Brooklyn Chloe Moors (born February 23, 2001)
is a Canadian
artistic gymnast
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who competed at the
2020 Olympic Games
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and represented Canada at the
2017
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Events January
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,
2018
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, and
2019 World Championships. At the
2017 World Championships, she became the first Canadian to win the
Longines Prize for Elegance
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.
She is the
2019 Pan American Games
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champion on the
floor exercise
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and the silver medalist with the
team
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. She is also the
2017 Pan American champion on the
floor exercise
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. She currently competes for the
UCLA Bruins
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in collegiate gymnastics.
Early life
Brooklyn Chloe Moors was born on February 23, 2001, in
Cambridge, Ontario
Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand River (Ontario), Grand and Speed River, Speed rivers, in the central part of the Ontario Peninsula. The city had a population ...
.
She is the younger sister of
2012 Olympic gymnast Victoria Moors
Victoria Ashley Moors (born November 5, 1996) is a retired Canadian artistic gymnast who represented her country at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the older sister of 2020 Olympic gymnast Brooklyn Moors.
Junior career
2010
In December, ...
, who inspired her to begin gymnastics when she was three years old.
Junior career
Moors made her elite debut at 2016 Elite Canada where she finished twenty-first in the all-around. In the event finals, she won the silver medal on the
balance beam
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behind
Jade Chrobok. She then made her international debut at the 2016 Nadia Comaneci Invitational and finished eighth in the all-around. Then at the 2016 International Gymnix, she finished fourth in the all-around and won the gold medal on the floor exercise. She then won the bronze medal in the all-around at the 2016 Canadian Championships. Her final meet of the
2016 season was the Elite Gym Massilia in
Marseille
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where she finished seventeenth in the all-around.
Senior career
2017
Moors became age-eligible for senior competition in 2017, and she made her senior debut at Elite Canada where she won the bronze medal in the all-around. She then finished fifth in the
vault
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and floor final and sixth in the balance beam final. Then at the International Gymnix, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind
Hitomi Hatakeda
is a Japanese former artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2019 Summer Universiade champion in the team, all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam. She is also the 2020 American Cup all-around bronze medalist.
Ea ...
and
Shallon Olsen
Shallon Jade Olsen (born 10 July 2000) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 World silver medallist and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion on vault. She is also the 2018 Commonwealth Games floor exercise bronze medallist and the 2019 Pan ...
and won the gold medal with the Canadian team. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault and balance beam, and fifth on the floor exercise. At the
City of Jesolo Trophy
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, Moors helped the Canadian team finish sixth, and she finished fifth in the vault final. She then finished seventh in the all-around at the Canadian Championships, and she won the bronze medal on vault.
Moors was then selected to compete at the
Pan American Championships in
Lima
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. She won the silver medal on vault behind Mexican gymnast
Ahtziri Sandoval
Ahtziri Viridiana Sandoval Pérez (born 5 October 1996 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican artistic gymnast. She is the 2017 Pan American vault champion and uneven bars silver medalist. She is the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games uneven bars ...
, won the bronze medal on the
uneven bars
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behind Jade Chrobok and Sandoval, placed seventh on the balance beam, and won the gold medal on the floor exercise. She then competed at the
Szombathely Challenge Cup and won the bronze medal on vault behind
Marina Nekrasova
Marina Nekrasova (; born 19 April 1995) is a Russian-born artistic gymnast who has represented Azerbaijan since 2013. She is the 2019 Summer Universiade vault champion. At the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games, she won gold in the team event and si ...
and
Boglárka Dévai
Boglárka Dévai (born 12 November 1999) is a Hungarian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2018 European vault champion and the 2017 European vault bronze medalist. She won two FIG World Challenge Cup gold medals.
Gymnastics career
Dévai ...
, and she won the gold medal on floor exercise. She was then selected to compete at the
World Championships
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in
Montreal
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where she finished 15th in the all-around and fifth on the floor exercise. After the competition, she was awarded the
Longines Prize for Elegance
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and became the first Canadian to receive this award.
2018
In February, Moors competed at Elite Canada where she placed first in the all-around and on floor exercise and placed second on balance beam behind
Rose-Kaying Woo
Rose-Kaying Woo (born January 12, 2000) is a Canadian elite artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They fea ...
