Courtney Tulloch
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 Tulloch at the 2015 European Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Courtney James Matthew Winston Tulloch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Great Britain  England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 1995 Lewisham, England[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Maidstone, Kent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's Artistic Gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2012–present (GBR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | South Essex gymnastics club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Courtney James Matthew Winston Tulloch (born 6 October 1995) is a currently active English international artistic gymnast, representing Great Britain and England since 2012, and is a specialist in still rings and vault.
Tulloch is the double Commonwealth Games champion on rings in 2018 and 2022, and a silver medallist on vault in 2018, all representing England. He was also part of the gold medal-winning England team at the Commonwealth Games of 2018 and 2022.
Representing Great Britain, he was part of the gold medal-winning team at the 2022 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and a three-time European medal winner on rings.
In November 2022 he became the first British gymnast ever to win a global medal on rings, a bronze, at the 2022 World Championships, having helped Great Britain to bronze, and Olympic qualification, in the team event days earlier.
Background
Tulloch trains at South Essex Gymnastics Club under coaches Anthony Wise & Scott Hann. He used to train at Pegasus Gymnastics Club in Maidstone under coaches Ovi Rugina & Ionut Trandaburu.
Junior career
During his junior career he was a two time all-around champion at the UK School Games and won several titles on rings. He was also part of the Junior British team that won the European title at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, as well as winning a gold medal on the rings.
Senior career
In 2013, he won a silver medal at the World Cup in Ljubljana on the rings.[3]
In 2014, he was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Nanning, China where he helped the men's team qualify to the final with performances on pommel horse, rings and parallel bars. He also qualified in 5th place for the rings final with a score of 15.700.
In 2018, he was selected to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. He took gold in the rings,[4] and also won gold in the men's artistic team all-around.[5] In the vault, he won silver.[6]
At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Tulloch won a bronze in the rings.[7] He also won a silver as part of the team.[8]
Tulloch was part of the England team that won gold in the team competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[9]
Tulloch is credited with an eponymous skill with an 'F' difficulty classification.
He is part of the Castore Sportswear Academy.[10]
References
- ^ Courtney Tulloch profile, British Gymnastics.
- ^ "Courtney TULLOCH". Retrieved 12 April 2023.
- ^ "Finals, MAG, Rings / Krogi moški". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
- ^ Tucker, Craig (8 April 2018). "Commonwealth Games: Maidstone gymnast Courtney Tulloch beats Nile Wilson on rings to win second gold medal". Kent Online.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Day One medal round-up". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Australia's Remkes wins gold despite Tulloch brilliance". BBC Sport. 9 April 2018.
- ^ "European Championships 2018: Dominick Cunningham wins gold as Max Whitlock misses out". BBC Sport. 12 August 2018.
- ^ "High bar falls cost British gymnasts as Russia takes European team gold". ESPN. 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Courtney Tulloch - Castore". castore.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
External links
- Courtney Tulloch at British Gymnastics
- Courtney Tulloch at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Courtney Tulloch at Team England
- Courtney Tulloch at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- British male artistic gymnasts
- English male artistic gymnasts
- Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Gymnasts at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Gymnasts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- European champions in gymnastics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Sportspeople from Lewisham
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games