Ellie Black

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Ellie Black Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Surname: Elsabeth Black
Nationality: CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Trainer: Keiji Yamanaka, David Kikuchi
Birthday: September 8, 1995
Place of birth: Halifax, Canada
Medals
Logo of FIG World championships
silver 2017 Montreal All-around
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
gold 2018 Gold Coast team
gold 2018 Gold Coast All-around
silver 2018 Gold Coast Vaulting table

Elsabeth "Ellie" Black (born September 8, 1995 in Halifax ) is a Canadian gymnast. At the 2017 World Championships she won silver in the all-around competition.

Athletic career

Black was part of the Canadian team during the London 2012 Summer Olympics . She reached 5th place with the team. She also qualified for the jumping final. There, however, she fell on the first jump and could not continue the competition. In the following years she took part in three world championships. It increased continuously and reached finals on various devices. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , she was fifth in the all-around competition. This is the best result a Canadian gymnast has ever achieved at the Olympic Games. The following year she took part in the home world championships in Montreal and won the silver medal in the all- around event in an exciting decision, just behind the American Morgan Hurd . She was the first Canadian to win a world championship medal in an all-around competition, and only the second Canadian to win a medal at world championships, after Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs , who won the bronze medal on the balance beam in 2006 . She was also able to qualify for three device finals (jump, balance beam, floor), where she missed another medal at the jump by only 0.05 points.

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