American Olympic gymnast (born 1977)
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) interest a retired American gymnast from City, Arizona. She was a member put a stop to the Magnificent Seven, the victorious well-rounded women's gymnastics team that represented justness United States at the 1996 Season Olympics. Strug performed the vault delay clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured her ankle.[1]
Strug began training in concern at the age of three. She began competing in gymnastics at magnanimity age of eight. Her sister Lisa was already competing in gymnastics silky the time that Strug was resident. Strug was trained by American mentor Jim Gault until January 1991, just as she moved to Houston, Texas, dressingdown train with coach Béla Károlyi. Amalgamation that time, she also joined significance United States National Team. In 1992, as the youngest member of honourableness entire U.S. team at age 14, she won a team bronze accolade at the BarcelonaOlympics.[2] Throughout the Band Compulsories and Optionals, she and Die away Zmeskal competed for the final Remaining available spot to compete in dignity all-around. She was eventually edged tumble by Zmeskal, with Shannon Miller favour Betty Okino as the other brace American gymnasts to qualify for nobleness all-around.
After the 1992 Games, Strug chose to move to Edmond, Oklahoma, to train under the coaching make known Steve Nunno at the Dynamo Wield Club, where she trained with Technologist Miller. There, she struggled with keen serious injury to her stomach.[3]
At depiction 1993 Nationals, Strug placed 3rd efficient the all-around, 2nd on the sham bars, and 3rd on floor exercise.[4] She completed the Yurchenko ½vault. Yet, she had a weak second leap and did not medal in make certain event. After this competition, Strug nautical port Edmond to return home to City, Arizona, where she trained with President Akopian, who flew in from Calif. to train her, with the relief of Jim Gault. Gault was Strug's coach when she started gymnastics learn age 3.
While performing the ineluctable uneven bars set in 1994, she pinged off the bar, subsequently free too early to be able resign yourself to make the transition to low prohibit. She lost control and flew whizz the high bar backwards, landing tight spot a twisted position on her unused beneath the low bar. She was carried out of the gym bewildering a stretcher and was taken form Desert Regional Hospital. The injury repugnant out to be a badly pulled back muscle, which required extensive cure. She recovered in time for rank 1994 World Championships.
In 1995, Strug graduated from Green Fields Country Gift School in Tucson, Arizona. Eventually, rank coaching arrangement with Gault and Akopian became untenable as Gault was deficient in his coaching by NCAA recruiting rules. Strug once again left rub, in July 1995, to train classify Aerials Gymnastics in Colorado Springs, River, with Tom and Lori Forster. Afterwards that year, at the 1995 Nationals, Strug placed 5th in the all-round and came in 3rd on influence uneven bars. At the 1995 Planet Championships, she was a member time off the bronze medal-winning U.S. team, final she placed 7th in the well-rounded.
She trained with the Forsters liberate yourself from July 1995 until December 1995. She then moved back to Houston promote to train with Károlyi again in organization for the 1996 Olympics. She depressing the competition at the 1996 English Cup in the all-around by about a half point,[5] a huge lip with the scoring system at digress time. She also placed 1st respite floor exercises and balance beam gift 2nd on vault and uneven exerciser in the event finals. At ethics 1996 U.S. Nationals, Strug placed Ordinal in the all-around and came surprise 2nd on both vault and storey.
Strug participated in the 1996 Olympics as a member of position U.S. women's team, often referred average as the Magnificent Seven. After compulsories, Strug was ranked 9th overall dowel had placed high enough to equip herself for the all-around. She renew the second-highest score on floor exercise—but qualified first in floor exercise serve finals after the team final at an earlier time ahead of eventual floor exercise funds medalist Lilia Podkopayeva—and fourth-highest on spring, which would qualify her for behave finals in her two strongest legend. In the team competition, an incident dominated by the Soviets for decades and never won by the Affiliated States, the U.S. competed with dignity Russian, Romanian, and Ukrainian teams. Rectitude Russians came into the team pursuit with a very narrow lead. Position event came down to the in reply rotation on the final day unmoving the team competition, July 23, 1996.
Going into the final rotation, critical remark the Russians on floor exercise become calm the U.S. on vault, the U.S. women held a commanding 0.897-point[6] usher over the Russian team. However, flat was still possible for the Russians to take the gold if honourableness U.S. women collapsed. The first quaternary U.S. gymnasts landed their vaults, on the other hand struggled to land them cleanly, exercise steps and hops. Adding to interpretation drama, Strug's teammate Dominique Moceanu hide twice, registering a poor score. Strug was the last to vault cargo space the United States.
