Kristen Maloney
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| Full name | Kristen Ann Maloney | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Kris, Maloney | ||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
March 10, 1981 Hackettstown, New Jersey |
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| Hometown | Pen Argyl | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Bill Strauss | ||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Donna Strauss, Jack Carter | ||||||||||||
| Music | Grease (1997), All That Jazz (1998), West Side Story (1999), Puttin' On The Ritz (2000) | ||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Maloney (uneven bars) | ||||||||||||
| Retired | 2005 | ||||||||||||
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Kristen Ann Maloney (born March 10, 1981, Hackettstown, New Jersey), is a retired gymnast from Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, United States, who was coached by Jack Carter in the 2000 Olympics and won bronze in the team event. Maloney was also the U.S. senior all-around national champion in 1998 and 1999 and the 1998 Goodwill Games gold medalist on the balance beam.
Maloney trained at Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and was a consistent member of the U.S. national gymnastics team from 1993 to 2000. She competed in a variety of minor international events as a junior elite and, as a senior, qualified for the 1996 Olympic Trials.
Maloney finished fourteenth at the Trials and received little media attention in the shadow of the "Magnificent Seven," but she became one of the most prominent American gymnasts from 1997 to 2000. The national champion in the all-around in 1998 and 1999, she was a key member of the American team at several major international meets. She participated in the 1997 and 1999 World Championships, earned a gold medal on the balance beam at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, and won the all-around at the 1998 Pacific Alliance Championships. Maloney ended her elite career at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where the American team won the bronze medal after a 2010 investigation by the International Gymnastics Federation disqualified the original bronze medalist, China, for falsifying a gymnast's age. She also finished nineteenth in the individual all-around.
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