Background and career
Samuel Anthony Mikulak (born October 13, 1992) is an American gymnastics coach. A retired artistic gymnast, he was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team. He is a six-time U.S. national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–2019), the 2018 World bronze medalist on the horizontal bar, and a three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, and 2020). He is also an eight-time NCAA champion, winning the team, individual all-around, and several individual event titles at the 2011, 2013, and 2014 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championships. In 2023, he started serving as a gymnastics coach at EVO Gymnastics.
Mikulak was born in Huntington Beach, California, and attended Corona del Mar High School. He is of Polish descent. His parents both competed in gymnastics at the University of California, Berkeley and started Sam in gymnastics at age two. He has a younger sister who also started gymnastics at age two, but stopped at a young age. His father, Stephen Mikulak, is an orthopedic surgeon. He enrolled at the University of Michigan to pursue gymnastics.
Mikulak attended SCATS Gymnastics and was a United States Junior National team member from 2007 to 2010. He won the all-around, floor exercise, and vault titles at the 2010 Junior Olympic Nationals. As a Junior Elite gymnast, Mikulak won the silver medal in the all-around three years in a row in the 14–15-year-old division at the 2007, 2008, and 2009 U.S. National Championships. He was runner-up to John Orozco all three years. At the 2010 U.S. National Championships, Mikulak won the Junior national all-around title in the 16–18-year-old division. He also won the gold medal on pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
Mikulak was a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team from 2010 to 2014. He led Michigan to the NCAA team title in 2013 and 2014 as the team's anchor. As a freshman at the 2011 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships, he won the all-around title with a career-high score of 90.75. As a sophomore in 2012, he won the Big Ten Conference title on the horizontal bar and pommel horse and placed second in the all-around. Later that year, Mikulak became the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to qualify for the Olympics. At the 2013 NCAA Championships, Mikulak won the all-around, parallel bars, and horizontal bar titles. At the 2014 NCAA Championships, he won the all-around and parallel bars titles. He was named undergraduate assistant coach for the University of Michigan men's team in August 2014.
At the 2012 U.S. National Championships, Mikulak won the bronze medal in the all-around and the silver medal in the parallel bars event. At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, he was unable to compete in five of the six events on Day 2 after spraining his ankle while competing on vault on the first night of competition. Despite the injury, Mikulak was selected for the five-man Olympic gymnastics team. He was the first male gymnast from the University of Michigan to be named to the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2012 Olympics in London, Mikulak placed 5th with the U.S. team in the team competition. The U.S. team had placed 1st in the qualification round. Mikulak competed in the vault final, placing 5th. His Michigan teammate Syque Caesar also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, representing Bangladesh.
Mikulak won his first national all-around title at the 2013 U.S. National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut. He also won the gold medal on the parallel bars and horizontal bar. He then competed at the 2013 World Championships and placed 6th in the all-around final and 4th in the individual horizontal bar final.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
