Tim Daggett
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| Full name | Timothy P. Daggett | |||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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May 22, 1962 Springfield, Massachusetts |
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior elite | |||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Art Shurlock | |||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Makoto Sakemoto | |||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1988 | |||||||||||||||
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Timothy P. (Tim) Daggett (born May 22, 1962) is a former American gymnast born in Springfield, Massachusetts and an Olympic gold medalist. He is a graduate of West Springfield High School and UCLA, who competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, along with Bart Conner, Peter Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord. There, Daggett scored a perfect ‘10.0’ on the high bar, assisting his team in winning a gold medal - the first for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team in olympic history. In addition to the team gold medal, he earned an individual bronze medal on the pommel horse. In 2005, he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
In West Springfield, Massachusetts, at the age of 10, Daggett began his future career in gymnastics by enrolling in the Parks and Recreation Program. Advancing quickly, the local high school coach, Mr. Bill Jones, invited Tim to train with his team. Jones was the first person Tim grew to call his mentor. This is where Daggett was introduced by Bill Jones to the AA events. While he was a college student at UCLA, he competed in NCAA Division I gymnastics. He graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a degree in psychology.
Daggett is married to Deanne (née Lazer), formerly a collegiate level gymnast at Eastern Michigan University and now an M.D. practicing anesthesiology. Their children are Peter and Carlie Daggett. Tim named his son Peter after team mate Peter Vidmar. Peter's son Tim is named after Tim Daggett. They all currently live in East Longmeadow, Mass.
Daggett’s ankles had historically always been weak. In 1980, Daggett dislocated one ankle shortly after having the other rebuilt. For months in 1986, he was forced to recover from his two ankles again being rebuilt. Immediately, following the recovery during training, his high bar release ended with Tim landing on his neck. The result was a ruptured spinal disc, and left arm nerves were also damaged. Daggett, against doctor recommendations, ignored the proposed surgery, to which would have ended his career, and caught mononucleosis following his recovery from the near-fatal landing. In Rotterdam, the 1987 world championships proved career-shattering for Tim Daggett. On the vault, he snapped his tibia and fibula and severed one of his arteries following the impact from a pike Cuervo. Surgeries adding and removing supportive braces and pins to his leg left Daggett under sedation from morphine in hospitals for three months.
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