Alabama’s Shallon Olsen Wins Pan American Games Silver Medal with Canada
7/28/2019 6:11:00 PM | Gymnastics
The Vancouver, British Columbia, native posted top-20 finishes on the vault and floor exercise to help propel Canada to a second-place finish
LIMA, Peru – The University of Alabama's Shallon Olsen helped propel Canada to a silver medal in the team final on the first day of competition at the 2019 Pan American Games being held in Lima, Peru.
Olsen scored a 13.950 to take fifth on the vault and 12.600 on the floor exercise to finish 18th. Her vault finish earned her a spot in the individual event finals of the event, which will be held Tuesday.
Unlike collegiate competition, which has a maximum score of 10.0, international competition combines a difficulty and execution score for the final mark.
The rising sophomore took gold on the vault at the Canadian National Championships at the end of May, scoring a 14.450 for the win. 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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