Continental union | European Union of Gymnastics |
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National federation | British Gymnastics |
Olympic Games | |
Appearances | 11 |
Medals | Bronze: 1928, 2020 |
World Championships | |
Appearances | 23 |
Medals | Silver: 2022 Bronze: 2015 |
European Championships | |
Medals | Gold: 2023 Silver: 2010, 2014, 2016, 2022, 2024 |
The Great Britain women's national artistic gymnastics team represents Great Britain in FIG international competitions. After winning the bronze medal at the 1928 Olympics, the British team have placed consistently well in modern-day 21st-century artistic gymnastics. In October 2015, they won their first team World medal, taking home a bronze medal.
Great Britain has participated in the Olympic Games women's team competition 13 times. It has won two bronze medals, at the 1928 [1] and the 2020 Olympic Games. [2] The team has also made 22 appearances at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Name | Birthdate and age | Birthplace | Club |
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Ondine Achampong | 10 February 2004 | Kings Langley, England | Aylesbury Gymnastics Academy University of California, Berkeley |
Ruby Evans | 17 March 2007 | Cardiff, Wales | Clwb Cymru Caerdydd |
Georgia-Mae Fenton | 2 November 2000 | Gravesend, England | South Essex Gymnastics |
Jennifer Gadirova | 3 October 2004 | Dublin, Ireland | Aylesbury Gymnastics Academy |
Jessica Gadirova | 3 October 2004 | Dublin, Ireland | Aylesbury Gymnastics Academy |
Alice Kinsella | 13 March 2001 | Basildon, England | Park Wrekin |
Abigail Martin | 19 April 2008 | Paignton, England | South Devon School of Gymnastics |
Mali Morgan | 11 October 2006 | Bridgend, Wales | Clwb Cymru Caerdydd |
Abigail Roper | 2005 | Ipswich, England | Piper Vale Gymnastics Club |
Emily Roper | 2005 | Ipswich, England | Piper Vale Gymnastics Club |
Ruby Stacey | 10 March 2005 | Tavistock, England | Plymouth Swallows |
Poppy-Grace Stickler | 12 June 2006 | Cardiff, Wales | Clwb Cymru Caerdydd University of Utah |
Name | Birthdate and age | Birthplace | Club |
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Charlotte Booth | 22 September 2006 | Orlando, United States | Brandy Johnson's Global Gymnastics (USA) Park Wrekin (UK) |
Grace Davies | 2007 | England | Robin Hood Gymnastics |
Evie Flage-Donovan | 26 March 2007 | Newport, Wales | Clwb Cymru Caerdydd |
Shanna-Kae Grant | 2004 | Leeds, England | Leeds Gymnastics Club |
Ema Grace Kandalova | 26 August 2008 | England | Tolworth Gym Club |
Sofia Ann-Lucia Micallef | 5 August 2006 | Cardiff, Wales | Clwb Cymru Caerdydd |
Tiegan Trafford | 2008 | England | Basingstoke Gym Club |
Tilly Wright | 2007 | England | Robin Hood Gymnastics |
This list includes all British female artistic gymnasts who have won a medal at the Olympic Games or the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Rank | Gymnast | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX | Olympic Total | World Total | Total |
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1 | Beth Tweddle | 2012 2006 2010 2003 2005 | 2009 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||
2 | Jessica Gadirova | 2020 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
3 | Becky Downie | 2015 | 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Jennifer Gadirova | 2020 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Alice Kinsella | 2020 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
6 | Ellie Downie | 2015 | 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Claudia Fragapane | 2015 | 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Amy Tinkler | 2015 | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
9 | Ondine Achampong, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Poppy-Grace Stickler | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
12 | Broadbent, Desmond, Hartley, Jagger, Judd, Kite, Moreman, Pickles, Seymour, A. Smith, H. Smith, Woods | 1928 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
Ruby Harrold, Kelly Simm | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Amelie Morgan | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Event | TF | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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Olympic Games | 10 | |||||
World Championships | ||||||
European Games | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | ||
European Championships | ||||||
Youth Olympics | — | 4 | ||||
Junior World Championships | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle is a retired English artistic gymnast. Renowned for her uneven bar and floor routines, she was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships, and Olympic Games. Tweddle, known for her consistency and longevity as an elite gymnast, is regarded as a pioneer of the renaissance of British gymnastics at the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw the country's gymnastics programme progress from 'also ran' to consistent global competitiveness, and along with peers such as Vanessa Ferrari of Italy and Isabelle Severino of France, helped begin a period of significant success for western European gymnasts globally.
