Kip Simons
1996 Olympian
1995 World Championships Team Member
1994 Team World Championships Team Member
Hometown: Bloomsburg, Pa.
Residence: Columbus, Ohio
Birth Date/Place: September 11, 1972/Media, Pa.
Club: Ohio State
Coach: Peter Kormann, Miles Avery
Former Coaches: Larry Moyer
College: Ohio State Graduate (June 1996)
Years on Senior National Team: 4 (1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97)
Began Gymnastics: 1978
Favorite Apparatus/Event: Still rings
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Simons was a member of the 1996 Olympic Team that placed fifth. This was the strongest men's team since 1984. He is a two-time World Championships team member and earned a spot on his first World Championships Team in 1994 by finishing seventh at the 1994 National Championships. He was a member of the gold-medal Pan American Games team in 1995. Although his name, Kip, is a gymnastics skill, he is really named after Kip Keino from Africa who earned a gold medal in athletics at the 1972 Olympics.
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International Competition
- 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, Ga.; 5th-Team
- 1996 Budget Rent a Car Gymnastics Invitational USA vs. France; 1st-Team
- 1995 Atlanta Gymnastics Invitational, Atlanta, Ga.; 12th-AA
- 1995 Subway World Gymnastics Challenge, Ontario, Canada; 11th-AA
- 1995 World Championships, Sabae, Japan; 9th-Team
- 1995 Budget Rent a Car Invitational, San Jose, Calif.; 2nd-Team, 7th-AA
- 1995 Pan American Games, Mar del Plata, Argentina; 1st-Team
- 1995 McDonald's American Cup, Seattle, Wash.; 14th-AA (prelims.)
- 1994 Pacific Alliance Championships, Auckland, New Zealand; 1st-Team, 4th-AA, 2nd-SR
- 1994 Team World Championships, Dortmund, Germany; 9th-Team
- 1994 Goodwill Games, St. Petersburg, Russia; 3rd-Team (alternate)
- 1994 Budget Rent a Car Invitational: USA vs. Romania, Worcester, Mass.; 2nd-Team, did not compete AA
- 1988 Jr. Pan American Games; 1st-AA & FX & PH & SR & PB
National Competition
- 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials-Gymnastics, Boston, Mass.; 5th-AA
- 1996 Coca-Cola National Championships, Knoxville, Tenn.; 4th-AA, 1st-SR, 2nd-PB
- 1995 World Team Trials, Austin, Texas; 4th-AA
- 1995 Coca-Cola National Championships, New Orleans, La.; 5th-AA
- 1994 Coca-Cola National Championships, Nashville, Tenn.; 7th-AA, 4th-FX, 3rd-SR
- 1994 NCAA Championships, Lincoln, Neb.; 3rd-Team, 3rd-AA, 9th-V, 4th(t)-PB, 7th-HB
- 1994 Winter Cup Challenge, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 8th-AA
- 1993 Coca-Cola National Gymnastics Championships, Salt Lake City, Utah; 10th-AA, 5th-SR
updated: 10 Jan 1997
