Dan Hayden

Daniel Hayden (born 1965 in Buffalo, New York Hayden competed for Arizona State University and was a collegiate national champion. In 1988, he was second at the Olympic Trials during the first day of competition but fell to eighth on the second day when he twice missed a Kovacs release on the horizontal bar. He was not selected for the team but was named as an alternate.

Hayden's twin brother, Dennis, was also an elite gymnast. The two own a gymnastics facility in Augusta, Georgia. Both brothers were star junior athletes and moved away from home to train.

He was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2004.

Eponymous skills Hayden has one named element on the horizontal bar. +Gymnastics elements named after Dan Hayden Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to Code of Points Horizontal bar Hayden "Double salto bwd. str. w. 1/1 t. over the bar."D, 0.41989