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Joe Fraser
Joe Fraser
	Fraser at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Born	6 December 1998 (age 26); Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Residence	Birmingham, England
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Great Britain; England
Years on national team	2014–present (GBR)
Level	Senior Elite
Club	City of Birmingham GC
Head coach(es)	Lee Woolls
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing Great Britain
World Championships
European Championships
Representing England
Commonwealth Games

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Joe Fraser (born 6 December 1998)^[1] is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars. He is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these events, and the third British world champion (following Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock). As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won team gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the European Artistic Gymnastic Championships. Representing England in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in the team, pommel horse and parallel bars events.

Personal life

Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.^[2]

At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.^[3]

When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach.^[3]

Career

2017

Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.^[3]

In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships.^[4] He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.^[5]

Fraser also competed at the World Championships in Quebec, Canada.^[6]

2018

Early in the year, Fraser fell from the high bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.^[3] He returned to international competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Guimares, Portugal.^[3]

At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Fraser won a silver as part of the team.^[7]

Fraser also competed at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar.^[6]

2019

In March 2019, Fraser won a silver medal on the high bar and bronze medal on parallel bars at the British Championships. At the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, Fraser narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.033 marks in the all-around final.^[8]

In October, Fraser won gold at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany for his performance on the parallel bars with a score 15.000.^[6] He was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus.^[9]

2021

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Fraser competed for Great Britain. The team, consisting of Max Whitlock, James Hall, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Fraser, took fourth place with a score of 255.76. Fraser then continued to compete in the Olympics at Tokyo and qualified for the individual all round final where he came 9th in his debut games.^[10]

2022

At the British Championships Fraser won the all-around title. Fraser next competed at the Baku World Cup. He advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals and was a reserve athlete for pommel horse. During the parallel bars final he won bronze medal behind Illia Kovtun from Ukraine and Ferhat Arican from Turkey. The next day he won gold on the horizontal bar.^[11]

Despite being hampered by an ankle injury sustained only two weeks before the Commonwealth Games, Fraser was able to compete on four apparatus and contribute to the England team's successful defence of their Commonwealth title.^[12]^[13]^[14] Fraser also went on to take gold in both the pommel horse and parallel bars. In the former, he beat 2018 champion Rhys McClenaghan while in the latter, he beat compatriot Giarnni Regini-Moran.^[15]^[16]

Fraser won the all-around at the European Championships ahead of Adem Asil and Ahmet Önder. Additionally, he qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, and helped Great Britain qualify to the team final.^[17]

2024

At the 2024 European Championships Fraser 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, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock.^[18]

References

^ "Joe Fraser". British Gymnastics.
^ Broadbent, Rick (18 October 2019). "Joe Fraser aiming to be the best bar none". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile". FIG Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "Gymnastics British Championships 2017". British Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "Joe Fraser and Ellie Downie take 2017 British all-around titles". British Gymnastics. 25 March 2017. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Artistic Gymnastics FRASER Joe". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
^ "High bar falls cost British gymnasts as Russia takes European team gold". ESPN. 11 August 2018.
^ "Joe Fraser 4th and James Hall 7th in European all-around final". British Gymnastics. 12 April 2019.
^ "World Gymnastics Championships: Joe Fraser wins Britain's first parallel bars gold". BBC Sport. 13 October 2019.
^ "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
^ "Kovtun's fourth consecutive title leads Ukraine to distinction at Baku World Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 4 April 2022.
^ "Men's Team Final" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ "Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold". BBC Sport. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ "Joe Fraser inspires England to team gymnastics gold". Birmingham 2022. 29 July 2022.
^ "Men's Pommel Horse Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ "Men's Parallel Bars Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
^ "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ "And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are..." British Gymnastics. 13 June 2024.

[1] "Joe Fraser". British Gymnastics.

[2] Broadbent, Rick (18 October 2019). "Joe Fraser aiming to be the best bar none". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[:0-3] "FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile". FIG Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[4] "Gymnastics British Championships 2017". British Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[5] "Joe Fraser and Ellie Downie take 2017 British all-around titles". British Gymnastics. 25 March 2017. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.

