Shannon Lee Miller,44

Shannon Lee Miller is a former artistic gymnast who is best known as the most decorated U.S female gymnast in the history of the Olympics. Miller won a total of seven medals as an Olympian. Additionally, she was a member of the “Magnificent Seven” in the 1996 Women’s Gymnastics Event.

Miller was also the most successful athlete who won five medals at the 1992 Olympics. Besides, she is popular as the second most decorated female gymnast in the U.S after Simone Biles. In 2015, Miller joined a business partnership with a dietary supplement brand “Juice Plus” and currently is the president of Shannon Miller Lifestyle and Foundation.

Kerri Walsh Jennings, 42

Kerri Walsh Jennings is a beach volleyball player who is a triple Olympic gold medalist and one time Olympic bronze medalist. Since 2016, Kerri is the beach volleyball career leader both in career victories as well as career winnings. Kerri has a record of winning 133 victories and $2,542,635 winnings.

Kerri gained international fame in 2016 from the Rio Olympics Games. She is also known as one of the most decorated volleyball players in the history of the Olympics (male or female). Walsh Jennings married fellow pro-beach-volleyball player Casey Jennings in 2005, and they together have three children. Kerri also appeared as a guest in many television shows.

Nadia Comaneci, 59

Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is five times Olympic gold winner. She was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 at the Olympic Games at 15. Nadia won two gold medals in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and received two more perfect scores of 10. Throughout her gymnastic career, she won 9 Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastic Championship medals

Presently Nadia is living in Norman, Oklahoma, with her husband, Bart Conner. The happy couple now trains students at Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, owned by Nadia and Bart. Additionally, Nadia also has a gymnastics school in Romania.

Dominique Dawes, 44

Dominique Dawes is a retired American artistic gymnast. She is popular by the name Awesome Awesome in the gymnastic community. Dawes is the first African-American woman to win an Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics. She won a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and from 1991-1996, she is the consecutive recipient of gold medals in National Champions.

Dawes was also the President of the Women’s Sports Federation from 2004-2006, being the youngest president in the sport’s history. In 2019, Dominique opened her own Gymnastic and Ninja Academy in the USA. She further confirms that she is set to open the academy’s branches in more cities in spring.

Janet Beth Evans, 49

Born in Fullerton, California, Janet Evans is an American former swimmer. Evans was a world champion and world record- holder. In 1987 she participated in 400m,800m, and 1500m freestyle distances and broke all the records. In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she was the recipient of three gold medals.

After a break, in 2010, Evans returned to swimming in Master swimming. Further in 2016, she was elected as Co Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade 2017. Presently, she lives in Laguna Beach, California, with her husband and two kids and is working as chief athlete officer for the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Kerri Strug, 43

Keri Strug is a retired gymnast from Arizona. She is renowned as an Olympian hero of the Women’s All-Around Gymnastics Event in 1996 at the Atlanta Games. Keri was a member of the “Magnificent Seven” and was remembered for her outstanding performance in the vault, even though her ankle got injured. She was carried by her coach Bela Karolyi to the podium.

After Keri retired from the Olympics games as a hero, she appeared in various talk shows. She later completed her master’s degree in sociology from Stanford. Strug is currently working as a program manager for the U.S Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Shawn Johnson, 29

Shawn Johnson was in gymnastics from the age of three. She is best known as the Olympic balance gold medalist and team all-around and as a floor exercise silver medalist in 2008. Shawn also won a gold medal on the women’s balance team and three silver for the women’s gymnastics team.

In 2012, Shawn announced her retirement from gymnastics due to her knee surgery. Besides her professional career, she is also indulged in various charity works. Additionally, she is also an author and entrepreneur. Shawn married football player Andrew East in 2016, and in 2019, the couple welcomed their first daughter in the world.

Kristi Yamaguchi, 49

Kristi Yamaguchi is a former figure skater. She won the Olympic championship in 1992; besides, she is also a two-time World champion and the 1992 United States Champion of figure skating. Yamaguchi also established a Foundation for children to provide funds for after-school programs, computers, and clothes for underprivileged children.

Apart from this, she is an author, philanthropist, and founder of the Always Dream Foundation. In 2009, Yamaguchi won the sixth season of the reality TV show named Dancing with the Stars. Additionally, Yamaguchi also appears occasionally as a figure skating analyst on NBC during the Olympics. She married hockey player Bret Hedican and has two daughters Keara and Emma.

Alicia Sacramone, 33

Alicia Sacramone is a retired American gymnastic, well known as the second-most decorated American gymnast in the record of world championships with 10 medals. Alicia started her training in gymnastics when she was eight years old. In the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, she competed at the age of 20 and became part of the U.S Olympic women’s team.

Besides, she also worked as a designer for the men’s fashion company named Tank Farm in 2009. Sacramone married the former NFL quarterback Brady Quin in 2014. Now, she is a mother of three adorable daughters, and they are happily living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Larisa Latynina, 86

At the age of 21, Latynina made her Olympic debut in 1956 at the Melbourne Olympic Games.

She is an Olympian for life and the only woman in gymnastics who has won an all-around medal in more than two Olympiads. Additionally, Latynina won an individual event (floor exercise) in more than two Olympiads. She was the world record holder for 18 gold medals in the Olympics.

