Claudia Fragapane

Claudia Fragapane
— Gymnast —

Personal information
Full name Claudia Fragapane
Country represented  Great Britain
 England
Born (1997-10-24) 24 October 1997
Bristol, United Kingdom
Height 4 ft 6 in (137 cm)[1]
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior International Elite
Club Bristol Hawks
Music 2013–2014: Shake Break Bounce by The Chemical Brothers
2015-2016: Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag by Pigbag
Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
World Championships
2015 Glasgow Team
European Championships
2014 Sofia Team
2015 Montpellier Floor Exercise
Competitor for  England
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow Team
2014 Glasgow All-Around
2014 Glasgow Vault
2014 Glasgow Floor Exercise

Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997, Bristol)[2] is an English artistic gymnast of Italian descent.[3][4] She represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 2014 European Championships. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning four gold medals, the first English woman to achieve this at the Commonwealth Games since Joyce Cooper 84 years previously.[5] In 2015, Fragapane formed part of the Great Britain women's team that won that country's first ever team final medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[6]

Career

2014

At the British Gymnastics National Championships 2014 Fragapane placed 2nd on vault with a score of 14.000, 5th on floor exercise 13.000, and third on the uneven bars 13.950. Fragapane was placed third in the all-around competition, scoring 55.700.[7]

Fragapane was selected for the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Here she had, overall, a successful competition contributing to a silver medal winning performance in the Team competition. Fragapane qualified for the Vault and Floor Exercise finals finishing 6th and 8th respectively with scores of 14.333 (vault) and 14.133 (floor exercise).[8]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Fragapane contributed on all four events in the team final, where the English team won gold.[9] Fragapane qualified first into the all-around final with a score of 56.740. She was over a point and a half ahead of the second place qualifier, Ellie Black.[10] She also qualified first on beam,[11] vault,[12] and floor.[13] Fragapane won the individual all-around with a score of 56.132.[14] Fragapane then won gold in the Women's Vault final with a score of 14.633.[15] On 1 August, Fragapane won gold in the Women's floor final with a score of 14.541.[16] With four gold medals in a single games, Fragapane was England's most successful female Commonwealth Games competitor in over 80 years.[4]

Fragapane was selected to compete on the British team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where she helped the women's team to qualify into the team finals in 4th place. Individually she qualified for the individual all-around in 13th place with a score of 55.999, despite a fall on the Balance Beam. She also qualified for the Floor final in 6th place with a score of 14.400 and the Vault final in 7th place with a score of 14.716.

In the team final, Fragapane contributed a vault score of 14.466 and a floor score of 14.533 towards the British team's 6th-place finish. In the individual all-around final, she placed 10th, with a score of 56.098. In the vault final she tied for 5th place with Giulia Steingruber, with a score of 14.716. In the floor final, a fall and a step out of bounds meant she finished in 8th place with a score of 13.100.

After Fragapane's success in 2014, she was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year edging out fellow shortlisted nominees, para-cyclist Sophie Thornhill and golfer Bradley Neil.

2015

Fragapane at the 2015 European Championships

In January it was confirmed that Fragapane would compete at the 2015 AT&T American Cup, her first appearance at the competition. The event is set to take place in Arlington, Texas on 7 March.[17][18]

She competed at the 2015 AT&T American Cup but struggled through the competition, counting numerous falls[19] and she eventually placed 9th all-around[20]

Fragapane competed at the 2015 English Artistic Gymnastics Championships a week later on 14 March 2015, in Loughborough. She scored 54.900 all-around.[21]

She competed at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in April 2015, in Montpellier, France. Fragapane placed 6th in the all-around final,[22] 6th in the vault final,[23] 4th on the beam[24] and eventually, took a silver in the floor final, behind Ksenia Afanasyeva.[25]

2016

In March 2016, she won the all-around title, as well as three event titles, at the 2016 English Championships, held in Loughborough.[26]

Competitive History

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2011English Junior Championships 5th4th 6th4th
British Junior Championships 8th3rd 6th
Isle of Man International1st1st
UK School Games2nd7th 6th7th
2012Coupe Avenir1st 1st
British Junior Championships 5th2nd 4th5th
2013Élite Gym Massilia3rd6th 5th
Gymnasiade3rd7th5th7th6th5th
2014English Championships 3rd1st4th 4th
British Championships 3rd2nd3rd 5th
Munich Friendly1st
GBR-NED International Friendly1st9th
European Championships2nd 6th 8th
Commonwealth Games1st1st1st 5th1st
World Championships6th10th5th 8th
2015AT&T American Cup 9th
English Championships 2nd1st2nd3rd4th
British Championships 2nd1st3rd3rd2nd
European Championships 6th 6th 4th 2nd
GBR-NED International Friendly1st
World Championships 3rd 7th
2016Glasgow World Cup 3rd
English Championships 1st2nd1st1st1st

References

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  1. ↑ "England's 4ft 6in gymnast Claudia Fragapane wins Commonwealth gold in women's individual all-around in Glasgow". Mail Online. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Glasgow 2014 – Claudia FRAGAPANE Profile". Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Donald McRae. "Claudia Fragapane: I was driving my mum crazy bouncing around the house". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Glasgow 2014: Claudia Fragapane wins historic fourth gold". BBC Sport. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014. Fragapane's Italian-born dad wears Italy football shirts when she competes
  5. ↑ "BBC Sport – Glasgow 2014: Claudia Fragapane wins historic fourth gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  6. ↑ British Women clame historic bronze, from British-Gymnastics.org
  7. ↑ "Mens & Womens Artistic British Championships 2014 – British Gymnastics". Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Nick Hope. "BBC Sport – European Gymnastics: Rebecca Downie wins gold in uneven bars". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Team Final". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  10. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's All-Around Qualification". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Beam Qualification". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  12. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Vault Qualification". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  13. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Floor Qualification". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  14. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's AA Final". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "Gymnastics Artistic Women's Vault Final". Glasgow 2014. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "Gymnastic's Artistic Women's Floor Final". 2014 Glasgow. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  17. ↑ "USA's Mikulak, Skinner, Whittenburg will compete at 2015 AT&T American Cup – AT&T American Cup". AT&T American Cup. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique – View FigNews". Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  19. ↑ Claudia Fragapane (GBR) – Floor Exercise – 2015 AT&T American Cup. YouTube. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  20. ↑ https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/w_15ac.pdf
  21. ↑ "Gymdata ~ 2015 English Championships ~ Claudia Fragapane". Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  22. ↑ http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2015/wag/aafinal.pdf
  23. ↑ http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2015/wag/af1vt.pdf
  24. ↑ http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2015/wag/af3bb.pdf
  25. ↑ http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2015/wag/af4fx.pdf
  26. ↑ http://thegymter.net/2016/03/19/2016-english-championships-results/
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