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Amelie Morgan (born 31 May 2003) is a British
artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
. She represented Great Britain at the
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and won a bronze medal in the team event. She is the 2021 European Championships bronze medallist on the uneven bars. As a junior she won the silver medal in the
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at the
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, as well as a silver medal on
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and a bronze on
balance beam The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. The apparatus and the event are sometimes simply called "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB. The bal ...
. At the 2018 Junior European Championships she won five medals (two silvers and three bronzes)—the most medals won by a British junior female gymnast at the European Championships. Morgan competed for the Utah Red Rocks from 2021 to 2025, where the team had three third place finishes at the
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as well as three Pac-12 Championships titles and one Big 12 Championship title.


Early life

Morgan was born in
Slough, Berkshire Slough () is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, Berkshire, Reading, at the intersection of the M4 motorway, M4, M40 motorway, M40 and M25 motorway, M25 motorways. It is part ...
, in 2003. She has a twin brother. She joined Slough Gymnastics club when they first opened in 2010. In 2017 she transferred to The Academy of Gymnastics. In order to juggle her education with her 35-hour a week training schedule, Amelie was homeschooled through
Wolsey Hall, Oxford Founded in 1894, Wolsey Hall Oxford is one of the longest established homeschooling colleges in the world offering courses in primary, secondary, IGCSE and A level subjects to homeschoolers in more than 120 countries. Based in Oxford, England, W ...
for her IGCSEs. She then moved to St Katherine's School to study her A levels, where she achieved an A* and two Bs.


Junior gymnastics career


2008–2010

Amelie started her gymnastics journey at Chiltern Gymnastics, based in Iver and later moved to Beaconsfield.


2015–16

Morgan began her gymnastics career in 2015, where she competed at the English Championships and finished second at the espoir level. In 2016 Morgan was selected to compete at the
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, where she placed third in the all-around, on balance beam, and on floor exercise. Later that year she competed at the Olympic Hopes Cup where she placed second in the all-around behind Ana Padurariu of Canada.


2017

Morgan finished second at the British Championships behind Taeja James. In late June Morgan announced that she had verbally committed to attend the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
on a gymnastics scholarship. In July Morgan competed at the
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where she won bronze on balance beam behind
Ksenia Klimenko Ksenia Anatolyevna Klimenko (, born 1 November 2003) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 Youth Olympics Uneven Bar Champion, the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival All-Around Champion and the 2018 European Junior al ...
of Russia and Asia D'Amato of Italy. In November Morgan competed at the Olympic Hopes Cup where she won gold in the all-around and on floor exercise and won silver on vault. Morgan ended 2017 competed at the Top Gym Tournament where she placed fifth in the all-around, fourth on beam, but won gold on floor exercise.


2018

Morgan won gold in the all-around at both the English Championships and the British Championships. She was selected to represent Great Britain at the
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. While there Morgan won a record 5 medals in the Junior competition – silver in the all-around and on balance beam, both behind
Giorgia Villa Giorgia Villa (born 23 February 2003) is an Italian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She was a member of the teams that won silver at the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Olympic Games and bronze at the 2019 World Artistic Gymn ...
of Italy, and bronze in the team final, vault (behind Asia D'Amato of Italy and Villa), and floor exercise (behind
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of Romania and Villa). Later in the year Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the
2018 Youth Olympic Games The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held from 6 to 18 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, A ...
. While there she won silver in the all-around and on floor exercise, once again behind Villa, and won bronze on balance beam behind
Tang Xijing Tang Xijing ( zh, s=唐茜靖, p=Táng Xījìng, j=Tong4 Sai1-zing6; born January 3, 2003) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is the 2019 World all-around silver medalist, matching Jiang Yuyuan at the 2010 World Championships for the highest ...
of China and Klimenko .


Senior gymnastics career


2019

Morgan turned senior in 2019 and made her debut at the English Championships where she won gold in the all-around, finishing 1.75 points ahead of second place
Kelly Simm Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is an English artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade all-around champion, vault silver medalist, and floor bronze medalist. She represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won a g ...
. She was later selected to compete at the 2019 European Championships alongside
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. ...
, Alice Kinsella, and
Claudia Fragapane Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997) is a retired 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, Fragapan ...
. Morgan competed at the British Championships and won bronze in the all-around, on uneven bars, and on balance beam. She placed fourth on floor exercise. At the European Championships Morgan finished fifth in the all-around qualification but did not advance to the final due to teammates Kinsella and Downie scoring higher. Morgan was also a reserve for the bars and beam final. Just after the European Championships Morgan sustained an injury. She healed in time for the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart as travelling reserve but she re-injured herself and
Kelly Simm Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is an English artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade all-around champion, vault silver medalist, and floor bronze medalist. She represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won a g ...
took her place. In November Morgan made her international comeback at the Cottbus World Cup in Germany. She qualified to the uneven bars final where she scored 13.766 and placed seventh.


