Shawn won her first Senior National Championships in August, 2007, followed by World AA Champion, with the largest point differentiation against some of the best gymnasts in the world in both competitions. In June 2008, Shawn reclaimed her title as she became the 2008 National Champion and was named to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team.
At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Shawn earned an individual Gold medal in the balance beam and three Silver medals in the individual All-Around, Floor Exercise and Team categories.
In April 2009, Shawn was named the 79th Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Sullivan Award recipient, one of the most prestigious honors in amateur sports. Shawn became the youngest ever contestant on ABC’s "Dancing with the Stars," where she danced her way to becoming the Champion of season eight.
Shawn is involved in a number of philanthropic activities such as working with animals and children’s charities as well as working with cancer charities, particularly those that affect women and children. She is also involved in programs that help build good character amongst youth.
Shawn is currently focusing on preparing for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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7.11.11
Shawn Johnson Amongst First Wave of “TEEN CHOICE 2011″ Nominees Announced
TEEN CHOICE 2011 will celebrate the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports and fashion in the choicest, star-studded two-hour event airing live Sunday, Aug. 7 at 8pm ET on FOX!
2008 Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson has been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Athlete. Fans nationwide can vote EVERY DAY for Johnson by visiting www.teenchoiceawards.com. Johnson won the 2008 Teen Choice Award in this same category.
Starting today, fans ages 13-19 can vote once each day per category for their favorite TEEN CHOICE 2011 nominees at www.teenchoiceawards.com. (read more)
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7.5.11
Inside Gymnastics Magazine
For Shawn Johnson, 2011 is proving to be déjà vu all over again, with a twist. Four years ago, Johnson was gearing up for the biggest year of her life and 2007 was the proving ground for this junior U.S. champ who had just turned senior at age 15. (In ’07, unlike now, Olympic-age-eligible athletes were allowed to participate in the Worlds prior to the Games, which serve as an Olympic team qualifier.)
Now, Johnson, 19, is all grown up, but she’s got her eyes on the same prize: an Olympic berth. With the London Games barely a year away, 2011 is the time to show the world her comeback is serious. After announcing her intentions last May, Johnson is finally ready to put her gymnastics on display this summer, prepping for her first competition since the Beijing Games. (read more)
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7.1.11
July 2011
Liang Chow, Coach of Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson, is the newest coach on the Nike team.
Chow is very proud of the endorsement and alongside
Johnson,wore his Nike apparel proudly at the 2011 Visa U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Chow will visit the exclusive Nike Campus with Shawn on November 2, 2011.
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6.6.11
BBC News
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson as never seen before. Nike’s research area at their headquarters in Portland, Oregon is called ‘the kitchen’.
It contains a running track, a shelf full of the molds of famous athletes’ feet, a model skeleton and a legion of computers.
On the walls are signs reading ‘no cameras allowed’ so we hurriedly walk through with our equipment to another room where we find American gymnast Shawn Johnson.
As she has been all day, Shawn is brimming with enthusiasm while two of the company’s sports scientists use masking tape to stick reflective nodes all over her body.
Around the room are cameras which can take up to 300 frames per second (a standard TV camera records 24 frames per second), and down the centre of the room is a black, foam mat.
Shawn then runs, jumps and flips down the mat. The cameras pick up the light from the reflective nodes stuck all over her body before mapping her exact movements which appear as a series of moving dots on a computer screen in the corner of the room.
Shawn, who won gold at the Beijing Olympics on the balance beam, as well as three silver medals, has recently signed a sponsorship deal with Nike.
As part of the deal the company is designing a line of clothing, marketed around Shawn, and they will use the virtual imaging of her movements to help them make the clothes.
“When she leaves here we kind of have a part of Shawn that stays. So that when we’re looking at designing products we can go back to the video,” says Innovation Manager Toby Hatfield. (read more)
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6.2.11
Shawn Johnson Fun in Dubai | Universal Sports | Gymnastics Video|
Olympic champion gymnast Shawn Johnson talks about her trip to Dubai in May 2011. Check out the latest videos here, on UniversalSports.com! (read more)
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