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
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. His signature piece is
horizontal bar
The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a syste ...
, in which he has won silver at the
2022 Commonwealth Games
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Personal life
Hall was born 6 October 1995 in
Bankstown
Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...
, 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 Gymnastics Championships
The 7th European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships were held from 19 to 23 April 2017 at the Polyvalent Hall in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. As usual in this format, no team competitions took place.
Medalists
Medal tabl ...
in April 2017, held in
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2018
At the
2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...
, Hall was part of the team that won gold in the
team event. He also won silver on the
individual all-around competition as well as
horizontal bar
The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a syste ...
, both behind
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 ...
.
At the
2018 European Championships
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in
Glasgow
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, Hall won a silver as part of the team.
2019
In March 2019, Hall won the All-Around title at the British Championships.
He also competed at the European Championships in
Szczecin
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, Poland, as well as the World Championships in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, Germany.
2021
At the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
in
Tokyo
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, Japan, Hall competed for Great Britain. The team took fourth place with a score of 255.76.
He also competed in the all around final where he finished in 8th position, one place ahead of teammate Joe Fraser.
2022
At the
2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...
in
Birmingham
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, Hall was again part of the England team that won gold in the
team event. Despite sustaining an ankle injury during the competition, Hall also won silver in the
individual all-around behind compatriot
Jake Jarman.
References
External links
James Hallat
British Gymnastics
British Gymnastics, also known as the British Amateur Gymnastics Association (BAGA), is the sports governing body for gymnastics and Trampolining in the UK.
History
It was founded in 1888 as the Amateur Gymnastics and Fencing Association. Gy ...
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1995 births
British male artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Maidstone
Living people
Gymnasts at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain
Gymnasts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
European champions in gymnastics
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games