Daniel Keatings

Daniel Keatings
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Ryan Keatings
Nickname(s)	Dan
Country represented	United Kingdom  Scotland
Born	January 4, 1990 (1990-01-04) (age 21) Kettering
Hometown	Corby
Height	171 centimetres (5 ft 7 in)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Level	International
Years on national team	GB
Club	Huntingdon
Head coach(es)	Paul Hall
Assistant coach(es)	Ben Howells
Medal record Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Silver 2009 London All-Around European Championships Gold 2010 Birmingham Pommel Horse Silver 2010 Birmingham Team Silver 2009 Milan All-Around Silver 2007 Amsterdam Pommel Horse Bronze 2009 Milan Pommel Horse World Cup Gold 2008 Moscow Pommel Horse Silver 2007 Maribor Pommel Horse Bronze 2008 Doha Pommel Horse European Junior Championships Gold 2008 Lausanne Team Gold 2008 Lausanne All-Around Gold 2008 Lausanne Pommel Horse Gold 2008 Lausanne Parallel Bars Bronze 2008 Lausanne Floor Northern European Championships Gold 2007 Dublin All-Around Gold 2007 Dublin Parallel Bars Gold 2007 Dublin High Bar

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 2009 Keatings 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.^[4]

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 a 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.^[5]

References

1. ^ Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Athlete profile > Daniel Keatings
2. ^ Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Team GB
3. ^ Gymnasticsresults.com
4. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/8309840.stm
5. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/gymnastics/15236835.stm

External links

Gymnastics portal

• Daniel Keatings at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• [1] Paul Hall Beijing Blog
• Keating's Website
• Daniel Keatings Blog
• Daniel Keatings Official Sponsors
• Daniel Keatings Video Interview on Maximuscle

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Name	Keatings, Daniel
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Date of birth	4 January 1990
Place of birth	Kettering
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