Joe Fraser (gymnast)

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Joe Fraser
Country representedFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Flag of England.svg  England
Born (1998-12-06) 6 December 1998 (age 22)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Residence Birmingham, England
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior Elite
ClubCity of Birmingham GC
Head coach(es)Lee Woolls
Last updated on: 13 October 2019.

Joe Fraser (born 6 December 1998) [1] is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars, the first and only British gymnast to ever win gold on this apparatus at the world championships. As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won Team silver in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships.

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Personal life

Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby. [2]

At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics center to learn how to do the skills properly. [3]

When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach. [3]

Career

2017

Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. [3]

In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships. [4] He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on rings and bronze medal on parallel bars. [5]

Fraser also competed at the World Championships in Quebec, Canada. [6]

2018

Early in the year, Fraser fell from the high bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. [3] He returned to international competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Guimares, Portugal. [3]

At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Fraser won a silver as part of the team. [7]

Fraser also competed at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar. [6]

2019

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. [8]

In October, Fraser won gold at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany for his performance on the parallel bars with a score 15.000. [6] He was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus. [9]

2021

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, 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 then continued to compete in the Olympics at Tokyo and qualified for the individual all round final where he came 9th in his debut games. [10]

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