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Lauren Mitchell
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Lauren Mitchell 2012.jpg
Mitchell at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra on 21 June 2012
Personal information
Full nameLauren Mitchell
Country represented Australia
Born (1991-07-23) 23 July 1991 (age 30)
Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2007-2016 (AUS)
ClubWestern Australian Institute of Sport
Head coach(es)Nikolai Lapchine and Martine George
Eponymous skillsBalance Beam and Floor Exercise: triple turn (1080°) in tuck stand on one leg - free leg optional
Retired27 September 2016
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Medal record
Representing  Australia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Rotterdam Floor exercise
Silver medal – second place 2009 London Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 2009 London Floor exercise
World Cup Final
Gold medal – first place 2008 Madrid Balance beam
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi All-around
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Uneven bars
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi Balance beam
Silver medal – second place 2010 Delhi Floor exercise
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Team
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Floor exercise

Lauren Mitchell OAM (born 23 July 1991) is a retired Australian artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World Champion on floor and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on balance beam and floor. Mitchell is only the second Australian female gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships, and she is the first to win a gold medal.[1][2] She is the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in the all-around, uneven bars, balance beam, and with the Australian team. She also represented Australia at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.[3]

In 2021, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of her service to gymnastics.[4]

Personal life

Mitchell was born in Subiaco, Western Australia to Leanne and Graeme Mitchell, and she is the oldest of four siblings: Brittany, Harrison and Travis.[5] She is of Romanian descent through her mother.[6]

Career

2007

Mitchell became age-eligible for senior international competition in 2007. At the Australian Championships, she won the gold medal on the balance beam.[1] She then competed at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas and helped the Australian team win the bronze medal. Individually, Mitchell placed fourth in the all-around, tied for the silver medal on the balance beam with Katelyn Mohr, and tied for the bronze medal on the floor exercise with Alina Kozich.[7] She competed at the World Championships alongside Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, Hollie Dykes, and Chloe Sims, and they finished eleventh in the qualification round.[8] Mitchell qualified for the balance beam event final, where she placed fifth.[9]

After her strong showing at her debut World Championships, Mitchell went on to compete in several international events. At the DTB Cup in Germany, she won a silver medal on the balance beam and a bronze medal on the floor exercise.[10] She followed this up at the Good Luck Beijing event (a warm-up for the venue for the 2008 Summer Olympics), where she won the silver medal on the balance beam.[11]

2008

In May, Mitchell competed at the Australian Championships where she finished fourth in the all-around, and she helped Western Australia win the silver medal in the team competition behind Victoria. She also placed seventh on the uneven bars, won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Shona Morgan, and finished fourth on the floor exercise.[12] She was then selected to represent Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, and Olivia Vivian. The team finished sixth in the team final which was the highest team finish in Australian gymnastics history.[13]

After the Olympics, Mitchell competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won the silver medal on both the balance beam and the floor exercise behind Cheng Fei.[14] She then won the gold medal on the balance beam at the World Cup Final making her the first Australian gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Cup Final.[1][13]

2009

Mitchell performing a layout step-out on the balance beam during the 2009 World Championships.

In July, Mitchell took first place in the all-around at the Australian Championships in Perth with a total score of 112.325 to claim her first all-around national title.[15] She also won titles on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.[16][17][18] In October, at the World Championships, Mitchell finished fourth all-around by only 0.025, after she took a 0.1 deduction on floor for stepping out of bounds.[5][19] She won two silver medals in the event finals, one on the floor exercise and one on balance beam.[2] This made her the first Australian female gymnast to medal at the World Championships.[13] Mitchell broke her hand in December.[1]

2010

After recovering from her broken hand, Mitchell sprained her ankle on a tumbling pass in March, and then strained her adductor in July, which caused her to miss the Australian Championships.[1]

At the Delhi Commonwealth Games, Mitchell won gold with the Australian team. She then went on to win gold in the all-around, on the uneven bars, and balance beam, thereby giving her a total of four gold medals. She also won silver in the floor exercise.[20] Mitchell's success in winning four gold medals is a record at the Commonwealth Games for a female gymnast, which she holds jointly with Lori Strong of Canada who accomplished the same feat at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Strong though has the slightly better overall record in that she also won two silver medals to Mitchell's one.[21] On missing out on beating Strong's Commonwealth record for medals won and missing out on the gold medal in the floor exercise, Mitchell said: "Even though it would have been nice to have five gold medals, I think for me it would have been too perfect... And now it gives me something extra to strive for because if I had got the gold in every single event I competed in, it would have been like 'what's next?'."[21]

