03. Februar 2007  
Los Angeles / USA  
Artistic Gymnastics

Cathy RIGBY as Mammy Yokum in the Musical Li l Abner ...

Cathy Rigby as 'Mummy' ....
2008 at a rehearsal in LA

CATHY RIGBY became the first American gymnast, male or female, to win a medal at the World Championships. It happened in 1970 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, by winning the silver medal on balance beam, behind the big German gymnast Erika ZUCHOLD, from Leipzig...
<< Now Cathy Rigby has fun in the Musical "Li'l Abner" in which she plays Mammy Yokum in a production from Reprise! Broadway's Best, together with actor Fred Willard  at the UCLA in Los Angeles.
The actress Rigby was nominated for a Tony Award in 1991 already for her performance in the title role of the 35th anniversary return of "Peter Pan", a production that came back to Broadway in 1999 and also toured the country extensively many years....
At the 1970 Artistic gymnastics Worlds in Ljubljana 
she defeated such gymnastics giants as Karin Janz (GDR) and Ludmilla Touricheva (URS).
By winning the silver medal on balance beam, Rigby's diverse career went on to include performances in the title role of the Broadway play "Peter Pan".
She is also one of the best-known broadcasters with her long alliance with ABC Sports.

Cathy RIGBY (USA)

Cathy Rigby's first career is both blessing and curse;
an actress now but also an eating disorder survivor at the end of "her first life..."
No matter that she has been doing musical theater for 30 years and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway role as "Peter Pan," she remains first-and-foremost in many minds an Olympic athlete.

<< In 1997 Cathy RIGBY became a member of the "International Gymnastics Hall of Fame" in Oklahoma City.

* External LINK:  >> Rigby Induction Video  (IGHOF)