Shannon Miller

Shannon Miller in April 2010

Shannon Lee Miller , married Shannon Philips , (born March 10, 1977 in Rolla , Missouri ) is a former American gymnast . She won medals in two Olympic Games.

Career

Shortly after she was born, her parents moved to Edmond , Oklahoma . She started doing gymnastics there when she was five and trained with Steve Nunno when she was nine. Her first major championship was the 1991 World Gymnastics Championships in Indianapolis . After she had won silver with the American squad behind the Soviet squad, she also won silver on the uneven bars , where she was only defeated by the North Korean Gwang Suk Kim .

In 1992 she took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona and won bronze with the American team behind the teams from the CIS and Romania. In the all-around competition, Miller won silver behind Tetjana Guzu from the CIS. In the individual finals, Miller won three more medals: silver on the balance beam behind Tetjana Lyssenko and bronze on the uneven bars and on the floor.

In 1993 and 1994 Miller was the best gymnast in the world and won the world championship in all-around in both years. In 1993 in Birmingham she also won on the floor and on the uneven bars; In 1994 in Brisbane , she won gold on the balance beam. In 1995 Miller won gold at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata in the all- around competition, with the team, as well as on the floor and uneven bars, and she received silver for her jumping exercise.

In 1996, the US team was in the Olympic Games in Atlanta by almost all of the 32,000 spectators at the Georgia Dome cheered; Thanks to the efforts of Kerri Strug , who showed her jumping routine despite injury, the US squad won gold. Miller took eighth place in the all-around competition and in the horse jump, but won her second gold medal on the balance beam. In 2006 Miller was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Shannon Miller holds a degree in business administration from the University of Houston and a degree from Boston College Law School . She is married and has two kids.

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Web links

Commons : Shannon Miller  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Shannon Miller in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Shannon Miller in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Shannon Miller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ InsideGymnastics.com: It's a boy! ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 11, 2009.
2. ^ People.com: Shannon Miller Welcomes Daughter Sterling Diane . Retrieved July 1, 2013.