Jordyn Pedersen | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Mississauga, Canada | 26 November 1997||||||||||||||
Height | 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Country represented | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
College team | Georgia Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||
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Jordyn Pedersen (born 26 November 1997) is a Canadian artistic gymnast.
She was born on 26 November 1997 in Mississauga, Ontario, to Randy and Melody Pedersen. [1] [2] In 2008, she joined the University of Georgia. [3] [4] In 2014, she participated to the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China, where she placed 12th with Canada in the team competition. [2]
She suffered from shoulder pain throughout her sophomore year, taking medicines to control it. The injury eventually led to her retirement. [5] After her retirement she served as a student assistant coach. [5]