Ji Wallace
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| Born | 23 June 1977 Logan, Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Trampoline gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ji Wallace (born 23 June 1977 in Lismore, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian trampoline gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
Earlier in his career, Wallace won several Australian national titles and made an international breakthrough in 1996 by winning gold in the double mini trampoline (DMT) discipline at the 19th Trampoline World Championships in Vancouver.[1]
In the world championships held in Sydney, he set a world record for completing a jump with the highest degree of difficulty in the DMT, a triple-triple.[2]
He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he received a silver medal in trampoline.[3][4]
In 2005, he came out publicly as gay,[5][6] and was the first Australian to be named a Gay Games Ambassador.[7] In an August 2012 letter to the Sydney Star Observer, a gay-oriented weekly tabloid newspaper, he revealed he is HIV-positive.[8][9]
Wallace returned to his trampoline roots to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, but missed Olympic selection at the 2007 World Championships in Quebec, Canada.
Wallace was a cast member with the Cirque du Soleil in their show ZAIA in Macau, China. In October 2008 while performing an acrobatic move, Ji fell badly causing significant injuries;[10] he spent 21 months rehabilitating his right ankle, learning to walk again. In August 2010, he took a coaching job in Montreal at the Cirque du Soleil headquarters but, in 2012, returned to his native Australia,[10] where he is now head coach of Sky School, a trampoline program run by trampoline park chain Sky Zone.[11]
References
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- ^ CNN/SI report on the trampolin final
- ^ Interview with "Sydney Morning Herald"
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External links
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Australian male trampolinists
- Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- LGBTQ gymnasts
- Australian gay sportsmen
- Olympic gymnasts for Australia
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- People with HIV/AIDS
- Cirque du Soleil performers
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Games bronze medalists for Australia
- World Games medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
- Medalists at the 1997 World Games
- Trampolinist biography stubs
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs