page_title: Amy Chow
section_title: Notable skills
hierarchical_section_title: Amy Chow / Gymnastics career / Notable skills
caption_attribution_description: English: Amy Chow's plaque at the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame, displayed at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
context_page_description: Amy Yuen Yee Chow is a retired American artistic gymnast who competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. She is best known for being a member of the Magnificent Seven, which won the United States' first team gold medal in Olympic gymnastics. She is also the first Asian-American woman to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics.
context_section_description: Chow has two gymnastics skills named after her on the uneven bars: the "Chow/Khorkina" (stalder 1½ pirouette) and the "Chow II" (stalder to Shaposhnikova). She was nicknamed "the Trickster" within the gymnastics community for her extreme difficulty on each apparatus and her ability to perform complicated skills with apparent ease. She was the first American woman to perform a double-twisting Yurchenko vault and a tucked double-double bars dismount in international competition. She also competed one of the most difficult balance beam routines ever performed. It included a standing piked full; back handspring, layout, back handspring, layout series; full-twisting swing down; and round-off, back handspring, triple full dismount.
caption: Chow's plaque at the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame
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