Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American

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whose strongest events are rings,

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, and

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Early life

Whittenburg is from central

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, Maryland.

Career

Whittenburg won a bronze medal at the

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. He was the 2014 U.S. National champion on Vault and is the 2015 U.S. national champion on rings. At the

, Whittenburg won the bronze medal in the team event with the Americans, and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633). At the

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, he won the individual bronze medal on vault with an average combined score of 15.350 behind Ri Se Gwang of North Korea (15.450) and Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400). He also qualified for the individual still rings event final but finished in eight place with 15.300. At the 2017 London World Cup, Whittenburg won gold in that all-around competition, and at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup, the individual apparatus competition, in Slovenia, Whittenburg won gold on parallel bars, and silvers on floor and vault. In 2022 he placed second in the United States men's all around behind

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, scoring highest in rings and second highest on vault. At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings.

Named skill

Whittenburg has one skill in gymnastics named after him in the 2022–2024 Code of Points, the salto backwards piked on still rings. The Whittenburg dismount has the highest difficulty score (D-score) in still rings at H (0.8).MAG COP 2022–2024
p. 97, ''passim''

Competitive history

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