1. McKayla Rose Maroney was born on December 9,1995 and is an American former artistic gymnast.
51 Facts About McKayla Maroney
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McKayla Maroney was a member of the American women's gymnastics team, dubbed the Fierce Five, that won a gold medal in the team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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McKayla Maroney then became the first US female gymnast to defend a World Championship vault title at the 2013 World Championships.
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McKayla Rose Maroney was born in Aliso Viejo, California, on December 9,1995, the daughter of Erin and Mike Maroney.
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McKayla Maroney's father was a quarterback at Purdue University, and her mother was involved in figure skating and high school sports.
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In 2010, McKayla Maroney left Gym-Max to train at the All Olympia Gymnastics Center.
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McKayla Maroney competed at the 2009 US Championships in Dallas, Texas, and placed 27th in the all-around.
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At the 2010 US Classic in Chicago, Illinois, McKayla Maroney placed seventh in the all-around competition with a score of 55.650.
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McKayla Maroney then competed at the US Championships and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Ross and Katelyn Ohashi, and she won the junior national vault title.
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McKayla Maroney was then selected to compete at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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McKayla Maroney made her senior international debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, and won the all-around competition.
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McKayla Maroney won gold medals with the American team and on the vault.
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McKayla Maroney only competed on the balance bea, and the floor exercise at the US Classic, finishing sixth and fifth, respectivelyy.
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McKayla Maroney then competed at the US Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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McKayla Maroney improved her performance on the second day to ultimately finish second to Jordyn Wieber in the all-around.
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McKayla Maroney was selected to compete at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo alongside Wieber, Sabrina Vega, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, and Alicia Sacramone.
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McKayla Maroney contributed scores on the vault and floor exercise toward the American team's gold medal win by over four points ahead of Russia.
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McKayla Maroney then won the gold medal in the vault final by more than half a point ahead of silver medalist Oksana Chusovitina.
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McKayla Maroney upgraded her second vault to a round-off, half-on, full-twisting front layout.
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McKayla Maroney placed fourth in the all-around competition with a score of 57.950.
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McKayla Maroney placed first on vault with a score of 16.100 and tenth on balance beam with a score of 13.800.
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McKayla Maroney was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a minor concussion and nasal fracture.
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McKayla Maroney took a week off from training and successfully petitioned to compete at the Olympic Trials.
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McKayla Maroney was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the rest of the USA Women's Olympic Gymnastics team on the July 18,2012, issue of "Olympic Preview".
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McKayla Maroney helped the American team qualify in first place, and individually qualified in first place to the vault final with a score of 15.800.
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McKayla Maroney scored an execution average of 9.733, the highest execution score at an Olympics or world championship under the new scoring system for women's gymnastics.
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McKayla Maroney performed an Amanar for her first vault, but fell on her second.
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The image became an Internet phenomenon sparked by a tumblr blog called "McKayla Maroney is not impressed".
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McKayla Maroney said that she found the Internet meme "kinda funny".
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McKayla Maroney later poked fun at the meme on various occasions, including appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, The Colbert Report, Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, Extra, and when she and the rest of the US Gymnastics team met United States President Barack Obama at the White House in November 2012.
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McKayla Maroney starred in a 2021 Geico commercial playing on her "not impressed" pose.
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In September 2012, McKayla Maroney was injured during an uneven bars dismount while performing at the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions in Ontario, California.
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On September 13,2012, McKayla Maroney had two screws inserted to repair the fractured left tibia.
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McKayla Maroney wore an immobilizer to keep the leg straight until doctors determined that she was ready to resume limited walking and rebuilding range of motion.
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McKayla Maroney returned to The Kellogg's Tour on October 4,2012, in Oklahoma City on light duty.
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On January 12,2013, McKayla Maroney served as one of the judges for the Miss America pageant.
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McKayla Maroney participated in the Thirty Seconds to Mars music video "Up in the Air".
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In 2013, McKayla Maroney signed a sponsorship agreement with Adidas Gymnastics.
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In July 2013, McKayla Maroney made her return to gymnastics at the 2013 Secret US Classic, where she placed first on vault with a score of 15.425 and third on floor with a score of 14.350, posting the highest execution score on that apparatus.
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On September 15, McKayla Maroney was one of four gymnasts named to the United States team for the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
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McKayla Maroney scored a total all-around score of 57.149, placing 6th overall, but due to the two-per-country rule, she could not compete in the all-around final or the floor final, or qualify as third reserve to the uneven bars final.
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On floor, McKayla Maroney would have qualified over teammate Kyla Ross but due to her music being over time by one second she incurred a 0.1 deduction, putting her in the 6th place with same score as Ross.
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McKayla Maroney was the first American woman to ever defend a world title on vault.
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In March 2015, McKayla Maroney claimed in a YouTube video that she struggled with adrenal fatigue following the 2013 World Championships.
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On February 24,2016, popular gymnastics podcast GymCastic released a candid 49-minute-long interview with McKayla Maroney regarding her health issues preceding and following the 2012 Olympic Games.
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On October 18,2017, McKayla Maroney alleged that the USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar had repeatedly molested her, starting when she was 13 years old, until her retirement from the sport in 2016.
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On March 7,2020, McKayla Maroney released her first official single "Wake Up Call", and released her second single "Covid Lockdown" a few weeks later.
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McKayla Maroney made her acting debut in the CW television series Hart of Dixie on November 20,2012.
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McKayla Maroney played Tonya, a friend of Rose in the episode "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me".
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That appearance turned into a recurring role, with McKayla Maroney appearing in six episodes of the series.
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In December 2013, McKayla Maroney appeared on an episode of the Fox TV show Bones called "The Spark in the Park", as a gymnast named Ellie who is a suspect in the murder of a fellow gymnast.