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Great Britain At The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Although British gymnasts competed at numerous Olympic Games as early as 1908, they did not compete at a World Championships until 1966. Neil Thomas won Great Britain's first world medal, a silver on floor exercise, at the 1993 World Championships. At the 2015 World Championships both men and women won their first team medals, a silver and bronze respectively. Medalists Medal tables By gender By event Junior World medalists See also * Great Britain men's national artistic gymnastics team * Great Britain women's national artistic gymnastics team * List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Great Britain Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896. British female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932. References {{World Artistic Gymnastics Championships by country[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Great Britain
The flag of Great Britain, commonly known as King's Colours, the first Union Flag, the Union Jack, or the British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of Great Britain. It is the precursor to the Union Jack of 1801. The design was ordered by King James VI and I to be used on ships on the high seas, and it subsequently came into use as a national flag following the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union 1707, gaining the status of "the Ensign armorial of Great Britain", the newly created state. It was later adopted by land forces, although the blue of the field used on land-based versions more closely resembled that of the blue of the flag of Scotland. The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George, patron saint of England, superimposed on the Saltire of Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. Its correct proportions are 3:5. The flag's official use came to an end in 1801 with the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Purvis
Daniel Scott Purvis (born 13 November 1990 in Crosby, England) is a Scottish former international elite artistic gymnast, and three-time British all-around champion in men's artistic gymnastics. He trained at Southport YMCA and was coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov. He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015. Junior career During his time as a junior he came 4th in the team for Great Britain at the Junior European Championships in Greece in 2006. Two years later in Lausanne he helped the British team win the gold medal, and individually won the all-around silver at the Junior European Championships again. Senior career 2010 In 2010, Purvis became the British men's all-around champion with Samuel Hunter. In the same year, he attended the European Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, UK, and won a silver medal as part of the British team, and a bronze medal on floor. At the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Harrold
Ruby Esther Harrold (born 4 June 1996) is a British artistic gymnast who was a member of the British Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Harrold was also a reserve athlete for the 2012 Summer Olympics team. She was a member of the British team that won the bronze medal in the team final at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Following her retirement from elite gymnastics after the 2016 Summer Olympics, Harrold became a member of the LSU Tigers gymnastics team, having received a full athletic scholarship to attend Louisiana State University, beginning Fall of 2016. Junior career 2010 In April, Harrold competed at the 2010 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom. She contributed an all around score of 50.600 towards the British team's fifth-place finish. In July, Harrold competed at the British Championships in Guildford, United Kingdom. She placed fourth in the all around with a score o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Fragapane
Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997) is a British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals in a single Games since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning an individual world championship bronze on floor two years later. She competed for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. but failed to make any individual finals. She helped the Great Britain team to finish 5th in the team final. Following a series of injuries which limited her international career, she returned to the England Commonwealth Games team in 2022, winning her fifth Commonwealth Games gold in the women's team event. Domestically, Fragapane is an eight-time English champion, and two-time British champion. Early life Fragapane grew up in Bristol, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Downie
Elissa Rebecca "Ellie" Downie (born 20 July 1999) is a retired artistic gymnast who has represented Great Britain. She is the all-around 2017 European gymnastics champion, the first gymnast to win a major all-around title for Great Britain. The younger sister of double European champion Becky Downie, Downie first came to prominence as an outstanding junior gymnast at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, winning four medals. At the age of 15, she became the first British woman to win an individual all-around medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, with a bronze in 2015. Later that year, she was part of the team that won Britain's first global team medal, a bronze, at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the 2017 European Championships, she made history again by becoming the first British gymnast to win the all-around at a major international competition. On 23 January 2023, Downie announced her retirement from the sport. Junior career Downie com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Downie
