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Luke Whitehouse
Luke Benjamin Whitehouse (born 2 July 2002) is a British Olympic gymnast. He is an English, British and triple European Floor Champion winning back to back in 2023, 2024 and 2025, one of only two men to achieve three consecutive titles in the event (the other being Italian Franco Minicelli). Whitehouse is the first male British gymnast to win three consecutive European apparatus titles. An Olympic Floor finalist in Paris 2024. He also won gold as part of the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Championships and bronze at the 2023 European Championships.. Junior gymnastics career 2019 As a Junior, Whitehouse represented Team GB at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan where the team placed fourth. He also competed at the inaugural 2019 Junior World Championships in Gyor, Hungary. Senior gymnastics career 2021 In June 2021 at the Osijek World Challenge Cup in floor qualification he became the first British gymnast to complete a triple back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rings (gymnastics)
The rings, also known as still rings (in contrast to flying rings), is an artistic gymnastics apparatus and the event that uses it. It is traditionally used only by male gymnasts due to its extreme upper body strength requirements. Gymnasts often wear Grip (gymnastics), ring grips while performing. The apparatus The apparatus consists of two rings that hang freely from a rigid metal frame. Each ring is supported by a strap, which connects to a steel cable suspended from the metal frame. The gymnast, who grips one ring with each hand, must control the movement of the rings and their body movements at all times. Dimensions The measurements of the standard apparatus are specified by Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, Fédération internationale de gymnastique (FIG) in its ''Apparatus Norms'' document: * Inner diameter: ± * Diameter of profile: ± * Distance from the point of attachment to the lower inner side of the rings: ± * Distance between two points of att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series
The 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, FIG World Cup circuit in Artistic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation (International Gymnastics Federation, FIG) in 2023. Schedule World Cup series World Challenge Cup series Series winners Medalists Men World Cup series World Challenge Cup series Women World Cup series World Challenge Cup series See also * 2023 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series References {{DEFAULTSORT:FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series, 2022 2023 in gymnastics, FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series, 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup, 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Rushworth
Jonas may refer to: Geography * Jonas, Netherlands, Netherlands * Jonas, Pennsylvania, United States * Jonas Ridge, North Carolina, United States Arts, entertainment, and media * Jonas Brothers, American pop rock band. ** ''Jonas'' (TV series), a television series starring the Jonas Brothers * ''Jonas'' (novel), a 1955 novel by Jens Bjørneboe * Jonas, a character in ''The Giver'' by Lois Lowry * ''Jonas'', an oratorio by Italian composer Giacomo Carissimi * '' I Am Jonas'', a 2018 French film, original title ''Jonas'' * Jonas, a character in ''Dark'', a German television series produced by Netflix Religion * Jonah or Jonas, a prophet in the Hebrew Bible * Jonas, one of two Jeneum (figures in the Book of Mormon) People * Jonas (name), people with the given name or surname Jonas * Jonas (footballer, born 1943), full name Jonas Bento de Carvalho, Brazilian football midfielder * Jonas (footballer, born 1972), full name Carlos Emanuel Romeu Lima, Angolan football midfielder * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Lewis (gymnast)
Jamie Lewis (born 2000) is a British artistic gymnast and member of the British national team. He won gold with the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He is a six time Junior European medallist including a team gold in 2016 as well as team and all-around silver and floor exercise gold in 2018. Junior gymnastics career 2016 Lewis attended the 2016 Junior European Championships alongside Joe Fraser, Joshua Nathan, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Donell Osbourne and helped the team win gold. He also qualified for the floor final where he place fifth. 2018 Lewis was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2018 Junior European Championships alongside Jake Jarman, Adam Tobin, Pavel Karnejenko and Donnell Osborne where he competed in the all-around and helped the team take the silver medal. Individually he also won silver in the all-around and on pommel horse, gold on floor exercise and bronze on still rings. Senior gymnastics career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Yulo
Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo (born February 16, 2000) is a Filipino artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic gold medalist at the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's floor, floor exercise and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's vault, vault events. He is the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships with his floor exercise bronze medal finish in 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2018, as well as the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to achieve a gold medal finish for the same criteria in 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2019 at the same event. With multiple medals on the international stage, Yulo is the second person to win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines, the first person to win multiple Olympic gold medals for the country, and the first Southeast Asian athlete to win multiple gold medals at the Olympic Games. Yulo is a two-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team GB
