Marissa King
Appearance
Marissa King | |
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Full name | Marissa Petra King |
Nickname(s) | Riss |
Born | Cambridge | 20 April 1991
Hometown | Cambridge |
Height | 154 cm (5 ft 1 in) |
Gymnastics career | |
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics |
Country represented | United Kingdom England |
College team | University of Florida (2009-2013) |
Level | Senior International Elite |
Club | Huntingdon |
Head coach(es) | Rhonda Faehn |
Assistant coach(es) | Adrian Burde, Robert Ladanyi |
Music | Akordeon Latino (2012), Don't Cry For Me Argentina (2008) |
Retired | 2013 |
Marissa Petra King (born 20 April 1991) is an English gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, as well as the 2007 and 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Marissa is the daughter of a British father and Thai mother[1] and began gymnastics at age 8. During her elite career she trained at the Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club and competed for the University of Florida Gators NCAA gymnastics team.[2] In 2011, she became the NCAA National Champion on vault with a score of 9.875 as well as being an 11-time All American.[2]
Elite career history
[edit]Year | Competition Description | Location | Apparatus | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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2010 | British Championships | Guildford, England | Vault | 2 | 13.775 | 2 | 14.450 |
Floor | 8 | 12.050 | 3= | 14.200 | |||
2009 | British Championships | Guildford, England | All Around | 3 | 53.100 | ||
Vault | 1 | 13.925 | |||||
Bars | 3 | 13.400 | |||||
Beam | 4 | 12.700 | |||||
Floor | 3 | 13.450 | |||||
Stuttgart World Cup | Stuttgart, Germany | Vault | 4 | 13.550 | 2 | 13.800 | |
World Championships | London, England | Vault | 13.850 | ||||
Beam | 13.400 | ||||||
2008 | British Championships | Guildford, England | All Around | 6 | 55.100 | ||
Vault | 2 | 14.175 | |||||
Bars | 7 | 12.800 | |||||
Floor | 7 | 13.300 | |||||
European Championships | Clermont-Ferrand, France | Vault | 10 | 14.050 | |||
Beam | 19 | 14.450 | |||||
Floor | 34 | 13.700 | |||||
Glasgow Grand Prix | Glasgow, Scotland | Vault | 6 | 12.912 | 4 | 13.675 | |
Beam | 2 | 14.475 | 2 | 14.650 | |||
Maribor World Cup | Maribor, Slovenia | Vault | 2 | 14.075 | |||
2007 | Glasgow Grand Prix | Glasgow, Scotland | Vault | 1 | 14.237 | 2 | 13.862 |
Good Luck Beijing (Olympic Test Event) | Beijing, China | All Around | 8 | 56.225 | |||
Vault | 3 | 14.187 | |||||
European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Vault | 6 | 14.175 | 7 | 14.100 | |
Beam | 56 | 12.775 | |||||
Floor | 29 | 13.750 | |||||
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | Team | 7 | 169.175 | 6 | 233.025 | |
Vault | 17 | 13.600 | |||||
Floor | 46 | 13.925 | |||||
DTB Cup | Vault | 4 | 14.237 | 8 | 13.450 | ||
Floor | 6 | 13.650 | 4 | 13.575 |
NCAA career history
[edit]Competition | Apparatus | Year | Rank-Final | Score-Final | Rank-Qualifying | Score-Qualifying |
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NCAA Championships | Vault | 2011 | 1 | 9.875 | - | - |
Team | 2013 | 1 | 197.575 | 1st | - | |
Beam | 2013 | 7th |
References
[edit]- ^ Women's Artistic. British-gymnastics.org. Retrieved on 2013-01-05.
- ^ a b "Marissa King – University of Florida – Biography". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cambridge
- English people of Thai descent
- British female artistic gymnasts
- English female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain
- Florida Gators women's gymnasts
- English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- 21st-century English sportswomen