Louis Smith (gymnast)

Louis Smith (gymnast)

Infobox Gymnast
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fullname=Louis Antoine Smith
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Louis Antoine Smith (born April 22, 1989) is an English artistic gymnast from Eye near Peterborough.

Louis is very much in love with his childhood sweetheart, Joanne, whom he met through his passion, artistic gymnastics. He wowed her on the pommel horse and they haven't looked back since. They plan to marry when he isn't too busy competing, possibly somewhere hot.His strongest event is the pommel horse, at which he has been junior European champion (twice) and Commonwealth Games champion. On September 8, 2007 Smith won a bronze medal for pommel horse at the World Championship in Stuttgart. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [ [http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/TeamGB.aspx?SP=GA Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Team GB ] ]

2008 Summer Olympics

On 9 August 2008 he qualified in 5th place for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse, and on 17 August he won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming the first Briton to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in 1908 and the first Briton to win a medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games since the women's team won a bronze medal in 1928. [cite web | title =Smith wins historic bronze for GB | work =BBC Sport | publisher =BBC | date =2008-08-17 | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/gymnastics/7566647.stm | accessdate =2008-08-18 ] He is also the first black man to win a medal in an Olympic Gymnastics competition.

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