Question: Which Miami-born athlete was the first American male gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1978?
Answer: Kurt Thomas won the gold medal at the World Championships in Strasbourg, France, in 1978. After competing in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Thomas won the floor exercise in 1978. In the 1979 World Championship in Fort Worth, Texas, he successfully defended the floor exercise title and won the horizontal bar while adding silver in the all-around, pommel horse, and parallel bars. Thomas was born in Miami in 1956 and passed away at the age of 64 in 2020.
