Rebecca "Becky" Downie (born 24 January 1992 in
Nottingham
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) is a British
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
who competed at the
2008
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and
2016 Summer Olympics
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. She is a double European champion (2014 and 2016) and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the
uneven bars
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as well as the
2019 World silver medallist.
Her younger sister,
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.
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, is also an Olympic gymnast.
Junior career
Representing
England
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at the
2006 Commonwealth Games
The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
in
Melbourne
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, 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
The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes simply referred to as "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring i ...
, scoring 14.075.
Senior career
2008
At the
2008 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 27th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from 3 April to 6 April 2008 in Clermont-Ferrand.
France earned their first team medal, the bronze.
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in
Clermont-Ferrand
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in early April, Downie contributed scores of 14.750 on
vault
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, 15.375 on uneven bars, and 14.850 on balance beam to the British team's sixth-place finish. In event finals, she placed eighth on vault (13.500) and uneven bars (14.700). Later in April, she won a silver medal on bars at the
Artistic Gymnastics World Cup
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event in
Cottbus
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, with a score of 14.975.
In June, Downie competed at the British Championships in
Guildford
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, where she won the all-around competition (59.650) and the uneven bars title (15.200) and placed fourth on balance beam (14.500). Afterwards, she was named to the British team for the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
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.
At the Olympics in August, Downie contributed an all-around score of 58.075 to the British team's ninth-place finish. In the individual all-around final, she scored 59.450 to place twelfth.
2009
In March, Downie placed fourth at the
American Cup
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in
Chicago
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with a score of 55.600. The following month, she competed at the
2009 European Championships in Milan, where she placed eleventh in the all-around final (55.075) and sixth on vault (14.025) and uneven bars (14.525).
At the World Cup event in Glasgow in May, she placed sixth on vault (12.925), second on uneven bars (14.600), and fifth on balance beam (13.300).
In March, she won the all-around at the British Championships in Liverpool with a score of 56.100. In event finals, she placed second on vault, scoring 13.250; first on uneven bars, scoring 13.850; first on balance beam, scoring 14.900; and first on floor, scoring 13.750.
In October, Downie competed at the
2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 41st World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held at The O2 Arena in London from 12 to 18 October 2009. Similar to the 2005 World Championships, there were no team competitions. Individual all-around and event finals were contested.
C ...
in London. She placed sixteenth in the all-around final with a score of 53.775.
2010
In April, Downie placed tenth on uneven bars (13.300) and ninth on balance beam (13.875) at the World Cup event in Paris. In May, at the
2010 European Championships in
Birmingham
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, she contributed scores of 14.075 on vault, 14.350 on uneven bars, and 14.100 on balance beam to the British team's second-place finish, and placed fifth in the bars final with a score of 14.625.
At the
2010 World Championships in
Rotterdam
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in October, she contributed a vault score of 14.733 to the British team's seventh-place finish.
2011
Downie injured her
Achilles tendon
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in January 2011 and was expected to be out of competition for the rest of the year. However, she was able to return in nine months. "I guess the key for my quick return was that I was backed 100 percent by a fantastic medical team, and rather than let myself get down about the injury, I just had to keep reminding myself of all the positives that could come from it," she said. "I took the opportunity to give my body a break which wouldn't have been possible without the injury, and then everything just moved so quickly."
In October, she competed at the
2011 World Championships in
Tokyo
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and contributed an uneven bars score of 14.433 to the British team's fifth-place finish.
2012
At the beginning of June, Downie competed at an international friendly in
Ipswich
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with gymnasts from
Finland
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and
Spain
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, which also served as Britain's second Olympic trial. She placed fourth on vault with a score of 14.100 and fourth on balance beam with a score of 13.450.
The British Championships in
Liverpool
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at the end of June were the third and final trial to determine the British team for the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in
London
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. Downie did not compete on floor but scored 14.550 on vault, 14.25 on uneven bars, and 13.100 on balance beam. In event finals, she placed sixth on uneven bars with a score of 13.350 and second on balance beam with a score of 13.850. She did not make the Olympic team, but was named as an alternate.
2013
At the
2013 European Championships, Downie qualified second into the uneven bars final with a score of 14.733, behind only reigning Olympic uneven bars champion
Aliya Mustafina
Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina (russian: Алия Фархатовна Мустафина) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 45 Olympic, World and European Championship medals, she is considered one of the most success ...
. However, a fall in the final left her in seventh place with a score of 13.000.
2014
Downie was a member of the British team that won a silver medal at the
2014 European Championships, after qualifying to the team final in first place. Individually, she won the uneven bars title—the second British woman to do so after
Beth Tweddle
Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle (born 1 April 1985) is a retired British artistic gymnast. Renowned for her uneven bar and floor routines, she was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Cham ...
—and finished fourth in the balance beam final.
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In July, she won gold with the English team at the
2014 Commonwealth Games
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in
Glasgow
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, alongside teammates
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 pa ...
,
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. ...
,
Kelly Simm
Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is an English artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade – Women's artistic individual all-around, all-around champion, Gymnastics at ...
, and
Hannah Whelan
Hannah Kate Whelan (born 1 July 1992) is a retired British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whelan won three European Championships medals and four British senior national titles, and was th ...
. She also won the uneven bars final with a score of 14.666; Harrold placed third. However, she fell twice in the balance beam final and was unable to finish her routine, resulting in a score of 9.833.
At the
2014 World Championships in
Nanning
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, Downie performed well on bars and beam to help Britain qualify to the team final in fourth place: the highest ever qualification placement for a British women's team at a World Championships. She also qualified to the bars final in sixth place with a score of 15.166, and finished fifth in the final with the same score.
