Trent Dimas (born November 10, 1970; Albuquerque, N.M.) is a Hispanic American gymnast and Olympic champion. Now retired, Dimas was an elite senior-level international artistic gymnast.
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| Full name | Trent Dimas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 10, 1970 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 1989–1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Gold Cup Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Nebraska Cornhuskers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life and education
editDimas became a member of the U.S. junior national team at the age of 13 and made the U.S. senior national team at the age of 15. He attended the University of Nebraska his freshman year[1] where he became a two time All American and a member of UNL's 1990 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship team. After one season of NCAA competition,[1] Dimas left his athletic scholarship to train full-time in hopes of making a U.S. Olympic Team.
Following his athletic career, in 1992, Dimas graduated from Columbia University School of General Studies in New York City with a B.A. in political science.[2]
Gymnastics career
editAs a nationally and internationally ranked athlete, he competed at the Goodwill Games (Team, Silver),[3] Pan American Games (FX, Bronze and HB, Bronze) (See Gymnastics at the 1991 Pan American Games), won the American Cup (AA) [4] and was the U.S. Men's Vault Champion, Parallel Bars Champion and Horizontal Bar Champion.[5]
In an era of compulsory routines and a straightforward format to Olympic team trials (and before apparatus specialists), Dimas was ranked 5th All Around at trials (top 6 made the Olympic Team) which placed him on the U.S. Olympic Team roster. He competed in all six of the men's apparatuses in qualification at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he received a gold medal on horizontal bar in the event final. This was the second time that an American gymnast, male or female, won a gold medal in an Olympics held outside the United States. Only Frank Kriz (on vault at Paris in 1924) had done so previously. Dimas was also the first Latino Olympic gymnastics medalist from the USA.
References
edit- ^ a b "This is Nebraska - Building Olympians". Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ "Columbia School of Graduate Studies-Notable Alumni". Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ Brannon, Jody (19 July 1990). "U.S. Fortunes Hang On High Bar -- Soviet Men Favored To Take Home Gold". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ "USA Gymnastics website". Retrieved 23 August 2012.
- ^ "U.S. National Champions - Men". Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
External links
edit- Trent Dimas at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Trent Dimas at the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Trent Dimas at Olympics.com
- Trent Dimas at Olympedia
- Trent Dimas at the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame
- Trent Dimas at USA Gymnastics
