Donnell Whittenburg

Donnell Whittenburg
Whittenburg at the 2024 Winter Cup
Personal information
Full name	Donnell Whittenburg
Born	(1994-08-18) August 18, 1994 (age 31) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	United States (2013–present)
Gym	EVO Gymnastics Salto Gymnastics Center USOTC Team Hilton
Head coach(es)	Anthony Ingrelli
Former coach(es)	Vitaly Marinich, Abdul Mammeri
Eponymous skills	Whittenburg (still rings)
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing   United States Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 0 0 2 Pan American Games 3 3 1 Pacific Rim Championships 3 2 0 Pan American Championships 0 1 0 Total 6 6 3 World Championships 2014 Nanning Team 2015 Glasgow Vault Pan American Games 2015 Toronto Team 2023 Santiago Team 2023 Santiago Rings 2015 Toronto Floor 2015 Toronto Rings 2015 Toronto Vault 2023 Santiago All-around Pan American Championships 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team Pacific Rim Championships 2016 Everett Team 2016 Everett Rings 2016 Everett Parallel bars 2016 Everett All-around 2016 Everett Vault FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd All-Around World Cup 0 2 0 World Challenge Cup 1 2 2 Total 1 4 2

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.

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 a score of 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 a 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]

He changed gyms to EVO Gymnastics in 2025 and was a member of their delegation at the 2025 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships. ^[10] There he won bronze on rings and parallel bars. After the competition, he was selected to compete at the 2025 World Championships alongside Brandon Dang, Asher Hong, Patrick Hoopes, Brody Malone, and Kameron Nelson. ^[11]

Eponymous skills

Whittenburg has one named element on the rings. ^{[12] [13]}

Gymnastics elements named after Donnell Whittenburg

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty [a]	Added to Code of Points
Rings	Whittenburg	"Triple salto backward piked."	I, 0.9	Newsletter 32, 2017. Performed at the 2017 World Challenge Cup in Koper [14]

1. Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points

Competitive history

Competitive history of Donnell Whittenburg at the junior level ^[5]

Year	Event	Team	AA	FX	PH	SR	VT	PB	HB
2010	U.S. Championships (14–15)		10	11	20	6		12	5
2011	U.S. Championships (16–18)		6	11	17		4	6	4
2012	Winter Cup		21	9	35	13	25	32	28
	U.S. Championships (16–18)			5	6
	Mexican Open		6

Competitive history of Donnell Whittenburg at the senior level ^[5]

Year	Event	Team	AA	FX	PH	SR	VT	PB	HB
2013	Winter Cup		11	17	30	7	6	16	25
	National Qualifier						11		7
	U.S. Championships		13	24	17	6	7	8	24
	DTB Pokal Team Cup	5
2014 |	Winter Cup			6	20		4	7	10
	Doha World Challenge Cup							4
	National Qualifier				5			21	13
	U.S. Championships		4	7	14			6	11
	World Championships		17					7
	Stuttgart World Cup
2015	Winter Cup			5	21	4	14		13
	American Cup
	Pan American Games		4
	U.S. Championships				8			9	26
	World Championships	5	8			8
2016	Winter Cup		6	32	17			10	12
	American Cup
	Pacific Rim Championships								6
	U.S. Championships		5	11	25		4	5	12
	Olympic Trials		4	8	14				12
2017	Winter Cup		4	4	14		13	5	7
	London World Cup
	Koper World Challenge Cup					4
	U.S. Championships			11	10				1
	World Championships			6		R2		R1
2018	U.S. Championships					5		9
2019	National Qualifier				12			6	22
	U.S. Championships		7	7	14		7	11	16
2021	Winter Cup		11	4	21		11	10
	Pan American Championships
	Olympic Trials			14
	World Championships			30			12
2022	U.S. Classic				20			13	23
	U.S. Championships			5	14			10	8
	Paris World Challenge Cup
	World Championships	5				8
2023	U.S. Classic		7	10	65		13	9	16
	U.S. Championships		7		25			18	13
	Pan American Games			6
2024	Winter Cup		5	4	19			6	16
	U.S. Championships		7	7	13	4		8	22
	Olympic Trials		7	5	15			11	12
2025	U.S. National Championships								8

References

1. "Donnell Whittenburg closes in on stardom, one vault at a time" . Retrieved October 12, 2022.
2. Cheng, Brittany (August 19, 2019). "Gymnast Donnell Whittenburg's tough call helps him to international stage". The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved August 11, 2024.
3. "Donnell Whittenburg, still chasing an Olympic spot, in hunt at nationals" . Retrieved October 12, 2022.
4. Nick; Zaccardi (October 7, 2014). "China stuns Japan at World Gymnastics Championships; U.S. wins bronze (video)". NBC Sports. NBC. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
5. "Donnell Whittenburg". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
6. Graves, Will (June 25, 2021). "Whittenburg making one last stand at US gymnastics trials". Associated Press.
7. "Donnell Whittenburg wins second at 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships". August 21, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
8. "U.S. gymnasts capture 10 medals, including four gold, as Paris World Challenge Cup concludes". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
9. Crumlish, John (July 3, 2024). "Frederick Richard on topping U.S. Olympic Trials: 'I was pretty cool on the inside'". International Gymnast Magazine . Retrieved July 10, 2024.
10. Campbell, Dylan (August 7, 2025). "EVO Gymnastics Sends Team Members to U.S. Championships". srqmagazine.com. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
11. "Hong commands all-around; Senior National Team and World Champs roster named at Xfinity U.S. Championships". USA Gymnastics . August 9, 2025.
12. "Table of Named Elements Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. December 2023. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
13. "Men's Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025–2028" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. July 3, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
14. "FIG Men's Technical Committee approves 'The Whittenburg'". gymnastics.sport. June 2, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2024.

External links

• Donnell Whittenburg at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Donnell Whittenburg at USA Gymnastics