In 1966, Latynina retired and became a coach of the Soviet Union’s Women’s Gymnastics team. Under her training, the Soviet women won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1968, 1972 and 1976. At present, Latynina, the pride of the former Soviet Union, lives in Russia.

Rulon Gardner, 49

Rulon Gardner is an American retired wrestler. He competed at the 2000 Olympics and won a gold medal. Later, he also won a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics against Aleksandr Karelin from Russia in the final round. In the 2012 Olympics, Gardner tried to make a comeback but could not make the weight limit for the USA Olympic Trials.

However, Gardner is living a quiet life now and sells insurance at the age of 40+. On the other hand, he has a second job as a wrestling coach in Salt Lake City area high school that keeps him busy.

Dorothy Hamill, 64

Dorothy Hamil was born in Chicago, Illinois who is now a retired skater. She started her skating lessons at the age of 8 and got serious about this sport. Hamill is the 1976 Olympic champion and in the same year World champion in ladies singles. She also wrote two autobiographies, On and Off the Ice and A Skating Life: My Story.

However, her life was a bit of a struggle. In 2008 Hamill was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she already suffers from chronic depression, which her daughter also suffers from. This American skater now spends time with a program she started called I-Skate that allows disabled children to skate on ice.

Apolo Ohno, 38

Apolo Ohno, born on May 22, 1982, is an American retired short-track speed skating. He is an eight-time medalist with two gold, two silver, and four bronze in the Winter Olympics. Ohno was into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2019. He started winning in the 2002 winter Olympics, and since then, Ohno has won almost every competition. Additionally, at the age of 14 in 1999, he became the youngest reigning champion.

Ohno also won a reality TV show, Dancing with Stars. Later he was the TV host of Minute To Win It (2013-14 season) and now a successful entrepreneur.

Dick Fosbury, 74

Dick Fosbury is an American retired high jumper and considered an influential athlete in track and field history. He even created his own jump, known as Fosbury Flop, as he jumped with the back first technique. Today all the high jumpers now opt for the technique. Besides this, Fosbury is also a gold winner at the 1968 Olympics.

After having a successful career in sports, Fosbury stepped into politics. He ran for Blaine County Commissioner against Larry Schien in 2018. Fosbury won the seat and took office in January 2019. Besides, He also continues to be in athletics roles and serves on the executive board of the World Olympians Association.

Tonya Harding, 50

Tonya Harding is a former figure skater, boxer, and a reality television personality. She was also the first woman who became the first American to complete a triple axel in a competition. Tonya won a total of five gold medals in her Olympic career. She had a successful career until she involved in controversy with her husband, who hired someone to break a leg of Tonya’s competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

However, she pleaded guilty but was banned from playing the figure skater for her life. After that, Tonya tried her hand at professional boxing and even appeared in many television shows. Also, there were two documentaries released based on her life.

Caitlyn Jenner

Caitlyn Jenner is a retired Olympic gold medalist in decathlete and a television personality. Before her gender transition, Caitlyn was born as Bruce who is well renowned as the ”All-American Hero”. She gained an Olympic gold medal for three consecutive years and was named as the “world’s Greatest Athlete”.

She has a great and impressive record in sports till her retirement. In 2015, Bruce came out as a trans woman and publicly announced her name as Caitlyn Jenner. At present, she is working with one of the famous pop culture’s influential families called “The Kardashians”. Caitlyn was also noticed in the show Keeping Up With The Kardashians and many others.

Aly Raisman, 26

Aly Raisman is best known as the caption of the U.S Women’s Olympic gymnastics team of “Fierce Five” and “Final Five” in 2012 and 2016. Additionally, Raisman also won silver medals both in the individual all-around and the floor exercise in the 2016 Olympics. She was the first American female who won the gold medal for the individual floor exercise competition.

Later, in 2012, She became the most decorated American gymnast in London. Raisman was inducted as a brand ambassador of UNICEF kid power in 2016. Besides, she was a contestant of season 16 of Dancing With the Stars and made her place in the top four with partner Mark Ballas.

Dominique Moceanu, 39

Dominique Moceanu is well known as the youngest gymnast who won the senior all-around title at the U.S National Championship when she was just 13. Moceanu was inducted as the younger member of the 1995 World Championship team and the 1996 gold-medal Olympics team. Also, she was the only gymnast who competed legally at the age of 14 in the Olympics.

In 2000, Moceanu decided to take retirement from the sport as she went through multiple injuries during her career. She completed her degree in Business Management. Besides, Moceanu is the owner of a gymnastics center and yoga studio in Ohio, where her son Vincent is under training.

Summer Sanders, 48

Summer Sanders was born in Roseville, California, and by the age of three, she wanted to swim just like her brother. Summer is a former swimmer and 1992 Olympic winner with gold, silver, and bronze medals. However, Summer started to draw attention at the age of 15 when she was close to winning the 1988 Olympic Team.

Presently Summer is a TV personality working as a sports commentator. From 1991-94 she was the commentator of CBS Sports for NCAA swimming championships. She has also hosted some famous shows, Today Show, Good Morning America, and Rachael Ray. Summer also hosted the game show, Figure It Out.