Betty-Jean Maycock
Maycock in 1960
Personal information
Born (1942-12-13) December 13, 1942 (age 81)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.[1]
Height157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
SportArtistic gymnastics
Medal record
Representing the  United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1959 Chicago Team
Silver medal – second place 1959 Chicago All-around
Silver medal – second place 1959 Chicago Uneven bars
Silver medal – second place 1959 Chicago Vault

Betty Jean Maycock Harrington (born December 13, 1942) is a former Olympic gymnast from Cleveland, Ohio.[2] Maycock was a member of the American gymnastics team that placed ninth at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Prior to the Olympics, she was part of the first collegiate women's gymnastics team in the United States at Kent State University in 1959 while still a student at Kent State High School.[3] She also won four medals at the 1959 Pan American Games.[1] Following the Olympics, she returned to college, graduating cum laude from Kent State in 1964,[2] and later earned a Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Maryland. She was married to Robert Sutton Harrington (1942–1993) in 1976, and has two daughters, Amy and Ann.[4] She currently works with the organization Microcredit in Africa, which implements microcredit projects in Niger.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Betty-Jean Maycock. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ a b "Betty Jean (Maycock) Harrington (1979)". Retrieved January 19, 2024.
  3. ^ Harris, Colin (8 February 2009). "50 years: KSU gymnastics was ahead of its time". Record-Courier. pp. A1, A8. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
  4. ^ Robert Harrington Obituary Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. ad.usno.navy.mil
  5. ^ People of Microcredit in Africa Archived 2010-02-03 at the Wayback Machine


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