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 types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

. She is the 2017 World bronze medalist on balance beam, and a 2016 Olympian. She competed at the 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, contributing to the team placing of second, which qualified the German team for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. 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 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event in April. There she helped her team qualify for the

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 a retired 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 th ...

. 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, 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-Betz or Pauline Schäfer (born 4 January 1997) is a German Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who represented Germany at the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016, Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020, ...

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.

2021

Alt retired in 2021 at age 21 due to injuries. In 2024, she came forward with allegations that her training environment in Stuttgart had been abusive and that she had competed with fractures during her career. She said that in 2021, she had sent a letter to her trainers and the president of the German Gymnastics Federation, among others, detailing the issues that occurred, but she felt that it had been ignored. The German Gymnastics Federation responded to her allegations by saying they would launch an investigation with external help.

Eponymous skills

Alt has two uneven bars skills named after her in the Code of Points.

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Tabea Alt
at the {{DEFAULTSORT:Alt, Tabea 2000 births Living people German female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Germany Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics 21st-century German sportswomen Sportspeople from Ludwigsburg Gymnasts from Stuttgart (region)