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All you need to know about the beautiful Hmong-American gymnast Suni Lee: Net Worth, Age, Profile, Career, Boyfriend, Achievements, How Rich is she in 2024?
Suni Lee background
Sunisa “Suni” Lee is an American artistic gymnast.
Lee is the 2020 Olympic all-aroundgold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.
Suni Lee was the 2019 World Championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars.
Lee was also part of the "Golden Girls" that won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
As of 2024, Suni Lee is reportedly the first woman of Hmong descent and first Asian American woman to win the Olympic all-around title.
Suni Lee Profile
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Full name: Sunisa Lee Phabsomphou
Birth date: March 9, 2003
Nationality: Hmong-American
Place of birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Age: 21 years old (as of August 2024)
Profession: Gymnast
College Team: Auburn Tigers (2022-2023)
Height: 5 ft 0 in
Marital status: Single
Parents: Mr. John Lee and Mrs. Yeev Thoj (Mother)
Net worth: $5 million (est.)
Instagram: @sunisalee
X: @sunisalee_
How old is Suni Lee? (Suni Lee age)
Suni Lee is 21 years old as of August 2024.
Suni Lee Career
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Suni Lee's interest in gymnastics was piqued at the tender age of six after watching Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson on YouTube.
Her father built a balance beam for her from a mattress.
When Lee started doing backflips outdoors, it became clear to her parents that she needed a safer venue to hone her skills.
Lee’s parents registered her for gymnastics classes at Midwest Gymnastics Center in Little Canada, Minnesota, where she started training under coach Punnarith Koy.
The following year, Lee won the all-around at a state meet, the second competition of her career.
When she was eight years old, she moved up three levels, and she qualified for elite at age 11.
Koy coached Lee from age six to about 12, when she switched to Jess Graba, who has coached her ever since.
Lee competed in the Hopes division in 2015, became a junior elite in 2016, and made her junior elite debut at the 2016 U.S. Classic.
She earned a spot on the junior national team in 2017
and debuted internationally at the Gymnix International Junior Cup where the U.S. team won the gold medal in the team event.
After committing to a gymnastics scholarship at Auburn University, she was named to the team to compete at the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, which took place in April 2018.
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Suni Lee won gold with the U.S. team in the team final.
She also secured the silver medal on vault, balance beam, and in the floor exercise.
She placed 4th in the all-around.
In July that same year, Suni Lee won gold on the uneven bars at the 2018 U.S Classic.
The following year, Lee made her international senior debut at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy where won the all-around title and took home the gold with the U.S. team in the team final.
Lee won the silver on beam at the 2019 American Classic in June and finished fifth on bars after falling off twice.
That year was particularly challenging for Suni Lee as she battled with injuries.
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Lee injured her ankle and sustained a hairline fracture to her left tibia after a dismount from the balance beam.
She was still recovering from her injuries by the time the 2019 U.S. Championships rolled around in August.
She won gold on bars ahead of Morgan Hurd and placed fourth on beam behind Biles, Kara Eaker, and Leanne Wong.
Lee also won the bronze on floor behind Biles and Jade Carey.
As a result, she was named to the national team.
A month later at the world team selection camp, Suni Lee finished second by 0.350 points in the all-around behind Biles.
The next day, she was chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart.
Lee competed in her first world championships in October 2019.
The U.S. took first at team qualifications with a score of 174.205, more than five points ahead of China in second with 169.161.
Lee advanced to the individual all-around final in second place after Biles despite a fall on the balance beam.
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Lee competed on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor and helped the U.S. to gold in the team finalahead of Russia and Italy.
In 2020, it was announced that Lee would compete at the Stuttgart World Cup Scheduled to take place in March but the event was canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lee's gym closed temporarily for three weeks as part of the pandemic response and when she returned, she broke a bone in her left foot which left her out of action for two months.
An injury to her Achilles tendon sidelined her for another two months.
Lee returned to competition in February at the 2021 Winter Cup, where she competed on uneven bars and balance beam.
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At the 2020 Olympic Games, Lee was initially to compete only on uneven bars and balance beam in the team final, but when Biles withdrew from the competition after the first rotation, Lee replaced her on floor exercise.
She hit all three of her routines and scored 15.400 on bars and 14.133 on beam.
The U.S. won the silver medal behind The Russian Olympic Committee.
Suni Lee won the women's individual all-around gold ahead of Brazil's Rebeca Andrade and Angelina Melnikova of the Russian Olympic Committee.
