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Biography
Kalon Curtis Ludvigson (March 15, 1988) is an American trampoline and tumbling champion. Ludvigson has become the most decorated U.S. athlete in trampoline and tumbling history by winning 20 World Cup and World Championships Medals in Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline.
Early life
Ludvigson was born in Gunnison, Utah, USA to Curtis and Laurie Ludvigson.
Career
Ludvigson was undefeated in the USA from 2006, after winning the U.S. National Championships, until 2013. Kalon set the World Record for Degree of Difficulty in 2008 at the Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He won the World Cup in 2009, 2011 and 2012 and set the record at the World Cup in Odense, Denmark in October 2011. In 2015 he still holds the record tied with Yang Song (CHN).
Ludvigson was also a coach. In August 2013, Ludvigson was suffered a serious spinal injury during a demonstration for students, which left him paralyzed below the waist. He was hospitalized until December, and a fundraising drive was initiated to help pay for medical and physiotherapy expenses.
An international invitational gymnastic meet in Salt Lake City has been named after him.