LEE Sunisa

United States of America

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 9 Mar 2003

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.52/4'11''

Place of birth: SAINT PAUL, MN

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : SAINT PAUL, MN

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Women's All-Around	1
	Women's Vault
	Women's Uneven Bars	3
	Women's Balance Beam	5
	Women's Floor Exercise
	Women's Team USA United States	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Women	Women's Team Final	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Women	Women's All-Around Final	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Uneven Bars	Women's Uneven Bars Final	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Beam	Women's Balance Beam Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	12	2	3	8	1

Pacific Rim Championships

Year	Location	Team
2018	Medellin, COL	1

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Suni (olympics.nbcsports.com, 08 Oct 2019)

Camping, fishing. (usagym.org, 04 Aug 2019)

Languages spoken:

Midwest Gymnastics Center [United States of America]

Jess Graba [personal]

Sporting relatives:

Her sister Evionn has competed in artistic gymnastics at regional level in the United States of America. (usagym.org, 04 Aug 2019; mymeetscores.com, 08 Feb 2019)

In 2020 she spend two months out of action with a broken bone in her left foot and two months out of action with an Achilles tendon injury. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 22 May 2021)

She won the uneven bars title at the 2019 US Championships despite competing with a partially healed hairline fracture in her tibia. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 08 Oct 2019)

She sustained an ankle injury in March 2019. (asamnews.com, 13 Aug 2019)

An ankle injury meant she had to withdraw from the 2018 Pan American Junior Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Instagram profile, 03 June 2018; usagym.org, 11 Jun 2018)

She took up gymnastics at age six in the Midwest Gymnastics Center in Little Canada, MN, United States of America. (twincities.com, 13 Aug 2019)

"I was always jumping on the bed or having my dad spot me while I was doing backflips and stuff like that. Finally, my mom got tired of it, and she knew a friend that was friends with someone at Midwest Gymnastics. That's kind of how I got my start." (twincities.com, 13 Aug 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usagym.org, 04 Aug 2019)

US artistic gymnast Simone Biles. (baltimoresun.com, 03 Jul 2020)

General Interest

General
COLLEGE COMMITMENT
She has committed to attend and compete for Auburn University in the United States of America following the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (theplainsman.com, 01 Mar 2021)

MEDAL DEDICATION
In August 2019 her father John became paralysed from the chest down after falling off a ladder. Later that month she won gold on uneven bars at the 2019 US Championships, competing with a partially healed hairline fracture in her tibia, and dedicated the victory to her father. "I was thinking of my dad the whole time, and to do it for him because I knew that he would be so proud." (olympics.nbcsports.com, 08 Oct 2019)

TOUGHER THAN EVER
She said misfortunes she suffered in 2019 and 2020, including her father's paralysing accident and the death of her aunt and uncle due to COVID-19, have made her mentally tougher. "I fought off the negative thoughts and the sadness, and just focused. Now I feel like I'm maybe tougher because of it. No, not maybe. I am tougher because of it." (nytimes.com, 24 Aug 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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