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| Born | December 13, 1942 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Betty Jean Maycock Harrington (born December 13, 1942) is a former Olympic gymnast from Cleveland, Ohio.[2] 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.[3] She also won four medals at the 1959 Pan American Games.[1] Following the Olympics, she returned to college, graduating cum laude from Kent State in 1964,[2] 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.[4] She currently works with the organization Microcredit in Africa, which implements microcredit projects in Niger.[5]
- ^ a b Betty-Jean Maycock. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b "Betty Jean (Maycock) Harrington (1979)". Retrieved January 19, 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Robert Harrington Obituary Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. ad.usno.navy.mil
- ^ People of Microcredit in Africa Archived 2010-02-03 at the Wayback Machine