Shannon Miller

Shannon Lee Miller, married Shannon Philips, ( born March 10, 1977 in Rolla, Missouri) is a former American gymnast. She won medals at two Olympic Games.

Career

Shortly after her birth her ​​parents moved to Edmond, Oklahoma. At age five she started there with the gymnastics and nine years she trained with Steve Nunno. Her first major championship was the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in 1991 in Indianapolis. After she had won there with the American team silver behind the Soviet team, she also won silver on the uneven bars, where she succumbed to only the North Korean Kim Gwang Suk.

In 1992, she appeared in the Olympics in Barcelona and won with the American team bronze behind the team from the CIS and Romania. In the multi- Combat Rating Miller won silver behind Tetjana Guzu from the CIS. In the individual finals Miller won three medals: silver in the balance beam behind Tatyana Lysenko and bronze on the uneven bars and the floor.

1993 and 1994, Miller was the best gymnast in the world and won in both years the world title in the all around. 1993 in Birmingham she won also on the ground and on the uneven bars; 1994 in Brisbane she won gold on beam. In 1995, Miller at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata gold in the all around, with the team, as well as on the floor and uneven bars, plus they received for their jump exercise silver.

In 1996, the U.S. team was cheered at the Olympic Games in Atlanta by almost all of the 32,000 spectators in the Georgia Dome; through the use of Kerri Strug, who showed their jump exercise despite injury, the U.S. team won gold. Miller finished in the all around and the horse jump in eighth place, but won on balance beam her second gold medal. 2006 Miller was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Shannon Miller has a degree from the University of Houston in Business Administration and a degree from Boston College Law School. She is married and has two children.