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{{short description|Canadian artistic gymnast}}
{{use mdy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox gymnast
| name            = Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs
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| country         = {{GYM National Team|CAN|WAG}}
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| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1989|09|12}}
| birth_place     = [[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]]
| height          = 152 cm
| discipline      = WAG
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| club            = Sport Seneca
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| headcoach       = Carol-Angela Orchard
| assistcoach     = Brian McVey
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| choreographer   = Lisa Cowan
| music           = [[Malagueña (song)|Malagueña]] by [[Brian Setzer]]
| eponymousskills = Floor Exercise
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| show-medals     = yes
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{{MedalCountry | {{CAN}} }}
{{Medal|Competition | [[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2006 Aarhus]]|Balance Beam}}
{{Medal|Comp|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[Gymnastics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Uneven Bars}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[Gymnastics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Balance Beam}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[Gymnastics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|All-Around}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[Gymnastics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pacific Rim Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2008 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships|2008 San Jose]]|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2006 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships|2006 Honolulu]]|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2006 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships|2006 Honolulu]]|Balance Beam}} 
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'''Elyse Null''' ({{née}} '''Hopfner-Hibbs''', born September 12, 1989) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] former [[gymnast]], UCLA gymnastics alumna,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uclabruins.com/sports/2013/4/17/208190709.aspx|title=UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics|website=uclabruins.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-27}}</ref> and YouTube personality.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKgZb79rW3aGAUQg3Mpd-g|title=Meet The Nulls|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2018-06-27}}</ref> She was born in [[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]].

==Career==
Hopfner-Hibbs first started [[gymnastics]] in 1993, and competed in her first international event in 2001.

Hopfner-Hibbs won four medals at the [[Gymnastics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Commonwealth Games]]: team bronze, gold in the women's uneven bars and women's beam, and silver in the women's all-around. She did not take the all-around title, despite having achieved the same score as eventual winner [[Chloe Sims (gymnast)|Chloe Sims]] of [[Australia]]. The new tie break rule had to be used to separate them (previously ties were not uncommon in gymnastics, even in the all-around). Sims did, however, invite Hopfner-Hibbs onto the gold medal podium with her. Despite this, Hopfner-Hibbs finished the championship as one of the most decorated gymnasts at the event, tying with [[Hollie Dykes]] of Australia for the highest medal total.

In the 2006 World Championships, Hopfner-Hibbs won a bronze medal on the beam, the first medal ever for a Canadian woman at the World Championships.<ref name=CBCBio>{{cite news|url= https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/hopfner-hibbs-on-her-own-and-raring-to-go-1.725760|title= Hopfner-Hibbs: On her own and raring to go|access-date= 2008-08-14|author= Randi Druzin|date= 2008-07-20|publisher= [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]|url-status= live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080731093319/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/gymnastics/story/2008/06/27/f-olympics-gymnastics-elyse.html |archive-date = July 31, 2008}}</ref> Since then she has won six World Cup medals on the beam and the uneven bars.<ref>{{Cite news|title= Gymnast Hopfner-Hibbs takes her higher world profile into Beijing|author= Donna Spencer|date= 2008-07-23|publisher= [[Canoe.ca]]}}</ref>

Hopfner-Hibbs competed in the [[2008 Olympics]] in Beijing. She did not qualify to any event finals due to some errors in the preliminaries, but placed 16th in the individual all-around final.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/u-s-gymnasts-finish-1-2-in-individual-all-around-1.718729 |work=CBC News |title=U.S. gymnasts finish 1-2 in individual all-around |date=2008-08-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906195814/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/gymnastics/story/2008/08/15/olympics-wgymnastics-aug15.html |archive-date=September 6, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference}}</ref>

==College career==
Hopfner-Hibbs entered [[UCLA]] on an [[NCAA]] scholarship in 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/may/17/pitcher_double_honors/ |title=Gymnastics Recruit Signed |accessdate=2008-08-14 |author=Allister Wentzel |date=2007-05-17 |publisher=The Daily Bruin |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907043816/http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/may/17/pitcher_double_honors/ |archivedate=September 7, 2008 }}</ref> and was named Freshman of the Year in the Pac-10 Conference in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/w-gym/spec-rel/012709aab.html |accessdate=May 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725154041/http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/w-gym/spec-rel/012709aab.html |archivedate=July 25, 2011 |title=Bruin Freshmen Sweep Weekly Pac-10 Honors - UCLA Official Athletic Site }}</ref> She also finished 7th in the individual all-around competition at the 2009 NCAA National Championship, and was a second team All-American on vault, floor, uneven bars and in the all-around.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huskers.com//fls/100/ncaa2009gym/2009WGymAllAmericans.pdf |title=removal of source per WP:USERGENERATED |accessdate=May 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002324/http://www.huskers.com/fls/100/ncaa2009gym/2009WGymAllAmericans.pdf |archivedate=May 9, 2009 }}</ref> In 2010, Elyse was a member of the national championship-winning UCLA team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uclabruins.com/sports/2013/4/17/208190709.aspx|title=UCLA Official Athletic Site - Women's Gymnastics|website=uclabruins.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-26}}</ref>

==Personal life==
On May 1, 2015, Hopfner-Hibbs married Grayson Null, the younger brother of [[YouTube]] personality Austin Null from The Nive Nulls. They also decided to start their own [[YouTube]] channel called ''Meet The Nulls''.<ref name=":0" /> On November 27, 2016, they welcomed their first child, Scarlett Everly Null.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=803625642566615040|user=ElyseNull|title=Hello world! My name is Scarlett Everly Null!|date=November 29, 2016}}</ref>

==Skills==

*[[Vault (gymnastics)|Vault]] - 1{{frac|1|2}} Twisting Yurchenko 
*[[Uneven bars]] - Yarotska; Giant 1/1 Pirouette; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Khorkina; Giant 1{{frac|1|2}} Pirouette; Piked Jaeger; Church; Toe-on 1/1 Pirouette; Overshoot to Handstand; Stalder Hecht; Giant 1/2 Pirouette; Double Front Tuck Dismout 
*[[Balance beam|Balance Beam]] - Front Handspring Mount; Aerial to Back Layout to Back Layout; Illusion; Double Turn; Front Tuck; Switch Leap to Roundoff Aerial; Double Back Somersault Dismount
*[[Floor (gymnastics)|Floor Exercise]] - Triple Turn; Full Twisting Double Back; Arabian Double Front; Double Back Pike; 1.5 to a full twist

===Eponymous skill===
Hopfner-Hibbs previously had one eponymous skill listed in the [[Code of Points (gymnastics)|Code of Points]]. It was removed in the 2017 version of the code.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2014 |title=2013-2016 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics |url=https://gymnasticsresults.com/technical/code-of-points/2013-2016-wag-cop.pdf |page=155}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2017-2020 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics |url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_WAG%20CoP%202017-2020.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622123238/https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_WAG%20CoP%202017-2020.pdf |archive-date=22 June 2020 |website=[[International Gymnastics Federation]] |page=158}}</ref>
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! Apparatus  !! Name  !! Description  !! Difficulty{{efn|name=difficulty|Valid for the 2013-2016 Code of Points}}
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|Floor exercise || Hopfner-Hibbs || 2/1 (720°) illusion turn without hand or foot support || C
|}
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{FIG|bio=16918|lic=81|name=Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs}}
* [http://www.gymn.ca/athletes/women/hopfnerhibbs.shtml Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs] at Gymnastics Canada
* {{Olympics.com|elyse-hopfner-hibbs}}
* {{COC profile|elyse-hopfner-hibbs}}
* {{CGF profile}}
* {{Olympedia}}

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