The Fierce Five will be honored in Hartford, Connecticut at the 2013 P&G National Championships. Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Kyla Ross made history in London with the first Olympic team victory for the USA since Atlanta’s Magnificent Seven in 1996, and the first win on international soil.  All five gymnasts have resumed their training.  Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney headline the roster for the upcoming U.S. Classic in Chicago.  

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The Fierce Five, 2012 Olympians are among gymnasts recognized at 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships

 

The 2012 U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Olympic Team, aka The Fierce Five^SM_, is among the accomplished gymnasts who will be recognized during the 2013 P&G Gymnastics Championships, Aug. 15-18 at the XL Center, and the USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show in Hartford, Conn. As part of USA Gymnastics’ 50th anniversary celebration, members of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and the entire 2012 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team will be acknowledged during the P&G Championships, which feature the country’s top gymnasts vying for national titles and berths on the U.S. National Team.

 

Fans will get to see Fierce Five reunited with the other eight Olympians, and the alternates, for the first time since last fall’s conclusion of the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions when they help USA Gymnastics celebrate the team’s accomplishments on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the XL Center. The members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team are: women – Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All-Olympia Gymnastics, Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA; men – Jake Dalton of Reno, Nev./Team Hilton HHonors (University of Oklahoma), Jonathan Horton of Houston/Team Hilton HHonors (Cypress Gymnastics), Danell Leyva of Miami/Team Hilton HHonors (Universal Gymnastics), Sam Mikulak of Newport Coast, Calif./University of Michigan, and John Orozco of the Bronx/Team Hilton HHonors (U.S. Olympic Training Center); rhythmic gymnastics – Julie Zetlin of Bethesda, Md.; and trampoline – Steven Gluckstein of Atlantic Highlands, N.J./ETA, and Savannah Vinsant of Lafayette, La./T&T Express. 

 

Also at the XL Center, the 2007 Women’s World Championships Team and women’s gymnastics members of the Hall of Fame will be recognized for their achievements on Thursday, Aug. 15, with the men’s Hall of Famers introduced on Friday, Aug. 16.  The Fierce Five and the 2007 Women’s World Championships Team are members of the 2013 class of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

 

The U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics Team made history at the 2012 Olympic Games in London by winning the United States’ second-ever women’s Olympic team gold medal in gymnastics and the first at an Olympics held outside the USA.  Their runaway victory of more than a five-point margin came 16 years after Atlanta’s Magnificent Seven captured Team USA’s first team gold in 1996. In addition to the team gold, Douglas won the all-around gold medal; Raisman captured the floor exercise gold and balance beam bronze medals; and Maroney earned the vault silver medal.

 

The 2007 Women’s Gymnastics World Championships Team captured the 2007 World team gold medal in Stuttgart, Germany.  The team’s victory was the USA’s second-ever team gold and the first outside the United States. The team featured Ivana Hong of Laguna Hills, Calif., Shawn Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa, Nastia Liukin of Parker, Texas, Samantha Peszek of Indianapolis, Ind., Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., and Shayla Worley of Orlando, along with alternate Bridget Sloan of Pittsboro, Ind.  The team claimed six medals in addition to the team victory: Johnson’s two individual gold medals (all-around, floor); Liukin’s win on the balance beam and uneven bars silver; and Sacramone’s silver on floor and bronze on vault.

 

The replacement athletes who will be in attendance are: women – Sarah Finnegan of St. Louis, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, Anna Li of Aurora, Ill./Legacy Elite Gymnastics, and Elizabeth Price of Coopersburg, Pa./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center; men –Christopher Brooks of Houston/Team Hilton HHonors (Cypress Academy of Gymnastics), Steven Legendre of Port Jefferson, N.Y./Team Hilton HHonors (University of Oklahoma), and Alexander Naddour of Gilbert, Ariz./Team Hilton HHonors (USA Youth Fitness Center); and trampoline – Logan Dooley of Lake Forest, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, and Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits.