Canadian Rosie MacLennan, the lone person to win two Olympic trampoline gold medals, announced her retirement at age 34.
“After 10 World Championships and 4 Olympic Games, it is time for me to hang up my shiny spandex,” she posted on social media. “Trampoline has been such an integral part of my life and sport will continue to be, even if my role in sport is changing. My experience as an athlete has exceeded even my wildest childhood dreams.”
MacLennan won Olympic titles in 2012 and 2016 in an event that debuted at the 2000 Sydney Games. She was fourth at her last Olympics in Tokyo. MacLennan, Canada’s flag bearer at the 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony, also earned world titles in 2013 and 2018 among seven world medals overall.
MacLennan came back from two concussions in 2015 -- over-rotating a jump in training and later when she was accidentally hit on the head by a car trunk -- to win her second Olympic title. She came back from an April 2019 broken ankle to reach her fourth Olympics.
MacLennan, who qualified for her first world age group competition at age 11, spent more than 26 years in the sport.
NBC Olympic research contributed to this report.
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