Sunisa Lee is an American artistic gymnast who won the all-around gold and uneven bars bronze at the 2020 Olympics, and a silver on floor and bronze on uneven bars at the 2019 World Championships. Lee was part of the gold-winning team at the 2019 World Championships and the silver-winning team at the 2020 Olympics.
Lee is the first Hmong-American Olympian and the first Asian American woman to win the Olympic all-around title. She is a six-time member of the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team and has six world championships and Olympic medals.
In 2021, Lee was honored with several awards, including Female Athlete of the Year by Sports Illustrated, Sportswoman of the Year by the Women’s Sports Foundation, and a spot on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people. She also received an Asia Game Changer Award. 1wikipedia
Sunisa Lee Wiki/Bio
Sunisa Phabsomphou was born on 9 March 2003 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA and she is 21 years old as of 2024. She is a Hmong American who believes in the Christian faith. Her height is around 5 feet. 2nbcolympics
Sunisa Lee Education
Sunisa Lee attended Battle Creek Elementary School and later enrolled at South St. Paul Secondary and received her high school diploma in June 2021. She went to Auburn University in August 2021 as a business marketing major but left after her sophomore year due to health issues and to return to elite gymnastics with her sights set on the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Sunisa Lee Parents
Sunisa Lee’s mother Yeev Thoj, is a healthcare worker and a refugee from Laos. Lee was raised by her mother’s partner, John Lee, whom she considers her father and from whom she took her last name as a teenager. She has three half-siblings from her mother’s relationship with John Lee, and John also has two children from a previous relationship. Her siblings names are Shyenne, Evionn, Noah, Lucky, and Jonah.
Lee became interested in gymnastics at age six and her parents enrolled her in classes at the Midwest Gymnastics Center in Little Canada, Minnesota. 3people
Sunisa Lee Boyfriend
Suni Lee has been in a relationship with football player Jaylin Smith. In March 2023, Lee was diagnosed with an incurable kidney disease that caused her body to swell and made her feel nauseous and lightheaded. She took a six-month break from gymnastics. By April 2024, her kidney condition was in remission. 4wikipedia
“I have been dealing with a non-gymnastics related health-related issue involving my kidneys,” Lee tweeted in a statement explaining why she had to step away from collegiate competition. “For my safety, the medical team did not clear me to train and compete over the last few weeks. I am blessed and thankful to be working with the best specialized medical team to treat and manage my diagnosis. My focus at this time is my health and recovery.” 5nbc
Sunisa Lee Career
By age 12, Suni Lee had reached the highest level of USA Gymnastics’ women’s development program. After a strong performance at a camp, she joined the U.S. junior national team. In 2017, she helped the team win gold at the Gymnix International Junior Cup in Montreal and earned a silver on the uneven bars.
In 2018, she won gold in the uneven bars at the U.S. National Championships and helped the junior national team win gold at the Pacific Rim Championships in Colombia. As a senior elite gymnast, Lee excelled at the 2019 U.S. national championships. She won silver in the all-around, gold in the uneven bars, and bronze in the floor exercise.
She was then selected for the U.S. team at the 2019 World Championships in Germany, where the team won its fifth straight world title. Lee also won silver in the floor exercise and bronze in the uneven bars.
In 2021, Lee finished second in the all-around at the U.S. national championships and the U.S. Olympic trials, securing her spot at the Tokyo Olympics and her teammates won silver in the team final. Lee then won gold in the all-around and bronze in the uneven bars.
After the Olympics, Lee attended Auburn University on a gymnastics scholarship. At the 2022 NCAA championships, she won gold on the balance beam and silver in the all-around. She announced that 2023 would be her last season at Auburn due to a kidney condition, aiming to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Lee competed at the 2023 U.S. national championships and won bronze on the balance beam, but skipped the world championships due to her kidney issue. In 2024, she performed well at the U.S. Olympic trials and earned a spot on the national team for the Paris Games. 6britannica
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