Ivana Hong

Last updated
Ivana Hong
Ivana Hong 2008.JPG
Hong at the 2008 U.S. National Championships
Personal information
Full nameIvana Hong
Country representedFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Born (1992-12-11) December 11, 1992 (age 31)
Worcester, Massachusetts
Height157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2005–10 (US)
Club WOGA
College team Stanford Cardinal
Head coach(es)Valeri Liukin
Assistant coach(es)Natalya Marakova
Former coach(es)Al Fong, Armine Barutian-Fong
MusicArmenian Duduk (2008), My Sweet and Tender Beast (2009)
Medal record
Gymnastics
Representing Flag of the United States.svg  United States
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Stuttgart Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 London Balance Beam
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svgRio de Janeiro 2007Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svgRio de Janeiro 2007All-Around
Visa Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 DallasBalance Beam
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 DallasVault
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 DallasAll-Around

Ivana Hong (born December 11, 1992, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal American team at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the all-around bronze medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games. Hong was named an alternate to the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and was a member of the U.S. Women's Team in the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London.

Contents

Hong is of Chinese and Vietnamese ancestry. [1] [2] Hong lived in Blue Springs, Missouri, and trained at Great American Gymnastics Express (GAGE) for four years. [3] She also trained under Valeri Liukin at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA). [4] She competed for Stanford University from 2012 to 2016.

Elite career

Hong became a junior international elite in 2004 and qualified to her first United States Junior National Championships at age eleven. She was named to the Junior National Team for the first time following the 2005 National Championships, a feat she repeated in 2006 after a fifth-place finish in the all-around.

Hong winning bronze on balance beam at the 2009 World Championships Podium of 2009WAGC Beam.JPG
Hong winning bronze on balance beam at the 2009 World Championships

Hong became a Senior International Elite in 2007. She was part of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at 2007 Pan-American Games and won the bronze medal in the all-around competition. This and a strong showing at the 2007 Visa National Championships assured her place on the U.S. World Championships team, which again won the gold medal. [5]

The following year, Hong was named to the 2008–2009 U.S. Senior National team, [6] and was invited to the 2008 Olympic Trials. Hong's skill as an all-around athlete without a weak event enabled her to be named, along with Jana Bieger and Corrie Lothrop, as one of three alternates for the U.S. Olympic team. [7]

Following the Olympics, Hong left her former gym and moved to WOGA to train with Valeri Liukin.

Hong finished second in the all-around at the 2009 U.S. National Championships with a total score of 117.250 in Dallas, Texas. She also won the national titles on the balance beam (with a combined score of 30.350) and the vault (combined score 29.950).

At the 2009 World Championships in London, Ivana scored a 14.550 on balance beam to win the bronze medal on that event. This made medalists of all four American gymnasts (Bridget Sloan, Kayla Williams and Rebecca Bross in addition to Hong) in the women's competition.

In early March 2010, Hong tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee at the National Team training camp as she landed a vault. [8] She subsequently spent several months out of training, recovering from surgery.

Routines

Vault

Double Twist Yurchenko

-5.8 Difficulty (D) Score

Uneven bars

Mount on LB; Pike stalder 1/2 (D) Endo 1/2 (C) Toe shoot to HB (B); Pike stalder 1/1 (E) Tkachev (D) +0.2 Connection; Kip, cast to HS 1/2, Giant (B) Toe on 1/1 (D) Bail to HS on LB (D) Stalder shoot to HB [Ray] (C) +0.2; Giant, Giant, Double layout dismount (D)

6.0 D Score

Balance beam

Press to Handstand mount (B); Front aerial (D) Backhandspring (B) Layout stepout (C) +0.2; Full turn with leg at horizontal (C); Switch leap (C) Back tuck (C) +0.1; Onodi (D) Sheep jump (D) +0.1; Aerial cartwheel (D); Switch ring (E); Side somi (D); Split jump (A) Wolf jump (A); Backhandsrping (B) Backhandspring to 2 feet (B) Double pike (E) +0.2

6.4 D Score

Floor exercise

Pike full-in (E); 1½ (C) Rudi (C) +0.1; Split leap 1/1 (C); Double turn with leg at horizontal (D); Switch ring (C)...Switch side 1/2 (C); 2½ (D) Front layout (B) +0.1

5.5 D Score

Related Research Articles

Terin Marie Humphrey is a retired American artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she helped the United States team place second and won an individual silver medal on the uneven bars. Humphrey was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2008 as a member of the 2003 World Championships team, and in 2015 as an individual gymnast.

