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Harry Hepworth
British artistic gymnast (born 2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry James Hepworth (born 6 December 2003) is a British artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 men's Olympic vault bronze medalist. He won gold as a member of the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Championships and silver with the team at the 2023 European Championships.[2] He also participated at the 2023 World Championships where the team placed fourth.[3]
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Early life and education
At the age of five Hepworth was diagnosed with Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease which sidelined him from sporting activity for three years.[4] He then took up artistic gymnastics shortly after this.
He attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley.[5]
Gymnastics career
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2023
Hepworth was selected to attend the 2023 Baku World Cup, where he won silver on vault and placed 8th in the floor final.[6] He then won gold on vault at the 2023 DTB Pokal Team Challenge. Hepworth attended the 2023 European Championships as an individual where he placed 4th on floor and 7th on vault.[6] He won gold on vault at the 2023 Paris Challenge Cup.[6] Hepworth was named in the British team for the 2023 World Championships alongside Max Whitlock, Jake Jarman, Courtney Tulloch and James Hall. The team placed 4th and Hepworth made the floor, vault and steel ring finals placing 6th, 7th and 8th respectively.[6]
2024
At the 2024 European Championships Hepworth helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine. In June of that year he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Jake Jarman, Joe Fraser, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock.[7] Hepworth won bronze in the vault at the Games in Paris, becoming the first British man to claim an Olympic medal in the discipline.[8][9][10]
2025
At the Osijek World Cup Hepworth won silver on vault and also made the steel ring and floor finals. He was selected to attend the 2025 European Championships alongside Jake Jarman, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth and Luke Whitehouse where he contributed on floor exercise, still rings and vault to help Britain win their third ever European team title.[11] He also qualified for the floor exercise, still rings and vault finals, winning silver on floor behind teammate Luke Whitehouse and placing fifth on still rings and fourth on vault.[12][13]
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