Shannon Lee Miller (b. March 10, 1977 in Rolla, Missouri) is an artistic gymnast from Edmond, Oklahoma. She has earned 7 Olympic Medals and 9 World Championship Medals since her Elite International debut in 1990. She is the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, and many consider her to be the best American gymnast ever^{[citation needed]}. Olympic Games Summer Olympic Games Medal count Winter Olympic Games Medal count Olympic sports Medal counts Participating NOCs Olympic symbols Olympics WikiProject Olympics Portal Athens 2004 • Beijing 2008 Torino 2006 • Vancouver 2010 ... The World Gymnastics Championships are held every year. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (70th in leap years). ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... The old Phelps County Courthouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, in Rolla Rolla is a city in Phelps County, Missouri, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis Metro[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which competitors perform short routines (ranging from approximately 30 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus, obviously less for vaulting (see lists below). ... It has been suggested that Settlers Crossing be merged into this article or section. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ...

Gymnastics career

Early years

Shannon was born in Rolla, Missouri, but she and her family moved to Edmond, Oklahoma when Shannon was only six months old. Shannon began gymnastics at age five, and four years later, she and her mom traveled to Moscow, Russia to participate in a gymnastics camp. The Soviet coaches were astounded by her talent and believed that she had the potential to be a world-class elite gymnast. Shannon also met Oklahoma-based coach Steve Nunno in Russia, and began training with him upon returning home. Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ...

Shannon made remarkable progress under Nunno’s tutelage. As a 12-year-old, she finished an impressive third at the 1989 Olympic Festival — a competition designed to showcase up-and-coming talent. Over the next two years, she added such difficulty to her routines that she soon had some of the hardest routines in the world. Yet, no matter what she achieved, she always seemed to fall short of fellow American, Kim Zmeskal. Shannon traveled to Europe in 1990 and 1991 for international meets and scored two perfect 10.0s on the balance beam at the Swiss Cup and Arthur Gander Memorial. At the 1991 Arthur Gander, she not only won the All-Around, she amassed the highest all-around total ever recorded by an American woman under the traditional 10.0 scale: a 39.875. Kimberly Lyn Zmeskal (Burdette, born February 6, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is an American gymnast and coach. ...

1991

At her first World Championships in 1991 in Indianapolis, Shannon won two silver medals - in the uneven bars (where she tied Soviet Tatiana Gutsu) and the team competition. The team medal was a first for the Americans, and teammate Zmeskal became the first American to achieve the World All-Around gold medal. Miller placed second in the world during the compulsory portion of the competition to Soviet Svetlana Boguinskaya. In doing so, and in becoming the first American to qualify to all possible event finals at the World Championships, she also showed that while inconsistent at home in the United States, she was among the top gymnasts in the world when she competed in major international competitions. Throughout her career, the trend continued and Miller seemed to shine when the lights were brightest. Nickname: Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: County Marion Founded 1821 Government  - Mayor Bart Peterson (D) Area  - City  372 sq mi (963. ... Tatiana Konstantinovna Gutsu (born September 5, 1976 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian (and former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the 1992 Olympic all-around title. ... Svetlana Leonidovna Boguinskaya (also spelled Boguinskaia, Boginskaia and Boginskaya ,Belarusian: Сьвятлана Леанідаўна Багінская, Russian: Светлана Леонидовна Богинская, born February 9, 1973 in Minsk) is a Soviet/Belarusian gymnast. ...

In the following months, Shannon established herself as a constant rival to National and World Champion Zmeskal.

1992

At the 1992 American Cup, Shannon had the chance to finally defeat Zmeskal, but she fell during her final routine. Then, disaster struck a few months before the Olympics when Shannon broke and dislocated her elbow in the spring of 1992. It appeared her Olympics were over. Miller missed the 1992 Individual Apparatus World Championships in Paris, where she had a fantastic shot at winning both the uneven bars and the balance beam. The two titles went to Lavinia Miloşovici and Kim Zmeskal, respectively. Lavinia Milosovici (born October 21, 1976 in Lugoj, Romania) is a Romanian Olympic gymnast. ...

Shannon surprised doctors, coaches, and fans alike by competing in the compulsory portion of the 1992 Nationals, where she defeated Zmeskal. Not quite back up to speed with her more difficult manuveurs, she pulled out of the Optionals and petitioned to the Olympic Trials. It was here that her career catapulted itself to the top. Although the result was controversial, Miller won the Olympic Trials and defeated Zmeskal, who was considered the favorite to win the Olympics.

