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Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland | March 14, 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | University of Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Kurt Golder, Ivan Ivankov | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rohan Mathew Sebastian (born March 14, 1991) is an artistic gymnast who has represented Ireland at numerous World Championships and European Championships. [1] He is the first Irish gymnast to qualify to the World University Games and also competed at the first ever European Games governed by the European Olympic Committees (EOC). [2] [3] He was also a member of the two-time National Champion Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team. [4]
Sebastian was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland to parents Anthony and Veronique, both physicians educated in India. [5] [6] He grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he attended Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy training under World Champion and Olympic gymnast Ivan Ivankov. [7] [8] Holding dual U.S. and Irish citizenship, he first represented Ireland at the 2008 European Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. [6] [7] Sebastian signed with the University of Michigan in 2009. As a freshman in 2010, he earned Michigan's first ever Big Ten Freshman of the Week award and helped lead Michigan to an NCAA Division 1 team championship as the lead off gymnast in the final rotation. [1] He was elected co-captain of the Michigan men's gymnastics team as a senior and led the team to another NCAA Team Championship and Big Ten Conference team championship, alongside US Olympian Samuel Mikulak. [4]