Jair K Lynch was born on October 2,1971 and is an American gymnast and real estate developer in Washington, DC, in the United States.
28 Facts About Jair Lynch
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Jair Lynch won a silver medal in the parallel bars at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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Jair Lynch's father, Acklyn Lynch, was born on the island of Trinidad in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and his mother, Martha Fernandez Lynch, was born in Bogota, Colombia.
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The Lynch family moved to Washington, DC when Jair was three years old.
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Jair Lynch grew up in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, DC, where he attended Alexander Shepherd Elementary School.
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Jair Lynch evinced an early interest in architecture, and at the age of three was already replicating famous buildings in the city using Play-Doh and covering tables with cities he would build from Legos.
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Jair Lynch became involved with gymnastics at the age of eight.
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At the 1987 USA Gymnastics' Junior Olympics, Jair Lynch won the pommel horse championship.
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Jair Lynch was the all-around men's champion at the meet in 1990.
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At Stanford University, Jair Lynch was a member and captain of the 1992 and 1993 teams that won the NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship.
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Jair Lynch was coached by Sadao Hamada and David Juszczyk.
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Jair Lynch placed seventh in the all-around competition at the 1991 World Sports Fair.
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At the 1992 United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials, Jair Lynch played fourth in the all-around.
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Jair Lynch became just the third African American to make the US Olympic Team, and just the second to compete.
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At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Jair Lynch finished sixth in the parallel bar competition and 60th in the all-around.
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Jair Lynch faced two major issues while preparing for the 1996 Olympic Summer Games.
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Jair Lynch sought out Fred Stephens, the strength coach for the Stanford University football team.
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Jair Lynch finished sixth at the 1996 United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials after falling twice from the horizontal bar.
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Jair Lynch was elected captain of the 1996 US men's gymnastics Olympic team.
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Jair Lynch graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and in urban design.
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Jair Lynch was nominated for a Rhodes scholarship upon graduation.
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In 2006, Jair Lynch was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Jair Lynch started out working on small projects such as community centers and low-income housing.
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Jair Lynch received a $120 million investment from local real estate developer Victor MacFarlane in 2015, which allowed the firm to begin purchasing sites for development and to operate its assets.
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Jair Lynch has stated that his firm is interested in developing neighborhoods around the buildings it develops to help build a stable population.
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Jair Lynch was a member of the 2001 team which submitted the District of Columbia's bid for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games.
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Jair Lynch was a member of the 2014 team which submitted the District's bid for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games.
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Jair Lynch is married to television and film producer Jocelyn Sigue.