Nickname
T (usagym.org, 01 Jan 2019)
Occupation
Student
Spoken languages
English
Club
Zenith Elite Gymnastics Academy [USA] / Hai Phong City [VIE]:
Coach
Simona Iuga Rytzell [personal], ROU
Start sporting career
She began training in 2005 in McKinney, TX, United States of America.
Reason for taking up the sport
As a way to burn off some of her energy, her parents enrolled her in a recreational gymnastics class.
Ambitions
To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usagym.org, 01 Jan 2019)
Additional information
NAMED ELEMENT
In December 2018 the International Gymnastics Federation [FIG] entered a floor element named the 'Nguyen' into the Code of Points. She first performed the element at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. It involves a two/one [720°] turn starting with free leg at horizontal, lowering to complete the turn in wolf position. (gymnastics.sport, 21 Dec 2018)
REPRESENTING VIETNAM
Born to Vietnamese parents in California, United States of America, she competed at national level as a junior in the United States of America. In 2015 her coach Simona Iuga Rytzell at Zenith Elite Gymnastics Academy in Texas, United States of America, emailed Nguyen Thi Kim Lan, the vice president and general secretary of the Vietnam Gymnastics Federation, on her family's behalf to enquire about the possibility of Nguyen representing Vietnam, and she made the switch. (anninhthudo.vn, 03 Sep 2016; vtn.vn, 01 Dec 2017)
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