Paul Hunt — Comedy Gymnastics

Thanks to Chris Michael at New Slap­stick for his tweet that intro­duced me to Paul Hunt, com­edy gym­nast. From wikipedia:

Hunt was a com­pet­i­tive men’s gym­nast at the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois in the early 1970s. He won the Big Ten Con­fer­ence indi­vid­ual cham­pi­onship in the floor exer­cise in 1971, and had another win in the floor exer­cise in 1973. He was the 1972 US National Floor Exer­cise cham­pion.
Hunt has been coach­ing gym­nas­tics in Utah since 1974. While demon­strat­ing a back­flip for a female stu­dent, he real­ized the comic value of a man per­form­ing women’s gym­nas­tics. He per­forms his rou­tines dur­ing gym­nas­tics com­pe­ti­tions for comic relief, wear­ing a skirted leo­tard and often call­ing him­self Paulina Huntesque, Pauletta Hunten­ova or some sim­i­lar vari­a­tion. Often he would sport his thick mustache.