Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs

Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs
Country represented Canada
Born (1989-09-12) September 12, 1989 (age 35)
Mississauga, Ontario
HometownToronto
Height152 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Weight46 kg (101 lb)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
ClubSport Seneca
Head coach(es)Carol-Angela Orchard
Assistant coach(es)Brian McVey
ChoreographerLisa Cowan
MusicMalagueña by Brian Setzer
Eponymous skillsFloor Exercise
Medal record
Representing  Canada
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Aarhus Balance Beam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Uneven Bars
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne Balance Beam
Silver medal – second place 2006 Melbourne All-Around
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Melbourne Team
Pacific Rim Championships
Silver medal – second place 2008 San Jose Team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Honolulu Team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Honolulu Balance Beam

Elyse Null (née Hopfner-Hibbs, born September 12, 1989) is a Canadian former gymnast, UCLA gymnastics alumna,[1] and YouTube personality.[2] She was born in Mississauga, Ontario.

Career

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She first started gymnastics in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.

Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner Chloe Sims of Australia. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with Hollie Dykes of Australia for the highest medal total.

In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.[3] Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.[4]

Hopfner-Hibbs competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She did not qualify to any event finals due to some errors in the preliminaries, but placed 16th in the individual all-around final.[5][6]

College career

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She entered UCLA on an NCAA scholarship in 2008[7] and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009.[8] She also finished 7th in the individual all-around competition at the 2009 NCAA National Championship, and was a second team All-American on vault, floor, uneven bars and in the all-around.[9] In 2010, Elyse was a member of the national championship-winning UCLA team.[10]

Post-Retirement

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On May 1, 2015, she married Grayson Null in California. Grayson is the younger brother of YouTube personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own YouTube channel called Meet The Nulls.[2] In May 2016, the couple announced, via YouTube, that they are expecting their first child.[11] On November 27, 2016, they welcomed a baby girl, Scarlett Everly Null.[12]

Skills

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  • Vault - 11⁄2 Twisting Yurchenko
  • Uneven bars - Yarotska; Giant 1/1 Pirouette; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Khorkina; Giant 11⁄2 Pirouette; Piked Jaeger; Church; Toe-on 1/1 Pirouette; Overshoot to Handstand; Stalder Hecht; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Double Front Tuck Dismout
  • Balance Beam - Front Handspring Mount; Aerial to Back Layout to Back Layout; Illusion; Double Turn; Front Tuck; Switch Leap to Roundoff Aerial; Double Back Somersault Dismount
  • Floor Exercise - Triple Turn; Full Twisting Double Back; Arabian Double Front; Double Back Pike; 1.5 to a full twist

Eponymous skill

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Hopfner-Hibbs previously had one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points. It was removed in the 2017 version of the code.[13][14]

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty[a]
Floor exercise Hopfner-Hibbs 2/1 (720°) illusion turn without hand or foot support C
  1. ^ Valid for the 2013-2016 Code of Points

References

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  1. ^ "UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Meet The Nulls". YouTube. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  3. ^ Randi Druzin (July 20, 2008). "Hopfner-Hibbs: On her own and raring to go". CBC. Archived from the original on July 31, 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
  4. ^ Donna Spencer (July 23, 2008). "Gymnast Hopfner-Hibbs takes her higher world profile into Beijing". Canoe.ca.
  5. ^ "U.S. gymnasts finish 1-2 in individual all-around". CBC News. August 15, 2008. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008.
  6. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
  7. ^ Allister Wentzel (May 17, 2007). "Gymnastics Recruit Signed". The Daily Bruin. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
  8. ^ "Bruin Freshmen Sweep Weekly Pac-10 Honors - UCLA Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2009.
  9. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002324/http://www.huskers.com/fls/100/ncaa2009gym/2009WGymAllAmericans.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2009. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ "UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  11. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvUMrQdMlw[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ https://twitter.com/MeetTheNulls/status/803150122439671808[permanent dead link]
  13. ^ "2013-2016 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). November 2014. p. 155.
  14. ^ "2017-2020 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. p. 158. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 22, 2020.
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