Laurie Hernandez

Laurie Hernandez: Biography in Details

Who is Laurie Hernandez?

Laurie Hernandez is an American gymnast.

She is best known for competing as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Moreover, she won gold in the team event and silver on the balance beam.

She is the youngest member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, nicknamed “The Final Five”. She was athletic from a very young age.

How many siblings does Laurie Hernandez have? Bio, Age, Ethnicity

Laurie Hernandez was born on 9^th June 2000.

Her birthplace is Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. Being the youngest gymnast, she had her training in Morganville, New Jersey.

She was born to Wanda Hernandez and Anthony Hernandez. Laurie has a sister and a brother whose name is Jelysa and Marcus respectively.

She is of Puerto Rican and Hispanic ethnicity.

Details about her academics are not disclosed.

Laurie Hernandez: Career, Salary, and Net Worth

Regarding her junior career, Laurie Hernandez’s career first started in 2012 at the U.S. Classic, where she was considered 11^th in the junior division when she was 12 years old.

In 2013, Laurie first meets WOGA Classic, where she was announced as a second in the all-around.

In the time of June, she placed first on floor exercise, second in the all-around behind Ariana Agrapides, and third on balance beam and vault.

At the start of July; Hernandez was joined by the U.S. Junior National Team. After that, she went to Chicago for the U.S. Classic.

This is the place where she placed sixth all-around and won the floor exercise title.

In September, Hernandez was the one who stood for the representation of the U.S. at the Junior Japan International in Yokohama. She won the bronze medal in the all-around.

Hernandez represented herself in her senior career initially in 2016.

In March, she competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy where she earned the bronze medal all-around with a score of 58.550.

Furthermore, she also won many other silver and gold medals. Similarly, in April, Hernandez competed at the Pacific Rim Gymnastics.

In June, she had a competition at the U.S. Classic on bars only where she scored 15.400.

On recent years, Laurie was chosen to be one of the participants of the Season 23 cast of Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Val Chmerkovskiy.

In November 2016, they both together won the competition by beating the Canadian race car driver James Hinchcliffe and his partner, Sharna Burgess.

In the fall of 2021, Laurie participated in Simone Biles’s Gold Over America Tour.

What is the Net worth of Laurie Hernandez?

Laurie Hernandez has a net worth of $2 million as of 2023. Her salary is not known to us by any sources.

Injury

Laurie Hernandez had some injuries throughout the year 2014.

She had an injury in her wrist it was fractured as she slipped off the beam during her training season.

After the recovery from the injury, she soon returned to the competition.

No sooner had she returned when she suffered a torn patellar tendon and dislocated kneecap which led to being out of gymnastics for six months.

Honors

Hernandez was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in June 2019.

Hernandez was a Grand Marshall of the 2020 Rose Parade on January 1, 2020.

Laurie Hernandez’s Rumors, and Controversy

As Laurie Hernandez is only a 16-year-old gymnast, she doesn’t have many rumors and controversies related to her.

She is an optimistic kind of person and ignores the negative things in her life because she wants to accomplish much from the start of her career at this age.

As she is a graceful and optimistic girl or a person, there are no such rumors and controversies related to her.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

As a young gymnast, Laurie Hernandez has a perfect body and her profession itself is related to sports which helps her to maintain a good body shape.

She has a height of 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 48 kg.

Her hair color and eye color are black.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

Laurie Hernandez is active on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.

She has more than 245k followers on Facebook, she has over 593.1k followers on Twitter, and around 1.4 million followers on her Instagram account.

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