Karen Cockburn
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| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gymnastics | |||
| Silver | 2004 Athens | Women's trampoline | |
| Bronze | 2000 Sydney | Women's trampoline | |
Karen Cockburn (born October 2, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. She began trampolining at age 11, and is a student at York University. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the individual event. She won a gold medal at the 2003 world championships in Hannover, Germany in the same event and a bronze in the team event. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the individual event. In the December 2004 Trampoline World Cup Championship, held in Algiers, she finished in 5th place in the individual competition and 4th in the synchronized competition with her partner Heather Ross-McManus.
After winning the Canadian National Trampoline Championships seven years in a row, Cockburn made an error in her second routine (of three) and came in 6th place in the 2005 finals on June 1, 2005. She was beaten by her partner in synchronized trampoline, Rosannagh MacLennan. Later in June she competed in the Trampoline World Cup and came in 3rd in the individual competition and won gold in synchronized trampoline with Rosannagh MacLennan. In September 2005 at the Trampoline World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the pair came 2nd in synchronized trampoline and Cockburn came 6th in the individual event.
In the 2006 Canadian National Trampoline championships, Cockburn regained her title beating MacLennan into second place, on May 20, 2006. On November 25, 2006, Cockburn won both the Individual gold medal and, with MacLennan, the synchronized gold medal at the Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup Final competition in Birmingham.
Her last name is pronounced "Coburn".
