Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.[3] At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.[4]
When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach and opened his own gymnastics club, Joe Fraser Gymnastics, in Lichfield in 2025.[4][6]
Senior gymnastics career
2017
Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where he placed fifth in the all-around.[4]
In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships. He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on still rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.[7]
Early in the year, Fraser fell from the horizontal bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.[4] He returned to international competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Guimares, Portugal where he made the pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars finals.[4]
In March 2019, Fraser won a silver medal on the high bar and bronze medal on parallel bars at the British Championships. At the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, Fraser narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.033 marks in the all-around final.[10]
In October, Fraser won gold at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart for his performance on the parallel bars with a score 15.000.[8] He was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus.[11]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fraser competed for Great Britain. The team, consisting of Max Whitlock, James Hall, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Fraser, took fourth place with a score of 255.76. Fraser qualified for the individual all-around final where he came 9th and the parallel bar final where he came 8th in his debut games.[13]
2022
At the British Championships Fraser won the all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, and horizontal bar titles.[14] Fraser competed at the Baku World Cup where he advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals. During the parallel bars final he won bronze medal behind Illia Kovtun from Ukraine and Ferhat Arican from Turkey. The next day he won gold on the horizontal bar.[15]
At the 2022 European Championships Fraser helped Great Britain win the gold in the Team competition. Additionally he won gold in the all-around ahead of Adem Asil and Ahmet Önder, becoming the first British man to win a European all-around title.[21] Fraser qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, winning gold on the parallel bars.[22]
At the 2022 World Championships Fraser helped Great Britain take bronze in the Team competition and also qualified for the all-around final in fourth place.[23] The bronze was Great Britain's second World team medal, having won silver in Glasgow in 2015.[23]
Fraser completed at the Paris Challenge Cup where he qualified for the Still Rings, Parallel Bar and Horizontal Bar finals, taking gold on Parallel Bar and Bronze on Still Rings.[26]
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