Max Whitlock

Max Whitlock
Max Whitlock 2012
Personal information
Surname:	Max Antony Whitlock
Nationality:	United Kingdom
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Horse ground
Society:	South Essex Gymnastics Club
Trainer:	Scott Hann
Birthday:	January 13, 1993
Place of birth:	Hemel Hempstead
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	57 kg
Medals
Olympic games bronze 2012 London team bronze 2012 London horse bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro All-around gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro ground gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro horse  World championships silver 2013 Antwerp All-around silver 2014 Nanning All-around gold 2015 Glasgow horse silver 2015 Glasgow team silver 2015 Glasgow ground  European championships gold 2012 Montpellier team gold 2013 Moscow ground silver 2013 Moscow All-around bronze 2013 Moscow horse gold 2014 Sofia horse silver 2014 Sofia team  Commonwealth Games Participant for England  silver 2010 Delhi team silver 2010 Delhi horse bronze 2010 Delhi Horizontal bar gold 2014 Glasgow team gold 2014 Glasgow All-around gold 2014 Glasgow ground silver 2014 Glasgow horse bronze 2014 Glasgow Ingots gold 2018 Gold Coast team silver 2018 Gold Coast horse

Max Antony Whitlock , MBE (born January 13, 1993 in Hemel Hempstead ) is a British gymnast . His greatest success so far is winning two gold medals and one bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics as well as the world championship title on pommel horses in 2015 and 2017 .

Career

In 2010 he first took part in the Commonwealth Games for England at the age of 17 . He won the silver medal on the pommel horse and the bronze medal on the horizontal bar and was able to win a silver medal in the all-around with the English team.

After he was only a substitute for the British team at the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo in 2011 , he was part of the British team on the second attempt to qualify for the home Olympics in January 2012 in the O₂ Arena in London , which made it to Barcelona for the first time In 1992 a full five-man gymnastics team qualified for the Summer Olympics. Whitlock, who was still inexperienced on an international level, performed well in front of a home crowd on all machines and stood out particularly with his exercise on the pommel horse, in which he even outperformed his teammate Louis Smith , the winner of the 2008 Olympic bronze medal, with 15,233 points .

At the European Gymnastics Championships in Montpellier in May of the same year, he won the European Championship with the British team and came in 6th in the final on the pommel horse.

The high point of his career so far was the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . There he was part of the British team, which won an Olympic team medal for the United with the bronze medal in the final on July 30th in the North Greenwich Arena for the first time in 100 years Kingdom won. In the individual finals on the pommel horse, which he achieved in the qualification with 14,900 points only because of the better number of points for the execution in front of the tied Ukrainian Nikolai Kuksenkow , Whitlock once again outdid himself and secured himself with an excellent exercise, which was rated with 15,600 points, the Olympic bronze medal behind his teammate Louis Smith .

In the following year, 2013, Whitlock was able to seamlessly build on the successes from the previous year. At the individual European championships in Moscow in April , he was the most successful athlete with the silver medal in the all-around competition, the gold medal in the individual finals in floor exercise and the bronze medal on the pommel horse. With his special device, the pommel horse, he was runner-up in the world championship in Antwerp, Belgium, while he narrowly missed a medal in the all- around competition with 4th place.

There were three international competitions in 2014. The in May in Sofia held European Championships Whitlock won with 16,166 points ahead of Olympic champion Krisztian Berki on pommel horse for the first time the European title. In team competition, he won the silver medal with the United Kingdom team. With the gold medal with the team, in the all-around and on the floor, as well as silver on the pommel horse and bronze on parallel bars, Whitlock finished the Commonwealth Games taking place in Glasgow as the best participant in gymnastics. The third major event of the year, the World Championship in Nanning, China, initially seemed one too many. Because of a fall on the ground and an incorrect exercise on the pommel horse, Whitlock did not manage to qualify for one of the individual finals. In addition, as the third-best qualified Brit behind Daniel Purvis and Nile Wilson, he was initially not eligible to start in the all-around competition. Due to a wrist injury of his teammate Nile Wilson in the team competition, he was still able to take part in the all-around final and still achieved the silver medal with 90,473 points.

In 2015, Whitlock was appointed to the British selection for the European Championship despite a previous glandular fever illness , but could not qualify for any of the individual finals. At the home world championships in Glasgow in October he won a silver medal with the British team in the team all-around and in the final on the ground. On the pommel horse, he managed to achieve the title of gymnastics world champion with a score of 16,133, the first world champion title for a male British gymnast in 112 years.

Web links

Commons : Max Whitlock  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Portrait on teamgb.com (English)
• Max Whitlock in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Portrait of the British Association Turn (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Essex pair Whitlock and Lawrence hail 'amazing' silver. In: bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Company , October 5, 2010, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
2. ^ Max can start dreaming of Olympics spot. In: echo-news.co.uk. January 12, 2012, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ London 2012 Olympics: Great Britain men win first ever team gold at the European Gymnastics Championships. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , May 28, 2012, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
5. ↑ 5th European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships - Men's Allaround Final. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: gymnasticsresults.com. April 19, 2013, archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on April 27, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Ollie Williams: World Gymnastics 2013: Is Max Whitlock the new Louis Smith? In: bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Company , September 27, 2013, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Nick Hope: European Gymnastics: British men battle back to secure silver. In: bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Company , May 24, 2014, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Oliver Brown: Commonwealth Games 2014: England's men and women gymnasts take double gold. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , July 29, 2014, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Nick Howson: Glasgow 2014: Max Whitlock Wins Second Commonwealth Gold in Men's Gymnastics All-Around. In: ibtimes.co.uk. International Business Times , July 30, 2014, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Max Whitlock takes all-around silver at world gymnastics championships. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , October 9, 2014, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Max Whitlock pips Louis Smith to world gymnastics gold medal in Glasgow. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , October 31, 2015, accessed April 27, 2018 .