Becky Downie

Rebecca Lauren Downie (born 24 January 1992 in Nottingham) is a British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Representing England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Downie contributed an all-around score of 54.100 to the English team's second-place finish and placed eighth in the all-around final with a score of 53.700.

In event finals, she placed fifth on uneven bars, scoring 14.000, and third on balance beam, scoring 14.075.

At the 2008 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Clermont-Ferrand in early April, Downie contributed scores of 14.750 on vault, 15.375 on uneven bars, and 14.850 on balance beam to the British team's sixth-place finish.

In event finals, she placed eighth on vault (13.500) and uneven bars (14.700).

Later in April, she won a silver medal on bars at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup event in Cottbus, with a score of 14.975.

In June, Downie competed at the British Championships in Guildford, where she won the all-around competition (59.650) and the uneven bars title (15.200) and placed fourth on balance beam (14.500).

Afterwards, she was named to the British team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

At the Olympics in August, Downie contributed an all-around score of 58.075 to the British team's ninth-place finish.

In the individual all-around final, she scored 59.450 to place twelfth.

In March, Downie placed fourth at the American Cup in Chicago with a score of 55.600.

The following month, she competed at the 2009 European Championships in Milan, where she placed eleventh in the all-around final (55.075) and sixth on vault (14.025) and uneven bars (14.525).

At the World Cup event in Glasgow in May, she placed sixth on vault (12.925), second on uneven bars (14.600), and fifth on balance beam (13.300).

In March, she won the all-around at the British Championships in Liverpool with a score of 56.100.

In event finals, she placed second on vault, scoring 13.250; first on uneven bars, scoring 13.850; first on balance beam, scoring 14.900; and first on floor, scoring 13.750.

In October, Downie competed at the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London.

She placed sixteenth in the all-around final with a score of 53.775.

In April, Downie placed tenth on uneven bars (13.300) and ninth on balance beam (13.875) at the World Cup event in Paris.

In May, at the 2010 European Championships in Birmingham, she contributed scores of 14.075 on vault, 14.350 on uneven bars, and 14.100 on balance beam to the British team's second-place finish, and placed fifth in the bars final with a score of 14.625.

At the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam in October, she contributed a vault score of 14.733 to the British team's seventh-place finish.

Downie injured her Achilles tendon in January 2011 and was expected to be out of competition for the rest of the year.

However, she was able to return in nine months.

"I guess the key for my quick return was that I was backed 100 percent by a fantastic medical team, and rather than let myself get down about the injury, I just had to keep reminding myself of all the positives that could come from it," she said.

"I took the opportunity to give my body a break which wouldn't have been possible without the injury, and then everything just moved so quickly."

In October, she competed at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo and contributed an uneven bars score of 14.433 to the British team's fifth-place finish.

At the beginning of June, Downie competed at an international friendly in Ipswich with gymnasts from Finland and Spain, which also served as Britain's second Olympic trial.

She placed fourth on vault with a score of 14.100 and fourth on balance beam with a score of 13.450.

The British Championships in Liverpool at the end of June were the third and final trial to determine the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Downie did not compete on floor but scored 14.550 on vault, 14.25 on uneven bars, and 13.100 on balance beam.

In event finals, she placed sixth on uneven bars with a score of 13.350 and second on balance beam with a score of 13.850.

She did not make the Olympic team, but was named as an alternate.

At the 2013 European Championships, Downie qualified second into the uneven bars final with a score of 14.733, behind only reigning Olympic uneven bars champion Aliya Mustafina.

However, a fall in the final left her in seventh place with a score of 13.000.

She is a double European champion (2014 and 2016) and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World silver medallist.

Her younger sister, Ellie Downie, was also an Olympic gymnast.

Downie was a member of the British team that won a silver medal at the 2014 European Championships, after qualifying to the team final in first place.

Individually, she won the uneven bars title—the second British woman to do so after Beth Tweddle—and finished fourth in the balance beam final.

In July, she won gold with the English team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, alongside teammates Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, Kelly Simm, and Hannah Whelan.

She also won the uneven bars final with a score of 14.666; Harrold placed third.

However, she fell twice in the balance beam final and was unable to finish her routine, resulting in a score of 9.833.