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Betty-Jean Maycock

Maycock in 1960
Personal information
Born	(1942-12-13) December 13, 1942 (age 82) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Height	157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Medal record Representing the  United States Pan American Games 1959 Chicago Team 1959 Chicago All-around 1959 Chicago Uneven bars 1959 Chicago Vault

Betty Jean Maycock Harrington (born December 13, 1942) is a former Olympic gymnast from Cleveland, Ohio. Maycock was a member of the American gymnastics team that placed ninth at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Prior to the Olympics, she was part of the first collegiate women's gymnastics team in the United States at Kent State University in 1959 while still a student at Kent State High School. She also won four medals at the 1959 Pan American Games. Following the Olympics, she returned to college, graduating cum laude from Kent State in 1964, and later earned a Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Maryland. She was married to Robert Sutton Harrington (1942–1993) in 1976, and has two daughters, Amy and Ann. She currently works with the organization Microcredit in Africa, which implements microcredit projects in Niger.

References

1. ^ Betty-Jean Maycock. sports-reference.com
2. ^ "Betty Jean (Maycock) Harrington (1979)". Retrieved January 19, 2024.
3. Harris, Colin (8 February 2009). "50 years: KSU gymnastics was ahead of its time". Record-Courier. pp. A1, A8. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
4. Robert Harrington Obituary Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. ad.usno.navy.mil
5. People of Microcredit in Africa Archived 2010-02-03 at the Wayback Machine

v t e 1960 USA Olympic Gymnastics Team
Men's artistic gymnastics athletes	Larry Banner Jack Beckner Abie Grossfeld Gar O'Quinn Fred Orlofsky Don Tonry
Women's artistic gymnastics athletes	Doris Fuchs Muriel Grossfeld Betty-Jean Maycock Teri Montefusco Sharon Richardson Gail Sontgerath
Coaches	Tom Maloney (Men's head coach) Janet Bachna (Women's head coach)

v t e Pan American Games Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team Competition
1959:  United States 1963:  United States 1967:  United States 1971:  United States 1975:  United States 1979:  Canada 1983:  United States 1987:  United States 1991:  United States 1995:  United States 1999:  Canada 2003:  United States 2007:  United States 2011:  United States 2015:  United States 2019:  United States 2023:  United States
1959:  United States (USA), Betty-Jean Maycock, Cassie Collawn, Theresa Montefusco, Sharon Phelps, Judy Klauser, Sharon Richardson

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