| Georgia-Mae Fenton | |
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 Fenton at the 2024 Olympic Games | |
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Country represented |
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Born |
November 2 2000 |
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Years on National Team |
2013-present |
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Club |
South Essex Gymnastics Club East London Gymnastics(former); Europa Gymnastics Center (former) |
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Coach(es) |
Michelle Flemings Lorraine Atkinson (former); Rochelle Douglas (former) |
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Current status |
Active |
Georgia-Mae Fenton (born November 2, 2000 in Gravesend, Kent) is an elite British gymnast and 2024 Olympian. She is the 2022 and 2018 Commonwealth Games uneven bars champion. She trains at South Essex Gymnastics Club and is coached by Michelle Flemings and Scott Hann. She also trained at East London Gym from 2015-2019. Prior to her move in 2015, she trained at Europa Gymnastics Center, alongside Catherine Lyons. She is also the 2013 English Espoir and British Espoir Champion.
Junior Career[]
2013[]
Fenton made her elite debut at the English Espoir Championships in 2013, where she won the all-around. She continued her success at the British Espoir Championships, again winning the all-around, and also winning gold on uneven bars, and bronze on beam and floor. She made her international debut later that year, competing on two events at the Japan Junior International (alongside teammate Lyons) and placing seventh on uneven bars.
2014[]
In March, Fenton competed at her first Junior English Championships, winning gold on bars and placing seventh on beam. She didn't compete the all-around at the British Championships, placing sixth on beam, and seventh on bars. At the UK School Games, she won team, all-around, and floor exercise gold and uneven bars and balance beam bronze. She competed at the Olympic Hopes Cup in the Czech Republic, where she won team gold and placed fourth in the all-around. In December, she won team, all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam gold, and floor exercise silver at the Pas de Calais International in France.
2015[]
Fenton moved to train at East London Gymnastics. In March, Fenton won silver on floor exercise behind Lyons. At the British Championships, Fenton won gold on bars, bronze in the all-around, and placed sixth on floor. She competed in a junior friendly meet against gymnasts from France and Switzerland, winning team silver and all-around bronze. In late May, she placed fifth with her team and fifteenth in the all-around at the Flanders International Team Challenge in Ghent, Belgium.
In July, she competed at a friendly meet against gymnasts from Germany, Italy, and Brazil, winning team, and uneven bars gold, balance beam silver, and all-around bronze. Later that month, she competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Georgia, placing seventh with her team.
Senior Career[]
2016[]
Fenton made her senior debut at the English Championships, where she only competed on three events and won bronze on floor exercise. She competed at her first senior British Championships in April, placing sixth on floor exercise, seventh in the all-around, and eighth on uneven bars. In November, she competed at the Elite Gym Massilia in France, but did not advance to the all-around or event finals.
2017[]
Fenton started off the season at the British Championships in March, winning silver on uneven bars and placing fourth in the all-around. In April, she was subbed into the lineup for the London World Cup to replace Ellie Downie, but sustained a minor injury the morning of the competition and had to withdraw.[1] She recovered enough to be named to the British team for the European Championships in Romania, but suffered another injury in training and withdrew.[2]
Fenton was able to recover enough to compete at the Varna World Cup in Bulgaria in September. She won silver on beam and placed sixth on bars and seventh on floor. She went on to compete at the Paris World Cup, but finished seventh on bars after a fall. In October, she competed at her first World Championships in Montreal, Canada. She submitted a new element on uneven bars, a Stalder release hecht with a half turn, and successfully performed it in qualifications. Since the element was also submitted by Belgium's Nina Derwael, it was named after both of them. Unfortunately, her score on bars wasn't high enough for her to advance to the event final.
2018[]
Fenton started the season at the English Championships in February, winning balance beam gold, all-around bronze, and placing fifth on uneven bars and eighth on floor exercise. In March, she competed on three events at the British Championships, but after falling three times from the uneven bars, she didn't qualify to the event finals. Despite this, she was still named to the English team for the Commonwealth Games in Australia. There, she helped the British team take silver and individually won gold on uneven bars. In July, she competed at the Thialf Summer Challenge, winning team bronze and placing fifteenth in the all-around. She went on to compete at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, where she placed fourth with her team and eighth on floor exercise. She competed at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar in late October, but Great Britain didn't make the team final, and Fenton didn’t make any individual finals. After Doha, she competed at the Cottbus World Cup in Germany in November, but didn't make the event finals.
2019[]
Fenton returned to the English Championships in early March, winning gold on floor exercise, and placing fourth in the all-around, fifth on uneven bars, and twelfth on balance beam. In late June, she competed at the European Games in Belarus, placing fifth on beam and eighth in the all-around. At the Paris World Cup in September, she placed fifth on beam and seventh on bars. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. She placed sixth with her team, and helped Great Britain qualify a full team to the 2020 Olympics.
2021[]
Fenton competed at several British Olympic trials throughout 2021. She was not added to the British Olympic team. In October, Fenton competed at the World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, making the all-around final and finishing 17th.
2022[]
Fenton began her season at the English Championships, winning uneven bars and balance beam gold, and all-around bronze. Later that month, she competed at the British Championships, winning silver on uneven bars, bronze on balance beam, and placing fourth in the all-around, and sixth on floor exercise. In August, she competed at the Commonwealth Games, helping England win the team gold and defending her uneven bars title. Later that month, she competed at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, winning team silver and placing sixth on the uneven bars. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Liverpool. Although she didn't qualify to any individual events, she did contribute to Great Britain's silver medal finish, a new personal best for them.
2023[]
Fenton began her season at the English Championships in February, winning silver on balance beam and placing fourth in the all-around and fifth on uneven bars. In March, she competed in the open competition at the Welsh Championships, winning all-around gold, uneven bars and balance beam silver, and floor exercise bronze. At the British Championships, she won uneven bars silver and all-around and floor exercise bronze. At the European Championships in Turkey, she won team gold and placed eighth in the all-around. At the World Championships in Belgium, she helped Great Britain place sixth in the team final.
2024[]
Fenton began her season at the English Championships, winning silver on balance beam and placing sixth on uneven bars. At the British Championships, she placed fifth in the all-around and seventh on uneven bars. At the Antalya World Cup in Turkey, she won bronze on uneven bars and placed fourth on floor exercise and fifth on balance beam. She later competed at the European Championships in Italy, winning team silver, uneven bars bronze, and placing sixth in the all-around. In June, she was named to the British team for the 2024 Olympics.[3]
Paris Olympics[]
In qualifications, Fenton competed in the first subdivision. She helped Great Britain qualify seventh to the team final, while she qualified to the all-around in twenty-fourth place. Great Britain placed fourth in the team final and she placed eighteenth in the all-around final.
Medal Count[]
Floor Music[]
2015 - "Run Boy Run" by Woodkid
2017 - "Tango Amore" by Edvin Marton
2018 - "Dernière Danse" by Amadeus
2019 - "Mirage" by Lindsey Stirling Feat. Raja Kumari
2021 - "Black Swan" by BTS violin cover