Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs

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birthplace= Mississauga
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Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian gymnast. She was born in Mississauga, Ontario. She first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.

Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner Chloe Sims of Australia. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with Hollie Dykes of Australia for the highest medal total.

In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.cite web|url= http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/gymnastics/story/2008/06/27/f-olympics-gymnastics-elyse.html|title= Hopfner-Hibbs: On her own and raring to go|accessdate= 2008-08-14|author= Randi Druzin|date= 2008-07-20|publisher= CBC] Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars. [cite web|url= http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Olympics/2008Beijing/News/June/2008/06/23/5963941-cp.html|title= Gymnast Hopfner-Hibbs takes her higher world profile into Beijing|accessdate= 2008-08-14|author= Donna Spencer|date= 2008-07-23|publisher= Canoe.ca]

Hopfner-Hibbs continued training and was named to the Canadian team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. After, she will attend UCLA on an NCAA scholarship. [cite web|url= http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/may/17/pitcher_double_honors/|title= Gymnastics Recruit Signed|accessdate= 2008-08-14|author= Allister Wentzel|date= 2007-05-17|publisher= The Daily Bruin]

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* [http://www.gymn.ca/athletes/women/hopfnerhibbs.shtml Biography at Gymnastics Canada]