PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 23, 2014 – As part of the 2014 Olympic Day celebration and the world record attempt for most simultaneous cartwheels, USA Gymnastics announced that the 1984 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams for artistic gymnastics will be honored during the 2014 P&G Championships, scheduled for Aug. 21-24 at CONSOL Energy Center. 2014 is the 30th anniversary of the USA’s outstanding success at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where the United States collected 16 total medals, including five gold. This year is also the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Olympic Games, where the Americans garnered nine medals, including two gold.
"The 1984 Olympic Games were a breakthrough moment for USA Gymnastics and laid the foundation for the sport’s growth and the recognition that we enjoy today," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. "Those athletes stole America’s hearts with their achievements – Mary Lou Retton, the first U.S. Olympic all-around champion; the men’s team and the first U.S. Olympic team gold medal; Bart Conner, Julianne McNamara and Peter Vidmar, the country’s first Olympic individual event gold medals.
"And, 20 years later, Carly Patterson and Paul Hamm gave the USA its first and only Olympics with both the men’s and women’s all-around titles," said Penny. "Combined with the men’s and women’s team medals, along with individual event medals, this group sent the message that USA Gymnastics was back in the mix as a medal contender at the Olympic Games."
On Friday night, the men and women on the 2004 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team will be recognized, and the 1984 team will be honored on Saturday night.
In Los Angeles, the U.S. men won the team title, and the women garnered the team silver. The members of the men’s squad were: Bart Conner, Tim Daggett, Mitch Gaylord, Jim Hartung, Scott Johnson, Peter Vidmar, and Jim Mikus. The women’s team featured: Pam Bileck, Michelle Dusserre, Kathy Johnson, Julianne McNamara, Mary Lou Retton, Tracee Talavera, and Marie Roethlisberger. Retton became the USA’s first Olympic all-around champion and also picked up the vault silver and uneven bars and floor exercise bronze medals. Vidmar, who was the men’s all-around silver medalist, won the pommel horse gold medal, and Conner took home the parallel bars gold. McNamara captured the uneven bars gold and the floor exercise silver. Gaylord picked up the vault silver medal, along with the bronze for both still rings and parallel bars. Daggett and K. Johnson earned the bronze medals for pommel horse and balance beam, respectively.
Hamm won the first Olympic men’s all-around crown for the USA in Athens at the 2004 Olympic Games, where Patterson collected the women’s all-around gold. Both the men’s and women’s teams won the team silver medals. The women’s team included Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch, Terin Humphrey, Courtney Kupets, Courtney McCool and Patterson. On the men’s team were Jason Gatson, Morgan Hamm, Paul Hamm, Brett McClure, Blaine Wilson and Guard Young. In addition to her all-around gold, Patterson was the balance beam silver medalist. Paul Hamm also was second on the horizontal bar. Hatch earned the vault silver medal. For the uneven bars, Humphrey nabbed the silver, with Kupets claiming the bronze.
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