Brian Ginsberg

Brian Ginsberg (born 1966) is an American former gymnast. He is a two-time US junior national gymnastics champion. He also won gold medals at both the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1987 Pan American Games while competing on Team USA.

Brian Ginsberg
Country represented United States
Born1966 (age 55–56)
Miami, Florida
HometownDenver, Colorado, and Mobile, Alabama
DisciplineGymnastics
College teamUCLA Bruins

Early life

Ginsberg was born in Miami, Florida, to Nathan (a radiologist) and Iris Ginsberg, is Jewish, and grew up in Denver, Colorado, and Mobile, Alabama.[1][2][3] His grandparents are Betty and Sam Diemar.[4]

Gymnastics career

Ginsberg was the 1982 and 1983 US junior national gymnastics champion.[2] In 1985 he won the all-around competition in the Brazil Cup.[5][6] Ginsberg also won gold in the rings, silver in the floor exercise, and bronze in the vault individual medals at the National Sports Festival.[2][7] He competed in the 1985 Maccabiah Games for Team USA.[7]

Ginsberg competed in gymnastics for UCLA, where he majored in kinesiology and was pre-med hoping to specialize in sports medicine.[2][8][9][6]

In 1986 competing for the UCLA Bruins, Ginsberg was an All-American, and finished second in the 1986 NCAA all-around competition.[10][2][8][9] He won the floor exercise in the competition.[11]

In 1987, Ginsberg won the McDonald's American Cup at George Mason University's Patriot Center in Virginia, as Soviet national champion Vladimir Gogoladze came in second.[5][12][13][4] The Alabama State Senate passed a resolution commending him for extraordinary achievement.[4]

Ginsberg won gold medals at both the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1987 Pan American Games (when he also won a silver medal) while competing on Team USA.[14][3]

References
  1. Robert Ashbrook (February 14, 1986). "Mobile Gymnast Hopes to Add to his Impressive Credentials". The Jewish Floridian of greater Ft. Lauderdale.
  2. Rob Gloster (August 4, 1985). "1988 Gymnastics: Brian Ginsberg". UPI.
  3. Shel Wallman (June 18, 1986). "Nancy Lieberman back in limelight". Jewish Post.
  4. "Resolution Presented to Gymnast". The Jewish Floridian of Greater Ft. Lauderdale. July 3, 1987.
  5. Niewiaroski, Donna (March 9, 1987). "Ginsberg Putting Gymnastics First". The Washington Post.
  6. Art Shurlock (September–October 1985). "It Must have been Rio; Ginsberg's Talents Soar in Brazil Meets". USA Gymnastics.
  7. Shel Wallman (August 14, 1985). "U.S. Maccabians head to sports festival". Jewish Post.
  8. "UCLA gymnast Brian Ginsberg, an All-American who..." Los Angeles Times. October 21, 1986.
  9. "Men's Gymnastics". University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA), Class of 1985. p. 58.
  10. Bob Rikkli (May–June 1986). "Sun Devils Shine in Nebraska". USA Gymnastics.
  11. Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 9780881259698 – via Google Books.
  12. Hersch, Hank (May 4, 1987). "A Tumble From the Top". Sports Illustrated.
  13. Mike Botkin (March–April 1987). "U.S. Duo Captures McDonald's America Cup". USA Gymnastics.
  14. Jesse H. Silver and Elli Wohlgelernter. "Sports". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.).
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