Sam Mikulak

Samuel Anthony Mikulak (born October 13, 1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast.

Mikulak was a member of the Junior National team from 2007 to 2010.

As a Junior Elite gymnast, Mikulak won the silver medal in the all-around three years in a row in the 14–15-year-old division at the 2007, 2008, and 2009 U.S. National Championships.

He was runner-up to John Orozco all three years.

He won the all-around, floor exercise and vault titles at the 2010 Junior Olympic Nationals.

At the 2010 U.S. National Championships, Mikulak won the Junior national all-around title in the 16–18-year-old division.

He also won the gold medal on pommel horse, parallel bars, and high bar.

Mikulak enrolled at the University of Michigan where he was a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team from 2010 to 2014.

He is also an eight-time NCAA champion, winning the team, individual all-around and several individual event titles at the 2011, 2013 and 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships.

Mikulak was born in Huntington Beach, California, and attended Corona del Mar High School.

He is of Polish descent.

His parents both competed in gymnastics at the University of California, Berkeley, and started Sam in gymnastics at age two.

He has a younger sister Alexandra Mikulak, who started gymnastics at two as well but stopped at a young age.

His father, Stephen Mikulak, is an orthopedic surgeon.

As a freshman at the 2011 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, he won the individual all-around title with a career-high score of 90.75.

As a sophomore in 2012, he won the Big Ten Conference title on high bar and pommel horse and placed second in the all-around.

Later that year, Mikulak became the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to qualify for the Olympics.

At the 2012 U.S. National Championships, Mikulak won the bronze medal in the individual all-around and silver medal on the individual parallel bars event.

At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, he was unable to compete in five of the six events on Day 2 after spraining his ankle while competing on vault on the first night of competition.

Despite the injury, Mikulak was selected for the five-man Olympic gymnastics team.

He was the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to be named to the U.S. Olympic team.

At the 2012 Olympics in London, Mikulak placed 5th with the U.S. team in the team competition.

The U.S. team had placed 1st in the qualification round.

Mikulak competed in the vault final, placing 5th.

His Michigan teammate Syque Caesar also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, representing Bangladesh.

He won a bronze medal with the U.S. team in the team competition and placed 12th in the all-around final.

He is a six-time U.S. national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–2019), the 2018 World bronze medalist on high bar, and a three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, and 2020).

As the anchor of the team, he led Michigan to the NCAA team title in 2013 and 2014.

At the 2013 NCAA Championships, Mikulak won the all-around, parallel bars, and high bar titles.

Mikulak won his first national all-around title at the 2013 U.S. National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut.

He also won the gold medal on parallel bars and high bar.

He then competed at the 2013 World Championships, where he placed 6th in the individual all-around final and 4th in the individual high bar final.

At the 2014 NCAA Championships, he won the all-around and parallel bars titles.

He was named undergraduate assistant coach for the University of Michigan men's team in August 2014.

In March at the 2014 American Cup in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mikulak won the all-around title.

In August, Mikulak won his second national all-around title at the 2014 U.S. National Championships in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He also won the gold medal on pommel horse and the silver medal on high bar.

He then competed at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China.

In March, Mikulak, along with Simone Biles, MyKayla Skinner and Donnell Whittenburg, represented the U.S. against a strong international field at the 2015 AT&T American Cup at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Mikulak finished fourth in the individual all-around event.