Name: Chris Brooks

Sport: Gymnastics

Discipline(s): Artistic Gymnastics

Event(s): Team

Height: 5-8

Weight: 165

DOB: 12/19/1986

Birthplace: Houston, Texas

Hometown: Houston, Texas

High School: Cypress Creek High School (Houston, Texas) ‘05

College: University of Oklahoma ‘09, Business Management

Team/Club: United States Olympic Training Center Gymnastics

Coach(es): Andriy Stepanchenko, Tom Meadows

Olympic Experience

• Olympian (2016)
• Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 5th (team); 14th (all-around)
• London 2012 Olympic Games, alternate

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2015 – 5th (team), 6th (high bar)
• Years of participation: 2010, 2015
• Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
• Bronze – 2010 (team)

Personal: Son of Terry and the late Larry Brooks...Has one brother, Nick, and one sister, Erica...Competed in gymnastics for the University of Oklahoma, where he helped lead the Sooners to the 2008 NCAA title...Interests include cars and motorcycles...Began gymnastics in 1991...Favorite event is horizontal bar.

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