Jake Jarman

British artistic gymnast (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jake Elmer Jarman[1] (born 3 December 2001) is a British artistic gymnast and competes internationally for Great Britain and England. Representing Great Britain he is the 2023 World Champion on vault, the 2025 World Champion on floor, the 2024 Olympic floor exercise bronze medalist, and is a four-time European Champion. Representing England he is a four time Commonwealth Games champion and is the first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games (2022). He trains at Huntington Gymnastics club.[2]

FullnameJake Elmer Jarman
Born (2001-12-03) 3 December 2001 (age 24)
Peterborough, England
Height5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
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Jake Jarman
Personal information
Full nameJake Elmer Jarman
Born (2001-12-03) 3 December 2001 (age 24)
Peterborough, England
Height5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
United Kingdom Great Britain
England England
(2018–present)
ClubHuntingdon Gymnastics Club
Head coach(es)Ben Howells
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisFloor Exercise
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 AntwerpVault
Gold medal – first place2025 JakartaFloor Exercise
Bronze medal – third place2022 LiverpoolTeam
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 MunichTeam
Gold medal – first place2022 MunichVault
Gold medal – first place2024 RiminiVault
Gold medal – first place2025 LeipzigTeam
Silver medal – second place2023 AntalyaAll-Around
Silver medal – second place2023 AntalyaVault
Silver medal – second place2024 RiminiTeam
Silver medal – second place2025 LeipzigMixed Team
Silver medal – second place2025 LeipzigVault
Bronze medal – third place2022 MunichFloor Exercise
Bronze medal – third place2023 AntalyaTeam
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2022 BirminghamTeam
Gold medal – first place2022 BirminghamAll-Around
Gold medal – first place2022 BirminghamFloor Exercise
Gold medal – first place2022 BirminghamVault
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Early life

Jarman was born on 3 December 2001 in Peterborough, England,[3] to a British father and a Filipino mother from Cebu.[4] In an interview with the Philippine Star, Jarman revealed that he lived in the Philippines for two years between the ages of three and five and still communicates with his Filipino relatives.[4]

Junior gymnastics career

2018

In 2018, Jarman competed in the junior division of the European Championships, where he helped the British team take the silver medal behind Russia, and also picked up an individual silver on vault.[5]

Senior gymnastics career

2021

In 2021, at the age of 19, Jarman finished tenth in the all-around at the European Championships,[6] and was selected as a reserve for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[3]

2022

The following year became his breakthrough year, taking the British senior titles in floor and vault. Selected to represent England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Jarman won gold in four events; the team competition,[7][8] the individual all-around, with England teammate James Hall in second place,[9][10] the floor final with teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran in bronze,[11] and the vault final with Regini-Moran in silver.[12]

Jarman then competed for Great Britain at the 2022 European Championships, where he helped Great Britain win the team final for the first time in a decade, and only the second time ever.[13] Additionally, he finished 8th in the individual all-around and qualified for the floor final, but initially missed the vault final on the two-per-nation rule despite qualifying in fifth.[14] On individual finals day Jarman won bronze on floor before the withdrawal of teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran from the vault final to concentrate on parallel bars allowed Jarman to take part in that final. Taking advantage, Jarman won gold in the vault final, edging out Armenian rival Artur Davtyan on tie-break.[15]

2023

During the 2023 World Challenge Cup Series, Jarman became the first gymnast to perform a 3.5 twisting double layout salto on floor exercise, getting the skill named after him in the Code of Points.[16] He then was part of the British team that represented Great Britain at the 2023 World Championships, where the British team placed fourth, and individually, Jarman made the all-around final and won the gold medal in the vault final. In doing so he became the first Briton to win world gold on the apparatus, the fourth male British World Champion (after Max Whitlock, Joe Fraser, and Giarnni Regini-Moran), and sixth British World Champion in artistic gymnastics (after Whitlock, Fraser, Regini-Moran, Beth Tweddle, and Jessica Gadirova).

2024

At the 2024 European Championships Jarman helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine. Individually he won his second gold medal on vault. In June of that year Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock.[17] Paris was Jarman's Olympic debut and with his teammates, finished fourth at the team all-around.[18] He qualified for the finals of the floor exercise with the highest score of 14.966 and ultimately won bronze medal with a score of 14.933, his career-first Olympic medal and Team GB's first Paris medal in artistic gymnastics.[19][18] Jarman finished his 2024 Olympics stint with a fourth place in vault.[20]

During the Paris Olympics, it was reported in Philippine news media that the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) is recruiting Jarman to potentially represent the country at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, with GAP president Cynthia Carrion stating that "[Jarman] wants to play for the Philippines".[21]

2025

Jarman was selected to attend the 2025 European Championships alongside Harry Hepworth, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth and Luke Whitehouse where he contributed on floor exercise, vault, pommel horse, parallel bar and high bar to help Britain win their third ever European team title.[22] He also qualified for the vault and mixed team final. He won silver with Ruby Evans in the inaugural mixed team final and won silver on vault. In late September Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2025 World Championships where he won gold on floor exercise.[23][24]

Eponymous skill

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ApparatusNameDescriptionDifficulty[a]Added to the Code of Points
Floor exerciseJarmanDouble salto straight backward with 3½ turnI (0.9)2023 Paris World Challenge Cup[25]
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  1. Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points

Competitive history

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Competitive history of Jake Jarman
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2015 Welsh Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
English Championships7
2018 RD761 Junior International Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)542nd place, silver medalist(s)
English Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
British Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)47
Youth Olympic Games Qualifier14
Junior European Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)8
2019 English Championships (18 & under)1st place, gold medalist(s)
British Championships (18 & under)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)41st place, gold medalist(s)
Doha World Cup1814
European GamesR2
Cardiff Friendly2nd place, silver medalist(s)12
Paris Challenge Cup2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2021
European Championships10
Koper Challenge CupR1
2022 English Championships6
British Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)66
Baku World Cup7
Commonwealth Games1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)83rd place, bronze medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)5
2023 British Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)9
Paris Challenge Cup4
World Championships4131st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 English Championships3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)111st place, gold medalist(s)142nd place, silver medalist(s)
British Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)461st place, gold medalist(s)
Olympic Games473rd place, bronze medalist(s)4
2025 British Championships2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)
Osijek World Cup7
European Championships1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)
European Championships Mixed Team2nd place, silver medalist(s)N/a
World ChampionshipsN/a1st place, gold medalist(s)R3
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