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Ludvigson was born in Gunnison, Utah, United States of America to Curtis and Laurie Ludvigson.
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Kalon Ludvigson
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Ludvigson has become the most decorated United States. athlete in trampoline and tumbling history by winning 20 World Cup and World Championships Medals in Tumbling and Double Mini Trampoline. Ludvigson was undefeated in the United States of America from 2006, after winning the United States. National Championships, until 2013. Kalon set the World Record for Degree of Difficulty in 2008 at the Pan American Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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.
