1. Max Antony Whitlock was born on 13 January 1993 and is an English artistic gymnast.
53 Facts About Max Whitlock
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Max Whitlock is the most successful pommel horse worker in Olympic Games history, with two gold medals and one bronze.
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Max Whitlock is a six-time Olympic medallist, winning three golds and three bronzes, and a five-time world medallist on the pommel horse with three gold and two silvers.
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Max Whitlock became Great Britain's first-ever Olympic gold medallist in artistic gymnastics when he won both the floor exercise and pommel horse at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Max Whitlock is a four-time European champion and a four-time Commonwealth Games champion representing England.
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Max Whitlock was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 13 January 1993.
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Max Whitlock was introduced to gymnastics by a friend from a swimming club when he was seven and joined the Sapphire School of Gymnastics in Hemel Hempstead.
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When he was twelve, his coach Klemen Bedenik returned to Slovenia, and Max Whitlock followed him to Maribor to continue training.
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Max Whitlock returned three months later and joined South Essex Gymnastics Club in Basildon, where he is coached by his brother-in-law Scott Hann.
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Max Whitlock won gold on pommel horse and floor exercise and silver in the all-around at the 2010 Junior European Championships held in Birmingham.
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Max Whitlock won the silver medal on the pommel horse and a bronze medal on the horizontal bar.
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Max Whitlock was an alternate for the British men's team at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo.
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Max Whitlock was selected for the British team that competed at the Olympic Test Event, the final opportunity to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Max Whitlock won the silver medal in the pommel horse final behind teammate Louis Smith.
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Max Whitlock competed with the British team that won the gold medal at the European Championships.
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Max Whitlock represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London alongside Smith, Sam Oldham, Daniel Purvis, and Kristian Thomas.
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Max Whitlock won the bronze medal in the pommel horse event final behind Hungary's Krisztian Berki and teammate Smith.
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Max Whitlock began the season at the Internationaux de France where he won the silver medal on the pommel horse behind Olympic champion Krisztian Berki.
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Max Whitlock then competed at the European Championships in Moscow.
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Max Whitlock then won Great Britain's first European floor title by tying with Israel's Alexander Shatilov.
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At the World Championships, Max Whitlock finished fourth in the all-around final, only 0.300 behind the bronze medalist.
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Max Whitlock won his third gold in the floor exercise final.
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Max Whitlock took silver in the pommel horse final and bronze in the parallel bars final.
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Max Whitlock was chosen to compete for Great Britain at World Championships in Nanning, China.
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Max Whitlock did not qualify for any of the individual finals, including the all-around due to the two-per-country rule as he finished behind teammates Daniel Purvis and Nile Wilson.
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Max Whitlock won the silver medal with a score of 90.473, just under a point and a half behind defending Olympic all-around champion Kohei Uchimura.
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Max Whitlock competed with the British men's team at the World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Max Whitlock won the silver medal on the floor exercise behind Kenzo Shirai.
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Max Whitlock competed at the Glasgow World Cup and won the all-around with a total score of 89.299.
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Max Whitlock had the highest scores of the competition on floor and pommel horse, and he came second on vault and high bar.
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On 12 July 2016, Max Whitlock was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics, along with Louis Smith, Nile Wilson, Kristian Thomas and Brinn Bevan.
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Max Whitlock won a bronze medal in the all-around final, Great Britain's first medal in this Olympic event for 108 years.
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Max Whitlock later went on to win the gold in the floor exercise, becoming the first British gymnast to win an individual Olympic gold medal.
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Max Whitlock took three months off from training after the Olympic Games.
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Max Whitlock returned to competition at the World Championships but only competed on the pommel horse and floor exercise.
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Max Whitlock became the first British gymnast to successfully defend a World title when he won the pommel horse final.
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At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Max Whitlock was part of the team that won gold in the team event.
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At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Max Whitlock won a silver as part of the British team.
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At the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, Max Whitlock was a member of the British team that finished fifth.
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Max Whitlock failed to win a third consecutive pommel gold at the World Championship, despite receiving the same score of 15.166 as the winner Xiao Ruoteng.
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Max Whitlock lost the tiebreaker and finished in second place due to a lower execution mark.
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At the World Championships in Stuttgart, Max Whitlock fell on the pommel horse during the team final where the British team finished fifth.
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Max Whitlock returned to competition at the European Championships, his first competition in 18 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Max Whitlock competed for Great Britain alongside Joe Fraser, James Hall, and Giarnni Regini-Moran.
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Max Whitlock opted not to defend the floor exercise title, concentrating instead on the pommel horse, which he went on to win with a score of 15.583.
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Max Whitlock took over one year off from training after the Olympic Games and did not compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games or the 2022 World Championships.
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Max Whitlock was scheduled to return to competition at the 2023 European Championships, but he had to withdraw due to an injury.
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Max Whitlock was selected for the 2023 World Championships team alongside Jake Jarman, James Hall, Harry Hepworth and Courtney Tulloch.
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In 2024 Max Whitlock announced that Paris 2024 would be his final Olympics.
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Max Whitlock finished seventh in the public vote for the 2014 and 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, and he finished eighth in 2015.
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Max Whitlock received the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Max Whitlock was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to gymnastics and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours, for services to gymnastics.
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In February 2021, Max Whitlock was announced as an ambassador for the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool, England.