Dominick Cunningham
Dominick Adam Cunningham (born 9 May 1995) is a British artistic gymnast. He won a team gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the Individual Floor Gold at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow.
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Full name | Dominick Adam Cunningham | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Birmingham, England | 9 May 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2013–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | City of Birmingham GC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Cunningham had success at the junior level at the 2013 Australian Youth Olympic Festival and the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival.[1]
Cunningham was a member of the British team for the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in April 2017, advancing to the floor exercise and vault event finals.[2]
2018
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia, Cunningham was part of the team that won gold on the men's all-around event.[3] Although he finished third in the all-around team event behind Nile Wilson and James Hall, he did not qualify for the individual all-around as only two competitors from each country may qualify.[4] He won a bronze on the vault.[5]
At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Cunningham won gold in the floor exercise.[6] He also won a silver as part of the team.[7]
In his first World Championships at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, Cunningham narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.009 marks in the men's vault final.[8]
2019
At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany, Cunningham was part of the team that finished in fifth place in qualifications, qualifying the Great Britain team a place at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[9] Cunningham and the team went on to retain their fifth place in the team final. [10] Individually, Cunningham qualified to the floor exercise final where he placed eighth (13.566) and the vault final where he placed fifth (14.566).[11]
Personal life
He attended Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Birmingham until 2013.
References
- "Dominick Cunningham Gymnast Profile". British Gymnastics.
- "GB men qualify for six finals on first day of 2017 European Championships".
- Broadbent, Rick (5 April 2018). "England win three gold medals in seven minutes at the Commonwealth Games". The Times.
- "Commonwealth Games: England win gold in men's team final". BBC Sport. 5 April 2018.
- "Australia's Remkes wins gold despite Tulloch brilliance". BBC Sport. 9 April 2018.
- "European Championships 2018: Dominick Cunningham wins gold as Max Whitlock misses out". BBC Sport. 12 August 2018.
- "High bar falls cost British gymnasts as Russia takes European team gold". ESPN. 11 August 2018.
- "GB's Cunningham misses out on bronze by 0.009 marks". BBC Sport.
- "World final and Olympic place guaranteed by British men's team". British Gymnastics. 7 October 2019.
- "Men's team impress to place 5th in world final". British Gymnastics. 9 October 2019.
- "49th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships results". FIG. 13 October 2019.
External links
- Dominick Cunningham at British Gymnastics.
- Dominick Cunningham on Twitter
- Dominick Cunningham on Instagram