Athlete Bio#
Age
37
Hometown
Winchester
NAME: Alicia Sacramone
SPORT: Gymnastics (artistic)
CLUB: Brestyan’s American Gymnastics
SCHOOL: Brown University
OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE: 2008
OLYMPIC MEDALS: silver (team)
PERSONAL NOTES: She competed for Brown during her freshman year and set school records in all-around and vault. She’s currently sponsored by Visa.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2010 World Championships vault champion and team silver medalist.
- Nine World medals (three gold, four silver and two bronze); tied her with Shannon Miller and Nastia Liukin for the most World medals by an American gymnast.
- 2008 Olympic Team silver medalist.
- 2007 World team gold medalist, floor exercise silver medalist and vault bronze medalist.
- 2006 World team and vault silver medalist
- 2005 World floor exercise gold medalist and vault bronze medalist.
- Has five U.S. vault titles (2005-08, 2010), the most in U.S. women's history. Two U.S. floor exercise crowns (2005-06).
- USA Gymnastics' Sportswoman of the Year three times (2005-07).
- Scored a 9.9 on floor exercise at the 2005 Visa Championships, the first time a score of 9.9 or better had been awarded in the women's division at a U.S. Nationals since 1996.
- In 2004, qualified for the World Cup Final as a wild card and won the vault gold medal.
- Competed on the Brown University gymnastics team during her freshman year and set school records in the all-around, vault and became the first gymnast to win all five events at the Ivy League Classic. Alicia is currently sponsored by Visa.
Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian; 1-time Olympic medalist (1 silver)
- Olympic Games Beijing 2008, silver (Team - Women), 4th (Vault - Women), 9th (Beam - Women), 31th (Floor Exercise - Women), 63th (Individual All-Around - Women)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 2010 – gold (Vault - Women), silver (Team - Women), 5th (Beam - Women), 174th (Individual All-Around - Women)
- Years of participation: Beam - Women 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010; Individual All-Around - Women 2005, 2006, 2010; Team - Women 2006, 2007, 2010; Vault - Women 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010; Floor Exercise - Women 2005, 2006, 2007
- Medals: 9 (3 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)
- Gold – 2010 (Vault - Women); 2007 (Team - Women); 2005 (Floor Exercise - Women)
- Silver – 2010 (Team - Women); 2007 (Floor Exercise - Women); 2006 (Team - Women, Vault - Women)
- Bronze – 2007 (Vault - Women); 2005 (Vault - Women)
