Alabama’s Shallon Olsen Opens Pan American Games Competition with Team Canada
7/26/2019 3:46:00 PM | Gymnastics
The Crimson Tide sophomore’s international assignment comes after winning vault gold at the Canadian National Championships in May and World Championship silver last October
LIMA, Peru – University of Alabama gymnast Shallon Olsen opens competition at the Pan American Games Saturday at the Villa El Salvador Sports Center as part of Team Canada. While the team finals will be held Saturday, the individual event finals will be July 30-31.
The rising sophomore's latest international assignment comes on the heels of a gold-medal performance on the vault at the Canadian National Championships at the end of May. Olsen scored a 14.450 for the win. In other action, Olsen finished fourth on the floor exercise with a score of 13.700 and sixth on the balance beam with a 12.966 at the Canadian championships.
A 2016 Olympic vault finalist, Olsen added her latest Canadian national title to her World Championships silver from last October, when she became the first Canadian woman to earn a vault medal at Worlds. She posted a score of 14.516 to take second at Worlds, with Team USA's Simone Biles winning gold.
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