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| Full name | Terin Marie Humphrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 14, 1986 Saint Joseph, Missouri |
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| Height | 152 centimetres (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Great American Gym. Express | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Alabama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Al Fong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Armine Barutyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Humphrey(balance beam) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | March 18, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Terin Marie Humphrey (born August 14, 1986) is a United States gymnast. She was a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team in Athens, Greece where she helped the team to a silver medal. This was the best ever result achieved by an American Olympic gymnastics team away from home. Her teammates were Mohini Bhardwaj, Annia Hatch, Carly Patterson, Courtney Kupets and Courtney McCool. Terin competed on bars and beam in the team finals, and contributed solid scores of 9.587 and 9.487 respectively.
She also competed in the event finals on the uneven bars and won a surprise silver medal for her country. This was the best bars result by an American woman in the Olympics since Amy Chow took silver in the 1996 Olympics. Terin placed third at the 2004 US Gymnastics Championships in Nashville, TN, improving on her sixth place performance the year before. In 2003, Terin Humphrey was a member of the first US National women's squad to win the World Team Championship, contributing one of her signature elegant, yet difficulty-packed floor routines.
Humphrey was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. She lived in Bates City, Missouri, and graduated from Odessa, Missouri High School. She formerly trained with Dragon Gymnastics at Great American Gymnastic Express in Missouri with coaches Al and Armine Fong and gymnasts Courtney McCool and Sarah Shire.
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She attended University of Alabama, a traditional power in women's collegiate gymnastics. In 2005, her freshman season, Humphrey helped her team to second place and won the NCAA Uneven Bars Individual National Championship.
In mid 2006, Terin underwent surgery on both elbows, from which she is now fully recovered. She competed throughout the 2006-7 season. At the NCAA finals her team had a disaster, failing to qualify for the Super Six for the first time in over a decade, but Humphrey bounced back from this disappointment and once again took the uneven bars title.
On March 18, 2008, Humphrey, who battled back problems during the 2008 season, announced her retirement from gymnastics.[1]
In May 2010, Terin became a police officer in Raymore, Missouri. Terin mentioned that she was interested in Law Enforcement ever since becoming a childhood fan of NYPD Blue. She considered law and forensics before settling on the police academy, following in the footsteps of her older brother. She says in a recent Kansas City Star article that her choice was partly due to the excitement factor of police work. Terin has the ultimate goal of becoming a detective.
The article also mentioned her small stature (5') as being a possible hindrance to police work, but her father replied “To me, the size of her may not seem very intimidating to someone. But once they know what she’s capable of, that’s a different story.”
Terin is still involved with gymnastics, and will serve as an athlete representative in the selection process leading up to the 2012 Olympics, meaning she will regularly attend and observe meets throughout the country.[2][3]
Terin's routines consist of Vault: double twisting Yurchenko(9.8 start value,sv); piked Podkopayeva(9.7 sv); piked Khorkina II(9.9 sv)
Uneven Bars: Glide kip, cast to handstand, Maloney - kip, cast to handstand 1/2, toe-on 1/2, Markelov - kip, cast to handstand, stalder 1/1, hop 1/1, Gienger - kip, cast to handstand, giant 1/1, overshoot, toe-on 1/1, piked sole circle to high bar - kip, cast to handstand, giant, giant, double layout(10.00 sv)
Balance Beam: Triple turn in lunge position - standing Arabian - Kochetkova, flip flop, layout - beat jump, wolf jump - punch front, beat jump - switch leap, back dive 1/4, back hip circle - roundoff, flip flop, double tuck (9.9 SV)
Floor Exercise: Roundoff, backhandspring, double Arabian - full-twisting switch leap - tuck jump double - roundoff, backhandspring, piked full-in - roundoff, backhandspring, 11⁄2 twist, roundoff, backhandspring, 21⁄2 twist - double stag leap - split leap full - triple turn - triple twist (10.0 SV)
A skill on the balance beam is named after her. "Humphrey" is a 2½ turn (900°) in tuck, stand on one leg; free leg at horizontal throughout turn.[4] Although her skill named after her is a 21⁄2 turn it is later on added as a triple turn.
2004 Olympics: "Armenian Tango"
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