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| Full name | Kristen Ann Maloney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1981-03-10)March 10, 1981 (age 44) Hackettstown, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | UCLA Bruins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Bill Strauss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Donna Strauss, Jack Carter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | "Grease" (1997), "All That Jazz" (1998), "West Side Story Prologue" (1999), "Puttin' On the Ritz" (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Maloney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | April 24, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristen Ann Maloney (born March 10, 1981) is a retiredgymnast fromPen Argyl, Pennsylvania, in the United States. She won bronze in theteam event at the2000 Olympic Games.[1] Maloney was also the U.S. senior all-around national champion in 1998 and 1999 and the 1998Goodwill Games gold medalist on thebalance beam.
Maloney also competed for theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in the NCAA from 2001 until 2005.
Maloney was born on March 10, 1981, inHackettstown, New Jersey[2] and attendedPen Argyl Area High School inPen Argyl, Pennsylvania in theLehigh Valley region of easternPennsylvania.
Maloney trained atParkettes National Gymnastics Training Center inAllentown,Pennsylvania and was a consistent member of the U.S. national gymnastics team from 1993 to 2000. She competed in a variety of minor international events as a junior elite and, as a senior, qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials.
Maloney finished fourteenth at the Trials in the shadow of the "Magnificent Seven," but she became one of the most prominent American gymnasts from 1997 to 2000. The national champion in the all-around in 1998 and 1999, she was a key member of the American team at several major international meets. She participated in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships, earned a gold medal on thebalance beam at the 1998Goodwill Games in New York, and won the all-around at the 1998 Pacific Alliance Championships. Maloney ended her elite career at the2000 Olympics inSydney, where the American team won the bronze medal after a 2010 investigation by theInternational Gymnastics Federation disqualified the original bronze medalist, China, for falsifying a gymnast's age. She also finished nineteenth in the individual all-around.[3]
After the Olympics, Maloney attendedUCLA on a full athletic scholarship and competed inNCAA gymnastics with theBruins. She earned All-American honors and scored perfect tens at several meets. In her final college competition, theNCAA Championships, Maloney placed second in the all-around behind teammateTasha Schwikert, won gold on vault and beam, and successfully completed a double-twistingYurchenko vault and a full-twisting double layout onfloor exercise.
Maloney was plagued by persistent injuries throughout her elite and collegiate careers. A nagging stress fracture led to the placement of a titanium rod in her leg. After one wave of serious injury and illness, Maloney missed two full years of competition with the Bruins; her subsequent return to full form earned her UCLA's C.H.A.M.P.S. Inspirational Award. As a fifth year senior, she won theHonda Sports Award as the nation's top female gymnast.
Maloney graduated from UCLA in 2005 and worked as a gymnastics coach inCalifornia. One of her gymnasts wasShavahn Church, a member of the British national team. For a time, she lived in Europe and worked withCirque du Soleil. She also taught preschool inQueens,New York City.[4]
Maloney began working as an assistant gymnastics coach for theUniversity of New Hampshire inDurham, New Hampshire in the 2010-11 season. She has been an assistant gymnastics coach atIowa State University inAmes, Iowa since July 2011.[5]
Her routines included the following skills:
Maloney has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points, a toe-onShaposhnikova on the uneven bars.[6][7]
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] |
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| Uneven bars | Maloney | Inner front support on low bar - pike sole circle backward through handstand with flight to hang on high bar | D (0.4) |
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