(1976-02-06) February 6, 1976 (age 48) Houston, Texas, United States[1][2]
Hometown
Coppell, TX
Discipline
Women's artistic gymnastics
Level
Senior international elite
Years on national team
1988–1993; 1998–2000 (USA)
Club
Karolyi's Gymnastics, CGA Texas Dreams (coach)
Former coach(es)
Béla Károlyi, Mary Lee Tracy[2]
Choreographer
Geza Poszar
Eponymous skills
Planche on beam; Round off, 4 whip backs, back handspring, double tuck
Retired
January 28, 2000
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
0
0
1
World Championships
3
1
1
Goodwill Games
0
1
2
American Cup
2
1
0
Total
5
3
4
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
All-Around (OG/WC)
1
1
1
Uneven Bars (OG/WC)
0
0
0
Balance Beam (OG/WC)
1
0
0
Vault (OG/WC)
0
0
0
Floor Exercise (OG/WC)
1
0
1
Total
3
1
2
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing United States
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona
Team
World Championships
1991 Indianapolis
All around
1992 Paris
Balance beam
1992 Paris
Floor exercise
1991 Indianapolis
Team
1991 Indianapolis
Floor exercise
Goodwill Games
1990 Seattle
Team
1990 Seattle
Uneven Bars
1990 Seattle
Floor Exercise
American Cup
1990 Fairfax
All around
1992 Orlando
All around
1991 Orlando
All around
Kimberly Lynn Zmeskal Burdette (née Zmeskal on February 6, 1976) is an American retired artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach and the 1991 World All-Around champion. A member of the silver medal-winning U.S. team from the 1991 World Championships (the first team medal won by the U.S. women at a world championships), she was the first American woman to win the all-around title at the World Championships, as well as the first to win a world championship medal of any color in the all-around. A three-time United States national all-around champion (1990–92), Zmeskal was also the 1992 world champion on both balance beam and floor exercise, and was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, the first U.S. team medal won at a fully attended Olympic Games. She also posted the highest optional all-around score in the qualification round in Barcelona.
Known for her explosive power and tumbling on vault and floor, Zmeskal is regarded as one of the greatest female gymnasts and arguably the best in the world during the early 1990s. Her all-around win sparked the beginning of a dynasty of American dominance in women's gymnastics (since 1992, seven American women have won world all-around titles, and 12 of the last 21 all-around world championship titles (including 10 of the last 14) were won by an American) and the reemergence of power and athleticism in the sport.
As of 2001[update] she coaches gymnastics and owns Texas Dreams Gymnastics in Coppell, Texas and annually hosts the Kim Zmeskal’s Texas Prime Meet.
^"Olympedia – Kim Zmeskal". Olympedia. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
^ abKim Zmeskal Archived August 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. usagym.org
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