Brett Dallas McClure (born February 19, 1981) is a retired American gymnast. He was a member of the

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and won a bronze medal in the pommel horse at the

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, and later helped his U.S. gymnastics team earn a silver in the

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competition at the

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. During his sporting career, McClure has collected two more silver medals in the same program at the

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(2001 and 2003). McClure is currently the High Performance Director with USA men's gymnastics.

Early life and education

McClure was born in

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, the son of Les and Judy McClure. He started gymnastics at the age of nine under the influence of his father Les, who pushed him to train and perform ten pushups from a handstand position against the wall. When his family later resided in

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, he spent two years at Henry M. Jackson High School and finished up early at Chrysalis School in Woodinville, during which time he trained at Cascade Elite Gymnastics in Lynwood, WA. In 1999, McClure moved to

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, to work and train as a full-time resident athlete at the

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, under head coach Vitaly Marinich.

Career

2001–2003

McClure made his official worldwide debut at the

, where he received an average score of 9.362 to bring home the bronze medal in the pommel horse, finishing behind China's Huang Xu and Romania's Marius Urzică. On that same year, he added a silver to his annual hardware in the men's team all-around competition (a total of 166.845) at the

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. At the

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, McClure scored highest for the United States in team qualification on the pommel horse and horizontal bar to give the team a second straight silver in the men's team all-around competition. His team received a composite score of 171.121, which trailed China by nearly eight-tenths of a point (0.8).

2004 Summer Olympics

McClure competed for the United States at the

by earning a spot in the men's gymnastics team from the Olympic trials in

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. On the first day of the Games, McClure joined with his teammate

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in the individual all-around final from the prelim stage, finishing nineteenth with an entry score of 56.323. In the team all-around, McClure ended a 20-year-old drought to capture a silver for the U.S. men's best medal finish, joining on top of the podium by Jason Gatson,

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, Blaine Wilson, and Guard Young. During the competition, McClure performed a pommel horse (9.650) and horizontal bar (9.412) to sum up the team's total to 172.933, trailing Japan by almost a full point. In his final event, the individual all-around, McClure finished outside the medals in ninth place with a score of 57.248, just six-tenths of a point behind his teammate Hamm.

Life after gymnastics

McClure married Jaycie Phelps in February 2005 at

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. The two divorced in 2008. On May 25, 2006, McClure announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics to pursue other opportunities and spend time with his family in Colorado. He was later named assistant coach of the

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gymnastics team at the

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near

. In June 2013 he took a coaching position at UC Berkeley for Cal Men's Gymnastics team. In 2015, he led the Bears to their first appearance in NCAA team finals since 2012. As of May 1, 2017, McClure has taken on the role of High Performance Director with USA men's gymnastics.

References

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