1. Joe Fraser was born on 6 December 1998 and is an English artistic gymnast.
22 Facts About Joe Fraser
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Joe Fraser is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars.
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Joe Fraser is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these events, and the third British world champion.
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Joe Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.
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At age five, Joe Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.
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Joe Fraser studied at Sandwell Academy from 2010 to 2015.
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When he retires, Joe Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach.
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Joe Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Joe Fraser won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.
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Early in the year, Joe Fraser fell from the high bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
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Joe Fraser returned to international competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Guimares, Portugal.
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At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Joe Fraser won a silver as part of the team.
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In March 2019, Joe Fraser won a silver medal on the high bar and bronze medal on parallel bars at the British Championships.
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At the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, Joe Fraser narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.033 marks in the all-around final.
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Joe Fraser was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Joe Fraser competed for Great Britain.
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The team, consisting of Max Whitlock, James Hall, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Joe Fraser, took fourth place with a score of 255.76.
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Joe Fraser then continued to compete in the Olympics at Tokyo and qualified for the individual all round final where he came 9th in his debut games.
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Joe Fraser advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals and was a reserve athlete for pommel horse.
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Joe Fraser went on to take gold in both the pommel horse and parallel bars.
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Joe Fraser won the all-around at the European Championships ahead of Adem Asil and Ahmet Onder.
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At the 2024 European Championships Joe Fraser helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine.