1. Samuel Anthony Mikulak was born on October 13,1992 and is an American gymnastics coach.
59 Facts About Sam Mikulak
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Sam Mikulak is a six-time US national all-around champion, the 2018 World bronze medalist on the horizontal bar, and a three-time Olympian.
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Sam Mikulak is an eight-time NCAA champion, winning the team, individual all-around, and several individual event titles at the 2011,2013, and 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships.
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Sam Mikulak has a younger sister Alexandra Mikulak, who started gymnastics at age two but stopped at a young age.
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Sam Mikulak enrolled at the University of Michigan to pursue gymnastics.
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Sam Mikulak attended SCATS Gymnastics and was a United States Junior National team member from 2007 to 2010.
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Sam Mikulak won the all-around, floor exercise, and vault titles at the 2010 Junior Olympic Nationals.
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Sam Mikulak was runner-up to John Orozco all three years.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
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Sam Mikulak was a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team from 2010 to 2014.
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Sam Mikulak led Michigan to the NCAA team title in 2013 and 2014 as the team's anchor.
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Later that year, Sam Mikulak became the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to qualify for the Olympics.
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At the 2013 NCAA Championships, Sam Mikulak won the all-around, parallel bars, and horizontal bar titles.
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Sam Mikulak was named undergraduate assistant coach for the University of Michigan men's team in August 2014.
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At the 2012 US National Championships, Sam Mikulak won the bronze medal in the all-around and the silver medal in the parallel bars event.
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Sam Mikulak was the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to be named to the US Olympic team.
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At the 2012 Olympics in London, Sam Mikulak placed 5th with the US team in the team competition.
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Sam Mikulak won his first national all-around title at the 2013 US National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on parallel bars and horizontal bar.
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Sam Mikulak then competed at the 2013 World Championships and placed 6th in the all-around final and 4th in the individual horizontal bar final.
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In March 2014 at the American Cup in Greensboro, North Carolina, Sam Mikulak won the all-around title.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on the pommel horse and the silver medal on the horizontal bar.
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Sam Mikulak then competed at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China.
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Sam Mikulak won a bronze medal with the US team in the team competition and placed 12th in the all-around final.
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On July 11,2015, Sam Mikulak led the US men's gymnastics team to their first gold medal at the Pan-American Games in twenty years.
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Sam Mikulak was crowned Pan American champion in the all-around final two days later.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on vault and parallel bars and won the bronze medal on pommel horse and horizontal bar.
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On February 21,2016, Sam Mikulak won the all-around title at the 2016 Winter Cup in Las Vegas, with a two-day score of 177.50.
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Sam Mikulak outscored the second-place finisher, Akash Modi, by over two points.
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Sam Mikulak won the bronze medal in the all-around and the silver medal on the pommel horse.
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Sam Mikulak claimed his fourth consecutive national all-around title on June 5,2016, at the 2016 US National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Sam Mikulak outscored Chris Brooks 181.500 to 179.850 to become the first male gymnast to win four consecutive national titles since Blaine Wilson won five titles in a row from 1996 to 2000.
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On June 25,2016, Sam Mikulak placed first at the 2016 US Olympic Trials in St Louis, Missouri, and qualified for his second Olympic team.
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Sam Mikulak was named to the five-man US Olympic men's gymnastics team along with Chris Brooks, John Orozco, Jake Dalton, and Alex Naddour.
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Sam Mikulak was one of three gymnasts who train at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to qualify for the Olympic men's gymnastics team.
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At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sam Mikulak placed fifth with the US team in the team competition.
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Sam Mikulak placed seventh in the all-around final and fourth in the horizontal bar final.
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Sam Mikulak won the silver medal on the pommel horse and the bronze medal on the horizontal bar.
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In February, Sam Mikulak won the gold medal in the all-around at the 2018 Winter Cup in Las Vegas.
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Sam Mikulak placed first on the floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on rings and horizontal bar, and won the silver medal on floor exercise and parallel bars.
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Sam Mikulak won the gold medal on floor exercise, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
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Sam Mikulak is the first male gymnast to win five US national titles since Blaine Wilson won five straight crowns from 1996 to 2000.
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In October, Sam Mikulak competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
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Sam Mikulak is the first US man since Kurt Thomas in 1979 to qualify for that many event finals at one World Championships.
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In February, Sam Mikulak placed first on floor and horizontal bars, and second on parallel bars and all-around at the 2019 Winter Cup.
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In March, Sam Mikulak placed second in the all-around at the 2019 American Cup, an FIG All-Around World Cup event, just 0.001 of a point behind fellow American and the event's two-time defending champion Yul Moldauer.
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Sam Mikulak won his record-breaking sixth all-around title, as well as gold medals on floor exercise, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
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In Summer 2020, Sam Mikulak announced he was in his final full year of competition, culminating, he hopes, with representing the United States at the 2021 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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At the 2020 Winter Cup in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sam Mikulak finished first in all-around and parallel bars, second on floor and horizontal bar, and third on pommel horse.
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At the 2021 US Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas Sam Mikulak finished first on the horizontal bar, third all-around, sixth on parallel bars, and eighth on floor and still rings.
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In 2021, Sam Mikulak started speaking out about his experiences with mental illness as an athlete.
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Sam Mikulak described feeling overwhelmed by his focus on gymnastics during the 2016 Olympics cycle, including during the Olympic Floor Exercise finals.
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Sam Mikulak had posted the highest qualifying score in the field, but he did not win a medal in the event finals, even though several other contenders had made errors.
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Sam Mikulak described his struggles with depression after the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Sam Mikulak called the 2020 games the most "meaningful" and the "hardest" Olympics to qualify for in his career.
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Sam Mikulak spoke about redefining his identity beyond only being a gymnast.
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In 2021, Sam Mikulak was honored with the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame Excellence in Sports Award for the year 2020, in Troy, Michigan.
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Sam Mikulak coached pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik in the 2024 Summer Olympics where Nedoroscik won two bronze medals, one with the team and one for pommel horse.