Stephen Nedoroscik

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Stephen John Nedoroscik ( NED-ə-ROZ-ik; born October 28, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast. A pommel horse specialist, he is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2021 world champion—the first and only American to win the event—a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time U.S. national champion, and a two-time NCAA national champion on the apparatus for Penn State.
Additionally, Nedoroscik was part of the medal-winning teams at the 2024 Olympic Games (bronze) and the 2023 Pan American Games (gold).

Nedoroscik was born on October 28, 1998, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His father, John Nedoroscik, is a retired police officer for the Webster Police Department, and his mother, Cheryl Nedoroscik (née Courtney), is a client experience manager for a local savings bank in Holden. He was raised in Indian Lake with his older sister, Samantha, and his twin sister, Anastasia. Their paternal grandfather, whom Nedoroscik is named after, was a U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II and the Korean War. Nedoroscik is of Polish and Slovak descent; his paternal great-grandparents emigrated from present-day Haligovce and Veľká Lesná, Slovakia.
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