Jessica Gadirova

In the team final they finished in sixth place and individually Gadirova finished 33rd in the all-around.

In July Gadirova competed at the Sainté Gym Cup, where she helped Great Britain win team gold.

She is the first female gymnast to win three successive floor titles at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and the first of either sex since Franco Menichelli in 1965.

She is the 2023 European all-around champion, the second Briton after Ellie Downie to achieve that feat, and the 2022 World and 2021 European all-around bronze medalist.

Additionally she is the 2021 European vault silver medalist.

Their father, Natig Gadirov, and their mother are from Azerbaijan and emigrated to London in 2001.

Gadirova was born in Ireland while her parents worked there for a few months before returning to England.

As a result, she has Azeri, Irish and British citizenship.

Her paternal grandparents live in Baku: her grandmother is a retired paediatrician, and her grandfather is a professor in physics and mathematics.

Gadirova and her sister began gymnastics at six years old because their mother wanted them to have an outlet for their energy.

Jessica Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally.

Gadirova became the first female gymnast to win three gold medals at the same European Championships since Cătălina Ponor for Romania in 2004, and the first to win the all-around title in doing so since Svetlana Khorkina for Russia in 2002.

On the final day of the competition Gadirova won gold on floor exercise ahead of Melnikova and former world all-around champion Vanessa Ferrari, making her the first British floor exercise champion since Beth Tweddle won in 2010.

She ended the season competing at the British Team Championships, where she placed 11th in the junior non-squad all-around.

In March Gadirova competed at the British Espoir Championships, where she placed 12th in the all-around and sixth on balance beam.

In February of 2018 Gadirova competed at the English Championships, where she placed 23rd.

The following month she competed at the British Championships, where she placed seventh in the all-around, eighth on uneven bars, and sixth on floor exercise.

She competed at the inaugural 2019 Junior World Championships alongside her twin sister, Jennifer.

She was the first Irish-born gymnast to win a gymnastics World title in 2022; Rhys McClenaghan won the first gold medal for Ireland days later.

Domestically, Gadirova is a three-time English, three-time British champion.

Gadirova and her twin sister Jennifer were born in Dublin, Ireland, and are of Azerbaijani descent.

In March of 2019 Gadirova competed at the English Championships, where she placed fourth behind Ondine Achampong, Halle Hilton, and Jennifer Gadirova.

Later that month she competed at the British Championships, where she placed seventh in the all-around, eighth on vault, fourth on uneven bars, and won bronze on floor exercise.

Gadirova next competed at the Flanders International Team Challenge, where she finished third in the all-around behind Romanians Ioana Stănciulescu and Silviana Sfiringu and helped Great Britain finish fourth as a team.

In June Gadirova competed at the inaugural Junior World Championships in Győr, Hungary, alongside her twin sister Jennifer and Alia Leat.

In September she competed at the 2019 Women's British Teams Championships, finishing first in the junior all-around, ahead of her sister.

Additionally, she helped Aylesbury finish first as a team.

She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event and was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2022 World Championships and gold medal-winning team at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Individually, she is the 2022 World champion on floor exercise, the second British female and third Briton to win a World title on the apparatus (after Beth Tweddle and Giarnni Regini-Moran) as well as a three-time European champion on the same event (in 2021, 2022 and 2023).

Gadirova turned senior in 2020, but did not compete due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

In April 2021 she was selected to represent Great Britain at the European Championships alongside her twin sister Jennifer (later replaced by Phoebe Jakubczyk), Alice Kinsella, and Amelie Morgan.

During qualifications, Gadirova qualified to the all-around final, despite suffering a hard fall off of the balance beam.

Additionally, Gadirova qualified to the vault final in first place and the floor exercise final in third place.

In the all-around final Gadirova won the bronze medal behind Russians Viktoria Listunova and Angelina Melnikova.

She is the second British female artistic gymnast after Ellie Downie to win an all-around medal at the European Championships.

During the vault final, Gadirova finished second behind Olympic and World vault medalist Giulia Steingruber.

On 7 June, Gadirova was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside her twin sister Jennifer, Alice Kinsella, and Amelie Morgan.

At the Olympic Games, Gadirova qualified to the all-around and floor exercise finals; additionally, Great Britain qualified for the team final.

During the team final, Gadirova performed on vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise, hitting all of her routines and helping Great Britain win the bronze medal, their first Olympic team medal in 93 years.

During the all-around final Gadirova fell off the balance beam, but still finished tenth place overall.