Ron Galimore facts for kids
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| Full name | DaVonche Therhon Galimore |
| Country represented | United States |
| Born | March 7, 1959 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| College team | LSU Tigers Iowa State Cyclones |
DaVonche Therhon "Ron" Galimore (born March 7, 1959) is an American former gymnast.
Gymnastics
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.
He served as Chief Operating Officer of USA Gymnastics from 2011 until his resignation on November 16, 2018.
Personal life
His father was Willie Galimore, a former National Football League star and College Football Hall of Fame inductee who died in a traffic accident just ahead of the 1964 season.