Mitchell then competed at the World Championships in Rotterdam. She finished sixth with the Australian team and finished sixth in the all-around.[22] She then won gold on the floor exercise, which was the first World title for a female Australian gymnast - Philippe Rizzo being the only male Australian artistic gymnast to win a World title, having won the high bar at the 2006 World Championships.[23][5] She also finished fourth on the balance beam.[23]

On winning the gold medal at the World Championships, Mitchell stated, "I had to look at the score again...I think I nearly started crying. It didn't feel like my routine was so good but obviously it was... Coming from the beginning of the year and not competing at any events until the Commonwealth Games, it is a fantastic feeling".[23] She added: "I wanted to prove on the floor that I belonged in the top three...I wanted to prove to the judges that Australia is up there with the world...I know I had a few landing errors...But my leaps and jumps were pretty good. I'd never done a triple pivot in a floor routine before, so that was a first...I thought I'd come fourth again...I had to look twice at the scoreboard. I thought it was a 14.6. Then when I realised it was a 14.8, and I knew that the Russian had got a 14.7, I had to think. Is an eight more than a seven? I was in shock".[24] The Western Australian Institute of Sport gymnastics program manager, Liz Chetkovich, believed failing to win the gold in the floor exercise at the Commonwealth Games and to take Lori Strong's Commonwealth record in terms of medals won was the motivational force behind Mitchell's World Championships success, stating: "For her, not having the icing on the cake was a very good thing...It was a real motivator for her, and fortunately it helped her put her technique together when it really counted. In the end, it was a stunning victory".[23]

Mitchell (centre) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games medal ceremony for the uneven bars final.

In November, Mitchell competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won the gold medal on the floor exercise, balance beam, and uneven bars- making her the first Australian gymnast to win three gold medals at a single World Cup event.[25] Commenting on Mitchell's achievement, Australian women's head coach, Peggy Liddick, stated: "When she won floor tonight, I thought that’s fantastic she’s backed up her world championships performance. That almost means as much as the world championships because it just proves that she’s not a one hit wonder, that she’s a consistent performer and she can go in three weeks later and back herself up. Her beam score of 15.375, which is a normal beam routine for her, would have been enough for a gold medal at the world championships. We were both so disappointed with the scoring at worlds, we thought Lauren did a great job but she just didn’t get that score. So that just proves she is also a medal contender on beam. And the bars are not her best event and there was no pressure on her because we weren’t expecting her to medal. She’s had a bit of a sore shoulder and hasn’t done much training on bars, and we were even thinking about pulling her out to give that shoulder a rest. But she opted to stay in and she did the best bars routine she’s done all year. Last night was a success, not only because she won the medals, but it was a statement that she’s a true professional, that she loves her gymnastics and when she goes out she can back herself up. Keep that history book open, just love the achievements that we’re making at the moment."[25]

Mitchell then competed at the Glasgow World Cup where she won two more gold medals on the balance beam and on the floor exercise, and she also won the bronze medal on the uneven bars.[26] Mitchell said of her achievements in 2010 that: "It's been an amazing few months, not only for me but for the whole Australian Team. The Commonwealth Games was a great chance for us all to compete in a big event and get experience ahead of the World Championships, which were the big aim for the whole Team. To qualify for the next step of the Olympic Qualifications was key so we were really happy with that and then of course for me to win the Floor title was just the icing on the cake — the day just went perfectly for me and I was amazed to get the title! From there I've been really hectic traveling to lots of events, which have given me great experience. Here in Glasgow, I've been really happy with my performance and the two titles as the equipment wasn't what I was used too so it shows that I can adapt and work in a range of environments which is important and shows I'm developing. Traveling to all these events is great but what really keeps me going is knowing that I have some amazing support from back home in Australia, it makes me job much easier knowing people are supporting me."[26] Her final competition of the season was the Toyota Cup where she won the gold medal on the balance beam.[27]

2011

On 5 March, Mitchell competed at the American Cup in Jacksonville, Florida where she finished sixth in the all-around.[28] She then went to the Paris World Cup where she finished fourth on the balance beam.[29] At the Japan Cup in Tokyo, Mitchell came fourth in the all-around with a total score of 53.750. She also finished fourth with the Australian team in the team competition.[30]

In July, Mitchell won gold on the all-around, the vault, the balance beam, and on the floor exercise at the Australian National Championships.[31][32] After selection trials from 17–18 September, which took place at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, Mitchell was selected for the Australian team to compete at the World Championships alongside Ashleigh Brennan, Larrissa Miller, Emily Little, Georgia-Rose Brown, and Mary-Anne Monckton.[33] At the World Championships, the Australian team finished eighth, and Mitchell finished eighth in the all-around and fifth on the floor exercise.[34][35][36]

2012

Mitchell performing on floor at the Australian Championships in May 2012.