[:1-6] "Artistic Gymnastics FRASER Joe". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

[7] "High bar falls cost British gymnasts as Russia takes European team gold". ESPN. 11 August 2018.

[8] "Joe Fraser 4th and James Hall 7th in European all-around final". British Gymnastics. 12 April 2019.

[9] "World Gymnastics Championships: Joe Fraser wins Britain's first parallel bars gold". BBC Sport. 13 October 2019.

[10] "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

[11] "Kovtun's fourth consecutive title leads Ukraine to distinction at Baku World Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 4 April 2022.

[12] "Men's Team Final" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[13] "Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold". BBC Sport. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[14] "Joe Fraser inspires England to team gymnastics gold". Birmingham 2022. 29 July 2022.

[15] "Men's Pommel Horse Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[16] "Men's Parallel Bars Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

[17] "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

[18] "And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are..." British Gymnastics. 13 June 2024.

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-'''Joe Fraser''' (born 6 December 1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/gymnast-profiles/378540/joe-fraser |title= Joe Fraser |work=British Gymnastics}}</ref> is an English artistic gymnast.  He is the [[2022_European_Men%27s_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#All-around|2022 European all-around]] and  [[2022_European_Men%27s_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Parallel_bars|parallel bars champion]] and the 2019 world champion on the [[parallel bars]], the first British gymnast to ever win gold in any of these events. As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won [[2022_European_Men%27s_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships#Team|team gold]] and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the [[European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Artistic Gymnastic Championships]]. Representing England in the [[2022 Commonwealth Games]], Fraser won three gold medals in [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's artistic team all-around|team]], [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's pommel horse|pommel horse]] and [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's parallel bars|parallel bars]].
+'''Joe Fraser''' (born 6 December 1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/gymnast-profiles/378540/joe-fraser |title= Joe Fraser |work=British Gymnastics}}</ref> is an English artistic gymnast. He is the [[2022 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships#All-around|2022 European all-around]] and [[2022 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships#Parallel bars|parallel bars champion]] and the 2019 world champion on the [[parallel bars]]. He is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these  events, and the third [[Great Britain at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|British world champion]] (following Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock). As a member of the British Senior team since 2017, he has also won [[2022 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships#Team|team gold]] and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse, in the [[European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Artistic Gymnastic Championships]]. Representing England in the [[2022 Commonwealth Games]], Fraser won three gold medals in the [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's artistic team all-around|team]], [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's pommel horse|pommel horse]] and [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's parallel bars|parallel bars]] events.
 ==Personal life==
 Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Broadbent|first=Rick|date=October 18, 2019|title=Joe Fraser aiming to be the best bar none|language=en|work=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/joe-fraser-aiming-to-be-the-best-bar-none-n86md9q6h|access-date=2021-07-27|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
-At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile|url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=25156&type=licence|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-27|website=FIG Gymnastics}}</ref>
+At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile|url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/athletes/bio_detail.php?id=25156&type=licence|access-date=2021-07-27|website=FIG Gymnastics}}</ref>
 When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach.<ref name=":0" />
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 Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.<ref name=":0" />
-In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gymnastics British Championships 2017|url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/gymnastics-british-championships-2017#news|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-27|website=British Gymnastics}}</ref> He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.<ref>{{cite news|date=25 March 2017|title=Joe Fraser and Ellie Downie take 2017 British all-around titles|work=British Gymnastics|url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/6939-joe-fraser-and-ellie-downie-take-2017-british-all-around-titles}}</ref>
+In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gymnastics British Championships 2017|url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/gymnastics-british-championships-2017#news|access-date=2021-07-27|website=British Gymnastics}}</ref> He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.<ref>{{cite news|date=25 March 2017|title=Joe Fraser and Ellie Downie take 2017 British all-around titles|work=British Gymnastics|url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/6939-joe-fraser-and-ellie-downie-take-2017-british-all-around-titles|access-date=12 April 2019|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412213341/https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/6939-joe-fraser-and-ellie-downie-take-2017-british-all-around-titles|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-Fraser also competed at the World Championships in [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Artistic Gymnastics FRASER Joe|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/artistic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n1467529-fraser-joe.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|website=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|language=en-us}}</ref>
