Biography

Marissa Petra King (born April 20, 1991, in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

) is a British gymnast

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

 who represented Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as well as the 2007 and 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 41st World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held at The O2 arena in London, United Kingdom, on 12 October to 18 October 2009. Similar to the World Championships in 2005, there were no team competitions...

. Marissa is the daughter of a British Father and Thai

Thai people

The Thai people, or Siamese, are the main ethnic group of Thailand and are part of the larger Tai ethnolinguistic peoples found in Thailand and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia as well as southern China. Their language is the Thai language, which is classified as part of the Kradai family of...

 mother and began gymnastics at age 8. During her elite career she trained at the Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club and currently competes for the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 Gators

Florida Gators gymnastics

The Florida Gators women's gymnastics team represents the University of Florida in the sport of gymnastics. The team competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Southeastern Conference...

 NCAA gymnastics team. In 2011 she became the NCAA National Champion on vault with a score of 9.875 as well as being a 6-time All American.

Elite career history

Year

Competition Description

Location

Apparatus

Rank-Final

Score-Final

Rank-Qualifying

Score-Qualifying

2010

British Championships

Guildford, England

Vault

2

13.775

2

14.450

Floor

8

12.050

3=

14.200

2009

British Championships

Guildford, England

All Around

3

53.100

Vault

1

13.925

Bars

3

13.400

Beam

4

12.700

Floor

3

13.450

Stuttgart World Cup

Stuttgart, Germany

Vault

4

13.550

2

13.800

World Championships

London, England

Vault

13.850

Beam

13.400

2008

British Championships

Guildford, England

All Around

6

55.100

Vault

2

14.175

Bars

7

12.800

Floor

7

13.300

European Championships

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Vault

10

14.050

Beam

19

14.450

Floor

34

13.700

Glasgow Grand Prix

Glasgow, Scotland

Vault

6

12.912

4

13.675

Beam

2

14.475

2

14.650

Maribor, Slovenia

Vault

2

14.075

2007

Glasgow Grand Prix

Glasgow, Scotland

Vault

1

14.237

2

13.862

Good Luck Beijing (Olympic Test Event)

Beijing, China

All Around

8

56.225

Vault

3

14.187

European Championships

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Vault

6

14.175

7

14.100

Beam

56

12.775

Floor

29

13.750

World Championships

Stuttgart, Germany

Team

7

169.175

6

233.025

Vault

17

13.600

Floor

46

13.925

DTB Cup

Vault

4

14.237

8

13.450

Floor

6

13.650

4

13.575

NCAA career history

Year	Competition Description	Location	Apparatus	Rank-Final	Score-Final	Rank-Qualifying	Score-Qualifying
2011	NCAA Championships	Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...	Vault	1	9.875

External links