Sharon Shapiro

Sharon Shapiro is an American former gymnast. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games. In 1978, she was the U.S. National Champion in the vault. She was a two-time National Collegiate All-Around Champion. In 1981, she won the Honda-Broderick Award as the nation's most outstanding collegiate women's gymnast.

Early life Shapiro's hometowns were Arleta and Sepulveda, California. She attended Monroe High School, graduating in 1979.

Gymnastics career Shapiro was a United States women's national gymnastics team member from 1976 to 1978 and 1979–81. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in individual and team gymnastics, when she was 15 years of age. In 1978, she was won the U.S. National Championship in the vault at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation Women's Championships in Uniondale, New York. That year she also became the first U.S. woman gymnast to score as 39.05 points out of a possible 40, which she did at an invitational meet in Fresno, California. Shapiro led the Bruins to first place in the Western Collegiate Athletic Association (WCAA) and at the AIAW Regionals, and a second-place team finish at the AIAW National Championships.

Honors In 1990, Shapiro was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. In 2013, she was inducted into the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Los Angeles City Section Sports Hall of Fame.