| Kris Burley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Kristan A. Burley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 29, 1974 Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristan "Kris" A. Burley (born January 29, 1974) is a Canadian gymnast, who has represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games, the Pan American Games and the Olympic Games. [1]
Originally from Truro, Nova Scotia, he was based in Richmond Hill, Ontario [2] and Fredericton, New Brunswick [3] during his competitive career.
He was a competitive athlete from 1989 to 1999, [1] winning four national championships in gymnastics during his career [1] and representing Canada at the World Championships in Gymnastics, the Commonwealth Games, the Pan American Games and the Olympics. [1]
In his first national championship, he won the junior-level all around with 108.1 points to 101.6 for his nearest competitor. [4] He also qualified for several senior-level events despite being just 16 years old at the time, and won the vault and floor events at that level as well. [4] He won the national senior men's all-around in 1995. [5]
At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Burley won three silver medals as a solo competitor in floor, vault and parallel bars. [6] In the men's team event, he was the last floor performer after teammates Alan Nolet, Richard Ikeda and Travis Romagnoli; in what he would later describe as one of the best performances of his life, he scored 9.55 to secure the gold medal for the Canadian team. [3]
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he won a silver medal in the men's horizontal bar, and a bronze medal in the men's team event.
Burley won two bronze medals as a solo competitor and one bronze medal with the Canadian team at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina, [7] and one bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, finishing 69th in the artistic individual all-around. [8]
He was named male athlete of the year by Sport New Brunswick in 1997, [3] and by Gymnastics Canada in 1996 and 1998. [3]
Burley announced his retirement from competition in 1999, [3] and subsequently worked as a television production assistant [3] and served on the board of directors of the Association of Canada's National Team Athletes. [1] He worked with Cirque du Soleil for several years as a performer in Alegría and as assistant artistic director of Dralion . [1] He later worked on the communications and media team for Toronto's bid to host the 2015 Pan American Games. [1]
Openly gay, [9] he is also a spokesperson for the Canadian Olympic Committee's program to combat homophobia in sport. [9]
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