At age 20, former Soviet Union gymnastics champion Elena Mukhina crash-lands while practicing a signature tumbling pass and is paralyzed.

Community Corner Milford Gymnast, 20, Mourned After Fatal Training Accident Melanie Coleman, 20, a former all-state gymnast, died after being critically injured in a training accident … Julissa D'Anne Gomez (November 4, 1972 – August 8, 1991) was an American gymnast whose rapid rise through the ranks of elite gymnastics in the mid-1980s was cut short by a vaulting accident in 1988 that left her a quadriplegic.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut -- An accomplished gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University has died following a serious spinal cord injury suffered in a training accident. Candles are lit in memory of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died on Feb. 12, 2010 in a crash during a training run of the Luge event of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler sliding center.

College gymnast Melanie Coleman, … University President Joe Bertolino called Coleman's death a "tragic loss." It … An All-American college gymnast from Connecticut died after slipping off the uneven bars during practice and suffering a spinal-cord injury, … She eventually died from her injury.


When Melanie Coleman, a gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died after falling off the uneven bars, veterans of the sport were stunned.

She was a junior nursing student at the New Haven school. Melanie Coleman, a 20-year-old gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died Sunday after a 'freak' training accident. At the modern Olympic Games, up to and including the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 10 athletes have died while either competing in or practicing their sport.In addition, another 14 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths resulted from the Munich massacre of 1972.. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants.

Terrible!!! 1988. Julissa Gomez, 15, lies in a coma in a Houston Hospital, her neck broken, her body paralyzed.

College gymnast dies in training accident 01:47. She dies decades later at 45. She was being coached by Al Fong, and had previously been coached by Bela Karolyi. She volunteered at the gym where her accident occurred. Brooke Baures, 21, was found death Monday night in a dumbwaiter, a small elevator used to carry food Shawn Johnson East, a 2008 Olympic gymnastics champion, detailed past struggles with body image and prescription drugs and reflected on her eating disorder as an elite athlete, to … The United States Gymnastics Federation barely mentioned Julissa's accident and death in its official magazine. The worst injuries and falls in Olympic gymnastics
An accomplished gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University has died following a serious spinal cord injury suffered in a training accident. A Southern Connecticut State University gymnast who died Sunday of spinal injuries she suffered when she slipped off the uneven bars was … New details have emerged about what might have caused the death of a Wisconsin college gymnast. There was no tribute at any gymnastics meet. Melanie Coleman, a 20-year-old junior nursing student from Milford, Conn., was practicing Friday on the bars at a New Haven gymnastics club that the school’s team uses when the accident …