Donnell Whittenburg
Donnell Whittenburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Whittenburg at the 2024 Winter Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Donnell Whittenburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | August 18, 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gym | Salto Gymnastics Center USOTC Team Hilton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Anthony Ingrelli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | Vitaly Marinich, Abdul Mammeri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eponymous skills | Whittenburg (still rings) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.
Early life and education
[edit]Whittenburg was born on August 18, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He attended Edgewood High School and later a local community college and DeVry University.[2] He was coached as a youth by Abdul Mammeri.[2] He decided to pursue gymnastics and moved to Colorado to attend the United States Olympic Training Center under Vitaly Marinich.[2]
Gymnastics career
[edit]Whittenburg's strongest events are rings, vault, and floor.[3] He won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[4] He was the 2014 U.S. National champion on Vault and is the 2015 U.S. national champion on rings. At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Whittenburg won the bronze medal in the team event with the Americans,[5] and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633).[6] At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he won the individual bronze medal on vault with an average combined score of 15.350 behind Ri Se Gwang of North Korea (15.450) and Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400). He also qualified for the individual still rings event final but finished in eighth place with 15.300. At the 2017 London World Cup, Whittenburg won gold in that all-around competition, and at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup, the individual apparatus competition, in Slovenia, Whittenburg won gold on parallel bars, and silvers on floor and vault.
In 2022 he placed second in the United States men's all-around behind Brody Malone, scoring highest in rings and second highest on vault.[7][8] At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings.[9]
In 2024, Whittenburg placed seventh in the All Around at the 2024 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships and 2024 United States Olympic trials and was named as a non-traveling replacement athlete for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[10]
Eponymous skills
[edit]Whittenburg has one named element on the rings.[11][12]
Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] | Added to Code of Points |
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Rings | Whittenburg | "Triple salto backward piked." | I, 0.9 | Newsletter 32, 2017. Performed at the 2017 World Challenge Cup in Koper[13] |
- ^ Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points
Competitive history
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Donnell Whittenburg closes in on stardom, one vault at a time". Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ a b c Cheng, Brittany (August 19, 2019). "Gymnast Donnell Whittenburg's tough call helps him to international stage". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ "Donnell Whittenburg, still chasing an Olympic spot, in hunt at nationals". Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ Nick; Zaccardi (October 7, 2014). "China stuns Japan at World Gymnastics Championships; U.S. wins bronze (video)". NBC Sports. NBC. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ^ "Donnell Whittenburg". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ^ Graves, Will (June 25, 2021). "Whittenburg making one last stand at US gymnastics trials". Associated Press.
- ^ "Donnell Whittenburg wins second at 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships". August 21, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ "Donnell Whittenburg, still chasing an Olympic spot, in hunt at nationals". Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ "U.S. gymnasts capture 10 medals, including four gold, as Paris World Challenge Cup concludes". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ Crumlish, John (July 3, 2024). "Frederick Richard on topping U.S. Olympic Trials: 'I was pretty cool on the inside'". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "Table of Named Elements Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. December 2023. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
- ^ "Men's Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025–2028" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. July 3, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
- ^ "FIG Men's Technical Committee approves 'The Whittenburg'". gymnastics.sport. June 2, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- 1994 births
- African-American gymnasts
- African-American sportsmen
- American male artistic gymnasts
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Sportspeople from Baltimore
- Gymnasts at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Gymnasts at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in gymnastics
- Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople