Spring helped the U.S. men win the team bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He won the parallel bars at the 2008 Visa Championships and has two U.S. horizontal bar titles (2005 and 2007). He had reconstructive surgery on his knee after tearing his ACL at the 2007 Visa Championships. Spring was an All-American from 2003-06 at the University of Illinois. As a senior, he won the Nissen-Emery Award and was named the Big 10 Gymnast of the Year.
Hometown: Burke, VA
Personal Website: www.kristypage.net/spring/
Twitter: @JustinSpring
Name of College: University of Illinois
College Graduation Year: 2006
Degree/Major: Communications
Year you began gymnastics: 1987
How did you get involved in gymnastics: My parents were both gymnasts and so was my older sister. Putting me in it as well seemed like the right thing to do.
Names of parents/guardians/spouse: Father, Woody, is a program manager for a defense technology company and a former astronaut, and mom, Debbie, is a physical education teacher.
Names of sibling(s): Sister, Sarah is a former Ohio State gymnast
- 2008
U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics, Philadelphia, Pa. -
1st-PB; 2nd-VT; 3rd-HB; 7th-SR; 10th-FX
- 2008
Visa Championships, Houston, Texas -
1st-PB; 5th-VT(T)
- 2008
U.S. Men's Qualifier, Colorado Springs, Colo. -
5th-HB; 6th-FX(T)
- 2007
Visa Championships, San Jose, Calif. -
1st-HB; 2nd-FX
- 2006
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, Norman, Okla. -
1st-HB, PB; 2nd-Team, AA; 3rd-FX
- 2005
Visa Championships, Indianapolis, Ind. -
1st-HB; 3rd-VT
- 2005
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, West Point, N.Y. -
1st-PB; 2nd-HB; 3rd-Team
- 2005
Winter Cup Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev. -
1st-HB
- 2004
Visa Championships, Nashville, Tenn. -
4th-HB
- 2004
NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, Champaign, Ill. -
1st-HB; 3rd-Team
- 2004
Winter Cup, Las Vegas, Nev. -
- 2002
U.S. Championships, Cleveland, Ohio -
3rd-PB
- 2002
Men's Junior Olympic National Championships, San Diego, Calif. -
2nd-AA, VT
- 2001
Winter Cup Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev. -
- 2000
John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships, St. Louis, Mo. -
1st-AA, PB, HB; 2nd-PH(T), VT
- 2000
Men's Junior Olympic National Championships, Austin, Texas -
- 2000
Winter Cup Challenge, Las Vegas, Nev. -
- 1999
John Hancock U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Sacramento, Calif. -
1st-PB; 2nd-FX; 7th-AA
- 1999
Men's Junior Olympic National Championships, Houston, Texas -
- 1998
Men's Junior Olympic National Championships, Battle Creek, Mich. -
1st-PB; 2nd-VT
- 2008
Olympic Games, Beijing, China -
3rd-Team
- 2007
Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -
1st-PB; 3rd-Team; 6th-HB; 7th-FX
- 2007
World Cup, Moscow, Russia -
2nd-HB(T)
- 2006
World Cup, Ghent, Belgium -
6th-PB(T); 8th-HB
- 2005
World Championships, Melbourne, Australia -
- 2005
American Cup, Long Island, N.Y. -
2nd-HB(T)
- 2003
World University Games, Daegu, Korea -
FX
