He was 14 when he won the 1972 U.S. Junior National Championships and 17 when he won the US Gymnastics Federation All-Around championship, and he was the youngest member of the 1976 Summer Olympics squad. He also won a gold medal in team all-around at the 1975 Pan American Games. Bart's father, Burt, had also been a member of the Olympic gymnastics team in 1956. Bart Conner was born on March 5, 1959 in San Francisco, California. His father was a professional tennis player who turned to coaching after retiring from playing himself. He has two older brothers: Jeff, who is one year younger than Bart, and Mark, who is five years older than Bart. The family lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina when Bart was a child but moved to Indianapolis when he reached the age of eight. There were several other sports that Bart could have chosen instead of gymnastics but he said that he liked it too much to stop doing it. He started training in gymnastics at the age of 6 under the guidance of his father and later joined the Indiana University gymnastics team. Conner became famous all over the world after he won the gold medal in the all-around competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He was only 17 years old at the time because he had turned 18 months earlier.