Maggie Nichols

Margaret Mary Nichols (born September 12, 1997) is an American former collegiate artistic gymnast.

She was the ninth NCAA gymnast to complete a Gym Slam, the first to do so for Oklahoma, and the first NCAA gymnast to have achieved it twice.

At the National Championships in August, she placed third in the all-around behind reigning world all-around champion Simone Biles and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Kyla Ross.

She also placed third on uneven bars and floor exercise and fourth on balance beam.

Nichols helped the United States finish first at the Pan American Gymnastics Championships in Mississauga, Canada, and placed third in the all-around competition with a score of 55.500.

On July 25, she competed at the U.S. Classic and finished third in the all-around, behind Biles, the now two-time reigning world all-around champion, and 2012 Olympic all-around champion Gabby Douglas.

She debuted her Amanar vault, scoring 15.80, and finished fifth on uneven bars and balance beam with scores of 14.95 and 14.45, respectively.

She also placed third on floor exercise with a 14.80, for a total all-around score of 60.000.

She performed only on the uneven bars and balance beam, finishing 13th and 10th, respectively, and advanced to the Olympic Trials in July.

There, she finished sixth in the all-around, fifth on vault, ninth on uneven bars, eighth on balance beam, and fourth on floor exercise.

At the USA Gymnastics National Championships, she was the bronze medalist in the all-around and on uneven bars and floor exercise in 2014 and the silver medalist in the all-around in 2015.

However, she dislocated her kneecap on floor exercise during the team final and withdrew from the selection camp for the 2014 World Championships team.

At the City of Jesolo Trophy, Nichols finished first with the team and seventh in the all-around.

Previously, Nichols represented the United States in international competitions, including the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, where she won a gold medal with the American team and an individual bronze medal on floor exercise.

The following month, Nichols competed at the 2015 U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis.

On the first night of competition, she led for the first three rotations, scoring 15.80 for her Amanar vault, 14.95 on uneven bars, and 14.40 on balance beam, where she debuted several new skills, including a tucked Barani and a switch ring leap, and dismounted with a full-twisting double tuck.

However, she incurred a one-tenth deduction for exceeding the time limit for balance beam routines.

She also scored 14.55 on floor.

Her all-around total for the night was 59.700, 1.400 points behind Biles.

On night two, she began on bars with a 14.8.

During her beam warm-up, she fell on her full-twisting double back dismount and decided to change it to a simpler double pike.

She scored a 14.65, higher than her score on night one despite losing three-tenths in start value.

On floor, she stumbled out of bounds on her double-double mount, incurring a three-tenth deduction, and scored a relatively low 14.15.

She finished the competition on vault, where she scored 15.85 to finish in second place with a two-night total of 119.150.

At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Nichols competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise in the preliminary round.

During the team final, she competed on all four events, contributing an all-around total of 59.232 toward the U.S. women's gold-medal finish.

She also qualified for the floor event final where she earned a bronze medal.

Before a knee injury in early 2016, she was a contender for the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Nichols was added to the national team in March and was selected to represent the United States at the City of Jesolo Trophy and the Germany-Romania-USA Friendly.

At the City of Jesolo Trophy, she finished first with the team and sixth in the all-around, and won a silver medal on the floor exercise.

At the U.S. Classic, Nichols finished sixth in the all-around, eleventh on uneven bars, eighth on balance beam, and fifth on floor exercise.

At the National Championships, she placed fifth in the all-around and on balance beam, sixth on uneven bars, and ninth on floor exercise.

At her second City of Jesolo Trophy, Nichols finished first with the team and third in the all-around.

At the Tokyo World Cup, she finished third in the all-around.

She went on to place third in the all-around and on floor exercise at the U.S. Classic, as well as fifth on uneven bars and seventh on balance beam.

Nichols competed at the 2016 American Cup on March 5, scoring 59.699 to place second behind Douglas.

Afterward, U.S. national team coordinator Márta Károlyi said, "Maggie showed again that I can rely on her."

A month later, Nichols tore her meniscus while training her Amanar vault and had to withdraw from the 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in Seattle.

She underwent arthroscopic knee surgery and was out of competition for two months.

In June, she returned to competition at the National Championships.