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{{short description|American artistic gymnast}}
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| name               = Peter Kormann
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| caption            = Kormann in 2010
| full_name          = Peter Martin Kormann
| country            = [[United States men's national artistic gymnastics team|United States]]
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1955|06|21}}
| birth_place        = [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], U.S.
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| height             = 170 cm
| discipline         = MAG
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| collegeteam        = [[Southern Connecticut State Owls men's gymnastics|Southern Connecticut State Owls]]
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{{MedalSport|Men's [[artistic gymnastics]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}
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|[[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic Games]]|0|0|1
|[[Pan American Games]]|2|0|0
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's floor|Floor]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1975 Pan American Games|1975 Mexico City]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1975 Pan American Games – Men's artistic team all-around|Team]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1975 Pan American Games|1975 Mexico City]]|[[Gymnastics at the 1975 Pan American Games – Men's floor exercise|Floor]]}}
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'''Peter Martin Kormann''' (born June 21, 1955)<ref name="fig">{{FIG|bio=24444|lic=651|name=Peter KORMANN}}</ref> is an American retired gymnast and [[gymnastics]] coach. He was a member of the [[United States men's national artistic gymnastics team]]. At the 1976 Olympics, he became the first American to medal in a competition against the Soviets when he won a bronze medal in the men's floor competition.<ref>[http://www.shadeglobal.com/category/athletes/peterkormann Peter Kormann] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902020205/http://www.shadeglobal.com/category/athletes/peterkormann |date= September 2, 2008 }}. shadeglobal.com. Retrieved on December 30, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.usghof.org/files/bio/p_kormann/p_kormann.html Biography: KORMANN, Peter]. Usghof.org. Retrieved on December 30, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/peter-kormann-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417183748/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/peter-kormann-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Peter Kormann |accessdate=December 30, 2011}}</ref> Kormann's bronze medal was also the first Olympic medal of any type won by an American gymnast in 44 years.<ref>Lader, Martin (July 24, 1976) "Olympics: Part II, Games Enter Second Week With Russians Leading in Medals; Walker Fails to Qualify, Gymnast Kormann Wins Bronze" ''The Republic'' (Columbus, Indiana) [https://www.newspapers.com/image/138662481] Retrieved via Newspapers.com, September 23, 2017</ref>

Kormann competed for [[Southern Connecticut State University]] under coach [[Abie Grossfeld]]. In 1977, Kormann won the [[Nissen Award]] (the "[[Heisman]]" of men's gymnastics).<ref>[https://usagym.org/pages/home/college/nissenemery.html Nissen Award]</ref> Peter went on to coach at the [[United States Naval Academy]], the [[Ohio State University]] and was named head coach of the USA men's team from 1996 to 2001.

Kormann currently owns Yellow Jackets Gymnastics with his two sons in Massachusetts.<ref name="Lynn">Shuman, Cary (January 7, 2016) "Business is Beaming: Yellow Jackets is Drawing Aspiring Gymnasts from Lynn", ''The Lynn Journal'' [http://www.lynnjournal.com/2016/01/07/business-is-beamingyellow-jackets-is-drawing-aspiring-gymnasts-from-lynn/]</ref>

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