34 Facts About Shannon Miller

Shannon Lee Miller was born on March 10,1977 and is an American former artistic gymnast.

Shannon Miller was the 1993 and 1994 world all-around champion, the 1996 Olympic balance beam champion, the 1995 Pan American Games all-around champion, and a member of the gold medal-winning Magnificent Seven team at the 1996 Olympics.

Shannon Miller was the most successful American athlete at the 1992 Olympics, winning five medals.

Shannon Miller was born in Rolla, Missouri, but she and her family moved to Edmond, Oklahoma, when she was six months old.

Shannon Miller began gymnastics when she was five and traveled to Moscow with her mother at the age of nine to participate in a gymnastics camp.

Shannon Miller's mother was a bank vice president, and her father was a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma.

For most of her career, Shannon Miller was coached by Steve Nunno and Peggy Liddick, who went on to become the national coach of the Australian women's gymnastics team.

Shannon Miller traveled to Europe in 1990 and 1991 for international meets and scored perfect 10s on the balance beam at the Swiss Cup and the Arthur Gander Memorial.

At her first World Championships in 1991 in Indianapolis, Shannon Miller won two silver medals: one on the uneven bars and one in the team competition.

Shannon Miller placed second to Soviet Svetlana Boginskaya during the compulsory portion of the competition.

Shannon Miller won the compulsory portion of the 1992 Olympic Games and scored the highest of any gymnast in the overall team competition, securing the bronze medal for the US women's team and advancing to the all-around final as the top-ranked gymnast in the world.

Shannon Miller was one of only two female gymnasts, along with Lavinia Milosovici of Romania, to compete in every event final at the Games, and she alone performed all sixteen of her routines without serious error.

At the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham, Shannon Miller won every event in preliminaries, and television commentator Kathy Johnson, a 1984 Olympian, remarked that she had not seen a gymnast so dominant since Nadia Comaneci in 1976.

Shannon Miller won the all-around title, followed by gold medals on bars and floor.

At the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane, Shannon Miller again took the all-around title, beating Milosovici and becoming the first American gymnast to win back-to-back world all-around titles.

Shannon Miller won the beam title, which had eluded her the previous year, with a near-perfect exercise.

Shannon Miller's winning streak ended in late 1994 at the Goodwill Games, where Dina Kochetkova of Russia, who had finished in third place at the World Championships, defeated her by a narrow margin, 39.325 to 39.268.

Shannon Miller rebounded by earning gold medals on beam and floor and silver medals on vault and bars.

Shannon Miller missed out on medals in the team competition and the mixed team competition, both of which saw fourth-place finishes for the United States.

Two weeks later, Shannon Miller competed at the 1994 National Championships, where she won five silver medals, placing second to Dominique Dawes each time.

Shannon Miller placed seventh on the uneven bars and fourth on the balance beam, and had to withdraw from the vault and floor finals due to injury.

Shannon Miller led the American team, dubbed the Magnificent Seven, to the gold medal, edging the Russian team.

Shannon Miller became the first American to win the balance beam final at the Olympics, as well as the first American woman to win an individual gold medal in a fully attended Olympics.

Shannon Miller competed in her final international meet in 1997, when she won the all-around title at the World University Games.

In 2000, Shannon Miller made a brief comeback attempt for the Sydney Olympics.

Shannon Miller competed in the Olympic Trials, but after a fall on vault, she decided to withdraw from the competition despite being cleared by a doctor to continue.

Shannon Miller is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, the United States Olympic Hall of Fame the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, and the Women's International Sports Hall of Fame.

Shannon Miller is the only woman, in any sport, to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame twice, as an individual and for her team.

Shannon Miller is tied with Nastia Liukin for third most World Championship medals won by an American gymnast, behind Simone Biles and Alicia Sacramone.

Shannon Miller entered Boston College Law School later that year and graduated in 2007.

Shannon Miller moved to Florida, where she made appearances at gyms, conducted beam clinics, and starred in workout DVDs.

On October 21,2015, Shannon Miller entered a business partnership with Juice Plus for a branded line of dietary supplements.

In February 2011, Shannon Miller revealed that she had been diagnosed with germ cell ovarian cancer, a month after doctors removed a baseball-sized cyst from one of her ovaries.

Shannon Miller underwent three cycles of chemotherapy from March 7 to May 2,2011.