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Luke Whitehouse

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Luke Whitehouse
Whitehouse competing on rings at the 2019 Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Personal information
Full nameLuke Benjamin Whitehouse
Born (2002-07-02) 2 July 2002 (age 24)
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
United Kingdom Great Britain
England England
(2019–present)
ClubLeeds Gymnastics Club[1]
Head coach(es)
Andy Butcher
David Murray
Tom Rawlinson
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2025 JakartaFloor exercise
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 AntalyaFloor exercise
Gold medal – first place2024 RiminiFloor exercise
Gold medal – first place2025 LeipzigTeam
Gold medal – first place2025 LeipzigFloor exercise
Bronze medal – third place2023 AntalyaTeam
World University Games
Gold medal – first place2025 Rhine-RuhrFloor exercise
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 0 1 1
World Challenge Cup 0 0 1
Total 0 1 2

Luke Benjamin Whitehouse (born 2 July 2002)[2][3] is a British artistic gymnast. He represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics and is a silver medallist on floor exercise at the 2025 World Championships. Whitehouse is a four time European Champion, winning three titles on floor exercise, in 2023, 2024, and 2025. He is one of only two men to achieve three consecutive titles in the event (the other being Italian Franco Minicelli 1964) and is the first male British gymnast to win three consecutive European apparatus titles. He also won gold as part of the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Championships and bronze at the 2023 European Championships.[4][5][6][7] Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise.[8] at the 2025 FISU World University Games becoming the first male British gymnast to win a medal since its inception in 1959.[9]

Junior gymnastics career

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At the junior level Whitehouse represented Great Britain at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan where the team placed fourth.[10] He also competed at the inaugural 2019 Junior World Championships in Győr, Hungary.

Senior gymnastics career

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2021–2024

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Whitehouse competed at the 2021 Osijek World Challenge Cup. During the qualification round, he became the first British gymnast to complete a triple back somersault in competition on floor exercise.[11][12]

At the 2022 English Championships, Whitehouse won bronze in the all-around and won gold on floor exercise and bronze on vault.[13] At the 2022 British Championships, he won bronze on floor exercise.[14]

At the 2023 English Championships, Whitehouse won gold on parallel bars and floor exercise, defending his 2022 title.[15][16] He also won silver on Vault.[15]

Whitehouse attended the 2023 Doha World Cup and won bronze on floor exercise.[17] At the 2023 British Championships, he won gold on floor exercise and bronze on vault.[18]

Whitehouse competed at the 2023 European Championships where he won gold on floor exercise and helped Great Britain win team bronze.[19][20] He was later selected as the travelling alternate for the 2023 World Championships where the team placed fourth.[21]

At the 2024 English Championships, Whitehouse placed fourth in the all-around but won silver on vault.[22] At the 2024 British Championships, he won bronze on vault and placed sixth in the all-around and fourth on rings.[23] Whitehouse competed at the 2024 Doha World Cup and won silver on floor exercise.[24] A week later he retained his title as European Champion on floor exercise at the 2024 European Championships where he competed as an individual. He was able to participate after Max Whitlock dropped out of the competition due to injury, allowing Whitehouse to defend his title. He became the first male British gymnast to retain a European title.[25] He placed sixth on vault.

In June 2024, Whitehouse was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth, Joe Fraser, and Max Whitlock.[26] Great Britain qualified for the team final in third, but ultimately placed fourth, with the USA taking bronze.[27][28] Whitehouse individually qualified for the Olympic floor exercise final, where he ended up finishing in sixth place with a score of 14.466.[29]

2025–present

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At the 2025 British Championships, Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise and bronze in the all-around. He was selected to compete at the 2025 European Championships alongside Harry Hepworth, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth, and Jake Jarman, where he helped Great Britain win their third European team title.[30] He also qualified for the all-around and floor exercise finals. In the all-around Whitehouse finished twenty-second despite qualifying in third due to errors on pommel horse and horizontal bar. Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise, winning his third consecutive European title on the apparatus. He became the first male British gymnast to win three back to back titles on the same apparatus. He is the first gymnast since Franco Menichelli in 1965 to win three consecutive titles on floor exercise. Whitehouse was selected to compete at the 2025 World University Games where he won gold on floor exercise.[8] In doing so he became the first British male gymnast to win a medal at the FISU World University Games since its inception in 1959.[9]

