Barthold Wayne Conner[1] (born March 28, 1958) is a retired American Olympic gymnast.
He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
He owns and operates the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Oklahoma, along with his wife, Romanian Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comăneci.
[11] Four years later, in the 1984 Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals for the team all-around and for the men's parallel bars.
Conner is a highly decorated gymnast who has won "medals at every level of national and international competition."
According to a 1996 New York Times article, "He helped make the connections that eventually led to her escape from that abusive relationship, and a new life in Montreal with a Romanian rugby coach and his family.
When a mutual friend died in an accident in 1991, Conner invited Comăneci to come to Oklahoma to help him run a gymnastics school.