Stephen Nedoroscik

Stephen John Nedoroscik ( NED-ə-ROZ-ik; born October 28, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast. A pommel horse specialist, he is the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2021 world champion—the first and only American to win the event—a two-time FIG World Cup champion, a four-time U.S. national champion, and a two-time NCAA national champion for the apparatus.

Additionally, Nedoroscik was part of the medal-winning teams at the 2024 Olympic Games (bronze) and the 2023 Pan American Games (gold).

Early life and education

Nedoroscik was born on October 28, 1998, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His father, John Nedoroscik, is a retired police officer for the Webster Police Department, and his mother, Cheryl Nedoroscik (née Courtney), is a client experience manager for a local savings bank in Holden. He was raised in Indian Lake with his older sister, Samantha, and his twin sister, Anastasia. Their paternal grandfather, whom Nedoroscik is named after, was a U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II and the Korean War. Nedoroscik is of Polish and Slovak descent; his paternal great-grandparents emigrated from present-day Haligovce and Veľká Lesná, Slovakia.

Nedoroscik was born with strabismus and coloboma, causing him to have a lack of depth perception and a high sensitivity to light. The vision impairments requires him to wear eyeglasses and prevents him from obtaining a driver's license. He is also asthmatic. Nedoroscik studied electro-mechanical engineering at Worcester Technical High School and was part of its robotics automation technology program. He then attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering in 2020.