Carly Patterson

Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ) is a former American gymnast. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 she won three medals , two silver and one gold.

Career

Carly was born on February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana and now lives in Allen, Texas with her mother and younger sister. She started gymnastics in 1994 after attending her cousin's birthday party at the Elite Gymnastics gym in Baton Rouge. There her talent was recognized immediately and she could be further promoted.

Less than a decade later, she made her senior international elite level debut, won the American Cup titles in 2003 and 2004, and was also named 2004 US Co-National Champion. Furthermore, Carly was part of the "2003 World Championship Team", in which she won the silver medal in the all-around (all-around) and helped the states to the "World Championship Team Gold Medal" for the first time. Also at these championships Carly showed her spectacular bar exit (a double forward flip), which was then officially named "Patterson".

2004 Olympic Games

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Carly and her teammates Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch, Terin Humphrey, Courtney Kupets, and Courtney McCool managed to achieve the silver medal in the team final. In addition, Carly won second place in the bar final and was only beaten by Catalina Ponor, the 1987-born Romanian. In addition, she also managed to reach the top of the all-round competition and won Olympic gold in front of the Russian Swetlana Chorkina . This makes Carly the first American woman to have won Olympic gold in an all- around event after Mary Lou Retton , and goes down in American sports history.

After the Olympic Games, she ended her career for health reasons.

Private

Carly's life had changed drastically after that Olympic success. She has been invited to one award show after the other, has been a guest on several talk shows that are very well known in the USA and has been celebrated like a big star in the States. Autographs and interviews were now the order of the day for her and she was already planning for the future: She already worked with the American Dental Association and recorded an album with her own pop / rock music and she also worked as a trainer for young talents herself. Carly worked from the end of August 2006 on the US television program "Celebrity Duets".

On November 3, 2012, in Dallas, she married Mark Caldwell , a producer of computer games ( New World Computing ), who was three years her senior .

Quotes

“I was nervous before this competition, but I figured I had prepared well. My trainer just said: "You can do it!" and I believed in myself and said to myself, I can really do it! ”
Carly Patterson, 2004 Olympic Games

Original: "I was nervous for this competition but I thought I'd prepared really well. My coach said, 'You can do it.' And I believed in myself and said that I could do it. "

Awards

USOC Athlete of the Year 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Olympic Gymnast Carly Patterson Gets Married (November 4, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Patterson, Carly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Patterson, Carly Rae (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baton Rouge , Louisiana

[1] Olympic Gymnast Carly Patterson Gets Married (November 4, 2012)