Louis Smith
Louis Smith was born in Peterborough, England, United Kingdom on April 22nd, 1989 and is the Gymnast. At the age of 35, Louis Smith biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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As a junior, Smith was twice a European Champion on Pommel Horse, winning the title in 2004 and 2006. In 2006 he took 5th place in the World Cup final. He won gold on Pommel Horse for England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia beating Prashanth Sellathurai. In 2007, he came fourth in the Pommel Horse final at the European Championships. He attended his first World Championships competing for Great Britain at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There he won a bronze medal in the Pommel Horse final. He also won a silver on the pommel horse at the World Cup in Ghent the same year. In 2008, Smith won a silver on Pommel Horse at the World Cup in Moscow.
On 9 August 2008, Smith qualified in fifth place for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse, and on 17 August he won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming first British man to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in 1908 and the first Briton generally to win a medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games since the women's team won a bronze medal in 1928. He is also the second black male gymnast to win a medal in an Olympic competition. The first was Jair Lynch of the United States in 1996, a silver medalist on the parallel bars.
In 2009, he won his first silver medal at the European Championships on the pommel horse as a senior. In 2010, Smith helped the British men's team to win silver at the European Championships, and once again took the silver medal in the pommel horse. He went on to the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, where he beat Prashanth Sellathurai once again to take the silver medal. In 2011, he made the pommel horse finals but did not perform at his best and finished in 6th at the European Championships in Berlin. In October, he was chosen to be on the British team for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. The men's team were expected to qualify through to the team finals easily, but had a poor performance in the preliminary rounds. Louis was only chosen to perform on pommel horse, where he performed well, qualifying through to the pommel horse finals, ranking 2nd behind the 2010 World Champion, Krisztián Berki. On 14 October, he performed the most difficult routine out of all the finalists, but fell on his dismount, lowering his execution score. Despite this, he still placed 3rd behind Krisztián Berki and Cyril Tommasone to win the bronze medal — the only medal won by the British men and women at those championships.
In 2012, Smith won the silver medal in the pommel horse finals in the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Smith was part of the Great Britain team at the London Olympics. The team won a bronze medal at the men's artistic team all-around event on 30 July 2012, marking the first team medal for a British Olympic gymnastics team in 100 years. Smith also won the silver medal in the men's pommel horse final, receiving the same score as Hungary's Krisztián Berki; Berki, however, was awarded the gold medal due to having a higher execution score. This was especially crushing to the home nation as this could have been Great Britain's first ever Olympic gold medal in gymnastics but Smith said 'I set out to do the best routine of my life and I achieved it so I have to be satisfied'.
Smith retired in 2013 and didn't compete that year, but announced in early January 2014 that he was back in the gym training in a bid to return to International competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Smith won Bronze in the pommel horse finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games behind his British teammates Daniel Keatings, who was competing for Scotland and Max Whitlock. In 2015 he gained a berth to the British team competing at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montpelier, France. On Saturday 18 April he won the Gold medal on Pommel Horse - his first individual European title - with a score of 15.800.
Smith again represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He finished second in the pommel horse final behind teammate Max Whitlock.