Bart Deurloo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Deurloo in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Ridderkerk, Netherlands | 23 February 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | ![]() (2009–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | O&O Zwijndrecht | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Jeroen Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bart Deurloo (born 23 February 1991) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. He is the 2017 World bronze medalist on the horizontal bar and a five-time Dutch national champion in the all-around. He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Deurloo's mother was a former gymnast, so he began the sport at the age of six. [2]
Deurloo competed at his first World Championships in 2009 and was the third reserve for the all-around final. [3] He competed at the 2010 European Championships, where the Dutch team finished 11th in the qualifications. [4]
Deurloo advanced to the all-around final at the 2011 European Championships and finished 14th. [5] He was unable to compete at the 2011 World Championships due to a hand injury. [6] He won a gold medal on the horizontal bar at the 2012 Ostrava World Challenge Cup. [7] In 2012, he won his first national all-around title. [8]
Deurloo missed the 2013 European Championships due to a knee injury. [9] He was able to compete at the 2013 World Championships, where he finished 14th in the all-around final. [10] At the 2014 Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, Deurloo won the silver medal on the horizontal bar to teammate Epke Zonderland. [11] He competed with the Dutch team that placed sixth at the 2014 European Championships. [12] He was unable to compete at the 2014 World Championships due to a wrist injury. [2]
Deurloo won a bronze medal on the floor exercise at the 2015 Cottbus World Challenge Cup. [13] He then won gold on the floor exercise at the Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, where he also won the vault silver medal and horizontal bar bronze medal. [14] At the 2015 European Championships, he finished sixth in the floor exercise final. [15] He finished 14th in the all-around at the 2015 World Championships, matching his placement from 2013. [16]
Deurloo competed with the team at the 2016 Olympic Test Event that won the bronze medal, qualifying them as a full team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [17] He represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He became the first Dutch male artistic gymnast to compete in an Olympic all-around final, [2] where he finished 15th. [18] Additionally, the Dutch team finished 10th during the qualification round. [19]
Deurloo finished fourth in the all-around at the 2017 American Cup. [20] He won a silver medal on the horizontal bar at the Koper World Challenge Cup behind Tin Srbić. [21] Later that same month, he won another horizontal silver medal to Srbić at the Osijek World Challenge Cup. [22] At the Paris World Challenge Cup, he won another silver medal on the horizontal bar, this time behind Epke Zonderland. [23] He then won the horizontal bar bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships, behind Srbić and Zonderland. [24]
Deurloo won the horizontal bar gold medal at the 2018 Baku World Cup. [25] He then helped the Dutch team finish ninth at the 2018 European Championships, making them the first reserves for the team final. [26] Then at the 2018 World Championships, Deurloo and the Dutch team qualified for the team final, finishing eighth. [27]
At the 2019 American Cup, Deurloo finished seventh in the all-around. [28] He then finished sixth at the Stuttgart World Cup, [29] and he placed eighth at the Tokyo World Cup. [30]
Deurloo represented the Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics and qualified for the horizontal bar final, finishing seventh after falling. [31] [32] After the Olympic Games, he had surgery on his knee, [2] and he took a break from competition. [10] He then announced his retirement from the sport in February 2023 and began coaching for the Dutch national team. [33] He came out of retirement a few months later to help the Dutch team attempt to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [34]
At the 2023 World Championships, Deurloo and the Dutch team placed 11th in the qualification round and earned a team berth for the 2024 Olympic Games. [35] Individually, he finished tenth in the horizontal bar qualifications and was the first reserve for the final. [10]