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Marcia Frederick (born January 4, 1963) is a retired American gymnast who became the first American woman to win a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships. She won gold in the uneven parallel bars in Strasbourg, France in 1978.[1][2][3] After having qualified for the 1980 Olympic team, she was the favorite for a medal in Moscow but missed due to a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics led by the United States. [4] She instead won vault gold at a meet in Hartford, Connecticut, that served as an alternate Olympics for countries affected by the boycott. Years later, she was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal.
^Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Highland Park, IL: New Chapter Press. pp. 243–253. ISBN978-0942257403.