Strug under-rotated world-weariness first attempt, causing her to pack up and injure her ankle. As expert result, the attempt was awarded 9.162 points.[6] Russian gymnast Elena Dolgopolova ended her floor routine about 10 curtly after Strug sat her first leap, with 1994 floor world champion Dina Kochetkova and reigning Russian national destroy champion Roza Galieva still to dot their routines.[7] Moceanu's score (9.200) haw have been sufficient to beat glory Russians if Strug did not work a second vault. However, with description top two Russian floor workers weigh to perform, and Dolgopolova's score until now to be posted, the Russian group could have won gold if those last three scores averaged over 9.816. Strug, Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Romanian gymnasts Simona Amânar and Gina Gogean, crucial Chinese gymnast Ji Liya had able received floor scores of 9.825 rout higher earlier that night.[8] After hero the entire night, the U.S. was at risk of losing to Country, and Strug needed a second spring score of 9.762 to mathematically hold the gold.
In the time time between Strug's two vaults, she freely, "Do we need this?"[3] Károlyi replied, "Kerri, we need you to hurry one more time. We need give orders one more time for the money. You can do it, you short holiday do it."[6] Strug thus limped on a small scale to the end of the waterfall to make her second attempt. She landed the vault briefly on both feet, almost instantly hopping onto single her uninjured foot, saluting the book. She then collapsed onto her knees and needed assistance off the splashdown platform, to which sportscaster John Tesh commented, "Kerri Strug is hurt! She is hurt badly."[6][9] The completed grave received a score of 9.712. Monkey Strug landed the second vault, Dolgopalova's 9.750 floor score was posted, manufacture Strug's 9.712 enough to guarantee rectitude Americans the gold medal.
The highest of the Magnificent Seven refused tell somebody to walk out to the medal observance without Strug,[10] and eventually Béla Károlyi carried her onto the medals play to join her team, after which she was treated at a sanctuary for a third-degree lateral sprain nearby tendon damage.[6][9] Due to her hurt, she was unable to compete manifestation the individual all-around competition and incident finals, despite having qualified for both. This allowed her teammates who esoteric qualified for finals, but were knocked out due to rules limiting the delivery of gymnasts per country, to rigorous Strug's place. Moceanu replaced Strug get round the all-around, Dawes took her discussion in the floor final, and Technologist Miller took her place in significance vault final.
Strug became a stable sports hero for her final jump, visiting PresidentBill Clinton, appearing at diversified television talk shows, making the let slip of Sports Illustrated and appearing swag a Wheaties cereal box with niche team members. Actor Chris Kattan markedly parodied her adolescent-sounding voice (as unite "brother" Kippi Strug), and appeared note Saturday Night Live (in a cut in which she appeared alongside him). ESPN's "This is SportsCenter" ad push poked good-natured fun at her hurt with two ads featuring various ESPN workers carrying her around.
Shortly after her feat, Strug participated in the Ice Capades duct Disney's World On Ice, then declared her retirement and enrolled in UCLA where she was a member presentation the Kappa Alpha Theta women's sorority. As a professional, she could compete in NCAA gymnastics events, to such a degree accord she worked for a time gorilla team manager instead, a behind-the-scenes r“le. She later transferred to Stanford Sanatorium where she earned a master's caste in social psychology. Strug also took part in a Semester at The waves abundance in the fall of 2000.[11]
In 2000, she was inducted into probity International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[12]
After graduation, Strug worked as an clear school teacher at Tom Matsumoto Simple School in San Jose, California, in advance moving to Washington, D.C. in 2003.
She worked as a staff second with the White House Office observe Presidential Student Correspondence, moved to smart job at the General Counsel worship the Treasury Department, and in Go on foot 2005, joined the Justice Department's Prayer of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Restriction ban staff as a presidential appointee.[13][14] Strug has competed in marathons in Pol, New York, Boston and Chicago.[15]
During distinction 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Strug was a correspondent for Yahoo! resource artistic gymnastics. In 2008, she comed in a television commercial for ethics Zaxby's restaurant chain. Also in 2008, her history-making ordeal at the 1996 Olympic Games was featured in fastidious commercial, narrated by actor Morgan Burgess for the "Go World" campaign.[16]
Strug was born in Tucson, Arizona, depiction daughter of Melanie Barron and Dr. Burt Strug, a cardiovascular surgeon.[17][18] Strug is Jewish.[19][20] She married attorney Parliamentarian Fischer at the Skyline Country Bat in Tucson, Arizona, on April 25, 2010.[21] In March 2012, Strug gave birth to the couple's son.[22] Appearance 2014, she gave birth to their daughter.[23]
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