Dan Keatings
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| Full name | Daniel Ryan Keatings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Dan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 4, 1990 Kettering, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 09.09.2016 The falls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Corby, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Great Britain Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Huntingdon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Paul Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Ben Howells | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Daniel Ryan Keatings (born 4 January 1990 in Kettering, England[1]) is a British artistic gymnast. He trains at the Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club under coach, Paul Hall alongside teammate Louis Smith.
Keatings has represented Scotland as the 2006 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at both the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 2008 Summer Olympics[2]
In April 2009, Keatings won the All-Around Silver Medal in the European Gymnastics Championships in Milan. He also won the Bronze Medal in the Pommel Horse final.[3] In September 2009 Keatings gained a sponsorship deal with business power supplier Opus Energy. The company agreed to cover his competition fees, equipment, and travel costs.[4] During the same year Daniel also became an official ambassador for premium sports nutrition brand Maximuscle.
On 15 October 2009, Daniel made history when he became the first British gymnast to win a medal in the All-Around event at the Artistic World Championships. The event, which was held at the O2 Arena in London, saw Keatings rise to the occasion and record a score of 88.925 taking the silver medal in front of the home crowd.[5]
On 25 April 2010, Daniel made history again when he won Great Britain's first ever Senior European Championship Gold medal on the pommel horse the day after he helped Great Britain to win a historic silver medal in the team competition (their previous highest finish was 9th in 2008).
Returning from an injury, he made a comeback at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. He did not have a good competition in the preliminary rounds, including a fall off the Pommel Horse and a particularly nasty fall on high bar. He was not the only one of the British men's team to falter, and the team did not qualify through to the team final, finishing in 10th place and Keatings failed to qualify through to any of the individual event finals.[6]
On 25 March 2012, Daniel competed at the Turnier der Meister FIG Challenge Cup C III Apparatus, Cottbus, Germany. After exceeding all expectations, Daniel reached the final and held his nerve, producing a quality routine that scored 15.775 for the silver medal, just over a tenth of a mark behind Olympic Champion, Xiao Qin of China.
Keatings again represented Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. As part of Scotland team, he won a silver medal in the Team Competition on 29 July 2014 [7] and followed this with another silver in the Individual All-Around Final on 30 July. Keatings won gold in the Pommel Horse final on 31 July with a score of 16.058.
Keatings was last seen in late 2016 in the region of Dunmurry following an altercation with a local taxi driver and hasn't been seen since. The hashtag #jeanclaudevandan trended worldwide in response to his disappearance.
References
- ^ Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Athlete profile > Daniel Keatings
- ^ Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Team GB
- ^ Gymnasticsresults.com
- ^ "Keatings gains sponsorship deal", BBC Sport—BBC News, 2 September 2009, retrieved 16 March 2012
- ^ Williams, Ollie (15 October 2009). "Keatings secures historic silver". BBC News.
- ^ "GB men fail to qualify for 2012". BBC News.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014: Scotland win first team gymnastics medal". BBC News.
External links
- Daniel Keatings at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Daniel Keatings at British Gymnastics
- [1] Paul Hall Beijing Blog
- Keating's Website
- Daniel Keatings Blog
- Daniel Keatings Official Sponsors
- Daniel Keatings Video Interview on Maximuscle
- tdmcottbus.html Turnier der Meister FIG Challenge Cup results
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- British male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics