Consetta Caruccio-Lenz (26 September 1918 – 2 July 1980) was an American gymnast who competed in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics and in the 1948 London Summer Olympics.
A multi-sport athlete, at one point she set the US national record for the 50 yard dash, completing it in 6.3 seconds.
[2] Incidentally, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where she competed when she was 18 years old,[2] although individual medals had been awarded to male gymnasts since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, women were not awarded with individual medals there as they would not be awarded with individual medals until 1952; however, under the rules that began in 1952, Caruccio's performance in 1936 would have garnered her an individual medal of third-place bronze on balance beam, as Caruccio had the 3rd-highest score on the apparatus, tied with Germany's Erna Bürger, of 60+ athletes in the competition.
[4] Lenz served for 9 years on the U.S. Women's Olympic committee[2] and was inducted in the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1976, the third year in which women were inducted into their Hall of Fame.
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