It is an honour, a proud and exciting moment for me to have been selected to compete for Team GB at the Paris Olympics. A dream come true!
I am an elite men's artistic gymnast and a member of Great Britain’s Senior Top Squad as part of the World Performance Programme.
I am 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, I 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 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.
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.
Studying for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University, I have with the support of the University, delayed completing my final year to 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.