Bianca Mann
South African artistic gymnast
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Bianca Fallon Mann (born 21 February 1995) is a South African former artistic gymnast. She is the 2015 and 2016 South African all-around champion. She is the 2014 African Championships all-around silver medalist and team champion. Additionally, she competed at the World Championships in 2014 and 2015.
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| Full name | Bianca Fallon Mann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 February 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
Mann helped South African win the team silver medal, behind Egypt, at the 2012 African Championships.[2] Then at the 2014 African Championships, South Africa won the team title, and Mann won the all-around silver medal behind teammate Kirsten Beckett. In the event finals, she won silver medals on the uneven bars and balance beam.[3] She competed for South Africa at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she finished 20th in the all-around final and sixth in the team final.[4] At the 2014 World Championships, she competed in the all-around to help the South African team finish 33rd.[5]
At the 2015 Doha World Cup, Mann finished sixth on the uneven bars with a score of 12.625.[6] Then, at the 2015 Ljubljana World Cup, she finished fifth on the uneven bars with a score of 11.425.[7] She won the 2015 South African national titles in the all-around and on the uneven bars, and she also won silver on vault and bronze on balance beam and floor exercise.[8] She won a team gold medal at the 2015 African Games.[9] At the 2015 World Championships, she scored 49.432 in the all-around and finished 109th in the qualifications.[10]
Mann won the 2016 South African national titles in the all-around and on the uneven bars, and she also won silver on balance beam and floor exercise.[11] Her last international competition was the 2017 Summer Universiade where she finished 11th with the team and 28th in the all-around.[12] She won the uneven bars bronze medal at the 2017 South African Championships, and this was the final competition of her career.[13]
