Brian Ginsberg

Brian Ginsberg (born 1966) is an American former gymnast. He is a two-time US junior national gymnastics champion. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won two medals at the 1987 Pan American Games.

Early life and education Ginsberg was born in Miami, Florida, to Nathan (a radiologist) and Iris Ginsberg, is Jewish, and grew up in Denver, Colorado, and Mobile, Alabama. His grandparents are Betty and Sam Diemar.

Ginsberg competed in gymnastics for UCLA, where he majored in kinesiology and was pre-med hoping to specialize in sports medicine. Ginsberg also won gold in the rings, silver in the floor exercise, and bronze in the vault individual medals at the National Sports Festival. He competed in the 1985 Maccabiah Games for Team USA.

In 1987, Ginsberg won the McDonald's American Cup at George Mason University's Patriot Center in Virginia, as Soviet national champion Vladimir Gogoladze came in second. +Gymnastics elements named after Brian Ginsberg Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to Code of Points Parallel bars Ginsberg "Giant swing fw. to hdst."Removed from CoP on December 31, 2000.1989