Amelie Morgan
Morgan at the 2018 Youth Olympics
Personal information
Nickname(s)Am
Country represented Great Britain
Born (2003-05-31) 31 May 2003 (age 20)
Slough, Berkshire,[1] England, United Kingdom
ResidenceSalt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior Elite (2019–21)(2024-)
NCAA (2021–present)
Years on national team2016–2021 (GBR)
ClubThe Academy (2017–2021)
Slough (2010–17)
College teamUtah Red Rocks[2]
Head coach(es)Liz Kincaid
Former coach(es)Ellie Jones[3]
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Team
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Basel Uneven Bars
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires All-around
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires Floor exercise
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires Balance beam
Representing Utah Red Rocks
NCAA Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Fort Worth Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Fort Worth Team

Amelie Morgan (born 31 May 2003)[4] is a British artistic gymnast. She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event. She is the 2021 European Championships bronze medalist on the uneven bars. Additionally, she won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2018 Youth Olympics,[5] as well as a silver medal on the floor exercise and a bronze on the balance beam.[6][7] At the 2018 Junior European Championships she won five medals (two silvers and three bronzes)—the most medals won by a British junior female gymnast at the European Championships.[8]

Early life

Morgan was born in Slough, Berkshire, in 2003. She has a twin brother.[9] She joined Slough Gymnastics club when they first opened in 2010.[10] In 2017 she transferred to The Academy of Gymnastics. In order to juggle her education with her 35-hour a week training schedule, Amelie was homeschooled through Wolsey Hall, Oxford[11] for her IGCSEs. She then moved to St Katherine's School to study her A levels, where she achieved an A* and two Bs.

Junior gymnastics career

2008–2010

Amelie started her gymnastics journey at Chiltern Gymnastics, based in Iver and later moved to Beaconsfield.[12]

2015–16

Morgan began her gymnastics career in 2015, where she competed at the English Championships and finished second at the espoir level.[13] In 2016 Morgan was selected to compete at the School Games, where she placed third in the all-around, on balance beam, and on floor exercise.[14] Later that year she competed at the Olympic Hopes Cup where she placed second in the all-around behind Ana Padurariu of Canada.[15]

2017

Morgan finished second at the British Championships behind Taeja James.[16] In late June Morgan announced that she had verbally committed to attend the University of California, Berkeley on a gymnastics scholarship.[17] In July Morgan competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival where she won bronze on balance beam behind Ksenia Klimenko of Russia and Asia D'Amato of Italy.[18] In November Morgan competed at the Olympic Hopes Cup where she won gold in the all-around and on floor exercise and won silver on vault.[19] Morgan ended 2017 competed at the Top Gym Tournament where she placed fifth in the all-around, fourth on beam, but won gold on floor exercise.[20]

2018

Morgan won gold in the all-around at both the English Championships[21] and the British Championships.[22] She was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2018 European Championships.[23] While there Morgan won a record 5 medals in the Junior competition – silver in the all-around and on balance beam, both behind Giorgia Villa of Italy, and bronze in the team final, vault (behind Asia D'Amato of Italy and Villa), and floor exercise (behind Ioana Stanciulescu of Romania and Villa).[24] Later in the year Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. While there she won silver in the all-around and on floor exercise, once again behind Villa, and won bronze on balance beam behind Tang Xijing of China and Klimenko .[25]

Vault qualification
Uneven bars final
Balance beam final
Floor exercise final
Morgan at the 2018 Youth Olympics

Senior gymnastics career

2019

Morgan turned senior in 2019 and made her debut at the English Championships where she won gold in the all-around, finishing 1.75 points ahead of second place Kelly Simm.[26] She was later selected to compete at the 2019 European Championships alongside Ellie Downie, Alice Kinsella, and Claudia Fragapane.[27] Morgan competed at the British Championships and won bronze in the all-around, on uneven bars, and on balance beam. She placed fourth on floor exercise.[28] At the European Championships Morgan finished fifth in the all-around qualification but did not advance to the final due to teammates Kinsella and Downie scoring higher. Morgan was also a reserve for the bars and beam final. Just after the European Championships Morgan sustained an injury. She healed in time for the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart as travelling reserve but she re-injured herself and Kelly Simm took her place. In November Morgan made her international comeback at the Cottbus World Cup in Germany. She qualified to the uneven bars final where she scored 13.766 and placed seventh.[29]

2020

In January it was announced that Morgan would represent Great Britain at the American Cup, taking place on March 7.[30] However, due to injury she was replaced by Jennifer Gadirova.

2021

In April Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the European Championships alongside Jessica Gadirova, Jennifer Gadirova (later replaced by Phoebe Jakubczyk),[31] and Alice Kinsella.[32] While there she qualified to the all-around final in 5th place and the uneven bars, and balance beam event finals in 7th and 3rd place respectively. During the all-around final Morgan finished in fourth place behind Russians Viktoria Listunova and Angelina Melnikova and teammate Gadirova. She won the bronze in the uneven bars final behind Melnikova and Vladislava Urazova.[33] In the beam final, Morgan placed 4th due to a mistake on her wolf turn.

On 7 June, Morgan was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Jennifer Gadirova, Jessica Gadirova, and Alice Kinsella.[34]

At the Olympic Games Morgan did not qualify for any individual event finals; however Great Britain qualified for the team final. During the team final Morgan competed on uneven bars and balance beam, helping Great Britain win the bronze medal, their first Olympic team medal in 93 years.[35]

Collegiate gymnastics career

2021–2022 season

In July Morgan announced plans to switch NCAA commitments from the University of California, Berkeley to the University of Utah.[2] In August she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah to join the University of Utah gymnastics team for the 2021–2022 season as a part of their freshman class alongside Olympic silver medallist Grace McCallum, Kara Eaker, and Sage Thompson.

Morgan made her NCAA debut at the Best of Utah meet, against BYU, Southern Utah, and Utah State, where she competed on uneven bars and balance beam, where she scored a 9.825 and a 9.875 respectively, to help Utah win. She was subsequently named as the Pac-12 Freshman of the week.

Competitive history

Morgan (right) on the balance beam podium at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
Junior
2015 English Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 School Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Olympic Hopes Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 6 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2017 British Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7
German Junior Friendly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11
Euro Youth Olympic Festival 5 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5
British Team Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Hopes Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Top Gym Tournament 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 English Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
British Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Youth Olympic Games Qualifier 6
Pieve di Soligo Friendly 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
British Team Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Youth Olympic Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Senior
2019 English Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
British Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
European Championships R2 R3
Cottbus World Cup 7 R1
2021
European Championships 4 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
Olympic Games 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
NCAA
2022 PAC-12 Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 5
NCAA Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 24 19
2023 PAC-12 Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
NCAA Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Media appearances

Morgan first appeared in the CBBC documentary series Gym Stars[36] in 2018 and became one of its leading contributors alongside Phoebe Jakubczyk. She returned for Series 2, which began airing in April 2019 and Series 3 which began airing in March 2020

Selected competitive skills

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Performed
Vault Baitova Yurchenko entry, laid out salto backwards with 2 twists 5.4 2018
Uneven bars Piked Jaeger

Van Leeuwen

Bhardwaj

Ricna

Reverse grip swing to pike salto forwards to catch high bar

Toe on Shaposhonikova transition to the high bar with 1/2 twists to the High Bar

Pak salto with 1/1 twist to transition down to the low bar

Stalder to straddle Tkachev to catch the high bar

E

E

E

E

2017

2018

2018

2019

Balance beam

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