Rebecca "Becky" Downie (born 24 January 1992 in Nottingham) is a British artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a double European champion (2014 and 2016) and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2019 World silver medallist. Her younger sister, Ellie Downie, is also an Olympic gymnast. Junior career Representing England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Downie contributed an all-around score of 54.100 to the English team's second-place finish and placed eighth in the all-around final with a score of 53.700. In event finals, she placed fifth on uneven bars, scoring 14.000, and third on balance beam, scoring 14.075. Senior career 2008 At the 2008 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Clermont-Ferrand in early April, Downie contributed scores of 14.750 on Vault (gymnastics), vault, 15.375 on u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hall (gymnast)
James Robert Hall (born 6 October 1995) is an English artistic gymnast. A member of the English and British Senior teams since 2014, he has best known as an all-around and team gymnast, having won all-around bronze and team gold and silver in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships and two team golds and an individual all-round silver in the Commonwealth Games. His signature piece is horizontal bar, in which he has won silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Personal life Hall was born 6 October 1995 in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. His family moved to Kent, England in 1997. He began gymnastics at age six after a coach encouraged him to so do. In 2018, Hall became an ambassador for the Young Lives Foundation, a charity that helps disadvantaged youth in Kent, England. Career 2015 Hall was the alternate for the silver medal winning GB team at the 2015 Glasgow world championships. 2017 Hall won the all-around bronze medal at the 2017 European Artistic Gymnasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nile Wilson
Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries. Personal life Wilson was born 17 January 1996 in Leeds to Sally and Neil Wilson and is the great nephew of Duncan Fearnley. He has a sister, Joanna. He attended Farsley Farfield Primary School and Pudsey Grangefield School. Wilson runs a YouTube channel where he posts vlogs about his workouts, daily life and gymnastics (Nile Wilson) where he has more than 1.51 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinn Bevan
Brinn John Bevan (born 16 June 1997) is a Welsh artistic gymnast. He was part of the first men's team from Great Britain to win a team medal at a World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow on 28 October 2015. He was part of the British team to compete in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Junior career In 2012, Bevan was part of the gold winning team at the European Gymnastics Championships in Montpelier. In 2014, he was again chosen for the junior team at the European Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, where, besides helping to secure another gold for the British team, he won individual silver medals on parallel bars and still rings, and bronze in the all-around behind his teammate Nile Wilson, who won gold, and Valentin Starikov of Russia. Senior career In 2015, Bevan made his senior debut for the international squad competing at the European Games in Baku, where he won a bronze medal on the pommel horse. Later that year he was chosen to compete at the 2015 Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Nanning, China at the Guangxi Gymnasium from 3–12 October 2014. The competition was the fourth time a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships has been held in the continent of Asia. Competition schedule All times are CST (UTC+8). Venues Main Arena The main arena where the competition was held was the Guangxi Gymnasium, which opened in 2012. Training Gymnasium The training facility for the competition was held at the Li Ning Sports Park. As per any International Gymnastics Federation competition format, there was a podium training session where the gymnast trains on the podium in the arena to get a feel for the competition equipment on a raised surface. Mascots In April 2013, the mascots Nannan (male) and Ningning (female) were unveiled as the official mascots of the event. Medalists Names with an asterisk (*) denote the team alternate. Medal table Men Women Men's results Team competition Individual a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Thomas
Kristian James Thomas (born 14 February 1989 in Wolverhampton) is a British former artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. A long-standing member of both the England and Great Britain men's teams, he was a member of the British team that won gold in the 2012 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2012 European Championships team event, and a historic bronze in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won his first global individual medal in the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2013 World Championships, a bronze in vault; it was also the first global medal ever won in vault by a British male gymnast. In 2015 he won his first major international title, gold in the floor exercise at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Thomas was coached by Michelle Bradley and Alexei Popov, and is a member of the Earls gymnastics club. He was born in Wolverhampton. On 19 October 2017 Kristian announced his retirement from gymnastics. Junior career In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 30 September to 6 October 2013 at Antwerp's Sports Palace. Kōhei Uchimura won the men's all-around gold medal and finished the competition with four total medals. Simone Biles won the women's all-around title and also finished the competition with four medals. Competition schedule All times are CEST (UTC+2). Medalists Men's results Individual all-around The final was held on 3 October. Kōhei Uchimura won his fourth consecutive individual all-around world championship crown, outscoring silver medalist Ryohei Kato by 1.958 points. Uchimura became the first gymnast to win four world individual all-around titles. He posted the highest score on three of the six apparatuses. Floor The final was held on 5 October. Japan's Kenzo Shirai became the first gymnast to successfully perform a backward quadruple-twisting layout somersault (the ''Shirai'' or ''Shirai-Nguyen'' on floor), and a forward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
