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Joe Fraser

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Joe Fraser
Fraser at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Full nameJoe Connor Fraser
Born (1998-12-06) 6 December 1998 (age 26)
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Gymnastics career
SportMen's artistic gymnastics
Countries
represented

(2014–present)
ClubCity of Birmingham GC
Head coachLee Woolls
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Stuttgart Parallel Bars
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Liverpool Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich All-Around
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich Parallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Rimini Team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Basel Pommel Horse
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Apparatus World Cup 1 1 1
World Challenge Cup 1 0 1
Total 2 1 2
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Pommel Horse
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Parallel Bars
Parallel Bars, Apparatus Final, 2022 European Championships in Men Artistic Gymnastics (Seniors)

Joe Connor Fraser (born 6 December 1998)[1][2] is an English artistic gymnast and member of the British national team. As the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars and 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion, he became the first British gymnast to win gold in these events, and the third British world champion (following Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock). Fraser has also won team gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse at the European Championships, and was a member of the 2021 and 2024 Olympic teams.

Representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in the team, pommel horse and parallel bars events.

Personal life

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Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.[3] At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.[4]

He studied at Sandwell Academy[5] from 2010 to 2015.

When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach and opened his own gymnastics club, Joe Fraser Gymnastics, in Lichfield in 2025.[4][6]

Senior gymnastics career

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2017

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Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where he placed fifth in the all-around.[4]

In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017 British Championships. He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on still rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.[7]

Fraser also competed at the 2017 World Championships in Quebec, Canada.[8]

2018

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Early in the year, Fraser fell from the horizontal bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.[4] He returned to international competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Guimares, Portugal where he made the pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars finals.[4]

At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Fraser won a silver as part of the team.[9] He also made the parallel bar and horizontal bar finals.

Fraser also competed at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where the team placed fifth.[8]

2019

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In March 2019, Fraser won a silver medal on the high bar and bronze medal on parallel bars at the British Championships. At the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, Fraser narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.033 marks in the all-around final.[10]

In October, Fraser won gold at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart for his performance on the parallel bars with a score 15.000.[8] He was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus.[11]

2021

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At the 2021 European Championships Fraser took bronze on the pommel horse.[12]

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fraser competed for Great Britain. The team, consisting of Max Whitlock, James Hall, Giarnni Regini-Moran and Fraser, took fourth place with a score of 255.76. Fraser qualified for the individual all-around final where he came 9th and the parallel bar final where he came 8th in his debut games.[13]

2022

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At the British Championships Fraser won the all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, and horizontal bar titles.[14] Fraser competed at the Baku World Cup where he advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals. During the parallel bars final he won bronze medal behind Illia Kovtun from Ukraine and Ferhat Arican from Turkey. The next day he won gold on the horizontal bar.[15]

Despite fracturing his foot two weeks before the Commonwealth Games, Fraser was able to compete on four apparatus and contribute to the England team's successful defence of their Commonwealth title.[16][17][18] Fraser also went on to take gold in both the pommel horse and parallel bars. In the former, he beat 2018 champion Rhys McClenaghan while in the latter, he beat compatriot Giarnni Regini-Moran.[19][20]

At the 2022 European Championships Fraser helped Great Britain win the gold in the Team competition. Additionally he won gold in the all-around ahead of Adem Asil and Ahmet Önder, becoming the first British man to win a European all-around title.[21] Fraser qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, winning gold on the parallel bars.[22]

At the 2022 World Championships Fraser helped Great Britain take bronze in the Team competition and also qualified for the all-around final in fourth place.[23] The bronze was Great Britain's second World team medal, having won silver in Glasgow in 2015.[23]

2024

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At the 2024 European Championships Fraser helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine.[24] In June of that year he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock. The team place fourth in the team competition.[25]

2025

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Fraser completed at the 2025 Paris World Challenge Cup where he qualified for the rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar finals. He won gold on parallel bars and bronze on rings.[26] In late September he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2025 World Championships.[27]

Competitive history

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Competitive history of Joe Fraser[28]
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2017
European Championships 5
British Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018 Guimares World Challenge Cup 8 8 5
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 8 6
World Championships 5
2019 British Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 4
World Championships 5 8 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021 European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Olympic Games 4 9 8
2022 British Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Baku World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Commonwealth Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 22 8
2024 British Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Cairo World Cup 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 4 5
2025 Paris Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7

References

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  1. ^ "Joe Fraser". British Gymnastics.
  2. ^ "Search results: Joe Fraser". Genes Reunited.
  3. ^ Broadbent, Rick (18 October 2019). "Joe Fraser aiming to be the best bar none". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e "FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile". FIG Gymnastics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Fraser House - Sandwell Academy". www.sandwellacademy.com. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Olympian Joe Fraser to open new gymnastics club with backing from Club Capital". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Joe Fraser and Ellie Downie take 2017 British all-around titles". British Gymnastics. 25 March 2017. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Artistic Gymnastics FRASER Joe". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  9. ^ "High bar falls cost British gymnasts as Russia takes European team gold". ESPN. 11 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Joe Fraser 4th and James Hall 7th in European all-around final". British Gymnastics. 12 April 2019.
  11. ^ "World Gymnastics Championships: Joe Fraser wins Britain's first parallel bars gold". BBC Sport. 13 October 2019.
  12. ^ "Three medals on amazing day of finals at European Championships". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  13. ^ "Artistic Gymnastics - Final Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Gadirova and Fraser win British all-around titles". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  15. ^ "Kovtun's fourth consecutive title leads Ukraine to distinction at Baku World Cup". International Gymnastics Federation. 4 April 2022.
  16. ^ "Men's Team Final" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  17. ^ "Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold". BBC Sport. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  18. ^ "Joe Fraser inspires England to team gymnastics gold". Birmingham 2022. 29 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Men's Pommel Horse Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  20. ^ "Men's Parallel Bars Medalists" (PDF). Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  21. ^ "European Championships Munich 2022: GB's Joe Fraser wins landmark all-around gold". BBC Sport. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  22. ^ "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  23. ^ a b "Gymnastics World Championships 2022: GB men win bronze in team event". BBC Sport. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  24. ^ "European Men's Gymnastics Championships 2024: Jake Jarman wins European vault gold". BBC Newsround. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  25. ^ "And your Team GB Paris 2024 gymnasts are..." British Gymnastics. 13 June 2024.
  26. ^ Duffy, Patricia (15 September 2025). "2025 Paris World Challenge Cup Results – Angelina Melnikova among medal winners - Gymnastics Now". Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  27. ^ "GB team set for Jakarta gymnastics World Championships". British Gymnastics. 23 September 2025.
  28. ^ "FRASER Joe - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
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