WHITEHEAD Emily

Australia

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 11 Dec 2000

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.62/5'3''

Place of birth: MORNINGTON, VIC

Birth Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Women's All-Around
	Women's Vault
	Women's Uneven Bars
	Women's Balance Beam
	Women's Floor Exercise

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Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2018	Doha, QAT	104	57	48	48	15

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Team
2021	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	2

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA
2017/2018	1 x 16th	1 x 13th	1 x 9th	1 x 2nd	-
2017	-	-	-	-	1 x 8th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2017/2018	Vault	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.699
8	2017	All-Around	Newark, NJ, USA	48.399
9	2017/2018	Uneven Bars	Cottbus, GER	13.150
13	2017/2018	Floor Exercise	Cottbus, GER	12.150
16	2017/2018	Balance Beam	Cottbus, GER	11.250

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Nickname:

Em (gymnastics.org.au, 01 Jan 2018)

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Waverley Gymnastics Centre [Mount Waverley, VIC, AUS]

Coach:

John Hart [club]

Sporting relatives:

His mother Victoria has been coaching gymnastics since 1993. (wgc.org.au, 16 Apr 2018)

Debut:

2016 for Australia (sbs.com.au, 18 Mar 2016)

Injuries:

In August 2019 she suffered fractures on both sides of her back. She was out of the gym for three months and returned to competition in March 2020. (vic.gymnastics.org.au, 01 Jun 2021)

She tore her calf muscle in April 2016 and was ruled out of the Olympic qualification event in Rio de Janeiro. (Instagram profile, 10 Apr 2016; gymnastics.org.au, 01 Apr 2016)

National team:

2013 (asf.org.au, 01 Mar 2020)

Start:

She took up the sport at age four at Grips Gymnastics in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (gymnastics.org.au, 05 Jul 2019)

Reason:

"Gymnastics is in my family blood. My mother started, then my sister did, and then my little sister." (Colonial First State YouTube channel, 05 Oct 2015)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (commonwealthgames.com.au, 01 Jan 2018)

Memorable:

Winning two bronze medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, and representing Australia at the world championships. (asf.org.au, 01 Mar 2020)

Hero:

US gymnast Madison Kocian. (commonwealthgames.com.au, 01 Jan 2018)

Philosophy:

"Always see the good in every situation." (Instagram athlete profile, 21 May 2021)

General Interest

General
TRAINING ALONE
A few days after she earned a continental berth to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through her winning performance at the Oceania Continental Championships in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in May 2021, she returned home to Victoria as her home state went into a COVID-19 lockdown. She trained alone in the gym after gaining permission to do so based on her Olympic qualification. "Motivation was a little low." (vic.gymnastics.org.au, 01 Jun 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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