Although Zmeskal remained the favorite, the 1992 Olympics finally arrived. For better or for worse, the outcome of the Games has forever seemed to define both Miller and Zmeskal's careers in the public eye. Miller won the compulsory portion of the Olympic Games, and then won the entire individual portion of the team competition, advancing to the All-Around as the number one ranked gymnast in the World.

Shannon is probably best remembered for her performance in the Individual All-around at the 1992 Olympic Games. In a dramatic duel with the Unified Team’s Tatiana Gutsu, Shannon missed out on the gold by the closest margin in Olympic history—12 1/1000th of a point. The result was controversial because Gutsu had originally finshed 4th on her team. Though she had qualified well within the top 36 who advance to the all-around, only three athletes from each country could then advance. In order to get round this rule, Gutsu's teammate Rozalia Galiyeva, who finished 3rd, was said to have a knee injury and was removed by the Unified Team coaches from the All-Around final. Galieva later said she was not injured, so perhaps Shannon was unlucky to have had to compete against Gutsu in the first place. Nevertheless, she performed strongly on all four events and by the end of the evening had accomplished the highest All-Around placement by an American in a non-boycotted Olympics. This record would stand until Carly Patterson won the title in 2004. Shannon continued her strong showing in event finals, when she went on to capture three more individual medals: a silver on balance beam and bronzes on floor and bars. This haul of five Olympic medals in one Games was more than that of any Americans in any sport. Along with Lavinia Milosovici, Shannon was the only female gymnast to compete in every single event at the Games (team, all-around, all four finals) and she alone performed all sixteen routines without serious error. Few other gymnasts have accomplished such a feat. (Redirected from 1992 Olympic Games) There were two Olympic Games in the year 1992: 1992 Summer Olympics 1992 Winter Olympics This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tatiana Konstantinovna Gutsu (born September 5, 1976 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian (and former Soviet) gymnast, winner of the 1992 Olympic all-around title. ... Rozalia Galieva is a Russian gymnast who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. ... Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was an American gymnast (the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion) and is currently an aspiring professional singer. ... Lavinia Milosovici (born October 21, 1977 in Lugoj, Romania) was one of the most successful female gymnasts of the 1990s, but is currently barred from the sport. ...

1993 and 1994

Shannon dominated world competition for the next two years, becoming the first and only American back-to-back World All-Around Champion in 1993 and 1994. In fact, for the two years following the Games, she went completely undefeated world-wide.

Her performance at the 1993 world championships in Birmingham was exceptionally dominant. After having easily qualified in first place on every event in the preliminary round, Shannon was somewhat underpar on beam in the all-around final but was still able to narrowly beat Gina Gogean of Romania, by an even smaller margin than she herself had lost by to Gutsu. However, this close result did not quite reflect Miller's utter dominance at the time. Following the break-up of the USSR, the athletes from the old Soviet Union had undergone huge upheaval and most were not ready to mount a sustained challenge at the 1993 worlds. Miller, on the other hand, was exceptionally well prepared, with her routines effectively reworked in order to comply better with the new code. The result in the preliminary round where she won by over two tenths (then a large margin) is very telling. She followed her all-around title with golds on bars and floor, but fell three times from the beam. Shannon's performance in apparatus finals was made even more impressive by the fact that she was suffering from a stomach bug. Indeed, it was this that forced her to withdraw from vault. Birmingham (pron. ... Gina Gogean was a Romanian gymnast who competed internationally in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. ...

At the 1994 world championships in Brisbane, Shannon again took the all-around title. She beat another Romanian into second place, Lavinia Milosovici, and once again there was an ex-Soviet in third. As in 1993 her performance was not perfect- this time there were errors on floor- but it was enough for the gold. She also won the title that had eluded her the previous year, the beam. Lavinia Milosovici (born October 21, 1977 in Lugoj, Romania) was one of the most successful female gymnasts of the 1990s, but is currently barred from the sport. ...

This winning streak was unprecedented and improbable. In a sport where the tiniest mistake proved critical, Miller was continuing to win each and every time out. It was not until the Goodwill Games in late 1994 that her winning streak ended. Dina Kotchetkova, beaten into third place at the world championships, took her competitive revenge. Logo of the 2nd Games in Seattle The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. ... Dina Kotchetkova is a Russian gymnast, born on July 27th 1977. ...

