BLACK Elsabeth

Olympic Games

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	44	15	31	15	5	9
2012	London, GBR	26	15	-	8	-	5

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	10	21	17	10	4	7
2018	Doha, QAT	5	15	17	7	12	4
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	8	7	12	4	2	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	7	16	29	12	7	6
2014	Nanning, CHN	7	64	34	11	9	12
2013	Antwerp, BEL	15	8	28	9	13	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	VT	AA	Team
2019	Lima, PER	2	4	3	1	1	2

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

Year	AA
2020/2021	1 x 5th
2019	1 x 2nd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019	All-Around	Tokyo, JPN	55.032
3	2019	All-Around	Greensboro, NC, USA	55.732
5	2020/2021	All-Around	Milwaukee, WI, USA	53.299

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

Ellie (gymcan.org, 25 Oct 2015)

Athlete

Human Movement Studies - Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CAN

English

Halifax Alta Gymnastics Club [Canada]

David Kikuchi [club], CAN

Her older sister Karen has competed in figure skating at an elite level. Her younger brother William has competed in artistic gymnastics and was the Canadian national vault champion in 2016. (signalhfx.ca, 07 Feb 2017; gymns.ca, 08 Jun 2016; support4sport.ca, 20 Nov 2015; gymcan.org, 25 Oct 2015)

2010 for Canada (gymcan.org, 13 Jul 2015)

She sustained an ankle injury at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany and required surgery. (gymnastics.sport, 09 Mar 2020)

She sustained a minor knee injury in February 2019. (thegymter.net, 04 Mar 2019)

In January 2017 she sprained her ankle in training and could not compete for several months. She made her return at the World Challenge Cup in Koper, Slovenia in May 2017, which was her first competition since the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (localxpress.ca, 25 Jan 2017; flogymnastics.com, 15 May 2017; cbc.ca, 14 May 2017)

She suffered ankle and wrist problems in 2016 but was still able to qualify for and compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (localxpress.ca, 25 Jan 2017)

She experienced trouble with her ankle from the end of 2015 until mid-2016. (localexpress.ca, 30 May 2016)

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London she injured her left ankle during the individual vault event and was unable to compete for the rest of the Games. (thechronicleherald.ca, 18 Jun 2014)

In 2011 she needed surgery for a dislocated and broken toe, which meant she missed the first half of the year. Soon after returning to action, she dislocated her elbow and fractured her thumb at a competition in France. (thechronicleherald.ca, 03 Jun 2012)

She first tried gymnastics at age six. (support4sport.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

She did gymnastics and figure skating until she was forced to make a choice between them at age eight. "I couldn't do both sports if I wanted to reach a competitive level and I was excelling in gymnastics." (support4sport.ca, 20 Nov 2015)

To compete in the team event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (gymnastics.sport, 12 Aug 2019)

Canadian artistic gymnast Peng Peng Lee. (fulltwist.net, 09 Apr 2014)

"Dream big, don't let anyone else set your limits." (gymcan.org, 25 Oct 2015)

In 2018 she was named to the Order of Nova Scotia in Canada. (660citynews.com, 05 Oct 2018)

In 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 she was named women's artistic gymnastics Senior Athlete of the Year by Gymnastics Canada. In 2017 she shared the award with Brooklyn Moors. (sirc.ca, 04 Feb 2019; intlgymnast.com, 05 Feb 2018; cscatlantic.ca, 08 Feb 2017; thechronicleherald.ca, 18 Jun 2014)

She was named Female Individual Athlete of the Year at the 2016 Ricoh Awards, which recognise achievements and contributions to sport in Nova Scotia, Canada. (sportnovascotia.ca, 29 May 2016)