Lori Strong

{{short description|Canadian artistic gymnast}}

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| collegeteam = University of Georgia

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{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1990 Auckland | All-around }}

{{MedalGold | 1990 Auckland | Balance Beam }}

{{MedalGold | 1990 Auckland | Floor exercise }}

{{MedalGold | 1990 Auckland | Team }}

{{MedalSilver | 1990 Auckland | Uneven Bars }}

{{MedalSilver | 1990 Auckland | Vault }}

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Lori Strong (born 12 September 1972) is a Canadian former artistic gymnast who represented her country at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. She is the 1990 Commonwealth Games all around, floor exercise, and beam champion.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gymn.ca/athletes/women/strong.shtml|title=Gymn.ca: Lori Strong|website=www.gymn.ca|access-date=2018-04-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/lori-strong|title=Lori Strong}} In 2000, she became a gymnastics sports commentator at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, covering the Olympic games.

Eponymous skill

Strong has an eponymous uneven bars skill listed in the Code of Points, a transition from high to low bar with one and a half twists.{{cite web |title=2022-2024 Code of Points Women’s Artistic Gymnastics |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_WAG%20CoP%202022-2024.pdf |website=International Gymnastics Federation |access-date=22 January 2022 |pages=83, 207}}{{cite web |title=Women’s Artistic Gymnastics – 2025-2028 Code of Points |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_1.1%20-%20WAG%20COP%202025-2028.pdf |website=International Gymnastics Federation |date=22 April 2024 |access-date=2 February 2025}}

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Uneven barsStrongHang on high bar - swing forward with 1½ turn (540°) and flight over low bar to hang on low barE (0.5)

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{{Footer Commonwealth Champions Artistic Gymnastics Team Women|1990}}

{{Footer Commonwealth Champions Artistic Gymnastics Individual Women}}

{{Footer Commonwealth Champions Artistic Gymnastics Floor}}

{{Footer Commonwealth Champions Artistic Gymnastics Balance Beam Women}}

{{Footer NCAA Gymnastics Uneven Bars Champions (Women)}}

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Category:Canadian female artistic gymnasts

Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada

Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada

Category:Gymnasts at the 1990 Commonwealth Games

Category:Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic gymnasts for Canada

Category:Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics

Category:Living people

Category:1972 births

Category:Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics

Category:Georgia GymDogs gymnasts

Category:Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games

Category:20th-century Canadian sportswomen

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