1995

In 1993, it had all seemed too easy for Miller. Olympian and television commentator Kathy Johnson commented at the 1993 World Championships, where Shannon won every single event in preliminaries, that never had she seen a gymnast so dominant since Nadia Comaneci in 1976. Bart Conner concurred, stating that only if Miller faltered could she be beaten. In 1994, however, Miller placed second to Dominique Dawes in the all-around competition at the US National Championships. Dawes also topped Miller in all four of the individual event finals at the same competition and would be Miller's chief rival for the remainder of that year. In 1995 Miller struggled with injuries, fatigue, and a growth spurt. Although she won the 1995 American Classic, she lost the 1995 National Championships to thirteen year-old Dominique Moceanu when she fell off the beam. Coming into the 1995 World Championships, she had a realistic shot of becoming the reigning three-time consecutive World Champion, but disaster struck when Miller injured her ankle. Although she competed in the team competition and qualified to all four event finals once again, she could barely walk and was not up to speed. Although she had won five individual gold medals in the last two World Championships, she walked away from Sabae without a single individual medal. Kathy Johnson, also known as Kathy Johnson Clarke (born September 13, 1959) is an American commentator and retired artistic gymnast. ... Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci ) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. ... Barthold (Bart) Wayne Conner (born March 28, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American gymnast, who was a member of the gold medal-winning mens gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; he also won an individual gold on the parallel bars. ... Dominique Margaux Dawes (born November 20, 1976, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a United States gymnast. ... Dominique Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Womens Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the Magnificent 7). The hallmarks of Moceanus gymnastics, in the early stage of...

1996

Although struggling with severe tendonitis in her left wrist, Miller won the 1996 National Championships and once again established herself as the top American entering the Olympics. Once again though, she was forced to sit out the Individual Apparatus World Championship in the Olympic year due to injury. Still, she was able to petition onto the American team and the injury was sufficiently recovered by July to allow Shannon to compete in her second Olympics. Her fellow teammates were Dominique Dawes, Jaycie Phelps, Amy Chow, Dominique Moceanu, Kerri Strug and Amanda Borden, and they entered the Olympics hotly tipped for success. Tendonitis (also tenonitis or tendinitis) is an inflammation of a tendon. ... Dominique Margaux Dawes (born November 20, 1976, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a United States gymnast. ... Jaycie Lynn Phelps (b. ... Amy Chow (周婉儀; pinyin: Zhōu Wǎnyí; born May 15, 1978 in San Jose, California) is an American gymnast. ... Dominique Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Womens Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the Magnificent 7). The hallmarks of Moceanus gymnastics, in the early stage of... Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is an American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. ... Amanda Kathleen Borden (b. ...

In an epic team competition Miller led the American team to history as the Magnificent 7—the 1996 Olympic Gold medal winning American team - finally defeated the Russians for the first time ever. Kerri Strug garnered the lion's share of the media attention following her famous vault, but actually it was Miller who was the team's highest scorer, individually placing 2nd during the compulsories and 2nd after the entire team competition. This performance qualified her for her second Olympic all-around competition. The Magnificent Seven is the 1996 U.S. Olympic Womens Gymnastics Team which won the first ever Gold Medal for the United States in the Womens Team Competition at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. ...

In the All-Around, Miller was sitting in 2nd place half-way through the competition with another showdown for the gold on the horizon. But her wrist was in poor shape and had only gotten worse since the Nationals, forcing her to have 2 cortisone injections. While numbing the pain, the injections failed to solve the problem and Miller was not at her most powerful. She failed to fully complete a new skill on the floor exercise. Although she and her coach considered a different opening pass, she had not been able to practice her traditional opening run as a hamstring injury had made it difficult for her to pike. Miller left the All-Around despondent. She crashed badly in the vault apparatus finals, another event in which she wasn't at her best, and as the final day of Olympic gymnastics arrived, Miller had only one more shot for individual Olympic gold. Cortisone (IPA:ˈkôrtəˌsōn) is a steroid hormone. ... Hamstring refers to the common tendon of the muscles making up the ham in animals, primarily the semitendinosus and biceps femoris. ...

With perhaps the best performance of her career, Shannon finally won the elusive individual Olympic gold medal on beam. She once again made history by becoming the first American to win the balance beam at the Olympics. The Balance Beam is an artistic gymnastics apparatus only used by female gymnasts. ...

Miller concluded her career with an astounding 7 Olympic medals and sits as one of the most accomplished American athletes in any sport.

