Full name Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs Weight 46 kg Name Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs Career start 2001 | Role Gymnast Career end 2012 Club Sport Seneca Height 1.52 m Home town Toronto | |
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Education University of California, Los Angeles | ||
Head coach(es) Carol-Angela Orchard | ||
Ucla elyse hopfner hibbs fx 2010 ncaa regional gymnastics championships
Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian former gymnast. She was born in Mississauga, Ontario.
Contents
- Ucla elyse hopfner hibbs fx 2010 ncaa regional gymnastics championships
- Flashback elyse hopfner hibbs makes canadian history at 2006 world gymnastics championships
- Elite career
- College career
- Post Retirement
- Skills
- References
Flashback elyse hopfner hibbs makes canadian history at 2006 world gymnastics championships
Elite career
She first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.
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. Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.
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.
College career
She entered UCLA on an NCAA scholarship in 2008 and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009. 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.
Post-Retirement
On May 1, 2015, she married Grayson Null in California. Grayson is the younger brother of YouTube personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own YouTube channel called Meet The Nulls. In May 2016, the couple announced (via YouTube) that they are expecting their first child. On November 27, 2016 they welcomed a baby girl, Scarlett Everly Null.