Jordyn Wieber

Jordyn Wieber
Jordyn Wieber (2012)
Personal information
Surname:	Jordyn Marie Wieber
Nationality:	United States
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Society:	Twistars USA Gymnastics Club
Trainer:	John Geddert
Birthday:	12th July 1995 (age 25)
Place of birth:	DeWitt
Size:	157 cm
Weight:	52 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold London 2012 team  World championships gold Tokyo 2011 team gold Tokyo 2011 All-around bronze Tokyo 2011 Balance beam

Jordyn Marie Wieber (born July 12, 1995 in DeWitt , Michigan ) is a former American gymnast , multiple US champion, world champion and Olympic champion.

Career

Jordyn Marie Wieber was born in Michigan, the third of four children. She grew up in a sports-oriented household. Her mother was a track and field athlete, older sister Lindsay is a marathon runner, while older brother Ryan play American football and younger sister Kyra play football.

Jordyn started gymnastics at the age of four. In 2002 she qualified for the National Top Diamond Team of 5 to 8 year old gymnasts. In the following year, she achieved four victories as a level 5 gymnast at the Early State Championship ( jump , uneven bars , floor gymnastics and all-around). In the next higher class she reached second place in the all around at the Michigan State Championships in 2004.

Jordyn qualified for the Junior Olympic Championships in Oklahoma City in 2006 . In the all-around and in the floor exercise, she won two second places. There was also a 10th place in the all-around at the US Classics in Kansas City , which she could qualify for the US Junior Championships. Here she came in 9th both on the balance beam and in the all-around competition and was thus accepted into the US national team.

Her first assignment for the US team took place in 2007 at the Junior Pan American Championships in Guatemala . In total, Jordyn Wieber was on the podium five times: three times as the winner (all-around, uneven bars and balance beam), once as 2nd (all-around) and once as 3rd (floor exercise). At the following US Junior Championships she won two second places (jump and balance beam) and twice third place (uneven bars and all-around).

2008 was a very successful year for Wieber. She became US junior champion in all-around competition, floor exercise and jumping, plus a 2nd place on the balance beam and a 3rd place on the uneven bars. In addition, she achieved an all-around victory at an international tournament in Belgium , the Top Gym . In the following year, Jordyn was able to take four wins at the American Cup (all-around, jump, uneven bars and balance beam).

Jordyn was sidelined for a year due to injury. First she sustained an injury to the thigh muscles, then an ankle injury. In 2010 she tried her comeback at the US Championships, but had to give up the competition shortly after the start.

It was not until 2011 that she was able to intervene again in the competition. As a substitute starter, she was taken to the American Cup and was used there somewhat surprisingly. Victories in all-around, jumping, floor exercise and on the balance beam helped her to make a brilliant comeback, which she confirmed with three victories at the US championships (all-around, floor exercise and uneven bars) and a third place on the balance beam. The 2011 World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo became one of Jordyn Wieber's first career highlights. She became world champion both with the team and in the all-around competition, plus a bronze medal on the balance beam.

2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics in London should be another highlight for Wieber after the third triumph in the American Cup and another US championship title in the all-around competition. She also won the gold medal with the team, with her appearances in jumping on the floor and on the uneven bars serving as discarded results. Due to the Olympic regulations, which allowed a maximum of two starters per nation for the apparatus finals, she could only qualify for the floor exercise finals. There she reached seventh place. In an interview with USA Today on August 22, 2012, she cited a fatigue fracture as the reason for her disappointing participation in the Olympics . However, she did not use this injury as an alibi. Wieber took part in the “Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions” in autumn 2012.

She has been studying psychology at UCLA since autumn 2013 . She also works there as the manager of the gymnastics team.

On March 6, 2015, Jordyn Wieber announced her resignation.

Abuse in the US gymnastics team

On January 19, 2018, Wieber testified in court that she, like 140 other women, had been molested by longtime team doctor at USA Gymnastics, Larry Nassar .

Web links

Commons : Jordyn Wieber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jordyn Wieber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview in USA Today from August 22, 2012
2. ↑ A New Routine (March 6, 2015)
3. ↑ 'How do you sleep at night?' Olympic duo Wieber and Raisman confront Larry Nassar in court . In: The Guardian . 19th January 2018.