1. Lauren Stephanie Mitchell was born on 23 July 1991 and is an Australian former artistic gymnast.
47 Facts About Lauren Mitchell
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Lauren Mitchell is the 2010 World champion on the floor exercise and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on the balance beam and floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell is the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam, and with the Australian team, and she is the 2008 World Cup Final balance beam champion.
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Lauren Mitchell represented Australia at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
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Lauren Mitchell then became the first Australian gymnast to win more than one medal at the same World Championships when she won two silver medals in 2009.
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Lauren Mitchell won two more Commonwealth medals in 2014, silver with the team and on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell retired from gymnastics in 2016 as Australia's most decorated gymnast.
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Lauren Mitchell was born on 23 July 1991 in Subiaco, an inner suburb of Perth, to Leanne and Graeme Mitchell, and she is the oldest of four siblings.
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Lauren Mitchell began gymnastics when she was six years old after a gymnastics birthday party.
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At the 2005 Australian Junior Championships, Lauren Mitchell finished seventh in the all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise and eighth on the uneven bars.
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Lauren Mitchell missed the 2006 season due to a hamstring injury.
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Lauren Mitchell competed at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas and helped the Australian team win the bronze medal.
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Individually, Lauren Mitchell placed fourth in the all-around, won the silver medal on the balance beam and the bronze medal on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell then traveled to Kyiv to compete in the Stella Zakharova Cup where the Australian team finished sixth.
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Individually, Lauren Mitchell won the bronze medal in the all-around and the silver medal on the balance beam, and she finished fifth on the uneven bars and seventh on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell won the gold medal on the balance beam and the silver medal on the floor exercise, and she placed fifth on the uneven bars and eleventh on the vault.
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Lauren Mitchell won the silver medals on the balance beam and on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell was selected to compete at the World Championships alongside Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, Hollie Dykes, and Chloe Sims, and they finished eleventh in the qualification round.
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Lauren Mitchell competed at the Pacific Rim Championships where the Australian team finished fourth behind the United States, Canada, and China.
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Lauren Mitchell placed seventh on the uneven bars, won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Shona Morgan, and finished fourth on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell then competed at the Moscow World Cup where she finished fifth on both the uneven bars and the balance beam.
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Lauren Mitchell was selected to represent Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, and Olivia Vivian.
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Lauren Mitchell then won the gold medal on the balance beam at the World Cup Final making her the first Australian gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Cup Final.
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Lauren Mitchell became the national champion on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell finished fourth all-around and was 0.025 points away from the bronze medal after she took a 0.100 deduction on the floor exercise for stepping out of bounds.
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Lauren Mitchell went on to win two silver medals in the event finals, on the floor exercise behind Great Britain's Beth Tweddle and on the balance beam behind China's Deng Linlin.
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Lauren Mitchell returned to competition at the Commonwealth Games and won the team gold medal alongside teammates Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Emily Little, and Georgia Wheeler.
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Lauren Mitchell then went on to win gold in the all-around, on the uneven bars, and on the balance beam, for a total of four gold medals.
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Lauren Mitchell won a silver medal on the floor exercise behind English gymnast Imogen Cairns.
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Lauren Mitchell was then selected to compete at the World Championships in Rotterdam alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Emily Little, Larrissa Miller, and Georgia Wheeler, and they finished sixth in the team competition.
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Lauren Mitchell finished sixth in the all-around with a total score of 58.133,0.833 away from the bronze medal score.
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Lauren Mitchell then won gold on the floor exercise with a score of 14.833.
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Lauren Mitchell then competed at the Glasgow World Cup where she won two more gold medals on the balance beam and floor exercise and the bronze medal on the uneven bars.
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Lauren Mitchell then went to the Paris World Cup where she finished fourth on the balance beam.
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Lauren Mitchell finished fourth with the Australian team in the team competition.
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Lauren Mitchell was then selected for the World Championships team alongside Ashleigh Brennan, Larrissa Miller, Emily Little, Georgia-Rose Brown, and Mary-Anne Monckton.
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At the World Championships, the Australian team finished eighth, and Lauren Mitchell finished eighth in the all-around and fifth on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell returned to competition at the Doha World Cup and finished fourth on the floor exercise.
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Lauren Mitchell then went to the Korea Cup in Incheon where she placed fourth on the floor exercise.
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At the Commonwealth Games, Lauren Mitchell won a silver medal with the Australian team and on the floor exercise behind Claudia Fragapane.
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Lauren Mitchell was initially named to Australia's team for the World Championships, but she withdrew after injuring both of her ankles during podium training.
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Lauren Mitchell competed at the 2015 Australian Championships and won the gold medal on the floor exercise and placed fourth on the balance beam.
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Lauren Mitchell returned to competition at the 2016 Australian Championships and was inducted into Gymnastics Australia's Hall of Fame after the qualification round.
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However, Australia had only qualified one spot for the 2016 Olympics, and Lauren Mitchell was not selected.
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Lauren Mitchell graduated from Curtin University and now works as a radiographer at Royal Perth Hospital.
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Lauren Mitchell has been a member of both the Gymnastics Western Australia High Performance Advisory Committee and the Commonwealth Games Athlete Advisory Commission since 2019.
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Lauren Mitchell has the triple wolf turn named after her in the Code of Points on both the balance beam and the floor exercise.