- 2008 Named to U.S. Olympic Team for 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing (withdrew due to injury)
- 2008 U.S. Olympic team trials- 1st Place High Bar
- 2008 Visa U.S. National Championships- 1st Place Floor Exercise
- 2004 Olympic Team Member, Team Silver (Athens, Greece)
- 2004 Monster Box, World Co-Champion
- 2003 World Artistic Championship, Team Silver
- 2003 & 2002 Floor Exercise National Champion
- 2000 Olympic Team Member (Sydney, Australia)
Morgan Hamm is a two-time Olympic Gymnast and silver medalist. He helped anchor the 2004 Olympic Team to win the silver medal in the team competition in Athens, Greece. Morgan's contribution to this victory was vital as he performed on four of the six events and was the highest scorer for the team on vault and high bar. He also competed in floor and high bar finals, and only a tie-breaker kept him from taking bronze on the latter event. In 2003, Morgan’s performances solidified the U.S. Men’s Team Silver medal at the World Championships in Anaheim, CA, where he also took an individual Gold on floor exercise. Morgan is a three-time floor exercise National Champion (2008, 2003, and 2002).
In August 2007, Morgan and his brother Paul competed for the first time since the 2004 Olympics to begin their journey to compete in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Though Morgan was named to the 2008 US Olympic team, he was forced to withdraw prior to the Games due to injury.
Morgan is the son of Sandy and Cecily Hamm, and has a twin brother, Paul who was also on the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Teams. The brothers made history in 2000 as they became the first twins ever to compete in the same Olympic Games in gymnastics.
The twins’ older sister Betsy is a former USA Gymnastics National Team member and was the NCAA National Beam Champion in 1998 and a 7-time All American while competing for the University of Florida. Their father was an All-American springboard diver.
Morgan is 30 minutes older than Paul. Morgan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ohio State University in March 2007 with a B.S. in Education. He married his long-time girlfriend, Megan, in May 2009. In August 2010, Morgan began graduate school for a degree in Pharmacy.
4.18.08
CHICAGO (AP) — Taylor Phinney remembers watching the 2004 Olympics and spotting gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm.
“I was like, ‘Oh, they have red hair, and they’re from Wisconsin,’” Phinney said Monday. “‘That’s interesting.’”
Little did he know.
Turns out, the cycling phenom and two of the world’s best gymnasts have a bit more in common than their Olympic ambitions. Like their family tree.
Though the three met for the first time Monday at the U.S. Olympic Committee summit, they’re related. And not in that “83rd cousin of an aunt twice removed” way that Barack Obama and Brad Pitt are related.
Phinney’s great-great-grandfather on his mother’s side, Russell Carpenter, and the Hamms’ great-grandfather on their mother’s side, Elbert Carpenter, were brothers, revealed Connie Carpenter-Phinney, herself a 1984 gold medalist in cycling.
Which makes the three Beijing hopefuls cousins, even if it’s a bit on the distant side.
Yeah, some pretty good genes in that family.
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8.13.07
Paul and Morgan Hamm were featured in an article that ran in today’s issue of USA Today. (read more)
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2.7.07
Paul and Morgan Hamm have just announced their intentions to train and attempt to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games!
“Being on two U.S. Olympic teams isn’t enough for gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm, ” writes Jill Lieber Steeg of USA TODAY.
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