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Sunisa Lee

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Sunisa Lee is an American artistic gymnast born March 9, 2003, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She won the individual all-around gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Hmong-American Olympian and the first Asian American woman to win that title, and added an uneven bars bronze medal at the same Games; at the 2024 Paris Olympics she won team gold with the Golden Girls squad and bronze medals in the individual all-around and on uneven bars. She also won team gold at the 2019 World Championships and an NCAA balance beam title in 2022, and ranks as the seventh most decorated American female gymnast with nine world championship and Olympic medals combined.

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Birth Year
2003 1
Birth Date
2003-03-09 1
Nationality
American 1
Career Highlight
2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and 2024 Olympic all-around bronze medalist 1
Classification
Competition Category
Individual 1
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1. Wikipedia, Sunisa Lee
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  • Lead paragraph, birth date
    born March 9, 2003
  • Lead paragraph, nationality
    is an American artistic gymnast
  • Lead paragraph, titles
    She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee ( soo-NEE-sə SOO-nee; née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast.
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