Paul Hamm

Hobbies: Tennis and playing cards
Coach: Miles Avery, Doug Stibel, Arnold Kvetenadze

Paul Hamm started gymnastics in 1989 because his sister (Betsy) was doing it and he wanted to try it. While growing up on a farm in Waukesha, Wisconsin his family used makeshift equipment to practice on. His father built a pommel horse from a maple tree with foam and leather from an automobile. Rings were hung in the attic. A stairway railing was made into parallel bars. A trampoline was set up in the barn.