating gymnastics camps around Houston. His dad was Scottish minister Rev Drummond . Tamara Manina won four medals at the 1956 Olympics, including a team gold for the Soviet Union, but had to miss the 1960 Olympics because of injury. One week after her win, she was stripped of her gold medal because of a failed drug test, courtesy of a banned substance in a cough medicine given to her by the team doctor. The famous gymnasts he trained include Comneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug. Here are five women who have done exactly that in gymnastics. She won her last World title on the event in 2003, eight years after winning her first. '. She also doubles up as a sports model at times and is known for her trademark over-the-top gymnastics attire. Keleti, who was also a professional cello player, was granted political asylum in Australia in 1956 after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary. Her mother and sister survived by hiding, but her father was gassed to death in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. After Korbut spoke out, several more gymnasts who trained under Knysh revealed they'd been sexually assaulted by him as well. She won a Game Award for her role in the video game Her Story and has performed as part of Bikini Atoll and Joe Gideon & the Shark. The first German inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, Maxi Gnauck grabbed four medals at the 1980 Olympics, including a gold in the uneven bars. Born: March 8, 1949 (Leningrad, Soviet Union), Olympic medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/gold, balance beam/bronze, all-around/bronze, floor exercise). The drama was ratcheted up when it was revealed that Retton had knee surgery just five weeks before the Olympics. Nadia Elena Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains, to parents Stefania-Alexandrina and Gheorghe, an auto mechanic. David Scott (1923-1936) William C Cairns (1936-1949) Robert Laing (1949-1953) James Taylor (1953-1956) Iain M. Clegg (1956-1962) Bill Engelan (1962-1971) Raymond Richards (1971-1974) James Livingstone (1974-1976) Simon Fraser (1976-1978) Jack Milroy (1978-1981) Alex Strachan (1981-1987) David C. Watt (1987-1993) Louise Martin (1994-1999) In 2002, she became the youngest gymnast ever inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Category:Scottish gymnasts Pages in category "Scottish gymnasts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. Larisa Latynina's nine gold medals are the most for any Olympic gymnast and the second-most gold medals for any Olympian, ever. Patterson's gymnastics career came to an abrupt halt shortly after the 2004 Olympics when doctors diagnosed her with several bulging discs in her back. She moved to Oklahoma to work with American Olympian Bart Conner at his gymnastics school, married him in Romania in 1996 and became an American citizen in 2001. Born: Sept. 16, 1934 (Petrozavodsk, Respublika Kareliya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union), Olympic years: 1956 (Melbourne), 1964 (Tokyo), Medals: 6 (1956, gold, team all-around/silver, vault/silver, balance beam/bronze, team PA; 1964, gold, team all-around/silver, balance beam). Miller, who lives in Florida, beat ovarian cancer in 2011. Nastia became an American citizen after her parents immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. She's also gained fame as a world-renowned sports scientist and the author of more than 40 books on the subject. Greatest Women's Gymnasts of All Time By Tony Adame, updated on May 3, 2022 Julio Cortez / AP Photo The world loves women's gymnastics. But although he was crowned in 1306, and won independence for Scotland at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, it wasn't until 1328 that Bruce was finally recognised by the English as King of the Scots. You can change your cookie settings at any time by using the . She went on to win medals in three of the four individual apparatus finals. Living Gymnasts Go to all Rankings Newly Added Gymnasts (2022) Go to all Rankings Suzanne Dando is an English former gymnast who has represented Great Britain in important events like the 1979 World Gymnastics Championships and the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Simone Biles appears to defy the laws of physics with this epic tumbling pass from the 2019 US Gymnastics Championships. Joe Fraser is an artistic gymnast who became the first and only English gymnast to win gold on Parallel Bars at the world championships when he won the medal at the 2019 World Championships. Medals: 2 (silver, team/bronze, uneven bars). Retired Romanian artistic gymnast Lavinia Corina Miloovici was born on October 21, 1976, and is widely regarded as one of the most prolific female all-around gymnasts of 1990s. Born: Sept. 5, 1976 (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), Medals: 4 (gold, team all-around/ gold, all-around/ silver, uneven bars/ bronze, floor exercise). June 11, 2022 Posted by: grady county, ga zoning map . Five famous female gymnasts who revolutionized the sport From Olga Korbut to Simone Biles, here are five women who changed the face of artistic gymnastics forever 6 min By Scott Bregman Updated on 27 September 2019 00:44 GMT-7 Artistic Gymnastics Tickets to the artistic gymnastics competition are some of the hottest at any Olympic Games. Best Gymnasts In The World Right Now! She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Biles will try to cement her status as the greatest Olympic gymnast of all time in 2021 after winning her seventh U.S. Championship and qualifying for the Olympics by winning the All-Around competition at the Olympic trials. She was a member of the selection committee that picked the U.S. gymnastics team in 2012 and remained involved with U.S. gymnastics team until 2019, when she was removed from her role after she sent out a tweet that seemed to criticize victims in a highly publicized abuse scandal. Olympian Brinn Bevan scripted history when he became part of the first World Championship medal-winning British mens gymnastics team, when the team won a silver in 2015. Gabby Douglas is the author of two books: 'Raising the Bar' and 'Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith'. California native McKayla Maroney, the daughter of former Purdue quarterback Mike Maroney, was the source of one of the greatest internet memes of all time when the picture of her on the medal stand receiving the silver medal in vault at the 2012 Olympics went viral. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Born in Glasgow Campbell-Bannerman was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908. Jackie Stewart. They don't make 'em like they used to. Ludivine Furnon, a French gymnast who competed through the 1990s into the early aughts, went from preteen novice to 15-year-old world bronze medalist on floor in about the same amount of time it.