Morgan Lloyd (gymnast)

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Morgan Lloyd
Born (1999-06-07) 7 June 1999 (age 26)
Cayman Islands
Height162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented		Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg  Cayman Islands

Morgan Lloyd (born 7 June 1999) is a Caymanian former artistic gymnast. She represented the Cayman Islands at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and 2015 Pan American Games. She was the first gymnast to represent the Cayman Islands at international competitions, and in 2015, she became the first gymnast to compete for the Cayman Islands at the World Championships.

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Early life

Lloyd began gymnastics when she was 18 months old. She has two siblings, and her parents are immigrants from Canada. She attended Cayman Prep and High School before moving to Ashbury College in Canada for her last two years of secondary school. [1]

Career

2013

Lloyd competed at her first international event, the Island Games in Bermuda. [1] She placed 22nd in the all-around. [2] She was the first gymnast to represent the Cayman Islands at an international competition. [3]

2014

In March, Lloyd competed at the Junior Pan American Championships in Aracaju, Brazil. She finished 34th with an all-around score of 39.334. [4] Her placement qualified her to compete at the upcoming Summer Youth Olympics. [1]

In August, at the Summer Youth Olympics, she placed 37th with an all-around score of 41.250. [5]

In November, she and two other Caymanian gymnasts were invited to a pan-American training camp at the U.S. National Training Center in Huntsville, Texas. [6]

2015

In March, she tore a muscle in her hip and was not able to train fully until mid-June. [1]

In July, at the Pan American Games in Toronto, Lloyd placed 30th in the all-around qualifications with a score of 40.050. She advanced to the all-around final as a reserve. In the final, she scored 41.150 and placed 23rd overall. [7]

She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow in October. It was the first time a gymnast representing the Cayman Islands competed at the World Championships. However, when she competed vault, her hand slipped on the apparatus. [8] She received a zero on the event and ended up in 250th place in the all-around. [9]

In November, she competed at the first Caribbean Gymnastics Championships, held in Jamaica, where she won gold on floor and two bronze medals on vault and the uneven bars. [10]

2017

Lloyd was scheduled to compete at the 2017 Island Games; however, she did not start at the competition. [11] [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Shillingford, Ron (26 August 2015). "Lloyd cannot resist being in Motion". Cayman Compass. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Island Games Results Bermuda 2013 | Sports | Gymnastics | Women's FIG Overall Individual". Bermuda 2013 Island Games. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "Cayman Islands gymnast Lloyd makes history, one flip at a time". International Gymnastics Federation . 18 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "2014 Junior Pan American Championships Aracaju (BRA) 2014 Mar 26-30". gymnasticsresults.com. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "Artistic Gymnastics Women's All-Around Qualification" (PDF). Nanjing 2014. 18 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Gymnasts leap for Texas training". Cayman Compass. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Results Women's All Around Final". Toronto 2015. Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Morgan Makes History as Cayman Islands Debut on World Gymnastics Stage". 2015 World Gymnastics Championships. 24 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "46th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, Glasgow: Women's Qualification" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "Gymnasts impress in Jamaica". Cayman Compass. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  11. ↑ "Cayman gymnasts to compete internationally". Cayman Compass. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
  12. ↑ "NatWest Island Games XVII Gotland 2017 Results | Sports | Gymnastics | Women's FIG Overall Individual". 2017 Gotland NatWest Island Games. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
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