The Official Web Site of Gymnast Kerri Strug

www.strug.org

The official web site of
Olympic Gold Medalist

Kerri Strug

Recent News: 1996 Women’s Gymnastics Team – Amanda Borden, Amy Chow, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Jaycie Phelps and Kerri Strug were all inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame on June 19, 2008.

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Welcome to the official website of 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Kerri Strug! Kerri is a two-time Olympian and gold medalist. She was the youngest U.S. Olympian at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain at only 14. After four more years of hard work and training, she captured America’s spirit at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. As the team competition neared its end, Kerri was up last on vault. After shocking spectators by falling and injuring her ankle on her first vault, she managed to stick the landing on her second vault before collapsing in pain, helping to secure gold for the American team. It was a moment that landed Kerri on the front page of newspapers around the world and catapulted her into the spotlight. She was only eighteen years old.

Kerri’s passion for gymnastics was sparked when she was very young. She did flips and somersaults from the time she was four years old, following in the footsteps of her older brother and sister. Kerri steadily moved up the gymnastics ladder, but it wasn’t until 1990 that she decided to make a tremendous sacrifice for her dream. At 13, Kerri moved away from her home in Tucson, Arizona, leaving behind her family to train with world famous coach Bela Karolyi in Houston, Texas. It was a difficult move, but it put Kerri squarely on the path to the Olympic Games and to achieving gold.

Today Kerri is 30 and she works in Washington, D.C. She earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree from Stanford University. In her free time, Kerri enjoys running marathons, working with charities, giving motivational speeches, and cheering on young gymnasts as they go after their own dreams.

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