Name	Bridget Sloan
Fullname	Bridget Elizabeth Sloan
Country
Birth date	June 23, 1992
Birth place	Cincinnati, Ohio
Hometown	Pittsboro, Indiana
Height	4 ft 11 in (1.50 m)
Weight	47kg (104lbs)
Discipline	WAG
Level	Elite
Club	Sharp's Gymnastics Academy
Collegeteam	Florida Gators
Headcoach	Marvin Sharp
Show-medals	yes
Medaltemplates	}}

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Bridget Elizabeth Sloan (born June 23, 1992) is an American gymnast. She is the 2009 All-Around World Champion and the 2009 All-Around U.S. National Champion. Sloan was a member of the silver medal U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Olympics.

Early life and career[link]

Bridget Sloan was born on June 23, 1992, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She began gymnastics in 1996 when she was 4. She currently lives in Pittsboro, Indiana, and graduated from Tri-West Hendricks High School. She trains at Sharp's Gymnastics Academy in Indianapolis, Indiana alongside 2008 Olympic Team Member Samantha Peszek.

2007[link]

In her first year as a senior, 2007, Sloan placed 5th all-around and 3rd on Bars at the U.S. National Championships. She served as the alternate on the American team for the 2007 World Championships. Sloan also represented the United States at the Good Luck Beijing Olympic test event in December 2007, where she won the bronze medal in the all-around and a silver on floor exercise.

2008[link]

In March 2008, Sloan suffered a torn meniscus while warming up at a meet in Italy. She was forced to sit out the competition and returned home for surgery and rehabilitation, but recovered in time to compete at the 2008 U.S. National Championships, where she competed only on beam, bars and floor; and the U.S. Olympic Trials. Sloan was named to the U.S. team after the final selection camp in Houston in July 2008.

At the 2008 Olympics, Sloan competed in both the qualifying and team final rounds of competition. Her contributions to the team became critical in the qualifying round, where the Americans were forced to put up only four athletes on three events, and count all four scores, due to injuries to Chellsie Memmel and Samantha Peszek. Sloan made small errors on floor and uneven bars but performed well under pressure. Her all-around scores placed her 11th overall among all competitors. In the team finals, Sloan competed on vault, contributing a 15.200 score to the American team's silver medal win.

2009[link]

In February 2009, Sloan competed in the Tyson American Cup and placed second to 13-year-old Jordyn Wieber. In August, Sloan competed in the US Nationals and had a shaky preliminary competition. However, her consistency in the finals won her the gold medal in the All-Around, Floor and Uneven Bars.

In October at the 2009 London World Championships, after a shaky preliminary round, Sloan qualified 5th for the all-around and 7th for the uneven bars final. She competed like a champion in the all-around final and won the gold medal over teammate Rebecca Bross by only 0.050. Sloan earned her place in gymnastics history as the fifth American woman to win the World all-around title. In the bars final, she performed a solid routine and placed 6th.

2010[link]

Injuries plagued Bridget throughout the year, greatly limiting her in competitions. An ankle injury early in the year limited her participation in the Pacific Rim Championships to bars. The same injury kept Sloan to the beam at the CoverGirl Classic. A new pectoral injury prevented her from defending her National all-around title. At Nationals she performed two tentative beam routines, one that included a fall, and placed 11th on the apparatus. However, Sloan impressed National Team Coordinator Márta Károlyi with her improvement at the selection camp, and was brought to the World Championships to perform on bars and floor, placing fourth in the bars final.

2011[link]

Sloan sat out the majority of the competitive season while recovering from surgery on her bicep. She stated that it is unlikely she would take part in the 2011 National or World Championships in an effort to stay healthy for the 2012 season, her ultimate goal being the 2012 Olympics.

Although Sloan did not compete in the 2011 National Championships, she later headed to the Karolyi Ranch in New Waverly, Texas, to participate in both selection camps for the 2011 World Championships team. She was subsequently named to the team for the 2011 Pan American Games. She competed only on the uneven bars and floor exercise in Guadalajara, and scored in the thirteens on both apparati. She failed to qualify for either of the event finals, even though on uneven bars it was due to the "two [athletes] per country" rule (Bridgette Caquatto and Shawn Johnson both scored higher than her)

2012[link]

As a result of Sloan's injuries and her participation for the USA team at the Pan American Games the previous year, she was able to successfully petition a spot at the U.S. National Championships. She had intended to compete at Classics, but decided not to out of respect for her Coach, who would have been unable to attend the Classic as he was attending his father's funeral. At championships, she performed in all four events for the first time since 2009, coming 6th on the Uneven Bars and 10th in the All-Around. She was chosen to compete at the Olympic Trials. During the first night of the Olympic Trials, she injured her elbow during bars warmup and was forced to withdraw due to the injury, subsequently ending both her chances at the London Olympic Games and her national team career.

