James Mikus

(1962- ) lived in Lincoln. Athlete, won team gold medal in gymnastics as an alternate for the United States in the 1984 Olympics, the only time in Olympic history that the U.S. men have claimed the team gold medal; while at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he contributed to his team’s NCAA national championships in 1981, 1982, and 1983, and was a two time NCAA All-American on the floor exercise and horizontal bar; inducted into USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame at Indianapolis, Indiana in 1999. Consult Omaha World Herald, April 2, 1982, p. 27 and Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, July 22, 1984, p. D-6.

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