In late September Whitehouse was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2025 World Championships.[31] He qualified for the floor exercise final where he won his first world medal, a silver behind teammate Jake Jarman.[32][33]

White was selected to represent Team England at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow alongside Adam Tobin, Alex Yolshin-Cash, Joshua Nathan, and Max Whitlock.[34]

Competitive history

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Competitive history of Luke Whitehouse
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2019 European Youth Olympic Festival4R3R3
Junior World Championships23R2
2021 Osijek Challenge Cup8
2022 English Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
British Championships123rd place, bronze medalist(s)857
2023 English Championships41st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
British Championships81st place, gold medalist(s)63rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Paris Challenge Cup3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships4[a]
2024 English Championships42nd place, silver medalist(s)
British Championships643rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Doha World Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)6
Olympic Games46
2025 British Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)221st place, gold medalist(s)
World University Games91st place, gold medalist(s)
World ChampionshipsN/a2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2026 English Championships93rd place, bronze medalist(s)
British Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)4
Osijek World Cup6
  1. ↑ Whitehouse was the team GBR alternate

References

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  1. ↑ "WHITEHOUSE Luke – FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Search results: Luke Whitehouse". Genes Reunited.
  3. ↑ "10th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Results Book" (PDF). European Gymnastics. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "'The best routine of my life' – Halifax's Luke Whitehouse wins European Gymnastics gold medal". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Who is Luke Whitehouse, Britain's new gymnastics champion?". Team GB. 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  6. ↑ "GB's Whitehouse wins European floor gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "British men take team bronze at the European Championships". British-Gymnastics.org. 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  8. 1 2 "Japanese gymnasts head the classes at World University Games". International Gymnastics Federation. July 28, 2025.
  9. 1 2 @leedsgymnastics; (July 28, 2025). "It's official! History has been made!" – via Instagram.
  10. ↑ "Team GB announces selected athletes for the Baku 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival". TeamGB.com. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  11. ↑ "DOBRO World Cup Osijek 2021" (PDF). Osijekgym.com. 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  12. ↑ "Twitter BritGymnastics". BritGymnastics Twitter Results and News. 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  13. ↑ "2022 English Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  14. ↑ "2022 British Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. 2022-03-30. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  15. 1 2 "2023 EG Championships MA Apparatus Results" (PDF). www.gymdata.co.uk. 2023-02-25.
  16. ↑ "2022 EG Championships MAG Senior Apparatus Rankings". Gymdata. 2022-03-12.
  17. ↑ "2023 Doha World Cup Men's Results". The Gymternet. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  18. ↑ "2023 British Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  19. ↑ "European Gymnastics Championships 2023: GB's Luke Whitehouse wins floor gold". BBC Sport. 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  20. ↑ "British men take team bronze at the European Championship". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  21. ↑ "Men's line up announced for 2023 World Championships". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  22. ↑ "2024 English Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  23. ↑ "2024 British Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. 2024-03-20. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  24. ↑ "Sensational silvers for Ruby and Luke in Doha". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  25. ↑ "European Gymnastics Championships: GB's Luke Whitehouse retains floor title". BBC Sport. 2024-04-26. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  26. ↑ "And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are..." British Gymnastics. June 13, 2024.
  27. ↑ "GB men make history on first day of the Games". British Gymnastics. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  28. ↑ "History-making British gymnasts have rewritten the record books in qualifying at the Olympic Games in Paris". Team GB. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  29. ↑ "Paris Olympics 2024 medal results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  30. ↑ "Gymnastics: Great Britain's men win European gold in Germany". BBC Sport. 2025-05-27. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  31. ↑ "GB team set for Jakarta gymnastics World Championships". British Gymnastics. September 23, 2025.
  32. ↑ "World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2025: Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse win floor gold and silver". BBC Sport. 2025-10-24. Retrieved 2025-10-24.
  33. ↑ "World Artistic Gymnastics Championships: Jake Jarman and Luke Whitehouse claim GB one-two in floor final". BBC Sport. 2025-10-24. Retrieved 2025-10-24.
  34. ↑ "Team England announce gymnastics squad for Glasgow 2026". teamengland.org. Retrieved 2026-06-22.
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