. Then in March she competed at the
American Cup
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where she placed seventh in the all-around. Then at the Canadian National Championships, she placed fourth in the all-around behind
Ellie Black
Elsabeth Ann Black (born September 8, 1995) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is a four-time Olympian, having represented her country at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic games. She is the 2017 World all-around silver medallist, makin ...
,
Isabela Onyshko, and Jade Chrobok.
In early October, Moors was selected to represent Canada at the
World Championships
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in
Doha
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alongside Black,
Ana Padurariu
Anne-Marie "Ana" Padurariu (; born August 1, 2002) is a Canadian artistic gymnast and the 2018 World Championships silver medalist on balance beam.
Early and personal life
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, Shallon Olsen, and
Laurie Dénommée (later replaced by
Sophie Marois). During the qualification round Moors helped Canada qualify to the team final in fourth place, and individually, she qualified to the all-around and floor exercise finals. During the team final, Moors contributed scores of 13.233 on the floor exercise and 13.066 on the uneven bars to help Canada finish fourth behind the United States, Russia, and China— Team Canada's best finish ever at the
World Championships
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. Moors then finished 24th in the all-around final with a total score of 50.332. She then finished eighth in the floor exercise final with a score of 13.066.
2019
At the Canadian Championships, Moors won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Ellie Black and Ana Padurariu, and she won the gold medal on the balance beam and the silver medal on the floor exercise behind Black. In June, she was selected to compete at the
Pan American Games
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alongside Black,
Isabela Onyshko, Shallon Olsen, and
Victoria-Kayen Woo
Victoria-Kayen Woo (born 15 October 1997 in LaSalle, Quebec) is a retired Canadian artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Pan American Games bronze medalist on balance beam and silver medalist with the team. She finished fourth with her team at the 201 ...
. They won the silver medal in
the team competition behind the United States. During the first day of event finals, Moors placed sixth on
uneven bars
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with a score of 13.000. The following day she scored a 13.900 to win the gold medal on floor exercise ahead of
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 ...
of the United States and
Flávia Saraiva
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of Brazil.
On September 4, Moors was named to compete at the
World Championships
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in
Stuttgart
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,
Germany
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alongside Ana Padurariu, Shallon Olsen, Ellie Black, and Victoria-Kayen Woo. Canada finished seventh in the team final and
qualified as a team for the
2020 Olympic Games
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in
Tokyo
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. During the individual finals, Moors finished 14th in the all-around with a total score of 54.498. She then finished seventh on floor exercise with a score of 13.600.
2020
In January, it was announced that Moors would represent Canada at the
American Cup
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, but she was later replaced by Ellie Black. Her first competition of the season was Elite Canada, where she placed second in the all-around behind Ana Padurariu. She also won the silver medals on the uneven bars and the balance beam, and she won the gold medal on the floor exercise. In February, she signed her
national letter of intent
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with
UCLA
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, intending to start competing during the 2020–21 school year. However, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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she took classes remotely and
redshirted
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the 2021 season in order to train for the postponed
2020 Olympic Games
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
.
She also took eight months off of training due to a back injury.
2021

At the Second Canadian Technical Trial, Moors only competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise due to recovering from her back injury.
She won the silver medal on the floor exercise behind
Rose-Kaying Woo
Rose-Kaying Woo (born January 12, 2000) is a Canadian elite artistic gymnast who competed at the 2016 Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They fea ...
. At the Canadian National Championships, she placed eighth in the all-around after struggling on the uneven bars. However, she won gold on floor exercise and placed sixth on balance beam. On June 17, Moors was officially named to
Canada's 2020 Olympic team alongside Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, and
Ava Stewart
Ava Elizabeth Stewart (born September 30, 2005) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She represented Canada at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. Additionally she was a member of the bronze medal winning teams at the 2022 Pan American Championships a ...
. The team finished tenth in
the qualification round and did not qualify for the team final, but Moors qualified for
the all-around final in 22nd place. She finished 16th in the all-around final with a total score of 53.299.
NCAA career
Moors enrolled at UCLA and began taking classes remotely during the 2020–21 school year; however she redshirted the season to focus on training for the
2020 Olympic Games
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
. She started competing for the
UCLA Bruins
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during the 2021–22 season.
In 2025, Moors won the individual floor title at the NCAA national championships.
Career perfect 10.0
Competitive history
References
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2001 births
Canadian female artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from Cambridge, Ontario
Living people
Gymnasts at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists in gymnastics
Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Canada
UCLA Bruins women's gymnasts
21st-century Canadian sportswomen