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
Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar, men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a wo ...
, 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 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was the forty-sixth edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from 23 October – 1 November 2015 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and is the fir ...
in Glasgow, Scotland where he helped the team qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games. The team went on to win silver in the team finals, which was Britain's first team medal for the men (the women's team had made history by winning Britain's first ever team medal when they secured the bronze the previous evening). On 21 November Bevan was training on vault and after an odd landing he broke his fibula and tibia on his left leg and had to undergo surgery and months of physical therapy.
On 12 July 2016 he was selected for the 2016 British Olympic team along with
Louis Smith,
Nile Wilson
Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar, men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a wo ...
,
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 ...
and
Max Whitlock
Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history, and the most successful pommel h ...
.
In March 2018, Bevan won the all-around title at the British Championships for the first time.
In late September 2019, Bevan competed at the
Northern European Championships in Kópavogur, Iceland, where he won a gold medal on the pommel horse and a silver medal in the team event.
References
External links
Official website*
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1997 births
Living people
British male artistic gymnasts
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
European Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games
Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games
European Games medalists in gymnastics
Welsh male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games