Alma Kuc | |
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Full name | Alma Alexandra Kuc |
Born | Toronto, Ontario | September 21, 1998
Height | 5 ft 1 in (155 cm) [1] |
Gymnastics career | |
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics |
Country represented | ![]() |
Years on national team | 2013-2017 |
College team | California Golden Bears |
Club | All Olympia Gymnastics Center |
Head coach(es) | Artur Akopyan |
Assistant coach(es) | Galina Marinova, Marcello Figue |
Alma Alexandra Kuc (born September 21, 1998) is a Polish artistic gymnast. [2] She began competing for the California Golden Bears gymnastics team in 2018.
Alma Kuc was born on September 21, 1998, in Toronto, Ontario. [3] She has also lived in Argentina and Brazil, and her extended family lives in Poland. [4] Her younger brother, Thomas Kuc, is an actor. She graduated from Laurel Springs High School in Ojai, California. [1] She began attending UC Berkeley in 2017 where she studies Molecular and Cell Biology, and she competes on their gymnastics team. [1]
Kuc competed at the 2014 European Championships with Marta Pihan-Kulesza, Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska, Gabriela Janik, Claudia Chmielowska, and the team finished 10th. [5] She then competed at the 2014 World Championships alongside Pihan-Kulesza, Jurkowska-Kowalska, Janik, Chmielowska, and Paula Plichta, and the team finished 17th. [6]
At the 2015 World Championships, Kuc competed with Claudia Chmielowska, Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska, Klara Kopeć, Gabriela Janik, and Marta Pihan-Kulesza, and the team finished 19th. [7] She finished 4th in the all-around and won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the 2016 Polish Championships. [8] Then at the Gym Festival Trnava, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Hitomi Hatakeda of Japan. [9] She competed at the 2016 European Championships alongside Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska, Klara Kopeć, Gabriela Janik, and Paula Plichta, and they finished 11th. [10] At the 2017 European Championships, Kuc competed only on the uneven bars and finished 18th in the qualification round. [11]