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College team
  
Country represented
  
Home town
  
Newton

Role
  
Gymnast

Name
  
Houry Gebeshian


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Born
  
July 27, 1989 (age 35) Auburndale, Massachusetts, United States (
1989-07-27
)

Hometown
  
Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Discipline
  
Women's artistic gymnastics

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Houry Gebeshian (born July 27, 1989) is an Armenian-American artistic gymnast, who has represented Armenia at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Iowa Hawkeyes team during the 2008 to 2011 seasons.

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Early life

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Gebeshian was born on July 27, 1989, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to parents Christine Abrahamian and Hagop Gebeshian. She graduated from Newton North High School in 2007.

2005-2007: Club career

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Gebeshian placed 34th at the 2005 J.O. Nationals, her first J.O. competition. During her club competitive years, she trained at Massachusetts Gymnastics Center; under coaches Patrick Palmer, Shixin Mao and Joe Massimo.

2008-2011: College career

Houry started competing for the Iowa Hawkeyes team in the 2008 season. She was a steady bars and beam worker, competing at every single meet during regular season. In her sophomore year, in 2009, Gebeshian was a consistent all-arounder, competing every single event at every meet. She was the Big-10 beam champion in 2010, as a junior, with a score of 9.950. In her senior season, in 2011, Gebeshian advanced to the 2011 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship as an individual all-arounder.

2011-present: International career for Armenia

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In an article with International Gymnast Magazine, Gebeshian said that she was "first inspired to compete for Armenia when her mother informed her that as an Armenian by birth, she can have dual citizenship hence able to represent Armenia at the Olympics if she wished to. Gebeshian's mother contacted a parent of another gymnast training at the same gym, who apparently was the Olympics liaison for Armenia, checking the possibility of Gebeshian representing Armenia being of Armenian descent. He told her to "go for it!". Gebeshian's family helped foot the bill for finances for Gebeshian to attend the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in October 2011, in Tokyo, Japan. She competed at the event, finishing with a score of 45.899, placing 128th all-around. She did not receive a berth to the 2012 Olympics but was third reserve.

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After four years of international hiatus, Gebeshian returned to international competition at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in April 2015, held in Montpellier, France. She qualified to the all-around final, finishing 19th overall with a score of 51.198.

Gebeshian competed at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland and was qualified for the Olympics test events. Eventually on April 17 Gebeshian qualified for the 2016 Olympics, when she competed at the Olympics test events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gebeshian represented Armenia at the Olympics competing at the artistic gymnastics event on 7 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Personal life

Gebeshian graduated from the University of Iowa in 2011, with a bachelor's degree in athletic training. In 2012, she started her graduate education at Wake Forest School of Medicine, graduating in 2014 with a master's degree in medical science, and now practices as a physician assistant at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

She maintains dual citizenship of America and Armenia.

References

Houry Gebeshian Wikipedia


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