Elyse Null ( Hopfner-Hibbs, born September 12, 1989) is a

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former elite

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, UCLA gymnastics alumna, and YouTube personality. She was born in

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Elite career

She first started

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in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001. Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the

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: 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

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. 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

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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. Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars. 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.

College career

She entered

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on an

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scholarship in 2008 and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009. 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. In 2010, Elyse was a member of the national championship-winning UCLA team.

Post-Retirement

On May 1, 2015, she married Grayson Null in

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. Grayson is the younger brother of

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personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own

channel called ''Meet The Nulls''. In May 2016, the couple announced, via YouTube, that they are expecting their first child. On November 27, 2016, they welcomed a baby girl, Scarlett Everly Null. On June 3, 2018, they welcomed their second child, a son called River Kobe Null. On January 2, 2020, they announced that they were expecting their third child, but on February 14, 2020, Elyse announced that they had miscarried their baby, a son who they later named Finn Josiah Null. On June 17, 2020, the couple announced another pregnancy. On January 7, 2021, they welcomed another son named Oaklen Kove Null.

Skills

Vault Vault may refer to: * Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards Architecture * Vault (architecture), an arched form above an enclosed space * Bank vault, a reinforced room or compartment where valuables are stored * Burial vault (enclosure ...

- 1 Twisting Yurchenko *

Uneven bars The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...

- Yarotska; Giant 1/1 Pirouette; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Khorkina; Giant 1 Pirouette; Piked Jaeger; Church; Toe-on 1/1 Pirouette; Overshoot to Handstand; Stalder Hecht; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Double Front Tuck Dismout *

Balance Beam The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply referred to as "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring i ...

- 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 In gymnastics, the floor is a specially prepared exercise surface, which is considered an apparatus. It is used by both male and female gymnasts. The gymnastics event performed on the floor is called floor exercise. The English abbreviation for t ...

- Triple Turn; Full Twisting Double Back; Arabian Double Front; Double Back Pike; 1.5 to a full twist

Eponymous skill

Hopfner-Hibbs has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

References

External links

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