Adele Gleaves (USA)

1970 World Championships Team Member
1971 Pan American Games V Bronze Medalist

Adele was born in Louisville, KY.  She was twice the Kentucky high school gymnastics champion and was named her state's high school athlete of the year in 1971.  A transfer from the University of Louisville, Adele graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1976 with a degree in mass communications.  She worked as a part-time DJ at WAKY, a Louisville radio station, in the late 1970s.  Adele died of cancer in 1989 at the age of 35, and left behind
a husband and 3-year-old daughter.

Competition Results

1968
Kentucky High School Championships: 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB

1970
AAU Championships:  6th AA, 1st V
Kentucky High School Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX
World Championships:  7th Team, 33rd AA

1971
Pan American Games:  1st Team, 4th AA, 3rd V, 6th UB, 6th FX
USGF Championships:  10th AA, 1st V

1973
AIAW Championships:  1st AA, 1st UB, 3rd V, 4th FX, 5th B
Scarborough Winstonettes Invitational: 5th AA
University Games:  5th Team, 20th AA

1974
AIAW Championships:  5th AA, 2nd FX, 3rd B
AIAW Region II Championships: 3rd Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX

1975
Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Conference Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX

1976
AIAW Region II Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st B, 1st FX

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