Marie Martha Kibler (later ''Philips'', June 29, 1912 – July 1, 1978) was an American

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

. She competed at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

and placed fifth with the American team. She later married Chet Phillips, a fellow gymnast who also competed at the 1936 Games.

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1912 births 1978 deaths American female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for the United States Sportspeople from Atlantic City, New Jersey 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub