Sean Golden (born June 13, 1983) is a former American

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

and member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team. Golden was born as the youngest of six children to Patricia and Ron Golden, a police officer, and raised in

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2020 ...

. Golden was introduced to gymnastics at four years old as an outlet for his energy after he fell in love with the sport after watching it on television. He quickly advanced within gymnastics, eventually being coached by Macey Watson. He was the 1994 New Jersey state champion on the floor routine and finished third in the state all-around in 1996 via a second-place finish on the floor and third-place finishes on the rings and vault. Golden attended Camden High School and graduated in 2001. He later attended Camden County College, but dropped out of the latter to focus on gymnastics training and joined his former coach Watson in Florida. In 2004, Golden moved to Houston to work with former national team coach

Kevin Mazeika Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant '' Kevan'' is anglicized from , a ...

. He failed the make the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team at the 2005 Winter Cup, but was successful in joining following the 2005 USA Gymnastics National Championships where he was the national champion for the rings and vault. He remained a fixture on every national team through the 2008 National Championships. Ultimately, he was not selected to the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

team which saw two of his roommates,

Kevin Tan Kai Wen "Kevin" Tan (; born September 24, 1981) is an American artistic gymnast. Early life Tan was born in 1981 in Fremont, California. He graduated from Mission San Jose High School, Class of 2000. Career At Penn State, Tan was a six ti ...

and Raj Bhavsar, chosen in some capacity.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Golden, Sean 1983 births Living people American male artistic gymnasts Camden High School (New Jersey) alumni Gymnasts from New Jersey Sportspeople from Camden, New Jersey