Daniel Purvis
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| Full name | Daniel Scott Purvis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Dan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain Scotland
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13 November 1990 Crosby |
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| Residence | Southport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's Artistic Gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Southport YMCA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Jeff Brookes & Andrei Popov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Scott Purvis (born 13 November 1990 in Crosby, England) is an international elite artistic gymnast, and 3-time British all-around champion in men's artistic gymnastics. He trains at Southport YMCA and is coached by Jeff Brookes and Andrei Popov. He was part of the first British men's team to win a medal at a World Championships in 2015.
During his time as a Junior he came 4th in the team for Great Britain at the Junior European Championships in Greece in 2006. Two years later in Lausanne he helped the British team win the Gold medal, and individually won the all-around silver at the Junior European Championships again.
In 2010, Purvis became the British men's all-around champion with Samuel Hunter. In the same year, he attended the European Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, UK, and won a silver medal as part of the British team, and a bronze medal on floor. At the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he won another bronze medal on floor.
In 2011, Purvis once again won the all-around title in the British Championships. He earned a bronze medal in the all-around competition at the European Gymnastics Championships in Berlin, Germany; and won the 2011 FIG World Cup Event in Glasgow, beating Philipp Boy who later pipped him to 4th place at the World Championships in Tokyo. At the World Championships In October, Great Britain's Men's team hoped to qualify to the 2012 Summer Olympics but had a surprisingly awful time in the Preliminary rounds. Despite his teammates making several costly mistakes and falls, Purvis was a steady rock for the team performing consistently in every event, qualifying for the all-around finals. He came fourth in the all-around competition, missing out on a medal by 0.323 marks. His performances in the World Cup competitions meant that he was the overall winner for the World Cup Series in 2011.
Due to the British men's team failing to qualify to the Olympics at the World Championships in Tokyo, they were able to send a team to the Olympic Test event in London in January. Once again, Purvis gave a strong performance to help the team to qualify to the Olympics. Their qualifying score of 358.227 would have put them in 4th place going into team finals had they given the same performance in Tokyo. Purvis also got the highest all-around score at the event, with teammates Kristian Thomas and Daniel Keatings taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively. In the apparatus finals he won gold on floor exercise tied with Tomás González In May, Purvis led the British team in qualifications for the European Championships in Montpelier, despite having been ill with food poisoning the previous night. After only 3 hours sleep he started the competition on Vault and fell into a judge's lap. Echoing a performance given by US gymnast Paul Hamm at the 2004 Summer Olympics he rallied, and went on to qualify with the highest all-around score. The team went on to win Britain's first team Gold in the finals. Although Purvis made the floor finals, it was decided by the team coaches that he would not compete to give him a rest after having been ill earlier in the week. In June 2012, Purvis won the British Artistic Gymnastics Championships for the third consecutive time.
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