Katherine "Kat" Driscoll was born on 13 March 1986 and is a British trampoline gymnast, and has been ranked as world number one.
14 Facts About Kat Driscoll
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Kat Driscoll became a full-time athlete in 2010, and has since won team and synchronised medals at the World and European Championships.
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Kat Driscoll was chosen for the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics after earning Great Britain a spot in the Women's Trampolining following her performance at the 2011 Trampoline World Championships.
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Kat Driscoll took up the sport of trampolining at the age of seven after taking lessons during her school holidays.
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Between September 2003 and July 2004, Kat Driscoll studied at MidKent College on a BTEC First Diploma in Sport course.
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Kat Driscoll had been interested in swimming, but chose to compete in trampolining.
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Until 2010, Kat Driscoll worked full-time at bank HSBC whilst training.
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Kat Driscoll has described the ability to take up the sport full-time as a crucial turning point in her career.
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Kat Driscoll won gold at the Aalsmeer Flower Cup in 2009.
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Kat Driscoll has won the British championship twice, and finished in the top three spots on two occasions during the 2011 World Cup competitions.
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Kat Driscoll went into the 2011 Trampoline World Championships held in Birmingham, England, as world number one in Trampolining due to her high attendance and good results at World Cup competitions giving her more points than other competitors who did not attend as many.
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Kat Driscoll was described by BBC Sport prior to the Championships as "Great Britain's secret world number one".
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Kat Driscoll finished in ninth place, but, as National Olympic Committees are only allowed to send a maximum of two athletes to the Games, and China had four competitors in the top eight, she obtained the seventh place Olympic berth for a sole trampolinist at the 2012 Games.
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At the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event at the O2 Arena in January 2012, where the trampolining events for the 2012 Summer Olympics would be in July, Kat Driscoll finished in fourth place.