Betty-Jean Maycock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Betty-Jean Maycock

American gymnast

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1942

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: artistic gymnast

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Betty-Jean Maycock

  • 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.

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