Trent Dimas

(1970- ) lived in Lincoln. Athlete, won gold medal in horizontal bar event in gymnastics during 1992 Olympics, became first American gymnast to win a gold medal in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1932, was a member of the University of Nebraska's 1990 NCAA championship team; motivational speaker in corporate world, role model for Hispanic American community. Consult New York Times, August 3, 1992, p. C-4 and David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Little, Brown, 1996) 473.

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