Dan Keatings

Daniel Ryan Keatings (born 4 January 1990 in Kettering, England[1]) is a British artistic gymnast. He trains at the Huntingdon Olympic Gymnastics Club under coach Paul Hall alongside teammate Louis Smith.

Daniel Keatings
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Ryan Keatings
Nickname(s)Dan
Country represented Great Britain
 Scotland
Born (1990-01-04) 4 January 1990
Kettering, England
HometownCorby, England
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
ClubHuntingdon
Head coach(es)Paul Hall
Assistant coach(es)Ben Howells
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
2009 LondonAll-around
European Championships
2010 BirminghamPommel horse
2013 MoscowPommel horse
2007 AmsterdamPommel horse
2009 Milan All-around
2010 BirminghamTeam
2014 SofiaTeam
2009 MilanPommel horse
Representing  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
2014 GlasgowPommel horse
2014 GlasgowTeam
2014 GlasgowAll-around
Northern European Championships
2013 LisburnTeam
2013 LisburnPommel horse

Keatings represented Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 2008 Summer Olympics[2]

In April 2009, Keatings won the all-around silver medal in the European Gymnastics Championships in Milan. He also won the bronze medal in the pommel horse final.[3] In September 2009 Keatings gained a sponsorship deal with business power supplier Opus Energy. The company agreed to cover his competition fees, equipment, and travel costs.[4] During the same year, Daniel also became an official ambassador for premium sports nutrition brand Maximuscle.

On 15 October 2009, Keatings made history when he became the first British gymnast to win a medal in the all-around event at the Artistic World Championships. The event, which was held at the O2 Arena in London, saw Keatings rise to the occasion and record a score of 88.925, taking the silver medal in front of the home crowd.[5]

On 25 April 2010, Keatings made history again when he won Great Britain's first-ever Senior European Championship gold medal on the pommel horse the day after he helped Great Britain to win a historic silver medal in the team competition (their previous highest finish was 9th in 2008).

Returning from an injury, he made a comeback at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo. He did not have a good competition in the preliminary rounds, including a fall off the pommel horse and a particularly nasty fall on high bar. He was not the only one of the British men's team to falter, and the team did not qualify through to the team final, finishing in 10th place. In addition, Keatings failed to qualify through to any of the individual event finals.[6]

On 25 March 2012, Daniel competed at the Turnier der Meister FIG Challenge Cup C III Apparatus, Cottbus, Germany. After exceeding all expectations, Daniel reached the final and held his nerve, producing a quality routine that scored 15.775 for the silver medal, just over a tenth of a mark behind the Olympic champion, Xiao Qin of China.

Keatings again represented Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. As part of the Scottish team, he won a silver medal in the team competition on 29 July 2014 [7] and followed this with another silver in the individual all-around final on 30 July. Keatings won gold in the pommel horse final on 31 July with a score of 16.058.

References
  1. Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Athlete profile > Daniel Keatings
  2. Team GB > Beijing 2008 > Team GB
  3. "Gymnasticsresults.com". Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  4. "Keatings gains sponsorship deal", BBC Sport—BBC News, 2 September 2009, retrieved 16 March 2012
  5. Williams, Ollie (15 October 2009). "Keatings secures historic silver". BBC News.
  6. "GB men fail to qualify for 2012". BBC News.
  7. "Glasgow 2014: Scotland win first team gymnastics medal". BBC News.
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