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Imogen Jayne Cairns is a British former artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Representing England, Cairns was a three-time Commonwealth Games champion in vault, twice, and in floor exercise.
Rebecca Lauren Downie is a British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008, 2016, and 2024 Summer Olympics. She is a double European champion and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World silver medallist.
Hannah Kate Whelan is a retired British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whelan won three European Championships medals and four British senior national titles, and was the bronze medallist in the all-around at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Ruby Esther Harrold is a British artistic gymnast who was a member of the British Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Harrold was also a reserve athlete for the 2012 Summer Olympics team. She was a member of the British team that won the bronze medal in the team final at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Following her retirement from elite gymnastics after the 2016 Summer Olympics, Harrold became a member of the LSU Tigers gymnastics team, having received a full athletic scholarship to attend Louisiana State University, beginning Fall of 2016. Her best friend is Mark Fonte.
Gabrielle 'Gabby' Jupp is a British former artistic gymnast. A successful junior gymnast, she was part of the Great Britain senior team that won silver in the team event at the 2016 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Bern. A series of serious knee injuries curtailed her elite level career, and she announced her retirement in 2019, aged 22.
Claudia Fragapane is a retired British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals in a single Games since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning an individual world championship bronze on floor two years later.
Elissa Rebecca "Ellie" Downie is a retired artistic gymnast who has represented Great Britain. She is the all-around 2017 European gymnastics champion, the first gymnast to win a major all-around title for Great Britain.
Kelly Jay Simm is an English artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 Summer Universiade all-around champion, vault silver medalist, and floor bronze medalist. She represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the team final. She competed at the 2015 World Championships and she won the bronze medal with the team.
Amy Tinkler is a retired British artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic floor exercise bronze medallist and the 2015 British all-around champion.
Alice Nicole Kinsella is an English artistic gymnast and member of the British national gymnastics team. 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 that achieved the highest positions ever achieved in the same event at the 2022 World Championships (silver) and the 2023 European Championships (gold). Kinsella won a Commonwealth Games team title as part of England's gold-winning team all-around squad of 2022.
Georgia-Mae Fenton is an English artistic gymnast and a member of both the British national gymnastics team and the England Commonwealth Games gymnastics squad. She is the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth champion on uneven bars, and a member of the gold medal-winning England team in 2022. With Great Britain, she was part of the team that won silver at both the 2022 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning the gold medal, the first for a British women's team, at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Amelie Morgan is a British artistic gymnast. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event. She is the 2021 European Championships bronze medalist on the uneven bars. Additionally, she won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2018 Youth Olympics, as well as a silver medal on the floor exercise and a bronze on the balance beam. At the 2018 Junior European Championships she won five medals —the most medals won by a British junior female gymnast at the European Championships.
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.
Ondine Achampong is a British artistic gymnast who was part of the women's team that won silver at the 2022 World Championships. She won a gold medal with the English team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and individually, Achampong won silver medals in the all-around and on floor exercise. She is the 2022 European team and balance beam silver medalist. She is the 2021 British all-around champion and the 2022 British all-around silver medalist.
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.
Ruby Grace Evans is a Welsh artistic gymnast and a member of the British national team. She was part of the silver-medal winning team at the 2024 European Championships and is a five-time Northern European champion.
Abigail "Abi" Martin is a British artistic gymnast. She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Olympic Games and the 2023 Junior World Championships.