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![]() Hall at the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | James Robert Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bankstown, Australia | 6 October 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | (2014–present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Pegasus GC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Ionut Trandaburu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World ranking | 8th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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James Robert Hall (born 6 October 1995) [1] is an English artistic gymnast. A member of the English and British Senior teams since 2014, he has best known as an all-around and team gymnast, having won all-around bronze and team gold and silver in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships and two team golds and an individual all-round silver in the Commonwealth Games. His signature piece is horizontal bar, in which he has won silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Hall was born 6 October 1995 in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. His family moved to Kent, England in 1997. [2]
He began gymnastics at age six after a coach encouraged him to so do. [2]
In 2018, Hall became an ambassador for the Young Lives Foundation, a charity that helps disadvantaged youth in Kent, England. [2]
Hall was the alternate for the silver medal winning GB team at the 2015 Glasgow world championships.
Hall won the all-around bronze medal at the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in April 2017, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. [3]
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Hall was part of the team that won gold in the team event. [4] He also won silver on the individual all-around competition [5] as well as horizontal bar, both behind Nile Wilson. [6]
At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Hall won a silver as part of the team. [7]
In March 2019, Hall won the All-Around title at the British Championships. [8]
He also competed at the European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, as well as the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. [2]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Hall competed for Great Britain. The team took fourth place with a score of 255.76.
He also competed in the all around final where he finished in 8th position, one place ahead of teammate Joe Fraser. [9]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Hall was again part of the England team that won gold in the team event. [10] Despite sustaining an ankle injury during the competition, Hall also won silver in the individual all-around behind compatriot Jake Jarman. [11] [12]