BULL Tyson

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 21 May 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.73/5'8''

Place of birth: WANTIRNA, VIC

Birth Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's Parallel Bars
	Men's Horizontal Bar	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Horizonal Bar	Men's Horizontal Bar Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	-	7	83	DNS	-	21
2018	Doha, QAT	DNS	11	122	188	131	25
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	23	-	-	-	-

Oceania Championships

Year	Location	Team
2021	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS	3
2019	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	1

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

Year	HB	PB	PH
2019/2020	1 x 4th	1 x 9th	1 x 42nd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Baku, AZE	14.100
5	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.966
7	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	12.100
8	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Baku, AZE	12.366
9	2019/2020	Parallel Bars	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.366
14	2019/2020	Parallel Bars	Baku, AZE	13.766
18	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Doha, QAT	13.233
20	2019/2020	Parallel Bars	Baku, AZE	13.100
22	2019/2020	Parallel Bars	Doha, QAT	12.566
27	2019/2020	Horizontal Bar	Cottbus, GER	12.800

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Tys (gymnastics.org.au, 22 Dec 2016)

Wakeboarding, basketball, football. (fightingillini.com, 22 Jun 2017)

Occupation:

Human Movement Studies - University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

Languages spoken:

Vladimir Vatkin [personal]

Sporting relatives:

His older brother Jayden has represented Australia in artistic gymnastics and won gold in the floor exercise at the 2014 Australian Championships in Melbourne, VIC. (intlgymnast.com, 01 Feb 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 28 Apr 2020)

He sustained a mild concussion and suffered a sprained ligament in his wrist prior to the 2018 Big Ten conference Men's Gymnastics Championships at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America. (wcia.com, 17 Apr 2018)

National team:

2012 (fightingillini.com, 22 Jun 2017)

He took up gymnastics at age five. (gymnastics.org.au, 22 Dec 2016)

He initially started gymnastics "to get good foundation skills for other sports." (gymnastics.org.au, 22 Dec 2016)

He trains at the national training centre in Canberra, ACT, Australia. (gymnastics.org,au, 13 Oct 2019)

Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland, US basketball player Michael Jordan. (fightingillini.com, 22 Jun 2017; gymnastics.org.au, 22 Dec 2016)

Philosophy:

"Train like you're the worst, compete like you're the best." (Facebook profile, 08 Apr 2017)

While competing for the University of Illinois, he was an Academic All-Big Ten conference honouree in 2016 and 2018. (fightingillini.com, 29 Nov 2018)

General Interest

General
WAITING GAME
He says he experienced anxiety, relief and disbelief at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, in the wait and confirmation of the quota berth for the 2020 Olympic Games that he earned there through his performance on horizontal bar. "I was in the crowd with my team completely on edge with my heart beating like crazy. The last score came in and I lost it, completely at a loss for words and what to think. Twenty years in the sport all coming down to one moment, and more than anything I felt like I was repaying all my coaches, mentors and especially family for all the long hours, sacrifices and hard work that's gone into achieving this one goal. I probably had only a few hours sleep the following two nights because I was so wired and still trying to process the whole thing." (intlgymnast.com, 01 Feb 2020)

TIME ABROAD
He studied at the University of Illinois in the United States of America and competed for the university's gymnastics team from 2014/15 until his senior year in 2017/18. (fightingillini.com, 01 Jun 2018; gymnastics.org.au, 22 Dec 2016)

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Legend

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

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