Marcia Frederick | |
Birth Date: | 1963 1, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States |
Discipline: | WAG |
Level: | Senior International |
Headcoach: | Muriel Grossfeld, Don Peters |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Marcia Frederick (born January 4, 1963, in Springfield, Massachusetts) is a retired American gymnast who was the first American woman to win a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships, on the uneven bars in Strasbourg, France, in 1978.[1] After qualifying for the 1980 US Olympic team, she was among the favorites to win a medal in Moscow but did not compete because of the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics led by the United States.[2] At the USGF International Invitational held in August 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut, for countries affected by the boycott, Frederick won the silver medal in the all-around competition, the gold on vault and bronze on uneven bars and balance beam. Years later, she was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal.
Frederick has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.[3]