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Amy Chow was born on 15 May, 1978 in San Jose, California, United States, is an American artistic gymnast. Discover Amy Chow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?

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Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 15 May 1978
Birthday 15 May
Birthplace San Jose, California, United States
Nationality United States

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At 45 years old, Amy Chow height is 1.55 m .

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Her husband is Jason Ho (m. 2010)

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1978

Amy Yuen Yee Chow (born May 15, 1978 ) is an American former artistic gymnast who competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

She is best known for being a member of the Magnificent Seven, which won the United States' first team gold medal in Olympic gymnastics.

She is also the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics.

Chow was born to Nelson and Susan Chow, who had immigrated to the United States from Guangzhou and Hong Kong, respectively.

1981

Chow began gymnastics training in 1981 at the age of 3.

Her mother wanted her to be a ballerina and tried enrolling her in ballet schools, none of which would take a child that young.

She then signed Amy up for classes at West Valley Gymnastics School in Campbell, California, where she joined an accelerated program at the age of 5, training under Mark Young and Diane Amos.

Her younger brother, Kevin, was also a gymnast.

At 11 years old, Chow became the first gymnast at her school to reach the elite level.

1990

She began competing nationally in 1990.

1994

Chow's first international competition was the 1994 World Championships in Dortmund, Germany.

After a poor showing in preliminaries (she fell twice on vault and three times in a single balance beam routine), she performed well in the team finals, helping the United States clinch a silver medal.

In 1994, Chow received an advanced level certificate of merit for piano.

In high school, she was a competitive diver for Castilleja School, and continued with the sport at Stanford.

She also competed in pole vaulting as an unattached athlete at "open" track and field events.

1995

The following year, Chow was part of the gold medal-winning American team at the 1995 Pan American Games, where she also won a gold medal on vault, silver on the uneven bars and bronze in the all-around.

She made the United States team for the 1995 World Championships, but had to withdraw because of a sprained ankle sustained just days before the competition.

1996

Chow is primarily known for her performance at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal with the team and a silver on the uneven bars.

At the Olympic Trials, she fell off the beam, scraping her face on the side of the apparatus, but got up and completed her routine despite obvious pain, and was named to the Olympic team along with Amanda Borden, Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Jaycie Phelps and Kerri Strug.

The team would become known as the Magnificent Seven.

In the team final at the Olympics, Chow competed on the uneven bars and vault.

In the bars event final, she completed a very difficult routine with an almost flawless dismount and scored a 9.837.

She edged out the more experienced Dawes to tie for silver with Bi Wenjing of China, although the commentators felt Chow should not have had to share the medal, as Bi made a visible mistake that the judges did not take into account.

After the Olympics, Chow and her teammates performed in numerous exhibitions, including the John Hancock Tour.

2000

When Chow decided to return to gymnastics in hopes of competing at the 2000 Olympics, she contacted Mark Young and asked him to train her for it.

He agreed, despite the fact that he was retired by then.

Chow juggled a rigorous training regimen with medical research at Stanford University, where she was working toward her undergraduate degree in biology, but ultimately took time off school to train.

Five of the seven members of the Magnificent Seven tried for a spot on the 2000 Olympic team: Chow, Dawes, Miller, Moceanu and Phelps.

In the end, only Chow and Dawes made it, along with Jamie Dantzscher, Kristen Maloney, Elise Ray and Tasha Schwikert.

Chow proved she was in top form by finishing second in the all-around at the Olympic Trials.

She was also named by Béla Károlyi as one of three leaders of the 2000 team, the other two being Ray and Maloney.

The team finished fourth at the Olympics, and individually, Chow finished fourteenth in the all-around final.

Chow said that while the American team had been disappointed with its fourth-place finish in 2000, she nevertheless felt bad for the Chinese gymnasts because they had worked equally hard to medal.

Chow has two gymnastics skills named after her on the uneven bars: the "Chow/Khorkina" (stalder 1½ pirouette) and the "Chow II" (stalder to Shaposhnikova).

She was nicknamed "the Trickster" within the gymnastics community for her extreme difficulty on each apparatus and her ability to perform complicated skills with apparent ease.

She was the first American woman to perform a double-twisting Yurchenko vault and a tucked double-double bars dismount in international competition.

She also competed one of the most difficult balance beam routines ever performed.

It included a standing piked full; back handspring, layout, back handspring, layout series; full-twisting swing down; and round-off, back handspring, triple full dismount.

2010

Ten years later, on April 28, 2010, Chow and her teammates were awarded the bronze medal when it was discovered that the original bronze medalists, the Chinese team, had falsified the age of team member Dong Fangxiao.

Dong's results were nullified, and the Chinese team was stripped of the medal by the International Olympic Committee.