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Donnerstag, Juni 07, 2012

Amy Chow


Amy Chow

2000 Olympic Bronze Medalist (Team)
2000 Senior Pacific Alliance Team Member
1996 Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist (Team & Bars)
1996 Individual Event World Championships Semi-Finalist
1994 Team World Championships Silver Medalist

Hometown: San Jose, Calif.
Residence: San Jose, Calif.
Date/Place of Birth: May 15, 1978/San Jose, Calif.
Club: West Valley Gymnastics School
Coach: Mark Young, Diane Amos
School: Stanford
Major: Pre-med
Year in School: Senior (Fall '00) Class: Junior (Fall '99)
Years on National Team: 8 (1990-97 & 1999-2001)
Began Gymnastics: 1981
Favorite Apparatus/Event: Bars







PERSONAL INFO
Daughter of Nelson and Susan...brother, Kevin (12/18/79) is a gymnast at Stanford University...member of the first ever women's gymnastics gold medal Olympic Team at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga...an accomplished pianist who has taken lessons since 1982...favorite book is "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan...listens to Celine Dion and classical music...likes "I Love Lucy"...collects dolphin items...majoring in biology at Stanford with plans to go to medical school to become a pediatrician.




International Competition

  • 2000 Olympic Games, Sydney; 3rd-Team
  • 2000 Senior Pacific Alliance, Christchurch, New Zealand; 1st-Team; 5th-AA
  • 2000 Bluewater International Invitational, Ontario, Canada; 1st-AA, 1st-UB, 1st-FX, 3rd-V, 3rd-BB
  • 2000 RCA Gymnastics Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev.; 6th-AA, 3rd-V (tie), 1st-UB (tie)
  • 1998 Reese's Gymnastics Cup, St. Petersburg, Fla.; 1st-AA (with Shannon Miller)
  • 1997 International 3 on 3 Gymnastics Championships, Fort Worth, Texas; 4th-Team (Alicia Albe and Chainey Umphrey)
  • 1997 Reese's International Gymnastics Cup, Anaheim, Calif.; 1st-AA (with Shannon Miller)
  • 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, Ga.; 1st-Team, 2nd-UB
  • 1996 Individual Event World Championships, San Juan, PUR; (semi-finalist-15th-V)
  • 1996 7th International France Telecom de Gymnastique, Paris, Bercy, FRA
  • 1995 Budget Rent a Car Invitational, San Jose, Calif.; 1st Team, 1st-AA
  • 1995 Pan American Games, Mar del Plata, ARG; 1st-Team, 1st-V, 3rd-AA, 2nd-UB
  • 1995 McDonald's American Cup, Seattle, Wash.; 6th-AA (prelims.), 2nd-V, T3rd-UB
  • 1994 Team World Championships, Dortmund, GER; 2nd-Team
  • 1994 Budget Rent a Car Invitational: USA vs. Romania, Worcester, Mass.; 2nd-Team, 9th-AA
  • 1993 USA-Japan, Hamamatsu, JPN; 2nd-Team, 3rd-AA, 3rd-V, 1st-FX
  • 1992 Mexico Olympic Festival, Ciudad Victoria, MEX; 1st-AA , 1st-V , 1st-UB, 1st-BB, 2nd-FX
  • 1992 USA-Argentina, Buenos Aires, ARG; 1st-Team, 3rd-UB, 2nd-BB

1 Kommentar:

  1. Benutze fast nur noch Balea und früher hab ich die nie gekauft weil ich mir eingebildet habe das günstig nicht gut ist

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