Brett McClure
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| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
February 19, 1981 Yakima, Washington, United States |
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| Residence | Mill Creek, Washington, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 1999–2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Team Chevron-Swiss Turners | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Vitaly Marinich | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brett McClure (born February 19, 1981 in Yakima, Washington) is a retired American gymnast. He won a bronze medal in the pommel horse at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, and later helped his U.S. gymnastics team earn a silver in the team competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. During his sporting career, McClure has collected two more silver medals in the same program at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (2001 and 2003). McClure is also a resident athlete for the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
McClure was born in Yakima, Washington, the son of Les and Judy McClure. He started gymnastics at the age of nine under the influence of his father Les, who pushed him to train and perform ten pushups from a handstand position against the wall. When his family later resided in Mill Creek, Washington, he spent two years at Henry M. Jackson High School and finished up early at Chrysalis School in Woodinville. In 1999, McClure moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work and train as a full-time resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, under head coach Vitaly Marinich.
McClure made his official worldwide debut at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, where he received an average score of 9.362 to bring home the bronze medal in the pommel horse, finishing behind China's Huang Xu and Romania's Marius Urzică. On that same year, he added a silver to his annual hardware in the men's team all-around competition (a total of 166.845) at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ghent, Belgium.
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