Tabea Lara Alt (born 18 March 2000) is a former German elite

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. She is the 2017 World bronze medalist on balance beam, and a 2016 Olympian. She competed at the

2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event The 2016 Olympic Gymnastics Test Event, known officially as Aquece Rio 2016, served as the final qualifier to the gymnastics events at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Concerns and criticisms During the test event the FIG (I ...

, contributing to the team placing of second, which qualified the German team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, the German team finished 6th in the team all-around competition.

Career

2016

At the 2016 American Cup, Alt finished seventh in the all-around with a score of 54.399. She competed at the

in April. There she helped her team qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics with a team finish of second place. Individually, she was third in the all-around. At the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the German team finished 6th in the team all-around competition. Alt did not qualify for any of the event finals.

2017

Alt won the 2017 Stuttgart World Cup in March 2017, beating

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

Morgan Hurd Morgan Elizabeth Hurd (born July 18, 2001) is an American artistic gymnast and a five-time member of the United States women's national team (2016–21). She is the 2017 World all-around champion and balance beam silver medalist and the 2018 ...

. Alt would also go on to win the 2017 London World Cup in April, placing ahead of

, Victoria Nguyen and

Amy Tinkler Amy Tinkler (born 27 October 1999) is a retired British artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic floor exercise bronze medallist and the 2015 British all-around champion. Junior career 2013 In late March, Tinkler competed at the 2013 Britis ...

. At the 2017 European Championships, she finished ninth on balance beam (10.966) after qualifying in fifth place (13.700). In the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada, Tabea Alt qualified first into the balance beam final, and won the bronze medal with the score 13.300, behind her teammate

Pauline Schäfer Pauline Sieglinde Schäfer or Schäfer-Betz (born 4 January 1997) is a German artistic gymnast who represented Germany at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 World Champion, the 2021 World silver medalist, and the 2015 World bronz ...

and

from the USA. In December 2017, the Alt and the Alt II were added to the Code of Points. Alt debuted both uneven bars elements at the 2017 World Championships.

2018

In October 2018, Alt had surgery on a persistent shoulder injury.

Eponymous skills

Alt has two eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

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* * * 2000 births Living people German female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Germany Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics 21st-century German women People from Ludwigsburg {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub