Stephen Nedoroscik, the Penn State graduate and social media star, becomes Team USA's first Olympic pommel horse medalist since 2016.
Stephen Nedrosocik, the pommel horse specialist who helped Team USA to a bronze medal in men's team gymnastics, won the individual bronze medal in the event Saturday at the Paris Olympics. Competing in his first Olympics, Nedoroscik scored 15.300 in the event to make the podium with gold medalist Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland and Nariman Kurbanov of Kazakhstan . Nedoroscik won Team USA's first individual Olympic medal in the pommel horse since 2016.
Nedoroscik enrolled at Penn State in 2017, when he won the first of two NCAA pommel horse titles. He was pursuing a third in 2020 when the NCAA gymnastics championships were canceled. That year Nedoroscik became the first specialist to win the Nissen-Emery Award as the nation’s top senior gymnast. After graduating from Penn State with a degree in engineering, Nedoroscik won four pommel horse titles at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships from 2021-24. In 2021, he became the first U.S. gymnast to win a pommel horse gold medal at the world championships.Penn State on SI is the place for Penn State news, opinion and perspective on the SI.com network.
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