Ten Olympian Bobbleheads Unveiled Including Jordan Chiles and First Paralympians

MILWAUKEE – This morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled ten limited-edition bobbleheads featuring Olympians and Paralympians who recently competed in the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, France. These mark the first bobblehead of each of the ten inspirational athletes as well as the first two bobbleheads featuring Paralympians who recently competed in the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, France. The bobbleheads are being produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in conjunction with the individual Olympians and Paralympians.

The bobbleheads feature Olympic gymnasts Jordan Chiles, Asher Hong, Brody Malone, and Frederick Richard, Olympic skateboarder Sky Brown, Olympic track and field sprinter Kendall Ellis, Olympic water polo player Maddie Musselman, Olympic wrestler Amit Elor, Paralympic swimmer Christie Raleigh Crossley, and Paralympic basketball player John Boie.

Standing on a base bearing their name, the bobbleheads are decked out in red, white, and blue celebrating their recent triumphs in Paris, France. Each bobblehead will be individually numbered to 2,024 and they are only available through the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum’s Online Store. The bobbleheads, which are expected to ship in January and February, are $30 each plus a flat-rate shipping charge of $8 per order.

Here is a closer look at the ten Olympian Bobbleheads:

Jordan Chiles – The gymnast helped the U.S. women’s gymnastics team capture the gold medal in the team all-around competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics after claiming a silver medal in Tokyo in 2020. Chiles was thought to have won her first individual Olympic medal in dramatic fashion when she was awarded bronze in the floor exercise final at Bercy Arena in Paris. However, six days later, the International Olympic Committee said Chiles must return the medal when it was ruled that an on-floor appeal from Team USA coach Cecile Landi, which vaulted Chiles to third place, was voided. Raised in Vancouver, Washington, Chiles, who has been a member of the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team since 2013, won NCAA championships for UCLA in the uneven bars and floor exercise as a sophomore in 2023.

John Boie – A Wisconsin native who was born in Janesville and raised in Milton, the 33-year-old Boie suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury (T4/5) after being involved in a tractor accident on the family farm when he was 2 years old. Confined to a wheelchair ever since, Boie began playing wheelchair basketball after attending a summer camp at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater when he was 11 years old. Playing for Team USA, Boie is a six-time medalist. At the Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, he won a silver medal in 2018 in Hamburg and a gold medal in Dubai in 2022. At the Parapan American Games, he won gold medals in Lima in 2019 and Santiago in 2023. Boie made his debut at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the pandemic) and brought home a gold medal. Team USA defended its championship in the 2024 Paris Games on Saturday, September 7th, defeating Great Britain 73-69, in the gold-medal match before a crowd of more than 12,000 at Bercy Arena.

Sky Brown – The 16-year-old skateboarding sensation won her second bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Brown also represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 because of delays due to the pandemic) where she won a bronze medal in the park event, making her the country’s youngest ever medal winner at the age of 13 years and 28 days. Despite dislocating her shoulder prior to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and reinjuring the shoulder in qualifying, she repeated the feat by winning bronze for a second time in the park event. Born in Miyazaki, Japan, in 2008 to a British father (Stuart) and a Japanese mother (Mieko), Brown spends half the year in Japan and the other half in Los Angeles.

Christie Raleigh Crossley – The Paralympic swimming sensation won five medals (two gold, two silver, one bronze) at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The first-time Paralympian from Toms River, New Jersey, won gold in the 100-meter backstroke and 100-meter butterfly, and silver in the 100-meter freestyle in the S9 class, which is specifically “for swimmers with coordination affected at a low level in the arms and legs, high degree of weakness in one leg, or the absence of limbs.” Raleigh Crossley additionally won silver in the 50-meter freestyle in the S10 class, which is for swimmers with movement affect at a low level in the legs, moderately in the hip joint or feet, to a high degree in one foot, or minor limb absence. Raleigh Crossley also claimed a bronze medal in the mixed 400-meter freestyle relay.

