Continental union | European Gymnastics Union |
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Olympic Games | |
Appearances | 13 |
Medals | Bronze: 1912, 2012 |
World Championships | |
Medals | Silver: 2015 Bronze: 2022 |
European Championships | |
Medals | Gold: 2012, 2022 Silver: 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2024 Bronze: 2023 |
Junior World Championships | |
Appearances | 2 |
The Great Britain men's national artistic gymnastics team represents Great Britain in FIG international competitions.
British gymnasts first competed at the Olympic Games in 1908. [1] They won their first Olympic team medal, a bronze, at the 1912 Olympic Games. [2] They would win their second team medal, another bronze, 100 years later at the 2012 Olympic Games. [3]
This list includes all British male artistic gymnasts who have won at least two medals at the Olympic Games or the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships combined.
Rank | Gymnast | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB | Olympic Total | World Total | Total |
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1 | Max Whitlock | 2012 2015 | 2016 2014 | 2016 2015 | 2016 2020 2012 2015 2017 2019 2013 2018 | 6 | 8 | 14 | ||||
2 | Louis Smith | 2012 2015 | 2012 2016 2008 2010 2015 2007 2011 | 4 | 5 | 9 | ||||||
3 | Jake Jarman | 2022 | 2024 | 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
4 | Daniel Purvis | 2012 2015 | 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
Kristian Thomas | 2012 2015 | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
6 | Joe Fraser | 2022 | 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Giarnni Regini-Moran | 2022 | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
8 | Neil Thomas | 1993 1994 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
9 | James Hall | 2015 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
Nile Wilson | 2015 | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
11 | Courtney Tulloch | 2022 | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Louis Antoine Smith MBE is a retired English artistic gymnast.
Max Antony Whitlock is an English artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and World Championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in British history. He is also the most successful pommel horse worker in Olympic Games history, with two gold medals and one bronze.
Daniel Scott Purvis is a Scottish former international elite artistic gymnast, and three-time British all-around champion in men's artistic gymnastics. He trained at Southport YMCA and was coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov. He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015.
Kristian James Thomas is a British former artistic gymnast. A long-standing member of both the England and Great Britain men's teams, he was a member of the British team that won gold in the 2012 European Championships team event, and a historic bronze in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won his first global individual medal in the 2013 World Championships, a bronze in vault; it was also the first global medal ever won in vault by a British male gymnast. In 2015 he won his first major international title, gold in the floor exercise at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Nile Michael Wilson is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries and mental health concerns. In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart.
Giarnni Regini-Moran is a British artistic gymnast representing Great Britain and England internationally. He is the 2022 world champion on floor exercise and the fourth British world champion in the sport of artistic gymnastics.
Courtney James Matthew Winston Tulloch is a currently active English international artistic gymnast, representing Great Britain and England since 2012, and is a specialist in still rings and vault.
The men's pommel horse competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 6 and 14 August. There were 71 competitors from 36 nations. The event was won by Max Whitlock of Great Britain, the nation's first gold medal in the men's pommel horse. The nation finished 1–2 in the event, with Louis Smith repeating as silver medalist. It was the first time any nation had earned the top two spots in the event since the Soviet Union swept the medals in 1952. Smith was the second man to win three medals in the event, while Whitlock was the 11th to win two medals.
Brinn John Bevan is a Welsh artistic gymnast. He was part of the first men's team from Great Britain to win a team medal at a World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow on 28 October 2015. He was part of the British team to compete in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Marios Georgiou is a Cypriot artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 European all-around champion, and the 2022 European horizontal bar champion and the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European title, and a major all-around title. He is the 2019 European Championships all-around bronze medalist which made him the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European medal. He is the 2019 European Games parallel bars silver medalist. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medals in the floor exercise and parallel bars and the bronze medal in the all-around, and he won four bronze medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He is the 2018 Mediterranean Games all-around and horizontal bar champion and the 2022 Mediterranean Games horizontal bar champion. He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games.
The men's artistic individual all-around event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 and 28 July 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. Approximately 70 gymnasts from 35 nations competed in the all-around in the qualifying round.
The men's pommel horse event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. Approximately 70 gymnasts from 35 nations competed on pommel horse in the qualifying round.
Joe Fraser is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars. He is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these events, and the third British world champion. As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won team gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships. Representing England in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in the team, pommel horse and parallel bars events.
Jennifer Gadirova is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, and was part of the Great Britain team to win silver, their best ever result, in the team event at the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the same medal at the 2022 European Championships. Competing at the 2019 Junior World Championships, she won a silver medal in the vault final.
Jessica Gadirova is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event and was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2022 World Championships and gold medal-winning team at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
The 35th European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held from 18 to 21 August 2022 in Munich, Germany as part of the second multi-sport European Championships. There were 38 nations that sent athletes. Gymnasts from Russia and Belarus were banned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Jake Jarman is an English artistic gymnast from Peterborough, competing internationally for Great Britain, and for England at the Commonwealth Games. In his first major senior championships, the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Jarman won the gold medal in the team all-around, individual all-around, floor exercise and vault, the first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. A few weeks later in Munich, representing Great Britain, Jarman became European champion in the team and vault events, becoming the first British male to win European gold on vault. In 2023, Jarman added vault gold at the 2023 World Championships, the first Briton to win world gold on the apparatus, the fourth male British world champion, and sixth British world champion.
Luke Whitehouse is a British gymnast. He is an English, British and double European Floor Champion. He won gold for the floor exercise and was part of the Great Britain team who won Team bronze at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Harry James Hepworth is a British artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 men's Olympic vault bronze medalist. He won silver as a member of the Great Britain team at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He also participated at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.