2015
At the
2015 European Championships, Downie won silver medals on the uneven bars and balance beam. Later in the year, she helped Britain win its first-ever team World Championship medal in women's gymnastics, a bronze at the
2015 Championships in Glasgow.
2016
Downie was named to the British team for the
2016 Summer Olympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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—her second Olympics—alongside her younger sister
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.
T ...
, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, and
Amy Tinkler
Amy Tinkler (born 27 October 1999) is a retired British Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's floor, 2016 Olympic floor exercise bronze medallist and the 2015 British all-around cha ...
. She entered the competition as a contender on uneven bars, but placed 10th in a packed field in qualifications and did not qualify to the final. However, the British team finished fifth, Britain's best Olympic result in women's gymnastics since 1928.
2017
Downie competed on uneven bars and balance beam at the
2017 European Championships in
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. She qualified to the bars final in fourth place with a score of 14.433, but in the final, she placed seventh with a score of 13.000 after falling on a release move and injuring her elbow. She withdrew from the beam final the next day because of the injury.
2018
On 6 July Downie was named to the team to compete at the
2018 European Championships
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alongside
Alice Kinsella
Alice Nicole Kinsella (born 13 March 2001) is an Irish-English artistic gymnast and member of the British national gymnastics team. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, and was par ...
,
Georgia-Mae Fenton
Georgia-Mae Fenton (born 2 November 2000) is an elite English artistic gymnast and a member of both the British national gymnastics team and the England Commonwealth Games gymnastics squad. She is the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth champion on un ...
,
Kelly Simm
Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is an English artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade – Women's artistic individual all-around, all-around champion, Gymnastics at ...
, and
Lucy Stanhope
Lucy Elizabeth Stanhope (born 19 September 2001) is an English women's artistic gymnast. She represents City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club and is a member of the England and Great Britain senior elite squads.
Career
She represented Team GB at ...
. On 7–8 July Downie returned to competition and competed at the Heerenveen Friendly where she tied for first on uneven bars and Great Britain placed third in the team final. Downie withdrew from the European Championships after sustaining an ankle injury during podium training.
On September 27, Downie was named to the team to compete at the
World Championships
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in
Doha
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,
Qatar
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alongside
Alice Kinsella
Alice Nicole Kinsella (born 13 March 2001) is an Irish-English artistic gymnast and member of the British national gymnastics team. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, and was par ...
,
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.
T ...
,
Georgia-Mae Fenton
Georgia-Mae Fenton (born 2 November 2000) is an elite English artistic gymnast and a member of both the British national gymnastics team and the England Commonwealth Games gymnastics squad. She is the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth champion on un ...
, and
Kelly Simm
Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is an English artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade Gymnastics at the 2015 Summer Universiade – Women's artistic individual all-around, all-around champion, Gymnastics at ...
.
2019
In May Downie was named to the team to compete at the
2019 European Games
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alongside
Georgia-Mae Fenton
Georgia-Mae Fenton (born 2 November 2000) is an elite English artistic gymnast and a member of both the British national gymnastics team and the England Commonwealth Games gymnastics squad. She is the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth champion on un ...
. She won silver on uneven bars behind
Angelina Melnikova
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of Russia.
In September Downie was named to the team to compete at the
2019 World Championships in
Stuttgart
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alongside
Alice Kinsella
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,
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.
T ...
,
Taeja James
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, and
Georgia-Mae Fenton
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. During qualifications Downie helped Great Britain place seventh, earning a spot in the team final and qualifying a team for Great Britain to the
2020 Olympic Games
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in
Tokyo
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. Individually Downie qualified for the uneven bars final. During the team final she contributed scores on uneven bars and balance beam towards Great Britain's sixth-place finish. In the uneven bars final Downie performed a clean routine, earning a score of 15.000 and winning the silver medal behind
reigning World uneven bars Champion Nina Derwael
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of Belgium. This was Downie's first individual
World Championships
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medal. Earlier that day Downie's sister
Ellie
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won her first individual World Championships medal, a bronze medal on vault.
2021
In March Downie competed on uneven bars and balance beam in three trials for the
British Olympic team. At the first trial she placed first on balance beam; at the second trial she placed third on uneven bars; and at the third trial she placed first on uneven bars and third on balance beam.
On 6 May, the night before the final Olympic trial was set to begin, Downie's brother Joshua died suddenly at a
cricket
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match at the age of 24. Downie subsequently did not compete in that weekend's trial, and on 13 May
British Gymnastics
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announced that they would delay the selection process in order to give her a fair chance of making the team. However, Downie was later controversially omitted from the British Olympic team. Downie, who alongside her sister
Ellie
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was among the athletes who spoke out against the culture of abuse in British Gymnastics in 2020, stated "I have been told by a person of significant importance - in the national team environment - that a lot of coaches do not agree with what we've
ownie and her sisterdone. Maybe I did open my mouth a year too soon, I'm not sure. If this is the sacrifice
n Olympicsthen this is the sacrifice, change needs to happen. I’m proud of what I did and I don’t regret it."
In September, Downie was selected to compete at the
2021 World Championships
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but did not qualify to any finals.
2022
At the 2022 English Championships Downie placed second on uneven bars, seventh on balance beam, and fifth on floor exercise. At the British Championships Downie competed the all-around for the first time in eight years; she placed sixth. She withdrew from the uneven bars final citing illness.
Eponymous skill
Downie has one eponymous skill listed in the
Code of Points.
Competitive history
References
External links
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British Gymnastics
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1992 births
Living people
British female artistic gymnasts
English female artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Gymnasts at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
European Games medalists in gymnastics
European Games silver medalists for Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Black British sportswomen
Sportspeople from Nottingham
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
European champions in gymnastics