2020

In January it was announced that Morgan would represent Great Britain at the
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, taking place on March 7. However, due to injury she was replaced by
Jennifer Gadirova Jennifer Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the ...
.


2021

In April Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the
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alongside
Jessica Gadirova Jessica Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain women's national artistic gymnastics team, Great Britain internationally ...
,
Jennifer Gadirova Jennifer Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the ...
(later replaced by Phoebe Jakubczyk), and Alice Kinsella. While there she qualified to the all-around final in 5th place and the uneven bars, and balance beam event finals in 7th and 3rd place respectively. During the all-around final Morgan finished in fourth place behind Russians Viktoria Listunova and
Angelina Melnikova Angelina Romanovna Melnikova ( rus, Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the j ...
and teammate Gadirova. She won the bronze in the uneven bars final behind Melnikova and
Vladislava Urazova Vladislava Sergeyevna Urazova ( rus, Владислава Сергеевна Уразова, , vlədʲɪˈslavə sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvnə ʊˈrazəvə; born 14 August 2004) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She represented the Russian Olympic Committee ...
. In the beam final, Morgan placed 4th due to a mistake on her wolf turn. On 7 June, Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside
Jennifer Gadirova Jennifer Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the ...
,
Jessica Gadirova Jessica Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain women's national artistic gymnastics team, Great Britain internationally ...
, and Alice Kinsella. At the
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Morgan did not qualify for any individual event finals; however Great Britain qualified for the team final. During the team final Morgan competed on uneven bars and balance beam, helping Great Britain win the bronze medal, their first Olympic team medal in 93 years.


Collegiate gymnastics career


2022 season

In July Morgan announced plans to switch
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commitments from the
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to the
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. In August she moved to
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to join the
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gymnastics team for the 2022 season as a part of their freshman class alongside Olympic silver medallist
Grace McCallum Grace Ann McCallum (born October 30, 2002) is an American artistic gymnast. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the team event. She is the 2018 Pan American and 2018 Pacific Rim individual al ...
,
Kara Eaker Kara Eaker (born November 7, 2002) is an American artistic gymnast. On the balance beam she is the 2018 Pan American and 2019 Pan American Games champion and a two-time United States national silver medalist (2018, 2019 This was the yea ...
, and Sage Thompson. Morgan made her NCAA debut at the Best of Utah meet, against BYU,
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, and Utah State, where she competed on uneven bars and balance beam and scored a 9.825 and a 9.875 respectively, to help Utah win. She was subsequently named as the
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Freshman of the week. Morgan was the leadoff on bars and beam in every meet during her freshman season and hit 32-32 routine with season highs of 9.925 on bars at California and 9.95 on beam at Washington. At the
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Conference Championships Morgan scored a 9.900 on bars and 9.925 on beam to help Utah become conference champions. The Red Rocks progressed to the 2022 NCAA National Championships where they placed third, with Morgan contributing a 9.900 on bars and 9.875 on beam.


2023 season

As a sophomore Morgan retained her leadoff spot on beam and bars, hitting 28-28 routines with season highs of 9.925 on both apparatus. The Red Rocks retained their title at the 2023
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Conference Championships where Morgan posted a 9.875 on bars and 9.90 on beam. At the 2023 NCAA National Championships she scored 9.850 on bars and 9.9125 on beams helping Utah place third.


2024 season

In her junior year Morgan earned first career win on bars with a 9.950 at the Best of Utah meet, against BYU,
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, and Utah State. She was subsequently named Pac-12 Specialist of the Week. Morgan started on beam in 11-of-16 competitions, competed bars in 12 meets, and vault 3 times with season highs of 9.900 on vault and 9.950 on bars and beam. Morgan won her third
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Conference Championships contributing 9.9250 on bars and her third bronze medal at the 2024 NCAA National Championships, posting a 9.8750 on bars and 9.9125 on beam.


2025 season

Ahead of the Morgan's senior year Utah announced they would be moving to the
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. Morgan won her first Big 12 Conference Championship scoring a 9.875 on bars and beam. At the 2025 NCAA Championships Utah upset last years NCAA champions
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to advance to Four on the Floor. At the final the Red Rocks ultimately placed fourth. Morgan announced her retirement from gymnastics on the 24th April 2025.


Regular season rankings


Competitive history


Media appearances

Morgan first appeared in the
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documentary series Gym Stars in 2018 and became one of its leading contributors alongside Phoebe Jakubczyk. She returned for Series 2, which began airing in April 2019 and Series 3 which began airing in March 2020.


Selected competitive skills


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