Timothy Patrick Daggett (born May 22, 1962) is a former American gymnast and an Olympic gold medalist. He is a graduate of West Springfield High School and UCLA, who competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, along with Bart Conner, Peter Vidmar and Mitch Gaylord.[1] There, Daggett scored a perfect 10 on the horizontal bar, assisting his team in winning a gold medal – the first for the U.S. men's gymnastics team in Olympic history.[2] In addition to team gold, he earned an individual bronze medal on the pommel horse. In 2005, he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame.[3]
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| Full name | Timothy Patrick Daggett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 22, 1962 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | UCLA Bruins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Art Shurlock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Makoto Sakamoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Daggett (pommel horse) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
editIn West Springfield, Massachusetts, at the age of 10, Daggett began his future career in gymnastics by enrolling in the Parks and Recreation program. Advancing quickly, Daggett was invited by the local high school coach to train with his team.[4] While he was a college student at UCLA, he competed in NCAA Division I gymnastics. He graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a degree in psychology.[5]
Daggett is married to Deanne (née Lazer), formerly a collegiate-level gymnast at Eastern Michigan University and now an M.D. practicing anesthesiology. Their children are Peter and Carlie Daggett. Tim named his son Peter after teammate Peter Vidmar. Peter's son Tim is named after Tim Daggett. They all currently live in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Medical history
editDaggett's ankles had historically been weak. In 1980, Daggett dislocated one ankle shortly after having the other rebuilt. For months in 1986, he was forced to recover from his two ankles again being rebuilt. Immediately following the recovery during training, his horizontal bar release ended with him landing on his neck.[6] The result was a ruptured spinal disc, and left arm nerves were also damaged.[4] Daggett, against doctor recommendations, ignored the proposed surgery, which would have ended his career, and caught mononucleosis following his recovery from the near-fatal landing. In Rotterdam, the 1987 world championships proved career-shattering for Daggett. On the vault, he snapped his tibia and fibula and severed one of his arteries following the impact from a pike Cuervo.[4][5] He underwent surgeries adding and removing supportive braces and pins to his left leg. He was under sedation from morphine in hospitals for three months.[5]
Post-retirement career
editSince his retirement following the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Daggett has worked as a television commentator, covering the gymnastics events for NBC at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo, and Paris. He is the primary commentator for NBC Gymnastics. He comments with Elfi Schlegel, Al Trautwig, John Tesh, Nastia Liukin, John Roethlisberger, Amanda Borden, and Andrea Joyce.
He is also the proprietor of a gymnastics facility in Agawam, Massachusetts that features competitive Boys and Girls Team Programs, as well as more basic classes for toddlers and young children. Similarly, Daggett’s facility hosts open gym sessions that are welcome to all, as well as a Martial Arts class.[7] He coaches the competitive Boys Junior Olympic Team Program. He has had multiple national champions and national team members come from his gym.[citation needed] The Tim Daggett National Invitational, held at the Springfield MassMutual Center, is an annual gymnastics competition in January hosted by Daggett himself.[7]
Eponymous skills
editDaggett had one named element on the pommel horse, originally named in 1989, but removed from the code of points in 2000.[8][9]
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Added to Code of Points |
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| Pommel horse | Conner | "Scissor bw. with 1/2 counter turn" | Removed from CoP on December 31, 2000. | 1989 |
Gymnastics record
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U.S. Nationals
edit- 1981 — 12th AA
- 1982 — 4th AA, 5th PH, 6th RG (tie), 6th PB,
- 1983 — 5th AA, 1st PH, 2nd HB
- 1984 — 4th AA, 5th FX, 1st PH, 2nd RG (tie), 1st PB (tie), 1st HB (tie)
- 1985 — 3rd AA, 2nd PH, 1st PB, 3rd FX
- 1986 — 1st AA, 6th PH, 3rd RG, 3rd V, 1st PB, 4th HB
- 1988 — 43rd AA (withdrew due to injury), 5th PH
U.S. Olympic trials
edit- 1984 — 3rd AA
- 1988 — 23rd AA (withdrew due to injury)
World Championships
edit- 1983 — 4th Team
- 1985 — 9th Team, 25th AA
- 1987 — 9th Team (During the vault, Daggett suffered shattered bones in his left leg in an unfortunate landing)
Olympics
edit- 1984 — 1st Team, 3rd PH, 4th HB (tie)
References
edit- ^ UCLA History Project. "This Month in History, July 28 – Aug. 12, 1984… The 23rd Olympiad". UC Regents. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2007.
- ^ "TIM DAGGETT". NBC Sports Pressbox. June 25, 2012. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ "Biography: DAGGETT, Tim". www.usghof.org. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Gymnast: Tim Daggett". About.com Sports. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ a b c John Nielsen (April 17, 1988). "OLYMPICS; Olympic Profiles: Tim Daggett; Gymnast's Scars Spurring Him On". The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
- ^ Nielsen, John (April 17, 1988). "OLYMPICS; Olympic Profiles: Tim Daggett; Gymnast's Scars Spurring Him On". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ a b "Home". www.daggettgymnastics.com. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ "Table of Named Elements Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. December 2023. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
- ^ "Men's Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025–2028" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. July 3, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
- "What ever happened to Tim Daggett?". GynmasticsGreats.com. Archived from the original on November 11, 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
External links
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- Tim Daggett at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Tim Daggett at the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Tim Daggett at Olympics.com
- Tim Daggett at Olympedia
- "Tim Daggett Gold Medal Gymnastics". Retrieved August 14, 2008.
- "Daggett, Tim". U. S. Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