College[link]

Sloan has committed to attend the University of Florida, signing her national letter-of-intent with the Gator Gymnastics team. Sloan deferred enrollment at the university until the 2012 fall semester, which allowed her to seek a second consecutive spot on the U.S. Olympic team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Sloan did not make the Olympic team, but will rejoin 2010 World Championship teammate Mackenzie Caquatto on the Florida team.

Competitive history[link]

Senior Career History[link]

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Year ! Competition Description ! Location ! Apparatus ! Rank-Final ! Score-Final ! Rank-Qualifying ! Score-Qualifying |- | rowspan="2" | 2010 | rowspan="2" | World Championships | rowspan="2" | Rotterdam, Netherlands

| Team | style="background:silver;"| 2 | 175.196 | 3 | 233.643 |- | Uneven Bars | 4 | 14.666 | 9 | 14.700 |}

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Year ! Competition Description ! Location ! Apparatus ! Rank-Final ! Score-Final ! Rank-Qualifying ! Score-Qualifying |- | rowspan="6" | 2009 || American Cup || Chicago, IL | All around | style="background:silver;"| 2 | 59.600 | | |- | rowspan="4" | U.S. Championships | rowspan="4" | Dallas, TX | All Around | style="background:gold;"| 1 | 117.550 | 3 | 57.700 |- | Uneven bars | style="background:gold;"| 1 | 29.450 | 3 | 14.550 |- | Floor exercise | style="background:gold;"| 1 | 29.350 | 3 | 14.300 |- | Balance beam | 5 | 28.850 | 6 | 13.950 |- || World Championships || London, UK | All Around | style="background:gold;"| 1 | 57.825 | 5 | 56.075 |}

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Year ! Competition Description ! Location ! Apparatus ! Rank-Final ! Score-Final ! Rank-Qualifying ! Score-Qualifying |- | rowspan="6" | 2008 || Olympic Games || Beijing, China | Team | style="background:silver;"| 2 | 186.525 | 2 | 246.800 |- | rowspan="3" | U.S. Olympic Team Trials | rowspan="3" | Philadelphia, PA | Uneven bars | 8 | 30.100 | | |- | Balance beam | 12 | 29.100 | | |- | Floor exercise | 14 | 28.850 | | |- | rowspan="2" | U.S. Championships | rowspan="2" | Boston, MA | Uneven bars | style="background:#c96;"| 3 | 31.700 | | |- | Balance beam | 7 | 30.600 | | |}

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Year ! Competition Description ! Location ! Apparatus ! Rank-Final ! Score-Final ! Rank-Qualifying ! Score-Qualifying |- | rowspan="9" | 2007 | rowspan="4" | U.S. Championships | rowspan="4" | San Jose, CA | Floor exercise | style="background:silver;"| 2 | 30.350 | | |- | All around | 5 | 118.00 | | |- | Uneven bars | 5 | 29.750 | | |- | Balance beam | 10 | 28.600 | | |- | rowspan="5" | U.S. Classic | rowspan="5" | Battle Creek, MI | All around | style="background:gold;"| 1 | | | |- | Uneven bars | style="background:silver;"| 2 | | | |- | Vault | style="background:#c96;"| 3 | | | |- | Balance beam | style="background:#c96;"| 3 | | | |- | Floor exercise | style="background:#c96;"| 3 (T) | | | |}

Floor music[link]

2008: Araba (Instrumental Version) by Mustafa Sandal

References[link]

External links[link]

Official Website

Sloan on Twitter

Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:American female artistic gymnasts Category:Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:Gymnasts at the 2011 Pan American Games Category:Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships Category:Olympic gymnasts of the United States Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States Category:People from Cincinnati, Ohio Category:People from Pittsboro, Indiana Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics Category:World champion gymnasts Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States

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