Lee is the sixth U.S. woman to claim the Olympic all-around title following Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, Nastia Liukin, Gabby Douglas, and Simone Biles.
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She is also the first Hmong-American Olympian, the first Asian American woman to take the Olympic all-around crown, and was reportedly the first all-around Asian champion of any nationality.
In recognition of her historic Olympic success, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, and the mayor of St. Paul, Melvin Carter, declared Friday, July 30, 2021, as "Sunisa Lee Day".
Lee made her NCAA debut on January 7, 2022, in a tri-meet against North Carolinaand Bowling Green. She competed on uneven bars and balance beam to help Auburn University secure the win.
However, on November 15, 2022, Lee announced that the 2022–2023 season would be her final season competing for Auburn University so that she could return to elite gymnastics with the goal of competing at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
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In March 2023, Lee was diagnosed with an unspecified rare kidney disease.
On April 3, Lee announced that she would end her sophomore season early due to her health issues, thus concluding her NCAA gymnastics career.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Suni Lee won a gold and bronze medal for Team USA.
Suni Lee Awards
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Sunisa Lee has received numerous honors and awards.
In 2021, she was named Female Athlete of the Year by Sports Illustrated, named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation, and included in Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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She also received an Asia Game Changer Award.
Suni Lee Career Achievements
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Olympic Games (2020 Tokyo): 1x Gold, 1x Silver, 1x Bronze
Olympic Games (2024 Paris): 1x Gold, 2x Bronze
World Championships (2019 Stuttgart): 1x Gold, 1x Silver, 1x Bronze
What is Suni Lee’s Net Worth in 2024? (Suni Lee Net Worth)
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As of 2024, Suni Lee is estimated to have a net worth of around $5 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth.
Lee makes her most of her income thanks to the prize monies she’s recieved throughout her remarkable career as an artistic gymnast.
She has also inked lucrative sponsorship and endorsement deals with several brands like Batiste and GK Elite.
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Lee designed a signature collection of leotards for GK Elite in 2021.
In January 2022, Lee launched her first capsule collection with British fashion retailer PrettyLittleThing.
Lee has also signed deals with Marriott, L'Oreal, Invisalign, Amazon, Gatorade, Target, and CLIF Bar.
In 2022, Axios called her one of the most marketable NCAA athletes in the world.
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Suni Lee was also hired by The LEGO Group and was featured in the "Play Unstoppable" campaign alongside USWNT legend Megan Rapinoe.
In May 2024, Lee promoted products from dry shampoo company Batiste Hair on her social media.
She was announced as the face of the "Americana" collaboration between LoveShackFancy and Cotton Incorporated, became brand ambassador for fashion nail company KISS and teamed up with Kim Kardashian's SKIMS for their limited Team USA collection in June 2024 ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Who is Suni Lee’s boyfriend?
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As of August 2024, Suni Lee is said to be single.
She was previously in a relationship with college football player, Jaylin Smith.
The pair was first spotted together in Instagram posts in 2021 that were later deleted.
The posts were deleted following mixed reactions to their romance as the interracial duo has faced racist backlash online, as per a report from People.
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However, their romance was rumoured to have ended after the pair unfollowed each other on Instagram.
Suni Lee personal life
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Sunisa Lee was born Sunisa Phabsomphou in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Yeev Thoj, a healthcare worker.
Lee is of Hmong descent, and her mother, a refugee, immigrated to the United States from Laos as a child. Suni Lee was raised by her mother's longtime partner, John Lee, from the age of two and considers him to be her father.
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She began using his surname professionally as a teenager.
Suni Lee has three half-siblings through her mother's relationship with Lee, and Lee had two children from a previous relationship.
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Her sister Evionn also competed in artistic gymnastics at the regional level.
As for her education, Suni Lee went to Battle Creek Elementary in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Lee later attended South St. Paul Secondary and received her high school diploma in June 2021.
She enrolled at Auburn University in August 2021 as a business marketing major, but left after her sophomore year due to health issues and in order to return to elite gymnastics with her sights set on the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Suni Lee social media
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Sunisa Lee is currently on social media where he is often active.
Her Instagram account has more than 3.3 million followers.
As of August 2024, Suni Lee is one of the most followed gymnasts in the world.
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Suni Lee often shares snaps of her personal life and gymanstic career on her social media pages.
Suni Lee’s account on X currently has more than 214,200 followers.
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