Elfi Schlegel was born on May 17,1964 and is a Canadian gymnast and commentator.
13 Facts About Elfi Schlegel
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Elfi Schlegel competed in four NCAA women's gymnastics tournaments for the Florida Gators women's gymnastics team and won gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games and 1979 Pan American Games.
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Elfi Schlegel was chosen to represent Canada at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but did not compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.
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Elfi Schlegel covered the sport as a commentator for CTV, CBC, and NBC.
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Elfi Schlegel established herself as one of the best gymnasts in Canadian history when she won a gold medal in the all-around and team competitions in gymnastics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Elfi Schlegel won a bronze medal in the vault at the 1980 World Cup in Toronto, the first-ever World Cup medal for a Canadian.
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Elfi Schlegel sought and received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she was a member of coach Ernestine Weaver's Florida Gators women's gymnastics team in National Collegiate Athletic Association competition from 1982 to 1986.
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Elfi Schlegel graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications production in 1986, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1997.
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In 1984, Elfi Schlegel began her television career as a gymnastics commentator for CTV's Wide World of Sports.
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Elfi Schlegel covered the Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics for CBC.
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Elfi Schlegel was a gymnastics analyst on NBC's Olympic broadcasts from 1992 to 2012.
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Elfi Schlegel covered the Breeders Cup and Olympic curling for the network.
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Elfi Schlegel is married to Marc Dunn, a former Olympian who represented Canada in beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.