Donnell Whittenburg

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Donnell Whittenburg
Donnell Whittenburg.jpg
Whittenburg at the 2024 Winter Cup
Personal information
Full nameDonnell Whittenburg
Country represented United States
Born (1994-08-18) August 18, 1994 (age 30)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Residence Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2013–present
GymSalto Gymnastics Center
USOTC
Team Hilton
Head coach(es)Anthony Ingrelli
Former coach(es) Vitaly Marinich, Abdul Mammeri
Eponymous skills Whittenburg (still rings)
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Men's artistic gymnastics
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 002
Pan American Games 331
Pacific Rim Championships 320
Pan American Championships 010
Total663
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Nanning Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Glasgow Vault
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Santiago Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Santiago Rings
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Toronto Floor
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Toronto Rings
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Toronto Vault
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Santiago All-around
Pan American Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team
Pacific Rim Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Everett Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 EverettRings
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 EverettParallel bars
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 EverettAll-around
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 EverettVault
FIG World Cup
Event1st2nd3rd
All-Around World Cup020
World Challenge Cup122
Total142

Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.

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Early life and education

Whittenburg was born on August 18, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland. [1] He attended Edgewood High School and later a local community college and DeVry University. [2] He was coached as a youth by Abdul Mammeri. [2] He decided to pursue gymnastics and moved to Colorado to attend the United States Olympic Training Center under Vitaly Marinich. [2]

Gymnastics career

Whittenburg's strongest events are rings, vault, and floor. [3] He won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [4] He was the 2014 U.S. National champion on Vault and is the 2015 U.S. national champion on rings. At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Whittenburg won the bronze medal in the team event with the Americans, [5] and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633). [6] At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he won the individual bronze medal on vault with an average combined score of 15.350 behind Ri Se Gwang of North Korea (15.450) and Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400). He also qualified for the individual still rings event final but finished in eighth place with 15.300. At the 2017 London World Cup, Whittenburg won gold in that all-around competition, and at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup, the individual apparatus competition, in Slovenia, Whittenburg won gold on parallel bars, and silvers on floor and vault.

In 2022 he placed second in the United States men's all-around behind Brody Malone, scoring highest in rings and second highest on vault. [7] [3] At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings. [8]

In 2024, Whittenburg placed seventh in the All Around at the 2024 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships and 2024 United States Olympic trials and was named as a non-traveling replacement athlete for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [9]

Eponymous skills

Whittenburg has one named element on the rings. [10] [11]

Gymnastics elements named after Donnell Whittenburg
ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficulty [a] Added to Code of Points
RingsWhittenburg"Triple salto backward piked."I, 0.9Newsletter 32, 2017. Performed at the 2017 World Challenge Cup in Koper [12]
  1. Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points

Competitive history

YearEventTeamAA FX PH SR VT PB HB
Junior
2010 U.S. National Championships (14-15)1011206Bronze medal icon.svg125
2011 U.S. National Championships (16-18)61117Silver medal icon.svg464
2012 Winter Cup 2193513253228
U.S. National Championships (16-18)Gold medal icon.svg56Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
Mexican Open6
Senior
2013 Winter Cup 111730761625
National QualifierSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg11Silver medal icon.svg7
U.S. National Championships 13241767824
DTB Pokal Team Cup5
2014 Winter Cup Silver medal icon.svg620Silver medal icon.svg4710
Doha Challenge Cup 4
National QualifierGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg5Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg2113
U.S. National Championships 4714Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg611
World Championships Bronze medal icon.svg177
Stuttgart World Cup Bronze medal icon.svg
2015 Winter Cup Bronze medal icon.svg521414Silver medal icon.svg13
American Cup Bronze medal icon.svg
Pan American Games Gold medal icon.svg4Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
U.S. National Championships Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg8Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg926
World Championships 588Bronze medal icon.svg
2016 Winter Cup 63217Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg1012
American Cup Silver medal icon.svg
Pacific Rim Championships Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg6
U.S. National Championships 51125Gold medal icon.svg4512
Olympic Trials 4814Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg12
2017 Winter Cup 4414Bronze medal icon.svg1357
London World Cup Silver medal icon.svg
Koper Challenge Cup Silver medal icon.svg4Silver medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
U.S. National Championships Bronze medal icon.svg1110Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg1
World Championships 6R2R1
2018 U.S. National Championships 59
2019 National Qualifier12Gold medal icon.svg622
U.S. National Championships 7714Bronze medal icon.svg71116
2021 Winter Cup 11421Silver medal icon.svg1110
Pan American Championships Silver medal icon.svg
Olympic Trials 14Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
World Championships 3012
2022 U.S. Classic Bronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg20Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg1323
U.S. National Championships Silver medal icon.svg514Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg108
Paris Challenge Cup Bronze medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
World Championships 58
2023 U.S. Classic 71065Silver medal icon.svg13916
U.S. National Championships 7Bronze medal icon.svg25Gold medal icon.svg1813
Pan American Games Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg6Gold medal icon.svg
2024 Winter Cup 5419Silver medal icon.svg616
U.S. National Championships 77134Gold medal icon.svg822
Olympic Trials 7515Bronze medal icon.svg1112

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