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Ron Galimore
DaVonche Therhon "Ron" Galimore (born March 7, 1959) is an American former gymnast.
Gymnastics
He was the United States artistic gymnastics champion in floor exercise in 1977, 1979, and 1980; and in vault in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, although that team was never sent to Moscow because of a U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal years later. He served as Chief Operating Officer of USA Gymnastics from 2011 until his resignation on November 16, 2018.
Personal life
His father was Willie Galimore, a former National Football League player and College Football Hall of Fame inductee.
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