Jake Elmer Jarman (born 3 December 2001) is a British

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from Peterborough, competing internationally for Great Britain, and for England at the Commonwealth Games. In his first major senior championships, the

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, Jarman won the gold medal in the team all-around, individual all-around,

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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

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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

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and Giarnni Regini-Moran), and sixth British world champion (after Whitlock, Fraser, Regini-Moran,

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and

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). In 2024 Jarman won his second European vault title, before winning the bronze medal in the 2024 men's Olympic floor exercise, his first Olympic medal.

Early life

Jarman was born on 3 December 2001 in

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, England, to a British father and a Filipino mother from

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. In an interview with the ''

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'', Jarman revealed that he lived in the Philippines for two years between the ages of three and five and still communicates with his Filipino relatives.

Career

Junior

In 2018, Jarman competed in the junior division of the

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, where he helped the British team take the silver medal behind Russia, and also picked up an individual silver on vault.

Senior

2021

In 2021, at the age of 19, Jarman finished tenth in the all-around at the

, and was selected as a reserve for the

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, Japan.

2022

The following year became his breakthrough year, taking the British senior titles in

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and vault. Selected to represent England at the

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, Jarman won gold in four events; the team competition, the individual all-around, with England teammate James Hall in second place, the floor final with teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran in bronze, and the vault final with Regini-Moran in silver. Jarman then competed for Great Britain at the

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, where he helped Great Britain win the team final for the first time in a decade, and only the second time ever. Additionally, he finished 8th in the individual all-around and qualified for the floor final, but initially missed the vault final on the two-per-nation rule despite qualifying in fifth. On individual finals day Jarman won bronze on

before the withdrawal of teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran from the vault final to concentrate on parallel bars allowed Jarman to take part in that final. Taking advantage, Jarman won gold in the vault final, edging out Armenian rival Artur Davtyan on tie-break.Unlike the other apparatus where ties are separated by the highest execution score, ties on vault are broken in the first instance by the highest scoring single vault of the two performed before comparing execution. In this case, Jarman's highest vault of 15.200 narrowly eclipsed Davtyan's highest score of 15.066, thus making Jarman the champion.

2023

During the 2023 World Challenge Cup Series, Jarman became the first gymnast to perform a 3.5 twisting double layout salto on floor exercise, getting the skill named after him in the Code of Points. He then was part of the British team that represented Great Britain at the 2023 World Championships, where the British team placed fourth, and individually, Jarman made the all-around final and won the gold medal in the vault final.

2024

At the 2024 European Championships Jarman helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine. Individually he won his second gold medal on vault. In June of that year Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside

, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and

. Paris was Jarman's Olympic debut and with his teammates, finished fourth at the team all-around. He qualified for the finals of the

with the highest score of 14.966 and ultimately won bronze medal with a score of 14.933, his career-first Olympic medal and Team GB's first Paris medal in artistic gymnastics. Jarman finished his 2024 Olympics stint with a fourth place in vault. During the Paris Olympics, it was reported in Philippine news media that the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) is recruiting Jarman to potentially represent the country at the

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in Los Angeles, with GAP president Cynthia Carrion stating that "

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wants to play for the Philippines".

2025

Jarman was selected to attend the 2025 European Championships alongside Harry Hepworth, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth and Luke Whitehouse where he contributed on floor exercise, vault, pommel horse, parallel bar and high bar to help Britain win their third ever European team title. He also qualified for the vault and mixed team final. He won silver with Ruby Evans in the inaugural mixed team final.

Eponymous skill

Competitive history

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