Dominick "Dom" Adam Cunningham was born on 9 May 1995 and is an English-born elite artistic gymnast representing Ireland since 2022, having previously represented Great Britain and England.
16 Facts About Dominick Cunningham
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Dominick Cunningham won a team gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the Individual Floor Gold at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow.
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Dominick Cunningham attended Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Birmingham until 2013.
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Dominick Cunningham's parents supported his interest despite struggling to pay his gymnastics fees.
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Dominick Cunningham's mother took him to his first gymnastics session aged 5.
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Dominick Cunningham was regularly bullied at primary school for participating in gymnastics and was subjected to name-calling.
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Dominick Cunningham has trained at City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club in Perry Barr and the Earls Gymnastics Club in Halesowen.
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Dominick Cunningham had success at the junior level at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival and the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival.
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Dominick Cunningham was a member of the British team for the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in April 2017, advancing to the floor exercise and vault event finals.
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At the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia, Dominick Cunningham was part of the team that won gold on the men's all-around event.
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Dominick Cunningham attended the official handover ceremony at the 2018 Commonwealth Games as an ambassador representing his home city of Birmingham, which will be hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Dominick Cunningham won gold in the floor exercise.
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Dominick Cunningham won a silver as part of the team.
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Dominick Cunningham sustained a leg injury at the 2019 European Championships in Poland, which left him on an 18-week rehabilitation programme to be able to walk again.
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At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany, Dominick Cunningham was part of the team that finished in fifth place in qualifications, qualifying the Great Britain team a place at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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In early 2022 Dominick Cunningham officially switched nationalities and began representing Ireland, his father's birth nation.