Felicity White | |
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Nickname(s) | Flick, Felice, Speedy [1] |
Born | Sunnybank, Queensland [2] | 25 September 2000
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) [3] |
Gymnastics career | |
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
Country represented | ![]() |
Club | Premier Gymnastics Academy |
Head coach(es) | Gina Peluso |
Felicity White (born 25 September 2000) [3] is an Australian group rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [3]
White grew up studying ballet at the Queensland National Ballet School. [4] She began rhythmic gymnastics when she was nine. [1]
White began competing with Australia's senior rhythmic gymnastics group in 2018. At the 2018 World Championships, the group finished twenty-ninth in the all-around. [5] This was the first time an Australian group had competed at the World Championships in ten years. [4]
White won a gold medal at the 2021 Oceanic Championships with the Australian senior group and qualified a quota for the 2020 Olympic Games. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Emily Abbot, Alexandra Aristoteli, Himeka Onoda, and Alannah Mathews. [6] They were the first rhythmic gymnastics group to represent Australia at the Olympics. [7] They finished fourteenth in the qualification round for the group all-around. [8]