Jake Jarman (born 3 December 2001) is a British artistic gymnast from Peterborough, competing internationally for Great Britain, and for England at the Commonwealth Games. In his first major senior championships, the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Jarman won the gold medal in the team all-around, individual all-around, floor exercise and vault, the first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. A few weeks later in Munich, representing Great Britain, Jarman became European champion in the team and vault events, becoming the first British male to win European gold on vault. In 2023, Jarman added vault gold at the 2023 World Championships, the first Briton to win world gold on the apparatus, the fourth male British world champion (after Max Whitlock, Joe Fraser and Giarnni Regini-Moran), and sixth British world champion (after Whitlock, Fraser, Regini-Moran, Jessica Gadirova and Beth Tweddle).
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| Country represented |  Great Britain  England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 December 2001 Peterborough, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5ft 2in (157cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2018–present (GBR) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Huntingdon Gymnastics Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Ben Howells | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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In 2024 Jarman won his second European vault title, before winning the bronze medal in the 2024 men's Olympic floor exercise, his first Olympic medal.
Early life
editJarman was born on 3 December 2001 in Peterborough, England,[1] to a British father and a Filipino mother from Cebu.[2] In an interview with the Philippine Star, Jarman revealed that he lived in the Philippines for two years between the ages of three and five and still communicates with his Filipino relatives.[2]
Career
editJunior
editIn 2018, Jarman competed in the junior division of the European Championships, where he helped the British team take the silver medal behind Russia, and also picked up an individual silver on vault.[3]
Senior
editIn 2021, at the age of 19, Jarman finished tenth in the all-around at the European Championships,[4] and was selected as a reserve for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The following year became his breakthrough year, taking the British senior titles in floor and vault. Selected to represent England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Jarman won gold in four events; the team competition,[5][6] the individual all-around, with England teammate James Hall in second place,[7][8] the floor final with teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran in bronze,[9] and the vault final with Regini-Moran in silver.[10]
Jarman then competed for Great Britain at the 2022 European Championships, where he helped Great Britain win the team final for the first time in a decade, and only the second time ever.[11] Additionally, he finished 8th in the individual all-around and qualified for the floor final, but initially missed the vault final on the two-per-nation rule despite qualifying in fifth.[12] On individual finals day Jarman won bronze on floor before the withdrawal of teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran from the vault final to concentrate on parallel bars allowed Jarman to take part in that final. Taking advantage, Jarman won gold in the vault final, edging out Armenian rival Artur Davtyan on tie-break.[13]
During the 2023 World Challenge Cup Series, Jarman became the first gymnast to perform a 3.5 twisting double layout salto on floor exercise, getting the skill named after him in the Code of Points.[14] He then was part of the British team that represented Great Britain at the 2023 World Championships, where the British team placed fourth, and individually, Jarman made the all-around final and won the gold medal in the vault final.
At the 2024 European Championships Jarman helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine. Individually he won his second gold medal on vault. In June of that year Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock.[15] Paris was Jarman's Olympic debut and with his teammates, finished fourth at the team all-around.[16] He qualified for the finals of the floor exercise with the highest score of 14.966 and ultimately won bronze medal with a score of 14.933, his career-first Olympic medal and Team GB's first Paris medal in artistic gymnastics.[17][16] Jarman finished his 2024 Olympics stint with a fourth place in vault.[18]
During the Paris Olympics, it was reported in Philippine news media that the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) is recruiting Jarman to potentially represent the country at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, with GAP president Cynthia Carrion stating that "[Jarman] wants to play for the Philippines".[19]
Eponymous skill
edit| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] | Added to the Code of Points |
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| Floor exercise | Jarman | Double salto straight backward with 3½ turn | I | 2023 Paris World Challenge Cup[20] |
- ^ Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points
Competitive history
edit| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2015 | Welsh Championships |  |
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| English Championships | 7 | ||||||||
| 2018 | RD761 Junior International Cup |  |
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| Youth Olympic Games Qualifier | 14 | ||||||||
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| 2019 | English Championships (18 & under) | |
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| Doha World Cup | 18 | 14 | |||||||
| European Games | R2 | ||||||||
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| European Championships | 10 | ||||||||
| Koper Challenge Cup | R1 | ||||||||
| 2022 | English Championships | 6 | |||||||
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| Baku World Cup | 7 | ||||||||
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| Paris Challenge Cup | 4 | ||||||||
| World Championships | 4 | 13 | |
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4 | 6 | |
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| Olympic Games | 4 | 7 | |
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References
edit- ^ a b "Jake Jarman". Team England.
- ^ a b "Jake Jarman: The next sports super star". The Philippine Star. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "2018 European Championships results". The Gymternet. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "2021 European Championships results". The Gymternet. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Men's Team Final" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "England secure team gold in men's gymnastics with dominant performance". the Guardian. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Men's All-Around Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Jake Jarman wins all-around gymnastics gold for England". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Men's Floor Exercise Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Men's Vault Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ "Great Britain claim stunning European team gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Unlike the other apparatus where ties are separated by the highest execution score, ties on vault are broken in the first instance by the highest scoring single vault of the two performed before comparing execution. In this case, Jarman's highest vault of 15.200 narrowly eclipsed Davtyan's highest score of 15.066, thus making Jarman the champion.
- ^ Gunston, Jo. "Great Britain's Jake Jarman and Jessica Gadirova – Olympic superstars in waiting?". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are..." British Gymnastics. 13 June 2024.
- ^ a b Oxley, Sonia (3 August 2024). "McClenaghan wins gold as Whitlock misses out in final event". BBC Sports. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ Crooks, Eleanor (3 August 2024). "Jake Jarman bags first Olympic medal with bronze on the floor for Great Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Hepworth makes history with vault bronze". Team GB. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Fil-British gymnast to don Philippine colors?". The Philippine Star. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "New elements in the men's Code of Points! Introducing the Jarman, Minami, Reid, Valverde, and Zou 2". International Gymnastics Federation. 17 November 2023.