Hollie Diane Vise is an American former artistic gymnast. A two-time world champion, Vise went on to compete for the University of Oklahoma.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chellsie Memmel</span> American artistic gymnast

Chellsie Marie Memmel is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2005 world all-around champion and the 2003 world champion on the uneven bars. She was a member of the United States women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nastia Liukin</span> Russian-American 2008 Olympic champion

Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin is a Russian-born American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third-highest tally of World Championship medals among U.S. gymnasts. Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making a second Olympic team. Liukin did not make the 2012 Olympic team and retired from the sport on July 2, 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valeri Liukin</span> Kazakh-American gymnast

Valeri Viktorovich Liukin is a Soviet-born Kazakh-American retired artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach. As a competitor for the former Soviet Union, Liukin was the 1988 Olympic champion in the team competition and individually on the horizontal bar, and Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and the parallel bars.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">World Olympic Gymnastics Academy</span> Gymnastics

The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samantha Peszek</span> American artistic gymnast

Samantha Nicole Peszek is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, which won silver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bridget Sloan</span> American artistic gymnast (born 1992)

Bridget Elizabeth Sloan is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2009 world champion in the all-around, the 2009 United States national champion, and a silver medalist with the American team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ksenia Semyonova</span> Russian artistic gymnast

Ksenia Andreyevna Semyonova is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2007 world champion on the uneven bars, the 2008 European champion on the uneven bars and the balance beam, and the 2009 European all-around champion. She also won a gold medal with the Russian team at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she finished fourth in the team competition, fourth in the all-around, and sixth in the uneven bars final.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shawn Johnson East</span> American artistic gymnast

Shawn Johnson East is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson is also the 2007 all-around World Champion, and a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist, winning the team titles in 2007 and 2011, as well as titles in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam in 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alicia Sacramone</span> American artistic gymnast

Alicia Marie Sacramone Quinn is a retired American artistic gymnast. She won a silver medal with the United States team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and is the 2005 World Champion on floor exercise and the 2010 World Champion on the vault. With a total of eleven World Championship and Olympic medals, Sacramone is the fourth most decorated U.S. female gymnast, behind Simone Biles (30), Shannon Miller (16), and Nastia Liukin (14).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rebecca Bross</span> American artistic gymnast

Rebecca Marie Bross is an American former artistic gymnast and six-time World Championship medalist.

Axl Osborne is an acrobatic gymnast. He currently competes as the base in a mixed pair with his partner Tiffani Williams. With partner Tiffani Williams, Osbourne came 2nd at the 2016 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. He previously competed as the base in a Level 9 mixed pair with his partner, acrobatic gymnast Lydia Webb.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabby Douglas</span> 2012 Olympic gymnastics all-around champion

Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. She was a member of the gold-winning teams at both the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, dubbed the "Fierce Five" and the "Final Five" by the media, respectively. She was also a member of the gold-winning American teams at the 2011 and the 2015 World Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katelyn Ohashi</span> American artistic gymnast

Katelyn Michelle Ohashi is an American former artistic gymnast who competed for the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a six-time All-American and was a four-time member of USA Gymnastics' Junior National Team, the 2011 junior national champion, and the winner of the 2013 American Cup. Noted for incorporating popular dance elements in her floor routines, she trended globally on various social media networks in January 2019 for her perfect 10 score at the 2019 Collegiate Challenge, the fourth perfect 10 floor routine of her career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madison Kocian</span> American artistic gymnast

Madison Taylor Kocian is a retired American artistic gymnast. On the uneven bars, she is one of four 2015 world champions and the 2016 Olympic silver medalist. She was part of the gold medal-winning team dubbed the "Final Five" at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was a member of the first-place American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020, where she was a member of its NCAA women's gymnastics team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashton Locklear</span> American artistic gymnast

Ashton Taylor Locklear is a retired American artistic gymnast from North Carolina. She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and is a two-time national champion on the uneven bars. Locklear was an uneven bars specialist and was an alternate for the 2016 Summer Olympics U.S. gymnastics team, the Final Five.

Olivia Greaves is an American artistic gymnast and a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team (2018–Present).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Konnor McClain</span> American artistic gymnast

Konnor McClain is an American artistic gymnast and a member of the United States women's national gymnastics team. She is the 2022 U.S National Champion and was the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy and the 2019 U.S. Classic Junior All-Around Champion.

The 2022 Winter Cup was an artistic gymnastics competition held at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco. Like the previous year it included both men's and women's artistic gymnastics.

References

  1. "Super Seven–USA Women's Team wins seven medals at the World Championships including the Team Gold". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2010-07-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Ivana's Official Website
  4. "News | Inside Gymnastics Magazine". www.insidegymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-29.
  5. http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/Story.aspx?ArticleID=294 [ dead link ]
  6. http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/Story.aspx?tabid=369&ArticleID=2233 [ dead link ]
  7. http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/Story.aspx?tabid=321&ArticleID=2296 [ dead link ]
  8. Dwight Normile. "Hong Tears ACL, Will Have Season-ending Surgery". International Gymnast Magazinen. Retrieved September 20, 2012.