Nile Wilson
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Olympic games 2016
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 Great Britain England
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17 January 1996 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Leeds Gym Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Nile Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is an English 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.
Wilson was born 17 January 1996 in Leeds. He attended Pudsey Grangefield School.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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. Wilson also qualified to the Parallel Bars final, placing 8th with a score of 15.233.
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