Kristin Allen
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| Full name | Kristin Allen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 10, 1992 Livermore, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Acrobatic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | West Coast Training Center | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Marie Annonson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristin Allen (born July 10, 1992) is a Hall of Fame American acrobatic gymnast. Kristin and her partner Michael Rodrigues made history by becoming the first American mixed pair to win a gold medal from the World Games in 2009 and the second American pair to win the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships in 2010. Domestically, the pair have won national titles in 2008 and 2010. She competed for the United States of America Gymnastics from 2001 until her retirement in August 2010 and spent five of those years on the Senior National Team.
Following the 2010 Worlds, Allen and Rodrigues were a featured hand-to-hand act in Cirque du Soleil’s “Viva Elvis” in Las Vegas. She gained further fame by competing in, and winning season 1 of the BBC show Tumble with partner Bobby Lockwood. After her Tumble appearance, she went on to perform in "Pippin" on Broadway.
On December 9, 2014, she was announced as a member of the 2015 USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame class.