From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Smith (gymnast)
Louis Smith (gymnast)
Louis Smith Gold 2006 Melbourne Pommel Horse
Bronze 2006 Melbourne Team
Louis Antoine Smith (born 22 April 1989 in Peterborough,
England) is an English artistic gymnast from Eye near
Peterborough. He is a member of the Huntingdon Gym-
nastics club, training alongside teammate Daniel Keatin-
gs under coach, Paul Hall.
His strongest event is the pommel horse, in which he
has been a 2-time European Silver medallist and Com-
monwealth Games Champion. He represented Great Bri-
tain at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]
In 2010 Louis joined Lucozade Sport as an Ambas-
Personal information sador.
Full name Louis Antoine Smith
Country represented United Kingdom Before Beijing
England As a Junior he was a two-time European Champion on
Born 22 April 1989 (1989-04-22)
Pommel Horse, winning the title in both 2004 and 2006.
In 2006 he took 5th place in the World Cup final.
Hometown Peterborough He won Gold on Pommel Horse for England at the
Height 179 centimetres (5 ft 10 in)[1] 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia
beating Prashanth Sellathurai.
Discipline Men’s artistic gymnastics In 2007 he came 4th in the Pommel Horse final at the
Club Huntingdon European Championships. He attended his first World
Championships competing for Great Britain at the 2007
Head coach(es) Paul Hall
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart,
Medal record Germany. There he won a Bronze medal in the Pommel
Competitor for United Kingdom Horse final. He also won a Silver on the pommel horse at
the World Cup in Ghent the same year.
Artistic Gymnastics In 2008 he won a Silver on Pommel Horse again at the
Olympic Games World Cup in Moscow.
Bronze 2008 Beijing Pommel Horse
World Championships
2008 Summer Olympics
On 9 August 2008 he qualified in 5th place for the Olympic
Silver 2010 Rotterdam Pommel Horse
final of the men’s pommel horse, and on 17 August he
Bronze 2011 Tokyo Pommel Horse won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming the first in
Britain to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the
Bronze 2007 Stuttgart Pommel Horse
Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in
European Championships 1908 and the first Briton to win a medal in gymnastics
Silver 2010 Birmingham Team
at the Olympic Games since the women’s team won a
bronze medal in 1928.[3] He is also the second black male
Silver 2010 Birmingham Pommel Horse gymnast to win a medal in an Olympic competition. The
Silver 2009 Milan Pommel horse first was Jair Lynch of the United States in 1996, a silver
medalist on the parallel bars.
Commonwealth Games
Competitor for England
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2009-2011 References
In 2009 he won his first silver medal at the European [1] Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Athlete profile > Louis
Championships on the Pommel Horse as a Senior. Smith
In 2010 he helped the British men’s team to win Silver [2] Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Team GB
at the European Championships, and once again took the [3] "Smith wins historic bronze for GB". BBC Sport
Silver medal in the Pommel Horse. He went on to the (BBC). 2008-08-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/
2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rot- hi/olympics/gymnastics/7566647.stm. Retrieved
terdam where he beat Prashanth Sellathurai once again 2008-08-18.
to take the Silver medal. [4] http://www.dtb-online.de/portal/fileadmin/
In 2011, he made the Pommel Horse finals but did not user_upload/dtb.redaktion/Turn-EM_2011/Fotos/
perform at his best and finished in 6th at the European Wettkaempfe/Results/pauschenpferd.pdf
Championships in Berlin.[4] In October, he was chosen to [5] "GB men fail to qualify for 2012". BBC News. 10
be on the British team for the 2011 World Artistic Gym- October 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/
nastics Championships in Tokyo. The men’s team were gymnastics/15236835.stm.
expected to qualify through to the team finals easily, but [6] "Shaky Smith takes pommel bronze". BBC News. 15
had a poor performance in the preliminary rounds.[5] October 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/
Louis was only chosen to perform on Pommel Horse gymnastics/15320395.stm.
where he performed well, qualifying through to the Pom-
mel Horse finals ranking 2nd behind the 2010 World
Champion, Krisztian Berki. On October 14th, he per-
External links
formed the most difficult routine out of all the finalists, • Louis Smith at Fédération Internationale de
but fell on his dismount, lowering his execution score. Gymnastique
Despite this, he still placed 3rd behind Krisztian Berki • Louis’ official website
and Cyril Tommasone to win the Bronze medal - the only Persondata
medal won by the British men and women at those cham- Name Smith, Louis
pionships.[6]
Alternative names
Short description Gymnast
Personal Life
Date of birth 22 April 1989
Louis went to school at Arthur Mellows Village College in
Place of birth
Glinton near Peterborough.
Date of death
Place of death
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• Living people
• English male artistic gymnasts
• British gymnasts
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• English people of Jamaican descent
• Gymnasts at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
• Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships
• Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain
• Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
• Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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