| Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 12, 1989 Mississauga |
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| Hometown | Toronto | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 152 centimetres (5 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 46 kilograms (100 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sport Seneca | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Carol-Angela Orchard | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Brian McVey | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Lisa Cowan | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian gymnast. She was born in Mississauga, Ontario. She first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001. She has a skill named after her in the Code of Points: a double illusion turn on floor.
Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner Chloe Sims of Australia. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with Hollie Dykes of Australia for the highest medal total.
In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.[1] Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.[2]
Hopfner-Hibbs competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She did not qualify to any event finals due to some errors in the preliminaries, but placed 16th in the individual all-around final.[3]
She entered UCLA on an NCAA scholarship in 2008[4] and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009.[5] She also finished 7th in the individual all-around competition at the 2009 NCAA National Championship, and was a second team All-American on vault, floor, uneven bars and in the all-around.[6]