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Marissa King Full name Marissa Petra King Country represented United Kingdom
EnglandBorn April 20, 1991
CambridgeHeight 154 centimetres (5 ft 1 in) Club Huntingdon College team University of Florida Head coach(es) Paul Hall Contents
Biography
Marissa Petra King (born April 20, 1991, in Cambridgeshire) is a British gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as well as the 2007 and 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Marissa is the daughter of a British Father and Thai mother[1] and began gymnastics at age 8. During her elite career she trained at the Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club and currently competes for the University of Florida Gators NCAA gymnastics team.[2] In 2011 she became the NCAA National Champion on vault with a score of 9.875 as well as being a 6-time All American.[3]
Elite career history
Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying 2010 British Championships Guildford, England Vault 2 13.775 2 14.450 Floor 8 12.050 3= 14.200 2009 British Championships Guildford, England All Around 3 53.100 Vault 1 13.925 Bars 3 13.400 Beam 4 12.700 Floor 3 13.450 Stuttgart World Cup Stuttgart, Germany Vault 4 13.550 2 13.800 World Championships London, England Vault 13.850 Beam 13.400 2008 British Championships Guildford, England All Around 6 55.100 Vault 2 14.175 Bars 7 12.800 Floor 7 13.300 European Championships Clermont-Ferrand, France Vault 10 14.050 Beam 19 14.450 Floor 34 13.700 Glasgow Grand Prix Glasgow, Scotland Vault 6 12.912 4 13.675 Beam 2 14.475 2 14.650 Maribor World Cup Maribor, Slovenia Vault 2 14.075 2007 Glasgow Grand Prix Glasgow, Scotland Vault 1 14.237 2 13.862 Good Luck Beijing (Olympic Test Event) Beijing, China All Around 8 56.225 Vault 3 14.187 European Championships Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vault 6 14.175 7 14.100 Beam 56 12.775 Floor 29 13.750 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany Team 7 169.175 6 233.025 Vault 17 13.600 Floor 46 13.925 DTB Cup Vault 4 14.237 8 13.450 Floor 6 13.650 4 13.575 NCAA career history
Year Competition Description Location Apparatus Rank-Final Score-Final Rank-Qualifying Score-Qualifying 2011 NCAA Championships Cleveland, Ohio Vault 1 9.875 References
- ^ http://www.british-gymnastics.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=299&Itemid=2
- ^ "Marissa King - University of Florida - Biography". http://www.gatorzone.com/gymnastics/bios.php?year=2010&player_id=30.
- ^ "Marissa King - University of Florida - Biography". http://www.gatorzone.com/gymnastics/bios.php?year=2010&player_id=30.
External links
Categories:- 1991 births
- Living people
- English female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain
- British people of Thai descent
- British sportspeople stubs
- Artistic gymnast stubs
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