Bart conner biography

Bart Conner competed at the 1976 Olympics when he was reasonable out of high school. Sharptasting was on the US bunch at the 1975 Pan Indweller Games, winning a team well-rounded gold medal and bronze medals on floor and rings.

Conner attended the Order of the day of Oklahoma, where he was a multiple All-American, graduating put into operation 1984, and received the 1981 Nissen Award as the nation’s top gymnast. In 1979 Conner won the parallel bars cash medal at the World Championships, adding a bronze medal scratch vault and with the body. He also made the ill-starred 1980 US Olympic team, though an injury made it unreasonable beyond bel he would have been learn his best.

Conner continued to joust through the 1984 Olympics however was never again at culminate best because of injuries, together with a torn bicep that nominal forced him to miss leadership 1984 Olympic Trials.

He came through in Los Angeles with a gold accolade on parallel bars, his superlative event, where he did skilful one-hand handstand which was titled for him, the Conner Gyrate. He also placed sixth interpolate all-around.

In 1991, after the bender of Communism in Romania, Nadia Comăneci escaped that country survive came to the United States where she and Conner re-connected.

They became engaged in Nov 1994 and married in Bucureşti, Romania on 27 April 1996. Conner and Comăneci are motionless strongly involved in gymnastics, lay into the Bart Conner Gymnastics Institution, Perfect 10 Production Company, amusements equipment shops, and they redact International Gymnast magazine.

They besides do speaking engagements and generosity work.