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"The text of this page is a copy, with permission, of the official USA Gymnastics biography."
Amanda Borden
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1996 Olympic Gold Medalist
1994 Team World Championships Silver Medalist
1994 World Championships Event Finalist
1993 World Championships Team Member
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Residence: Cincinnati, Ohio
Birth Date/Place: May 10, 1977/Cincinnati, Ohio
Club: Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
Coach: Mary Lee Tracy
School: Mount St. Joseph College
Class: Freshman (Fall '97)
Years on National Team: 6 (1990, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97)
Began Gymnastics: 1984
Favorite Apparatus/Event: Floor exercise, bars
Hobbies: Bicycling, reading, shopping, playing on computer
Borden was captain of the first ever Olympic Gold Medal team for U.S. women's gymnastics in 1996. She and her teammates appeared on the Wheaties cereal box and have also appeared on numerous television talk shows since their gold medal performance. Borden is a three-time World Championships team member and earned a silver medal in the team competition in 1994. She was a member of the gold-medal Pan American Games team and won the beam event. She also took second all-around and second on floor at the Pan American Games. She won beam and floor and took third all-around at the 1995 McDonald's American Cup. She was the 1994 Homecoming Queen at Finneytown High School where she was a member of the A-honor roll, the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society. Borden was chosen to demonstrate the new 1996 women's compulsories at the 1991 World Gymnastics Championships in Indianapolis.
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International Competition
1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, Ga.; 1st-Team
1996 Budget Rent a Car Gymnastics Invitational USA vs. France, Miami, Fla.; 1st-Team
1995 Pan American Games, Mar del Plata, ARG; 1st-Team & BB, 2nd-AA & FX
1995 McDonald's American Cup, Seattle, Wash.; 3rd-AA, 1st-BB & FX
1995 Reese's International Gymnastics Cup, Portland, Ore.; 1st-FX, 2nd-UB
1994 Team World Championships, Dortmund, GER; 2nd-Team
1994 Hilton Challenge, Phoenix, Ariz.; 1st-Team, 4th-AA
1994 World Gymnastics Championships, Brisbane, AUS; 8th-UB
1994 International Mixed Pairs, West Palm Beach, Fla.; 4th-AA (with Chainey Umphrey)
1994 McDonald's American Cup, Orlando, Fla.; 13th-AA (preliminaries)
1993 Chunichi Cup, Nagoya, JPN; 11th-AA, 5th-UB, 6th-FX
1993 Tokyo Cup, Tokyo, JPN; 3rd-UB
1993 Hilton Challenge, Los Angeles, Calif.; 1st-Team, 4th-AA
1993 World Championships, Birmingham, GBR; alternate
1993 Reebok International Mixed Pairs, Atlanta, Ga.; 6th-AA (with Neil Thomas)
1993 McDonald's American Cup, Orlando, Fla.; 8th-AA
1992 Pacific Alliance Championships, Seoul, KOR; 2nd-Team, 9th-AA
1990 Junior Olympic USA vs. Canada Goodwill Meet
National Competition
1996 U.S. Olympic Trials-Gymnastics, Boston, Mass.; 5th-AA
1996 Coca-Cola National Championships, Knoxville, Tenn.; 4th-AA
1996 U.S. Classic, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 2nd-AA, T3rd-V, T1st-UB, 2nd-BB, 4th-FX
1995 Coca-Cola National Championships, New Orleans, La.; (injured-did not complete competition)
1995 American Classic/Pan American Games Trials, Oakland, Calif; T2nd-AA, 9th-V, T3rd-UB, 2nd-BB & FX
1994 NationsBank World Team Trials, Richmond, Va.; 3rd-AA
1994 Coca-Cola National Championships, Nashville, Tenn.; 3rd-AA, UB & FX, 6th-BB
1994 U.S. Classic, Palm Springs, Calif.; 1st-AA
1994 American Classic/World Championships Trials, Orlando, Fla.; 2nd-AA
1993 Coca-Cola National Championships, Salt Lake City, Utah; 4th-AA, 6th-BB & FX
1993 U.S. Olympic Festival, San Antonio, Texas; 11th-AA, 5th-V, 4th-UB
1993 American Classic/World Championships Trials, Salt Lake City, Utah; 3rd-AA & BB, T3rd-V, 6th-UB, T8th-FX
1992 U.S. Olympic Trials, Baltimore, Md.; 7th-AA
1992 U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Columbus, Ohio; 5th-AA, 4th-BB & FX
1992 U.S. Classic, Knoxville, Tenn.; 6th-AA, 1st-FX, 4th-UB
1991 American Classic, Salt Lake City, Utah; 12th-AA, 1st-FX, 2nd-BB (jr. div.)
1990 American Classic, Tempe, Ariz.; 3rd-AA, 1st-BB, 2nd-V (jr. div.)
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