Jair Lynch

Jair K. Lynch (born October 2, 1971) is an American gymnast and real estate developer in Washington, D.C., in the United States. He won a silver medal in the parallel bars at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After leaving competitive gymnastics, he became a real estate developer and founded Jair Lynch Development Partners in 1998.

Early life and education Lynch was born October 2, 1971, in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father, Acklyn Lynch, was born on the island of Trinidad in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and his mother, Martha Fernandez Lynch, was born in Bogotá, Colombia.

The Lynch family moved to Washington, D.C. when Jair was three years old. Jair Lynch grew up in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where he attended Alexander Shepherd Elementary School. his short height (he topped out at )Efn|Lynch's father is tall, while his mother is in height. Lynch's father knew that his son would never be very tall. At the age of 12, he predicted that he was going to be an Olympic athlete someday.

College At Stanford University, Lynch was a member and captain

He placed seventh in the all-around competition at the 1991 World Sports Fair. In 1988, Charles Lakes became the second African American to make the U.S. Olympic Team. He became the first African American gymnast to compete when he appeared at the 1988 Olympic Summer Games.

Lynch was elected captain of the 1996 U.S. men's gymnastics Olympic team.

Post-competition gymnastics Beginning in 2004, Lynch started to serve on the board of directors of the United States Olympic Committee. He stepped down at the end of 2012.

Eponymous skills Lynch has one named element on the horizontal bar. It was initially given a D (0.4) difficulty score, but was lowered to a C (0.3) in 2022. +Gymnastics elements named after Jair Lynch Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to Code of Points Horizontal bar Lynch Tkatchev straddled with 1/2 t. to mix el-grip into back uprise to hdstC, 0.3 Performed in 1992, but added to CoP in 2013.

Business career Lynch graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and in urban design. He was nominated for a Rhodes scholarship upon graduation.

After graduating from Stanford, Lynch worked for three years in the real estate development arm of Silicon Graphics, a California-based computer company. The company started out working on small projects such as community centers and low-income housing. In 2003, it won a contract to manage the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation's $100 million capital investment program. The company received a $120 million investment from local real estate developer Victor MacFarlane in 2015, which allowed the firm to begin purchasing sites for development and to operate its assets.

He was also a member of the 2014 team which submitted the District's bid for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games.

Personal life Lynch's lifelong role model is Jackie Robinson, the African American who broke down racial discrimination in baseball. The couple had a daughter, Pilar, in 2009.