Olympian Bayshore residents will be at their TVs early Friday morning, August 2 to see Atlantic Highlands resident Camilla Lopes Gomes Gluckstein compete for the gold in the Summer Olympics in France.
The wife of Steven Gluckstein, also an Olympic athlete who competed in both the London and Rio games, Camilla is competing on the Trampoline and representing her native Brazil under her maiden name, Camilla Lopes Gomes.
The 30-year-old champion Trampoline gymnast, the first Brazilian to win gold at a World Cup event, also won double gold at the FIG World Cup 2023 AGF Trophy event in both the individual and synchronized trampoline events. She also scored her highest individual finish at the 2023 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships, an achievement that earned her the position as Brazil’s representative in the 2024 Paris Olympics this week.
Camilla has competed at multiple Trampoline World Championships with her partner Alice Gomes. In 2022, the duo finished 7th at the World Championships in synchronized trampoline. She has been named “Trampoline Gymnast of the Year” in Brazil four times beginning in 2014.
Camilla’s family from Brazil will be in Paris for her competition next week, marking the first time her father has ever been out of Brazil.
Camilla and Steven Gluckstein first met in Denmark but began a relationship after working together when she began training in the United States. She continues to train at Elite Training Academy, also Gluckstein’s academy. The couple have been married eight years.
Camilla is now a United States citizen, having been sworn in in January.
Her husband holds a variety of titles in athletics as well as being a former Olympian and six-time National Men’s US Trampoline champion and five times National US Men’s Synchronized Trampolinist and six-time World Team member. He and his partner Logan Dooley were the first gymnastic trampolinists in TEAM USA history to win a gold at a World Cup Series event. Retired from gymnastics, Gluckstein is a trainer at Elite Academy and head coach of the junior US National Trampoline team.
Steven and his brother, Jeffrey, also an internationally competitive trampolinist representing the USA, created a dynasty in competitive US trampoline by winning every National Men’s Trampoline Championship for at least ten consecutive years. They’re the sons of Steven and Loretta Gluckstein, she the former mayor of Atlantic Highlands. Both are graduates of Henry Hudson Regional School in Highlands.
Camilla’s competition on August. 2 will be available at 6 am on NBC/ Peacock.
