She is a gymnast from Romania who competed during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Comaneci first received her perfect 10 score on the uneven parallel bars and continued to receive the maximum mark 7 times during the said Games.

She had won a total of 9 Olympic medals [1976 Montreal Games and 1980 Moscow Games]. And a total of 4 Worlds medals, 2 gold and 2 silver, during the 1978 and 1979 World Championships.

Comaneci stepped into the limelight during the 1975 European Championships, where she won 4 gold medals. She retired after her victory in the 1981 World Student Games due to a natural physical development that inhibited her performance.

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Breaking down the seven medals, three bronze, two silver and two gold. Five of which, the three bronze and two silver, she won during the 1992 Barcelona Games and the other two remaining, which were gold medals, were during the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Life after the Olympics, Miller is currently a law school student in Boston. She plans to finish it next year. She also is running her own television show, “Gymnastics USA with Shannon Miller,” that airs on the East Coast. And she has duties as honorary chairman of the Oklahoma City Memorial Kids Marathon.

The other athletes who will be inducted with Miller are two members of the Soviet Union team, Vladimir Artemov and Natalia Kuchinskaya. The former won four gold medals in 1988 Seoul Games and the latter won a gold medal on the balance beam during the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Another is Japan’s Eizo Kenmotsu, who won the all-around at the 1970 World Championships and was member of Japan’s teams that won gold medals during the 1968 Mexico City Games, 1972 Munich Games and 1976 Montreal Games.

Lastly, German Ulrich Spieth will be recognized with an International Order of Merit.

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