Isabelle Connor
{{short description|American rhythmic gymnast}}
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| natlteam = 2018 - present
| club = North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center
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{{MedalSport|Rhythmic gymnastics}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Lima|Group all-around}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Lima|5 balls}}
{{MedalBronze | 2023 Santiago | Group all-Around }}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Santiago|5 Hoops}}
{{MedalBronze|2023 Santiago|3 ribbons + 2 balls}}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Lima|Group all-around}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Lima|3 balls + 2 ropes}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Rio de Janeiro|Group All-around}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Rio de Janeiro|5 balls}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Rio de Janeiro|3 hoops + 4 clubs}}
{{MedalBronze | 2023 Guadalajara| Group All-around}}
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Isabelle Connor (born July 22, 2000{{cite web |title=Isabelle Connor |url=https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/athleteListDetail.html?id=459134 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021}}) is an American group rhythmic gymnast who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was the first student at the University of California, Santa Cruz to compete at the Olympics.{{cite web |last1=Blackwell |first1=Drea |title=UC Santa Cruz student to compete in Tokyo Olympics |url=https://www.ksbw.com/article/uc-santa-cruz-student-to-compete-in-tokyo-olympics/37095051 |website=KSBW |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=July 21, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Tokyo, here she comes! UCSC student becomes first athlete from school to head to Olympics |url=https://lookout.co/santacruz/ucsc-cabrillo/story/2021-07-01/isabelle-connor-olympics-rhythmic-gymnastics-tokyo-uc-santa-cruz |website=Lookout Santa Cruz |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=July 1, 2021}}
Personal life
Connor was born on July 22, 2000, and her hometown is Manhattan Beach, California. She began artistic gymnastics when she was two years old, and she switched to rhythmic gymnastics when she was ten at the suggestion of her coaches.{{cite web |title=Isabelle Connor joins national rhythmic gymnastics team |url=https://www.lavistamchs.com/?p=42163 |website=Mira Costa High School |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=March 23, 2018}} In 2017, she moved to Chicago to train with the U.S. national rhythmic gymnastics group. She was a student at Mira Costa High School, but she finished her senior year in homeschool after moving. She was a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz studying astronomy and astrophysics.{{cite web |last1=Copitch |first1=John |title=Rhythmic gymnast and UCSC student qualifies for the Tokyo Olympics |url=https://www.ksbw.com/article/gymnastics-olympics-student-ucsc-santa-cruz-rhythmic-simone-biles/36917095 |website=KSBW |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=July 2, 2021}} She speaks both English and Russian.{{cite web |title=Connor Isabelle |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=43317&type=licence |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=July 21, 2021}}
Career
Connor began her career as an individual rhythmic gymnast, but she switched to group rhythmic gymnastics and joined the U.S. National Team in 2018. She competed at the 2018 World Championships in Sofia where the American group finished fourteenth in the all-around.{{cite web |title=U.S. group finishes 14th at 2018 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22571 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 15, 2018}} At the 2018 Pan American Championships, Connor and the U.S. team won the silver medal in both the group all-around and the 3 balls + 2 ropes event final.{{cite web |title=USA wins eight event medals at 2018 Pan American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22643 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 30, 2018 |archive-date=July 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721224513/https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=22643 |url-status=dead }}
Connor competed at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima and helped the American team win the silver medal in the group all-around and in the 5 balls event final.{{cite web |title=Griskenas, Feeley win rhythmic gold medals at 2019 Pan American Games |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=24326 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812102043/https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=24326 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=August 5, 2019 }} Then at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, the American group finished tenth.{{cite web |title=USA finishes 10th in group all-around at 2019 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships |url=https://usagym.org/pages/post.html?PostID=24546 |website=USA Gymnastics |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=September 21, 2019}}
At the 2021 Pan American Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Connor and the American group won the bronze medals in the all-around, and in both the 5 balls and the 3 hoops + 4 clubs event finals. The United States qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games after Japan's host spot was reallocated because of their 2019 World Championship top-ten finish. Connor was selected to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Camilla Feeley, Lili Mizuno, Nicole Sladkov, and Elizaveta Pletneva.{{cite web |title=Laura Zeng leads first full U.S. Olympic rhythmic gymnastics team |url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/07/02/laura-zeng-rhythmic-gymnastics-olympics/ |website=NBC Sports |access-date=July 21, 2021 |date=July 2, 2021}} She was the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympic Games. They finished eleventh in the qualification round for the group all-around.{{cite web |title=Rhythmic Gymnastics — Group All-Around — Qualification — Results |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GRY/OG2020-_GRY_C73B_GRYW5AA---------------QUAL--------.pdf |website=2020 Summer Olympics |access-date=7 August 2021 |archive-date=August 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808053149/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GRY/OG2020-_GRY_C73B_GRYW5AA---------------QUAL--------.pdf |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- {{FIG|lic=43317|name=Isabelle CONNOR}}
- {{Instagram|id=izzy.connor|name=Isabelle Connor}}
{{Footer USA Gymnastics 2020 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:American rhythmic gymnasts
Category:Sportspeople from Manhattan Beach, California
Category:Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gymnasts for the United States
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
Category:Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Pan American Championships
Category:Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in gymnastics