Tabea Alt

Tabea Lara Alt (born 18 March 2000) is a former German elite artistic gymnast. She is the 2017 World bronze medalist on balance beam, and a 2016 Olympian. She competed at the 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, contributing to the team placing of second, which qualified the German team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, the German team finished 6th in the team all-around competition.^[2]

Tabea Alt
Full name	Tabea Lara Alt
Born	(2000-03-18) 18 March 2000 (age 25) Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Germany (2016)
Medal record Representing  Germany World Championships 2017 Montreal Balance Beam FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd All-Around World Cup 2 0 0

Career

2016

At the 2016 American Cup, Alt finished seventh in the all-around with a score of 54.399.^[3] She competed at the 2016 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event in April. There she helped her team qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics with a team finish of second place.^[4] Individually, she was third in the all-around. At the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the German team finished 6th in the team all-around competition.^[2] Alt did not qualify for any of the event finals.^[5]

2017

Alt won the 2017 Stuttgart World Cup in March 2017, beating Angelina Melnikova and Morgan Hurd. Alt would also go on to win the 2017 London World Cup in April, placing ahead of Angelina Melnikova, Victoria Nguyen and Amy Tinkler.^[6] At the 2017 European Championships, she finished ninth on balance beam (10.966) after qualifying in fifth place (13.700).^[3]

In the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada, Alt qualified first into the balance beam final, and won the bronze medal with the score 13.300,^[3] behind her teammate Pauline Schäfer and Morgan Hurd from the USA.

In December 2017, the Alt and the Alt II were added to the Code of Points. Alt debuted both uneven bars elements at the 2017 World Championships.^[3]

2018

In October 2018, Alt had surgery on a persistent shoulder injury.^[3]

2021

Alt retired in 2021 at age 21 due to injuries. In 2024, she came forward with allegations that her training environment in Stuttgart had been abusive and that she had competed with fractures during her career. She said that in 2021, she had sent a letter to her trainers and the president of the German Gymnastics Federation, among others, detailing the issues that occurred, but she felt that it had been ignored. The German Gymnastics Federation responded to her allegations by saying they would launch an investigation with external help.^[7]

Eponymous skills

Alt has two uneven bars skills named after her in the Code of Points.^[8]

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty[a]	Added to the Code of Points
Uneven bars	Alt	Stoop trough on high bar, dislocate and release with ½ (180°) turn in flight between the bars to catch low bar in hang	C (0.3)	2017 World Championships
	Alt II	Clear straddle circle with salto forward tucked with ½ turn (180°)

1. Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points