At the 1984 Summer Olympics, this West Virginia native won 5 medals in gymnastics
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The Williamson Daily News | Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton ...  Aug 16, 2016 ... Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton was cutting edge ... Retton is shown in 1984 when she won the gold medal for gymnastics for the United States. ... Born and raised in Fairmont, West Virginia, (her father, Ron, at 5 feet 7 inches ... they remember where they were during the summer of 1984, she said.
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Mary Lou Retton - Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast in 1984 Summer ...  Mary Lou Retton - Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, CA - click to view her 1983 Fairmont High ... Olympic gold medalist, Mary Lou Retton is a native of Fairmont, WV. ... She won 5 medals, one gold.
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Free Flashcards about YGK Olympics - StudyStack  1912 Summer (Stockholm, Sweden; May 5 - July 22, 1912) ... 1984 Summer (Los Angeles, CA, United States; July 28 - August 12, 1984) ... In gymnastics, West Virginia native Mary Lou Retton won the all-around gold medal. ... Irish swimmer Michelle Smith won three gold medals in the pool, only to be plagued by rumors of...
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Mary Lou Retton - Wikipedia  Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is a retired American gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the ... career; 4 TV appearances; 5 Medical conditions; 6 Gymnastics legacy; 7 See also ... Retton was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, of Italian heritage (her family's original...
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Olympics 2016: Check Out the Top 8 Women's Gymnastic Moments ...  Aug 5, 2016 ... The 2016 Rio Olympics kick off on Friday, August 5, and the anticipation for ... In 1984, Mary Lou Retton became the first female gymnast outside of Eastern ... The West Virginia native also took home four additional medals that year, ... Fast-forward to 2008, when Shawn Johnson won the gold medal on the...
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Perfect 10 (gymnastics) - Wikipedia  Perfect 10 refers to a score of 10.00 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics, which was once thought to be unattainableparticularly at the Olympic Gamesunder the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). The first person to score a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games was Romanian ... gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where she scored 10s in the vault...
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List of multiple Olympic medalists - Wikipedia  The page lists various individuals who have won multiple Olympic medals at either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games. As of August 13, 2016, American swimmer Michael Phelps has won the most Olympic medals with 28 medals (23 gold, ... medals for more than one nation, for simplicity only the last nation he or she...
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Not Even A Wheelchair Stops Him From Dancing - philly-archives  Posted: June 23, 1986 ... Yuri Syedikh, of the Soviet Union, bettered his own world record in the hammer throw with a heave of 284 feet, 4 inches, according to Tass, ... the old mark of 283-3 in 1984, set the record in a dual track and field meet between ... shot a final- round 2-under-par 70 for a 7-under total of 271 to win the...
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Many Medals but No Consensus for Phelps as 'Greatest Olympian ...  Aug 1, 2012 ... Redgrave, unlike Phelps, could not pile on the events. He focused on one at each ... Then there is Lewis, the man most frequently mentioned in the same breath with Phelps. He won five gold medals in the sprints and four consecutive gold medals in the long jump from 1984 to 1996. Lewis also had more...
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Olympics Timeline: 1990s to the Present Day - Infoplease  The U.S. wins five gold medals, all by female athletes: speed-skater Bonnie Blair, ... 13-year-old Fu Mingxia of China wins the platform diving event, making her the ... over the age of 23 are allowed on each team, effectively making the Olympic ... They also win gymnastics, with the help of Kerri Strug, who nails her second...
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Scott Hamilton | American figure skater | Britannica.com  ... world champion and the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in men's figure skating. ... (born August 28, 1958, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.) American figure skater, who was a ... had not been seen since Henie, won Olympic gold medals at both the 1984 .... or the tracks, women have always excelled at sport, and here we've selected...
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Rhythmic Gymnastics Equipment and History - Olympic Sport History  Rhythmic gymnastics is a women-only event in which gymnasts perform on a floor ... and Ludmila Savinkova of the Soviet Union became the first world champion. ... of the long-established artistic discipline to enter the Olympic programme in 1984. ... sign form. Sign up for our newsletter.  Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
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Rafer Johnson - ESPN.com  6, 1960. If Johnson came within 10 seconds of Yang's time in the 1,500, the ... the hometown of Bob Mathias, who would win the decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. ... In 1956, he won his first national decathlon championship. ... Johnson had the gold medal, setting a then-Olympic record of 8,392 points in the process...
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Nadia Comaneci - Athlete, Gymnast - Biography.com  Aug 8, 2016 ... At age 14, Nadia Comaneci became the first woman to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. ... At the 1980 Olympics, Comaneci won gold medals for the balance beam and floor exercise. ... She won the Romanian National Junior Championships, and, as a...
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Mary Lou Retton - Wikipedia  Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is a retired American gymnast. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals. Her performance made her one of the most popular athletes in the United ... After winning her second American Cup, the U.S. Nationals, and the U.S....
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Female Athletes Featured on Wheaties Boxes - Mode  The iconic cereal brand has been featuring famous athletes on its boxes ... At the 1984 Los Angeles Games, 16-year-old Mary Lou Retton became the first American gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal which landed her on the front of a Wheaties box. ... Wheaties 1996 Gold Medal Winner Women's Gymnastics Team.
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Gymnastics all-around champions by age - Wikipedia  Prior to 1981, the minimum required age to compete in senior events sanctioned by the FIG ... Czech gymnast Vra slavsk, who followed Latynina to become a two-time Olympic all-around champion, was 22 before she started winning gold ... United States .... This page was last modified on 12 August 2016, at 07:37.
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Jeopary Question, POT LUCK - TriviaBistro.com  Jeopardy Question: POT LUCK - This American won her gymnastics gold medal in 1984 just 6 weeks after undergoing knee surgery.
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J! Archive - Show #662, aired 1987-06-23  Ecaterina Szabo led this country's women's gymnastics team to the gold in the 1984 games .... Bassanio found this lady lawyer's picture inside a leaden casket...
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Michael Phelps | American swimmer | Britannica.com  Aug 15, 2016 ... At the 2008 Games in Beijing, he became the first athlete... ... Michael Phelps, in full Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985, Baltimore, ... athlete in Olympic history with 28 medals, which included a record 23 gold. ... at age 15 the youngest world-record holder in men's swimming when he posted 1 min...
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Olympics  The Paralympic Games, which is the world's largest sports event for athletes with ... Russia, where she won a silver medal in cross-country skiing, and her long list ... women's gymnastics squad led the Final Five to team gold, then claimed four ... at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics; Romania's Ecaterina Szabo at the 1984 Los...