Nile Wilson
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| Country represented |
 Great Britain England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
17 January 1996 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Leeds Gym Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nile Wilson (born 17 January 1996)[1] is a British artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic horizontal bar bronze medalist.
In 2014, Wilson became the first British gymnast ever to win five gold medals at the European Junior Gymnastics Championships. Making his senior debut for England, he proceeded in the same year to win four medals, including two gold, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion on horizontal bar.
Wilson was a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. This was the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history.[2]
Personal life
Wilson was born 17 January 1996 in Leeds.[1] He attended Pudsey Grangefield School.[3]
Competitive history
2014
Junior career
Wilson was crowned British Junior Champion in March. He also received the Young Sportsman male award at the Leeds Sports Awards. He competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia in May, winning five gold medals. He was then was selected to compete for the English Commonwealth Games team, graduating to Senior Level.
Senior career
Commonwealth Games
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Wilson contributed a score of 86.607 for the England team to win the Team Gold and qualify second for the Individual all-around final, behind teammate Max Whitlock.[4] Wilson then won a bronze medal in the all-around final with a score of 87.965. He won silver in the Parallel bars final with a score of 15.433 behind Scottish gymnast Daniel Purvis. Wilson took his first individual commonwealth gold in the Horizontal Bar final with a score of 14.966. His teammate Kristian Thomas took silver.[5]
2015
2015 World Championships
Wilson competed at the 2015 Gymnastics World Championships in Glasgow. He placed tenth all around in qualification with 88.365, but did not advance due to the two per country rule.[6] Wilson competed on three apparatus in the team final: Still Rings (14.933), Parallel Bars (15.033) and Horizontal bar (14.833), contributing to the team silver medal.[7] Wilson also qualified to the Parallel Bars final, placing 8th with a score of 15.233.[8]
2016
Wilson competed at the AT&T American Cup on 5 March 2016. He struggled in the competition, receiving execution scores below eight on three apparatuses. He did however receive the third highest score on parallel bars, scoring 15.266. He came fifth overall with a score of 84.131.[9] On 12 July 2016 he was named to the 2016 Olympic team along with Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Kristian Thomas and Brinn Bevan. Wilson won the bronze medal at the horizontal bar event with a score of 15.466, becoming the first British gymnast to do so.[10]
References
- 1 2 "Nile Wilson profile". British gymnastics. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ↑ "GB Men Win Historic Silver at World Championships". BBC Sport. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ Sobot, Lee (26 July 2015). "Gymnastics: Nile's flying the flag for Leeds at Commonwealth Games". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ "Gymnastic Artistic Men's all-around qualification". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ↑ "Glasgow Commonwealth results". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ↑ "Artistic – Men's Individual Qualification". Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ "Artistic – Men's Team Final". Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ "Historic World Championships come to a close". British Gymnastics. 1 November 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ "2016 AT&T American Cup" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Nile Wilson wins Great Britain's first high bar medal". BBC. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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