Ron Galimore | |
Full Name: | DaVonche Therhon Galimore |
Country: | United States |
Birth Date: | 7 March 1959 |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Collegeteam: | LSU Tigers Iowa State Cyclones |
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DaVonche Therhon "Ron" Galimore[1] (born March 7, 1959) is an American former gymnast.[2]
He was the United States artistic gymnastics champion in floor exercise in 1977, 1979, and 1980; and in vault in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, although that team was never sent to Moscow because of a U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal years later.[3]
He served as Chief Operating Officer of USA Gymnastics from 2011 until his resignation on November 16, 2018.[4]
His father was Willie Galimore, a former National Football League player and College Football Hall of Fame inductee.