In March, Mitchell competed at the Pacific Rim Championships where the Australian team finished fourth.[37] In the event finals, she finished fifth in the balance beam and the floor exercise.[38] Then in April, she competed at the Zibo World Cup and won the bronze medal on the balance beam behind Yao Jinnan and Huang Qiushuang, and she won the gold medal on the floor exercise.[39] At the Australian Championships in Sydney, she won the gold medal on both the floor exercise and the balance beam.[40][41]

A group shot of the 2012 Australian Olympic gymnastics team, showing Emily Little, Lauren Mitchell, Peggy Liddick, Kate Lundy, Larrissa Miller, Georgia Bonora and Ashleigh Brennan.
Mitchell (second-from-left) with Kate Lundy and her 2012 Australian Olympic teammates

In mid-June 2012, she was one of twelve Australian gymnasts vying to earn a final spot on the Olympic squad at a training session for the national team at the Australian Institute of Sport.[42] Her Olympic training preparations included learning how to deal with flash photography with strobe lighting used at practice and being exposed to distracting noises.[2][43]

On 21 June 2012, she was formally named to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Emily Little, and Larrissa Miller.[5][44][43] Going into the Olympic Games, she stated that she did not feel any additional pressure to perform well.[45] The Australian team only finished tenth in the qualification round and did not advance to the team finals.[46] Mitchell qualified for the floor exercise event final where she finished fifth.[47] She had shoulder reconstruction surgery after the Olympics.[48]


2014

Mitchell returned to competition at the Doha World Cup and finished fourth on the floor exercise.[49] She then went to the Korea Cup in Incheon where she once again placed fourth on the floor exercise.[50] Then at the Australian Championships, she won the bronze medal on the balance beam and the gold medal on the floor exercise.[51][52] At the Commonwealth Games, Mitchell won a silver medal with the Australian team and an individual silver on the floor exercise behind Claudia Fragapane.[53][54] She was initially named to Australia's team for the World Championships, but she withdrew after injuring both of her ankled during podium training.[55]

2015-2016

Mitchell competed at the 2015 Australian Championships and won the gold medal on the floor exercise and placed fourth on the floor exercise.[56] While preparing to represent Australia at the 2015 Summer Universiade, she tore her ACL and PCL and had surgery in June.[57][48]

Mitchell returned to competition at the 2016 Australian Championships where she won the gold medal on the balance beam and the bronze medal on the floor exercise.[58] However, Australia had only qualified one spot for the 2016 Olympics, and Mitchell was not selected.[59] Her final competition was the Anadia World Challenge Cup and she qualified third for the balance beam event final, but she withdrew due to an injury.[13]

Mitchell announced her retirement from gymnastics on 27 September 2016.[60]

Eponymous skills

Apparatus Name Description Difficulty[a] Added to Code of Points
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise		 Mitchell[b] triple turn (1080°) in tuck stand on one leg - free leg optional E 2010 World Championships
  1. ^ Valid for the 2017-2020 Code of Points
  2. ^ Also referred to as a triple wolf turn

Competitive history

Mitchell (right) on the balance beam podium at the 2009 World Championships.
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2007 Australian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WOGA Classic 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 6 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 11 5
Stuttgart World Cup 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Good Luck Beijing Olympic Test Event 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2008 Australian Championships 4 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4
Olympic Games 6
Stuttgart World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Cup Final 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2009 Australian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2010
Commonwealth Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
World Championships 6 6 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
DTB Pokal World Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Glasgow World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Toyota Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2011 American Cup 6
Paris World Cup 4
Japan Cup 4 4
Australian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 8 8 5
2012 Pacific Rim Championships 4 5 5
Zibo World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Australian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games 5
2014 Doha World Cup 4
Korea Cup 4
Australian Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Commonwealth Games 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2015 Australian Championships 4 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 Australian Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

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