Amit Elor – In her Olympics debut in Paris, Elor achieved her ultimate dream of becoming an Olympic champion. Wrestling for the gold medal in the women’s freestyle 68-kilogram category (149.9 pounds), Elor defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Meerim Zhumanazarova, the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist and three-time age-group world medalist, 3-0.  Among her career highlights, Elor is a nine-time gold medalist at World Championship events across the U17, U20, U23, and Senior age divisions, which includes the freestyle and beach wrestling disciplines. She is a two-time Senior World Championships gold medalist and became the youngest Senior World champion in U.S. history, doing so at age 18 in 2022. In addition, she is a two-time U23 World Championships gold medalist, three-time U20 World Championships gold medalist, U17 World Championships and Beach World Championships gold medalist, two-time U17 World Championships medalist, two-time U.S. Senior World Team member, and Pan American Championships gold medalist.

Kendall Ellis – The two-time U.S. Olympic sprinter Kendall Ellis brought home a gold and bronze medal from the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Making her Olympics debut at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the pandemic), Ellis claimed a gold medal in the 1,600-meter relay and a bronze medal in the mixed 1,600-meter relay. At the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, in June, the Pembroke Pines, Florida, native ran a personal-best time of 49.81 seconds in the semifinals of the 400-meter dash. In the finals the next day, Ellis clocked another personal-best time of 49.46 seconds to win the U.S. title and earn her second Olympic berth. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Ellis qualified for the semifinals in the 400, but did not advance to the final, placing ninth overall. In the final of the 1,600-meter relay, the reigning U.S. 400-meter champion was a late scratch minutes before the race as the U.S. went on to win Olympic gold for the eighth time in a row.

Asher Hong – The gymnast helped the U.S. men’s gymnastics team capture the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics – their first Olympic team medal since 2008. Hong competed on four of the six apparatuses and anchored Team USA on rings, vault, and parallel bars. The Texas native recently completed his sophomore season at Stanford University where he has helped the Cardinal win two team championships (their fourth and fifth in a row). As a sophomore, Hong captured individual titles on vault, parallel bars, and rings.

Brody Malone – The two-time Olympic gymnast helped the U.S. men’s gymnastics team capture the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics – their first Olympic team medal since 2008. Malone competed on five of the six apparatuses in the team final headlined by a 14.533 vault and 14.433 parallel bars routine. Raised in in Summerville, Georgia, Malone graduated from Stanford University with a degree in management science and engineering. As a member of the gymnastics team, Malone helped the Cardinal capture three NCAA team championships and was a seven-time NCAA individual champion.

Maddie Musselman – The U.S. Olympic women’s water polo star has helped Team USA win two gold medals in her decorated playing career. In her Olympics debut in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, the Newport Beach, California, native was the second-leading scorer with 12 goals and was named to the Olympic All-Star Team as the Americans won gold. Team USA defended its title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021). Musselman scored 18 goals and earned MVP honors, marking the fourth time in her career that she was named the MVP of a major international tournament. With her husband, who was diagnosed in September with NUT carcinoma – a rare, fast-growing cancer – in attendance offering support, Musselman and her teammates were denied Team USA’s fourth consecutive gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Americans went 4-3 and finished in fourth place after losing the bronze-medal match to the Netherlands, 11-10.

Frederick Richard – The gymnast helped the U.S. men’s gymnastics team capture the bronze medal in the team competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics – their first Olympic team medal since 2008. Richard performed one of his best routines of the Games in the high bar. Increasing his difficulty from qualifications, Richard capped off the strong routine with a stuck dismount and electric celebrations from his teammates. In the individual all-around, Richard placed 15th. The Massachusetts native recently completed his sophomore season at the University of Michigan where he helped the Wolverines finish as the runner-up at the 2024 National Championships. The two-time Big Ten all-around champion was the NCAA all-around champion as a freshman and runner-up as a sophomore.

“We’re excited to unveil this collection of bobbleheads celebrating ten amazing Olympians and Paralympians,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar said. “The accomplishments of these athletes on the world’s biggest stage are amazing, and we’re thrilled to be recognizing them with bobbleheads. We are sure that these bobbleheads will be very popular among fans.”

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