Strug biography
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Kerri strug biography
Kerri Strug
American Olympic gymnast (born 1977)
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Strug performed the vault that clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured her ankle.[1]
Gymnastics career
Pre-1996 Olympics
Strug began training in gymnastics at the age of three.
She began competing in gymnastics at the age of eight. Her sister Lisa was already competing in gymnastics at the time that Strug was born.
Strug biography
Strug was trained by American coach Jim Gault until January 1991, when she moved to Houston, Texas, to train with coach Béla Károlyi. At that time, she also joined the United States National Team. In 1992, as the youngest member of the entire U.S.
team at age 14, she won a team bronze medal at the BarcelonaOlympics.[2] Thro