Luke Whitehouse

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Luke Whitehouse
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Whitehouse competing on rings at the 2019 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Personal information
Country representedFlag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Born (2002-07-02) 2 July 2002 (age 22)
Halifax
HometownHalifax
Discipline Men's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2019 – present (GBR)
ClubLeeds Gymnastics Club [1]
Head coach(es)Andy Butcher
David Murray
Tom Rawlinson
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Antalya Floor exercise
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Rimini Floor exercise
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Antalya Team
FIG World Cup
Event1st2nd3rd
Apparatus World Cup012

Luke Whitehouse (born 2 July 2002) [2] is a British Olympic gymnast. He is an English, [3] British [4] 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. [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Junior

As a Junior, Whitehouse represented Team GB at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. [9] He also competed at the inaugural 2019 Junior World Championships in Gyor, Hungary.

Senior

In June 2021 at the FIG World Challenge Cup, Osijek, Croatia in qualifying for the Floor final he became the first British gymnast to complete a triple back somersault in competition. [10] [11]

At the English Championships in 2023 was gold medallist on Parallel Bars and on Floor, [3] defending his 2022 title. [12] He won silver on vault [3] following a bronze on the apparatus in 2022. [12] In 2022, he won the bronze in the all around. [13]

He won bronze on Floor at the FIG World Cup, Doha-Qatar March, 2023 [14] and at the FIG.Paris Challenge Cup September, 2023. In April 2023 he became European champion on floor winning gold at the European Championships in Antalya, Turkey [15] alongside the team bronze medal. [16] He was selected as reserve for the World Championships in Antwerp 2023 Team GB.

In April 2024 at the gymnastics world cup in Doha Luke took the silver medal [17] followed by retaining his floor European champion status a week later winning gold for a second year in a row after Max Whitlock dropping out of the competition last minute due to injury allowing Luke to defend his title, becoming the first male GBR gymnast to retain a European title. [18]

In June 2024 Whitehouse was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth, Joe Fraser, and Max Whitlock. [19] Great Britain qualified for the Team Final in 3rd, but in the Final were beaten into 4th spot by the USA who took bronze with Japan taking gold and China silver. Whitehouse individually qualified for Olympic Floor Final, finishing in 6th place with a score of 14.566. Carlos Yulo won Gold with a score of 15.000. He incurred a 0.7 deduction in his Floor routine which cost him a medal which he has discussed in interviews..

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