Injuries

Injuries are a sad reality of the sport and they happen on a pretty frequent basis. This page will track all injuries of current gymnasts. Gymnasts will be removed from this page when they return to competition, whether international or domestic, or if they medically retire.

Short Term

Gymnast	Country	Injury	Date	Recovery	SRC
Jade Barbosa	BRA	knee	7/25/19	named to Brazil's Worlds team	^[1] ^[2]
Ana Padurariu	CAN	unknown	7/23/19	named to Canada's Worlds team	^[3] ^[4]

Long Term

Gymnast	Country	Injury	Date	Recovery	SRC
Alyona Shchennikova	USA	torn Achilles tendon	6/28/19	minimum eight months	^[5]
Kirsten Polderman	NED	torn ACL	6/16/19	minimum nine months	^[6]
Rebeca Andrade	BRA	torn ACL	6/8/19	minimum nine months	^[7]
Leonie Meier	SUI	torn ACL	3/28/19	minimum nine months	^[8]
Lucy Stanhope	GBR	stress fracture in back	late September 2018	resumed training by 8/23/19	^[9] ^[10]
Amy Tinkler	GBR	torn ankle ligaments	3/22/18	ongoing recovery after January 2019 surgery	^[11]^[12]
Larisa Iordache	ROU	torn Achilles tendon	10/4/17	ongoing recovery after 9/10/18 surgery	^[13]^[14]

Unknown

Gymnast	Country	Injury	Date	SRC
Shilese Jones	USA	unknown	9/21/19	^[15]
Coline Devillard	FRA	ankle	9/16/19	^[16]
Tabea Alt	GER	back pain	6/15/19	^[17]
Aliya Mustafina	RUS	torn ankle ligament	6/3/19	^[18]
Vanessa Ferrari	ITA	leg surgery	4/16/19	^[19]
Axelle Klinckaert	BEL	knee injury	4/2/19	^[20]
Dipa Karmakar	IND	knee injury	3/16/19	^[21]
Maisie Methuen	GBR	fractured neck	early March 2019	^[22]
Michelle Timm	GER	unknown	3/5/19	^[23]
Latalia Bevan	GBR	leg surgery	2/26/19	^[24]
Rianna Mizzen	AUS	unknown	10/10/18	^[25]
Kiara Munteanu	AUS	unknown	10/10/18	^[26]
Ana Maria Ocolişan	ROU	ankle injury	8/1/18	^[27]

References

[1] Barbosa knee

[2] Barbosa named to Brazil's Worlds team

[3] Padurariu injury

[4] Padurariu named to Canada's Worlds team

[5] Shchennikova Achilles

[6] Polderman ACL

[7] Andrade ACL

[8] Meier ACL

[9] Stanhope stress fracture

[10] Stanhope resumed training

[11] Tinkler ankle

[12] 3rd ankle surgery

[13] Iordache Achilles

[14] 9/10/18 surgery

[15] Jones injured

[16] Devillard ankle

[17] Alt back

[18] Mustafina ankle

[19] Ferrari leg

[20] Klinckaert knee

[21] Karmakar knee

[22] Methuen neck

[23] Timm injured

[24] Bevan leg surgery

[25] Mizzen injury

[26] Munteanu injury

[27] Ocolisan ankle

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Injuries

Contents

Short Term

Long Term

Unknown

References

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