Shannon established an unforgettable legacy in American gymnastics. She was the U.S. national gymnastics champion in 1993 and 1996; she has been world champion in every event except the vault, where she has made the finals four times (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995), and an Olympic medalist in every event but the vault, where she was twice an Olympic finalist (1992 and 1996). Due to her accomplishments, she has been named to USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, the USA Olympic Hall of Fame, and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels. ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings, handstands, split leaps, aerials and cartwheels. ... USA Gymnatics is an amateur association of gymnastics that teaches American youth how to perform and excel in the competitive level. ...

Major medals

1991 Worlds: Bars silver, team silver The 26th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Indianapolis, USA, in 1991. ...

1992 Olympics: All-Around silver, beam silver, floor bronze, bars bronze, team bronze

1993 Worlds: All-Around gold, bars gold, floor gold

1994 Worlds: All-Around gold, beam gold

1994 Team Worlds: Team silver

1995 Worlds: Team bronze

1996 Olympics: Beam gold, team gold

Post-competition years

Shannon and her teammates went on several post-Olympics tours, drawing sellout crowds for nearly each show. She competed briefly in 1997, but primarily in professional competitions. She made a comeback in 2000 in an attempt to make her third Olympic team. While she was looking to be on the team in May, she soon thereafter broke her leg and failed to be selected. She has since dedicated herself to furthering her education. Recently she has spoken out against the controversial new code and the abandonment of the Perfect 10, which has won her much admiration from fans.

Education

In the Spring of 2003, Miller graduated from the University of Houston with a B.B.A. in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.^[1] In the Fall of 2003, she entered Boston College to attend law school^[2] and is expected to graduate in 2007.^[1] The University of Houston, formerly University of Houston–University Park, is a comprehensive doctoral degree-granting university[1] located in Houston, Texas. ... Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelors degree in Business Administration. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Look up marketing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ...

Personal

Miller, 29, filed for divorce from Phillips, 33, in May 2004. According to the Associated Press, financial disputes and accusations of adultery on Miller's part resulted in the case being dragged out for more than two years. ^[3] According to People magazine, Miller's husband alleged that she threatened to accuse him of abusing prescription drugs if he didn't agree to her terms concerning their finances.^[4] Miller denied her husband's allegations. The divorce is expected to become official in September, reports the Associated Press. The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...

In November 2006, Miller ran the New York City Marathon in 4:17:33.^[5] The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run over a 42,195 m (26. ...

Miller, along with fellow gymnasts Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci, appeared on the January 26, 2007 episode of 1 vs. 100 on NBC. Barthold (Bart) Wayne Conner (born March 28, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American gymnast, who was a member of the gold medal-winning mens gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; he also won an individual gold on the parallel bars. ... Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci ) (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... US logo of . ...

Miller also enjoys swimming^{[citation needed]}.

Professional

Miller is co-host and color commentator of her own show, Gymnastics USA with Shannon Miller, on CN8, The Comcast Network. The show airs on alternating Sunday nights and highlights both men's and women's Elite and International competitions. Miller's co-host is Lou Tilley.^[6] The Comcast Network (also known as CN8) is a TV station broadcast in many parts of the Northeastern United States: Mid-Atlantic and New England. ... Tilley on the CN8 set in 2002. ...

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Bio. Shannon Miller official website. Retrieved on 2006-12-25.
2. ^ IG Online Interview: Shannon Miller (USA). International Gymnast (August 2003). Retrieved on 2006-12-25.
3. ^ Associated Press. "Former Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller is divorcing her husband", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2007-04-14. 
4. ^ Stephen M. Silverman. "Olympian Shannon Miller Divorces Husband", People Magazine, July 10, 2006. 
5. ^ Olympic Gymnast Shannon Miller Runs Marathon. Netscape.com (2006-11-23).
6. ^ Gymnastics USA with Shannon Miller. CN8, Comcast.

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References

• Athlete Bio: Shannon Miller. United States Olympic Committee (2004).

• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique profile for Shannon Miller

• Shannon Miller's official website. Retrieved on 2006-12-25.

• Shannon Miller Olympic Medals and Stats. databaseOlympics.com.

• Quiner, Krista (1996). Shannon Miller: America’s Most Decorated Gymnast. East Hanover, New Jersey: The Bradford Book Company. 

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External links

• Jacobs, Adam (November 13, 2006). TFS Interview with Olympic medalist Shannon Miller talks about running 26.2. The Final Sprint. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.