+Fraser also competed at the World Championships in [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Artistic Gymnastics FRASER Joe|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/artistic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n1467529-fraser-joe.htm|access-date=2021-07-28|website=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|language=en-us}}</ref>
 === 2018 ===
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 At the British Championships Fraser won the all-around title.  Fraser next competed at the [[2022 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series|Baku World Cup]]. He advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals and was a reserve athlete for pommel horse.  During the parallel bars final he won bronze medal behind [[Illia Kovtun]] from Ukraine and [[Ferhat Arican]] from Turkey. The next day he won gold on the horizontal bar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?idNews=3472|title=Kovtun's fourth consecutive title leads Ukraine to distinction at Baku World Cup|date=April 4, 2022|work=[[International Gymnastics Federation]]}}</ref>
-Despite being hampered by an ankle injury sustained only two weeks before the [[2022 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]], Fraser was able to compete on four apparatus and contribute to the England team's successful defence of their [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth]] title.<ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Team Final |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-07-29/GARM------------------QUAL--------__C73A_3.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62355775 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Fraser inspires England to team gymnastics gold |url=https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/2698865/joe-fraser-inspires-england-to-team-gymnastics-gold |website=Birmingham 2022}}</ref> Fraser also went on to take gold in both the [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Men's pommel horse|pommel horse]] and [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Men's parallel bars|parallel bars]]. In the former, he beat [[Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games - Men's pommel horse| 2018 champion]] [[Rhys McClenaghan]] while in the latter, he beat compatriot [[Giarnni Regini-Moran]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Pommel Horse Medalists |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-08-01/GARM1APPH-------------------------__C92A_1.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Parallel Bars Medalists |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-08-02/GARM1APPB-------------------------__C92A_1.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>
+Despite being hampered by an ankle injury sustained only two weeks before the [[2022 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]], Fraser was able to compete on four apparatus and contribute to the England team's successful defence of their [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth]] title.<ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Team Final |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-07-29/GARM------------------QUAL--------__C73A_3.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold |work=BBC Sport |date=29 July 2022 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62355775 |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Fraser inspires England to team gymnastics gold |url=https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/2698865/joe-fraser-inspires-england-to-team-gymnastics-gold |website=Birmingham 2022|date=29 July 2022 }}</ref> Fraser also went on to take gold in both the [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Men's pommel horse|pommel horse]] and [[Gymnastics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Men's parallel bars|parallel bars]]. In the former, he beat [[Gymnastics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games - Men's pommel horse|2018 champion]] [[Rhys McClenaghan]] while in the latter, he beat compatriot [[Giarnni Regini-Moran]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Pommel Horse Medalists |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-08-01/GARM1APPH-------------------------__C92A_1.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Parallel Bars Medalists |url=https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingservices.com/GAR/2022-08-02/GARM1APPB-------------------------__C92A_1.0.pdf |website=Birmingham 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>
 Fraser won the all-around at the [[2022 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]] ahead of [[Adem Asil]] and [[Ahmet Önder]]. Additionally, he qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, and helped Great Britain qualify to the team final.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.europeangymnastics.com/event/2022-european-championships-artistic-gymnastics/results|title=2022 European Championships results|website=[[European Gymnastics]]|accessdate=18 August 2022}}</ref>
+=== 2024 ===
+At the [[2024 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2024 European Championships]] Fraser 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]], [[Harry Hepworth]], [[Luke Whitehouse]], and [[Max Whitlock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-gymnastics.org/articles/introducing-the-paris-2024-gymnastics-teams|title=And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are...|work=[[British Gymnastics]]|date=June 13, 2024}}</ref>
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+* [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/joe-fraser_1904734 Joe Fraser] at the [[Paris 2024 Summer Olympics]]
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