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Bryony Page

Bryony Kate Frances Page (born 10 December 1990) is a British trampoline gymnast. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in individual trampoline. She is the 2021 and 2023 women's individual trampoline world champion, and part of the British team that won team gold at the 2013 world championships, and all-around team gold in 2022.

Bryony Page
Page in 2024
Personal information
Full nameBryony Kate Frances Page
Born (1990-12-10) 10 December 1990 (age 33)
Crewe, England
ResidenceBournemouth/Sheffield, England
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1]
Weight136 lb (62 kg)[1]
DisciplineTrampoline gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team10
ClubPoole gymnastics and trampoline club
Head coach(es)Brian Camp
Former coach(es)Paul Greaves
World ranking5th in 2024[2]
Medal record
Women's trampoline gymnastics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris Individual
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Individual
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Birmingham Individual
Gold medal – first place 2021 Baku Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Sofia Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Sofia All-around Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Birmingham Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Tokyo Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Sofia Individual
Silver medal – second place 2022 Sofia Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Birmingham Synchronized
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Birmingham All-around Team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Baku All-around Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rimini Individual
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rimini Synchronized
Gold medal – first place 2024 Guimarães Individual
Gold medal – first place 2024 Guimarães Synchronized
Last updated on: 6 August 2024.

Page became the first British trampolinist to win an Olympic medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she won the silver medal. Five years later, at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she won the bronze medal. Her triumph in 2024 led to Page becoming the first British gymnast to attain the status of Olympic champion in trampolining, and the first British female individual Olympic champion in gymnastics.

Early life and education

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Page was born in Crewe.[3][4] She attended Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College.[3][4] She took up trampolining at the age of nine.[5][4]

Page studied biology at the University of Sheffield, where she received a sports scholarship.[6] She graduated in 2015[7] with a first-class honours degree, with her thesis being a study of sounds made by dinosaurs.[4][8] After graduating she concentrated full-time on trampolining.[8]

Career

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Early in her career Page struggled with the yips (a loss of fine motor skills in athletes) for two years which affected her confidence and performance, but she overcame it in 2010 with the help of a confidence coach.[9] She competed in her first World Championships in 2010,[10] where she finished fourth in the individual event.[11] At the 2011 World Championships she was part of the team that won the silver medal in the team event.[11] She missed the 2012 Olympic Games in London due to illness and injury problems,[6] but won the individual gold medal at the 2012 World Cup in Sofia.[11]

She won three successive British Championship titles between 2013 and 2015, and was a member of the British teams that won gold at the 2013 World Championships,[5] and the 2014[12] and 2016 European Championships.[13][11] She finished fifth in the individual event at the 2015 World Championships.[5][14]

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Page and her British teammate Kat Driscoll became Great Britain's first ever finalists in trampolining,[15] with Page qualifying in seventh position. During the final she posted a score of 56.040 which put her in the lead, until defending champion Rosie MacLennan scored 56.465 dropping Page into the second place. Page won the silver medal, the first time that any British trampolinist had won an Olympic medal.[16][17] At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Page won a bronze medal.[18][19] Later that year, Page won individual gold and was part of the team that won bronze in the team event at the 2021 World Championships.[20]

She won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the first trampoline gold won by a British gymnast.[21][22] Page was one of the Great Britain flag-bearers at the closing ceremony alongside triathlete Alex Yee.[23][24]

In November 2024, Page announced she was going to train with Cirque du Soleil in Montreal with the aim of joining the group on tour the following year.[25]

Awards and honours

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In 2022, Page was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield for giving distinguished service or bringing distinction to the University, the City of Sheffield, or the region.[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Bryony Page". NBCOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. ^ "TRA World Ranking". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Nantwich trampoline star Bryony Page wins silver at Rio Olympics". Nantwich News. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Briggs, Simon (12 August 2016). "Bryony Page and her lucky charm leads to most surprising medal of the Olympics". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Bryony Page FIG Profile". fig-gymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Gold medal-winning gymnast honoured for outstanding academic and sporting success". University of Sheffield. 31 July 2014. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Olympic medal-winning alumni". University of Sheffield. 13 August 2016. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Bryony Page elated after springing surprise trampolining silver for Britain". News and Star. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  9. ^ Blewett, Sam (13 August 2016). "How Britain's first ever Olympic trampolining medalist Bryony Page suffered from the yips". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  10. ^ "Bryony Page ESPS Individual Profile". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  11. ^ a b c d "Bryony Page". British Gymnastics. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  12. ^ "Gymnastics – 2014 European Trampoline Championships – Results Women". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  13. ^ "Gymnastics – 2016 European Trampoline Championships – Results Women". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  14. ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain". BBC. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  15. ^ Roberts, Genevieve (12 August 2016). "Rio Olympics: Bryony Page cries with joy after winning Britain's first trampolining medal". i. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  16. ^ "Trampoline Gymnastics". www.rio2016.com. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  17. ^ Prior, Ian (12 August 2016). "Bryony Page wins silver and first British medal in Olympic trampolining". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  18. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Bryony Page wins trampolining bronze for second Olympic medal". BBC Sport. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  19. ^ Morgan, Liam (30 July 2021). "Zhu edges Liu to secure women's trampoline gold at Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  20. ^ "Bryony Page crowned world trampolining champion". Team GB. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  21. ^ "Bryony Page wins Olympic trampoline gold for GB in Paris". BBC Sport. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  22. ^ Bloom, Ben (2 August 2024). "Bryony Page sets sights on circus act after soaring to trampoline gold". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  23. ^ "Bryony Page and Alex Yee MBE named Team GB's flagbearers for Paris 2024 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony". Team GB. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  24. ^ "Trampoline star's role in Olympics closing ceremony". BBC News. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  25. ^ "Trampoline Olympic champion joins the circus". BBC News. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  26. ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Sheffield Online. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
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