Ellie Downie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Downie at the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France.
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Full name | Elissa Downie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Nottingham, United Kingdom |
20 July 1999 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Nottingham, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Notts Gymnastics Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Jo Miller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music |
2014: "Señorita" by Bond 2015: "Why Don't You" by Gramophonedzie 2016: "Skeletons" by Drehz 2017: "Boneless" by Steve Aoki |
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Medal record
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Elissa "Ellie" Downie (born 20 July 1999 in Nottingham) is an artistic gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the age of 15, she became the first British woman to win an individual all-around medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, with a bronze in 2015. Later that year, she was part of the team that won Britain's first global team medal, a bronze, at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the 2017 European Championships, she made history again by becoming the first British woman to win the all-around at a major international competition.
Downie competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and won a gold medal on vault, a silver medal with the British team and a bronze medal in the all-around. Based on this performance, she was selected to compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. There, she earned four medals: a silver on vault behind Wang Yan and bronzes in the all-around, balance beam and floor exercise.
Downie made her senior debut at the 2015 British Championships. She won silver on vault and uneven bars and bronze in the all-around competition, and was named to the British team for the 2015 European Championships along with her sister, Becky Downie.