It was an honour, a proud and exciting moment for me to be selected to compete for Team GB at the Paris Olympics. A dream come true!
I am an Olympic men's artistic gymnast and a member of Great Britain’s Senior Top Squad as part of the World Performance Programme.
I am a Olympic Floor Finalist as well an English, British and Double European Senior Floor Champion having made history being the first British male gymnast to retain a European Apparatus title in 2024 (Rimini, Italy) having won the title in 2023 (Antalya, Turkey). In 2023, We won European Team Bronze.
My break through year was in 2019, where I competed at no less than 7 internationals. Of note, I represented Team GB at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. I also competed for Great Britain at the inaugural Junior World Championships in Gyor, Hungary.
In my first year as a Senior at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, Croatia, I qualified for the Floor final and in doing so became the first British gymnast to compete a Triple back Somersault and the youngest known (at the time) to compete the skill in the world.
In 2022 I reached the World Cup final on Floor in Doha. At the same competition in 2023, I won my first world cup medal, a bronze on the Floor and in 2024 won silver. At the Paris World Cup in 2023, I also took bronze. In 2024 I was the reserve gymnast for the World Championships.
Nationally in February 2023 I retained my English Floor title and also became Parallel Bars Champion and followed this up in March becoming British Senior Floor Champion. At the European Championships in April, I was part of the team with Jake Jarman, Courtney Tulloch, Josh Nathan and Adam Tobin to win Team bronze. On Floor I became European Champion, which I retained in 2024, beating again the reigning Olympic and World Champion, Artem Dolgopyat.
At the Paris Olympics 2024 I was in the team alongside Max Whitlock OBE, Joe Fraser, Jake Jarman and Harry Hepworth where we came 4th in the Team Final, with Japan, China and the USA taking the medals.
I train at Leeds Gymnastics Club 33 hours a week, 6 days a week. As an All-around gymnast, I compete across all 6 pieces of artistic apparatus: Floor, Pommel, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and High Bar. I am coached by Andy Butcher, Dave Murray and Tom Rawlinson, alongside working closely with the National Coach, Baz Collie.
I'm studying for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University, I am in my final year and with the support of the University agreed to split the final year through 2024 to 2026, so I am able to also focus on my gymnastics.
As a funded athlete I am grateful to the National Lottery and National Lottery players, as this supports me in pursuing my gymnastics career.
@LeedsGymMAG Training Montage
In June it was a huge accolade for me in my first year to be awarded sportsman of the year. With such a sporting pedigree that the university has with Olympic medalist across athletics and triathlon having attended the University. I was suppose to be out in Germany competing for Sengan in a 1st division Bundesliga match, but with the injury diagnosis late that same week it was regrettably too late to attend.
Making history becoming the first British gymnast to compete a triple back somersault on the floor.