Trent Dimas

Trent Dimas (born November 10, 1970 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) is a former gymnast from the United States . He was Olympic champion on the horizontal bar in 1992

Career

The 1.72 m tall Trent Dimas was a member of the University of Nebraska team, with which he also won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. In 1990 he won the US championships on parallel bars and horizontal bars, in 1991 he won the jump . At the Pan American Games in Havana in 1991 , he won the silver medal behind the Cubans with the squad from the United States, in floor exercise and on the horizontal bar, Dimas received the bronze medal. At the American Cup in 1991 Dimas won the all-around competition, the jump and on the horizontal bar, in 1992 he won again on the horizontal bar. Dimas also took part in the 1992 World Equipment Championships , but did not reach a final.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Chris Waller , John Roethlisberger , Scott Keswick , Trent Dimas, Dominick Minicucci and Jair Lynch made up the ranks from the United States. In the team competition, the squad reached sixth place, only Waller, Roethlisberger and Keswick competed in the individual final of the all-around competition. The gymnasts from the United States reached three apparatus finals: Waller was fifth on the pommel horse and Lynch was sixth on the parallel bars. Dimas was 44th in the qualification for the all-around final and took 37th place on his second best device in the jump. On the horizontal bar, however, he reached the equipment finals in sixth place and then won ahead of the German Andreas Wecker and Grigori Misjutin from the United Team , who both won silver. Gymnasts from the United States had made several Olympic champions each at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , 1932 in Los Angeles and 1984 in Los Angeles . Before Trent Dimas, only Frank Kriz had won a gold medal outside the United States in men's gymnastics in Paris in 1924 .

Trent Dimas, who had participated in the Olympic qualification together with his brother Ted in 1988, tried again to qualify for the Olympic team in 1996, but failed as in 1988. It was not until 1998 that he resumed his studies and went to Columbia University . In 2002, Trent Dimas was inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame . After completing his studies, he moved to Spain with his family.

Web links

• Trent Dimas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . P. 628, note 492, supplemented by illustration at SportsReference
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 – Atlanta 1996 . Pp. 466-469
3. ↑ Abigail Beshkin: Life After the Gold: Olympic Gymnast Finds New Routines to Perfect at GS Columbia University News, January 6, 2000 (accessed August 22, 2019)
4. ↑ Biography on the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame page (accessed August 22, 2019)