Claudia Fragapane

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Claudia Fragapane
— Gymnast —
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Personal information
Full name Claudia Fragapane
Country represented  Great Britain
 England
Born (1997-10-24) 24 October 1997 (age 26)
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
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow Team
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sofia Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Montpellier Floor Exercise
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow All-Around
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Vault
Gold medal – first place 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

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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
2011 English Junior Championships 5th 4th 6th 4th
British Junior Championships 8th 3rd 6th
Isle of Man International 1st 1st
UK School Games 2nd 7th 6th 7th
2012 Coupe Avenir 1st 1st
British Junior Championships 5th 2nd 4th 5th
2013 Élite Gym Massilia 3rd 6th 5th
Gymnasiade 3rd 7th 5th 7th 6th 5th
2014 English Championships 3rd 1st 4th 4th
British Championships 3rd 2nd 3rd 5th
Munich Friendly 1st
GBR-NED International Friendly 1st 9th
European Championships 2nd 6th 8th
Commonwealth Games 1st 1st 1st 5th 1st
World Championships 6th 10th 5th 8th
2015 AT&T American Cup 9th
English Championships 2nd 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
British Championships 2nd 1st 3rd 3rd 2nd
European Championships 6th 6th 4th 2nd
GBR-NED International Friendly 1st
World Championships 3rd 7th
2016 Glasgow World Cup 3rd
English Championships 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st

References

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  22. ↑ http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/euro/2015/wag/aafinal.pdf
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  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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