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Carly Patterson has competed for USA Carly Patterson has won 1 gold medal at the Olympic Games Carly Patterson has won 2 silver medals at the Olympic Games 

Carly Patterson is a gymnast who has competed for the United States. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.

In the team all-around final, Patterson and her American teammates struggled to maintain their form. She under-rotated her vault, stubbed the low bar with her foot on the uneven bars, and incurred several wobbles on balance beam and a lunge forward on her dismount. Despite numerous setbacks across all rotations, the U.S. women's gymnastics team managed to claim a silver medal behind the Romanians.

Two days later, Patterson entered the individual all-around final with a top-seeded score from the prelims. There, she narrowly defeated the three-time world champion and her Russian rival Svetlana Khorkina by over a tenth of a point to capture the women's all-around title after two decades, becoming the second American woman to win an Olympic gold medal and the first to do so at a non-boycotting Games. She also claimed a silver medal behind the Romanian favorite Cătălina Ponor on the balance beam. She also received the eighth highest score in the qualifying stage of the women's uneven bars but she was ineligible to enter the final because of the two-per-country limitation rule.

Shortly after the Olympics, Patterson was diagnosed with several bulging discs in her lower back that went unheeded. She intended to take her time off from the sport to rehabilitate her back, but she officially retired in 2006 without ever participating in another major gymnastics meet.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Result
2004 Women's individual all-around Gold
Women's team Silver
Women's floor 10th
Women's vault Q3
Women's uneven bars Q8
Women's balance beam Silver

2004[]

Discipline Stage Score
Individual all-around Qualification 38.337
Final 38.387
Team Qualification 151.848
(38.337)
Final 113.584
(37.886)
Floor Qualification 9.500
Final Did not advance
Vault Qualification 9.512
Final Did not advance
Uneven bars Qualification 9.600
Final Did not advance
Balance beam Qualification 9.725
Final 9.775
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