Ellie Downie

Ellie Downie
— Gymnast ♀ —

Ellie Downie at the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France.
Personal information
Full name Elissa Downie
Country represented  Great Britain
Born (1999-07-20) 20 July 1999
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Hometown Nottingham, United Kingdom
Height 157.3 cm (5 ft 1.9 in)
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior International Elite
Club Notts Gymnastics Club
Head coach(es) Claire Starkey, Ian Kime
Music 2014: "Señorita" by Bond
2015: "Why Don't You by Gramophonedzie
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2015 Glasgow Team
European Championships
2015 Montpellier All-Around
Youth Olympic Games
2014 Nanjing Vault
2014 Nanjing All-Around
2014 Nanjing Balance Beam
2014 Nanjing Floor Exercise

Elissa "Ellie" Downie (born 20 July 1999 in Nottingham)[1] is a British artistic gymnast and sister of Olympian Becky Downie. She represented Great Britain at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.[2] A prodigious junior, Downie, at the age of 15, became the first female gymnast ever to win an individual all-around medal for Great Britain at the European Championships, with a bronze at the 2015 Championships in Montpelier, France[3] Later in the same year, Downie was part of the Great Britain women's team that won her country's first ever global team medal, a bronze, at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Junior career

2014

Downie competed at the European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She won a gold on vault, a team silver and a bronze in the all-around competition.[4]

Youth Olympics

Ellie was selected to compete at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China through her performances at the European Championships. At the Summer Youth Olympics, she earned four medals: silver on vault behind Wang Yan and bronze in the all-around, balance beam and floor exercise.

Athlete Event Apparatus Total Rank
F V UB BB
Ellie Downie Qualification 13,500
2[5]		 14,525
1[6]		 11,600
15[7]		 13,500
2[8]		 53,500[9] 2

Senior career

2015

Downie competed at the 2015 British Championships as a senior. She won silver on vault and uneven bars and bronze in the all-around competition. She was named as one of the gymnasts to represent Great Britain at the 2015 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships along with her sister Becky Downie. She did well in qualifications qualifying for the Individual All-Around, Vault and Uneven Bars finals.[10]

On Friday 17 April she competed in the Women's Individual All-Around final, where she came 3rd behind Giulia Steingruber and Maria Kharenkova with a score of 56.623, winning a historic bronze medal for the British team. This would be the first ever individual all-around medal for a British female gymnast at the European Championships. Her older sister and teammate, Becky was in the stands cheering her on.[11]

Downie was named as Sky Sports's Sportswoman of the Month for April 2015.[12]

On 20 December 2015 she was crowned BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.[13]

2016

In May 2016, Downie participated at the 2016 FIG World Cup event in Osijek, Croatia – she won all four individual event titles at the competition;[14] the first time this has happened since Ludmilla Tourischeva did the feat in 1975.[15]

Personal life

Ellie is the sister of 2008 Olympian, Becky Downie.[16] She currently attends the Rushcliffe School in Nottingham and is in Year 11, taking her GCSE exams in 2015.[17][18]

Competitive history

Year Event TF AA VT UB BB FX
2012British Team Championships3rd464155
British Espoir Championships 2nd1st1st182nd
UK School Games 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
2013WOGA Classic3rd2nd
Junior British Championships3rd1st2nd2nd
British Team Championships4
European Youth Olympic Festival2nd41st7
Élite Gym Massilia3rd123rd43rd
Gymnasiade3rd643rd6
2014English Championships42nd73rd
Munich Friendly2nd4
European Junior Championships2nd3rd1st5
Youth Olympic Games3rd2nd3rd3rd
2015English Championships92nd6
British Championships3rd2nd2nd6
European Championships3rd54
GBR-NED International Friendly1st 1st
World Championships3rd 4 6
2016British Championships3rd1st44
Osijek World Challenge Cup1st1st1st1st

References

  1. ↑ http://www.teamgb.com/athletes/ellie-downie
  2. ↑ Amanda Turner. "International Gymnast Magazine Online – Roster Released For Youth Olympic Games". International Gymnast Magazine Online. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/4724-ellie-downie-takes-historic-bronze
  4. ↑ "Nottingham's Ellie Downie makes British gymnastics history twice". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  5. ↑ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/GA/YO2014_GA_C73I_GAW001901.pdf
  6. ↑ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/GA/YO2014_GA_C73J_GAW002901.pdf
  7. ↑ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/GA/YO2014_GA_C73I_GAW007901.pdf
  8. ↑ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/GA/YO2014_GA_C73I_GAW008901.pdf
  9. ↑ http://result.nanjing2014.org/IRS/resYO2014/pdf/YO2014/GA/YO2014_GA_C73H_GAW024900.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/gymnastics/32328697
  11. ↑ http://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/4724-ellie-downie-takes-historic-bronze
  12. ↑ http://www.football365.com/news/12040/9847294/Gymnast-Ellie-Downie-named-April-s-Sportswoman-of-the-Month
  13. ↑ http://thegymdigest.blogspot.com/2015/12/ellie-downie-takes-bbc-young-sports.html
  14. ↑ http://www.intlgymnast.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4541:downie-dominates-osijek-with-full-sweep&catid=5:competition-reports&Itemid=164
  15. ↑ http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/figNews/view?id=1537
  16. ↑ "Family joy as Becky and Ellie Downie savour European Championships gold". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  17. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/edownie2/about?section=education&pnref=lhcrabbits
  18. ↑ http://www.tripletwistgymnastics.com/2014/05/10-things-you-dont-know-aboutellie.html Retrieved July 2, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, May 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.