Team GB is the brand name used since 1999 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for their British Olympic team. The brand was developed after the nation's poor performance in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is now a trademark of the BOA. It is meant to unify the team as one body, irrespective of each member athlete's particular sport. Officially, the team is the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team", although athletes from Northern Ireland may opt to compete under the auspices of the Olympic Federation of Ireland instead. History The British Olympic Association's director of marketing, Marzena Bogdanowicz, felt that the official and abbreviated names of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team were a mouthful. She first thought of the 'Team GB' concept in 1996 or 1997, and said: "I went to the games in 1996 and the logo at the time was just the lion and the rings, but we weren't strong enough as a brand to just be a lion and the rings. So coming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Gymnastics
British Gymnastics (BG) is the sports governing body for gymnastics disciplines in the United Kingdom including Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics, Disability Gymnastics, Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, TeamGym, Trampoline, Double Mini Tramp, Tumbling and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. It works in partnership with the Home Nations Gymnastics Associations: English Gymnastics, Gymnastics Northern Ireland, Scottish Gymnastics and Welsh Gymnastics. History British Gymnastics was founded in 1888 as the Amateur Gymnastics and Fencing Association. Walter Tysall became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal for gymnastics, achieving silver at the 1908 Olympics. Women competed at the Olympics in gymnastics for the first time at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, where the British women's team took the bronze – their best performance. The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first to be televised, and this led to a greater interest in Britain of gymnasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fraser
Joe Fraser (born 6 December 1998) is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars. He is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these events, and the third British world champion (following Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock). As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won team gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships. Representing England in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in the team, pommel horse and parallel bars events. Personal life Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby. At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly. He studied at Sandwell Academy from 2010 to 2015. When he retires, Frase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hepworth
Harry James Hepworth (born 6 December 2003) is a British artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 men's Olympic vault bronze medalist. He won gold as a member of the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Championships and silver with the team at the 2023 European Championships. He also participated at the 2023 World Championships where the team placed fourth. Early life and education At the age of five Hepworth was diagnosed with Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease which sidelined him from sporting activity for three years. He then took up artistic gymnastics shortly after this. He attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley. Gymnastics career 2023 Hepworth was selected to attend the 2023 Baku World Cup, where he won silver on vault and placed 8th in the floor final. He then won gold on vault at the 2023 DTB Pokal Team Challenge. Hepworth attended the 2023 European Championships as an individual where he placed 4th on floor and 7th on vault. He won gold on vault at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Jarman
Jake Elmer Jarman (born 3 December 2001) is a British artistic gymnast from Peterborough, competing internationally for Great Britain, and for England at the Commonwealth Games. In his first major senior championships, the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Jarman won the gold medal in the team all-around, individual all-around, floor exercise and vault, the first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. A few weeks later in Munich, representing Great Britain, Jarman became European champion in the team and vault events, becoming the first British male to win European gold on vault. In 2023, Jarman added vault gold at the 2023 World Championships, the first Briton to win world gold on the apparatus, the fourth male British world champion (after Max Whitlock, Joe Fraser and Giarnni Regini-Moran), and sixth British world champion (after Whitlock, Fraser, Regini-Moran, Jessica Gadirova and Beth Tweddle). In 2024 Jarman won his second European vault title, before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Great Britain (known as Team GB or the 'Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team'), the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA) which represents the United Kingdom, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. The delegation of 327 athletes included 172 women and 155 men and featured 73 medallists from previous Games. The team was made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom including Northern Ireland (whose people may elect to hold Irish nationality law, Irish citizenship and are able to be selected to represent either Great Britain or Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Ireland at the Olympics). British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland, although Great Britain is the only team to have won at least one gold medal at all of them. This streak was maintained in Paris when Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen (equestrian), Tom McEwen won g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
