Karen Cockburn

Karen Cockburn
Jason Burnett (center) with Rosannagh MacLennan (left) and Karen Cockburn (right) at the 2008 Olympic Summer Games
Personal information
Nationality:	Canada
discipline	Trampoline exercise
Society:	Skyriders Trampoline Club
Birthday:	2nd October 1979
Place of birth:	Toronto
Size:	163 cm
Weight:	55 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 1 × World championships 2 × 4 × 4 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Medals
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 singles silver Athens 2004 singles silver Beijing 2008 singles World championships gold Hanover 2003 singles bronze Hanover 2003 team silver Eindhoven 2005 Synchronous silver Québec 2007 team gold Québec 2007 Synchronous bronze Saint Petersburg 2009 singles bronze Saint Petersburg 2009 team silver Saint Petersburg 2009 Synchronous bronze Birmingham 2011 team silver Birmingham 2011 Synchronous  Pan American Games gold Rio de Janeiro 2007 singles bronze Toronto 2015 singles

Karen Cockburn (born October 2, 1979 in Toronto ) is a former Canadian trampoline gymnast .

Career

Cockburn won a total of ten medals at world championships over the course of her career . In 2003 she won the individual world championship for the first time in Hanover and finished third with the team. Two years later , a silver medal in synchronized gymnastics was added before she won silver with the team in Quebec in 2007 and became world champion in synchronized gymnastics with Rosannagh MacLennan . Further silver and bronze medals were added in 2009 and 2011 .

At the Olympic debut of the discipline in Sydney in 2000 , she came fourth in the qualification in the finals, where she gymnastics on the bronze rank. In 2004 she won silver behind Anna Dogonadze , and in 2008 , when she finished second behind He Wenna and ahead of Yekaterina Xilko . In her last games in 2012 , she just missed another medal with fourth place.

She won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 . In 2011 she reached the final as the first in the qualification, but could not start due to illness. In 2015 she was bronze in Toronto.

Karen Cockburn has been married to trampoline gymnast Mathieu Turgeon since 2007 . The couple has a daughter (* 2003).

literature

• Avery, Martin: Karen Cockburn: Soaring High . BookLand Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9780838-8-5 .

Web links

• Karen Cockburn in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Karen Cockburn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 5 questions with: Karen Cockburn (CAN). In: fig-gymnastics.com. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique , November 27, 2015, accessed on April 17, 2017 .