James Hall (gymnast)
English artistic gymnast
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James Robert Hall (born 6 October 1995)[1] is an English former artistic gymnast. He was a member of the English and British Senior teams from 2014–2025. He represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Hall was the alternate for the silver medal winning team at the 2015 World Championships and was part of the bronze medal winning team at the 2022 World Championships. Additionally he was part of three medal winning teams at the European Championships and two gold medal winning teams at the Commonwealth Games. Individually Hall is the 2017 European all-around bronze medalist, a two-time all-around silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games (2018, 2022), and is the 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medalist on the horizontal bar.
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| Full name | James Robert Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 1995 Bankstown, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Great Britain England (2014–2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Pegasus GC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Ionut Trandaburu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 15 January 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
Hall was born 6 October 1995 in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. His family moved to Kent, England in 1997.[2]
He began gymnastics at age six after a coach encouraged him to so do.[2]
In 2018, Hall became an ambassador for the Young Lives Foundation, a charity that helps disadvantaged youth in Kent, England.[2]
Career
2015
Hall was the alternate for the silver medal winning GB team at the 2015 Glasgow world championships.
2017
Hall won the all-around bronze medal at the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in April 2017, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.[3]
2018
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Hall was part of the team that won gold in the team event.[4] He also won silver on the individual all-around competition[5] as well as horizontal bar, both behind Nile Wilson.[6]
At the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Hall won a silver as part of the team.[7]
2019
In March 2019, Hall won the All-Around title at the British Championships.[8]
He also competed at the European Championships in Szczecin, Poland, as well as the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.[2]
2021
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Hall competed for Great Britain. The team took fourth place with a score of 255.76.
He also competed in the all around final where he finished in 8th position, one place ahead of teammate Joe Fraser.[9]
2022
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Hall was again part of the England team that won gold in the team event.[10] Despite sustaining an ankle injury during the competition, Hall also won silver in the individual all-around behind compatriot Jake Jarman.[11][12]
2024
At the 2024 European Championships Hall helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine.[13] He was named as the reserve athlete for Paris 2024 Olympic Games
2025
At the 2025 Doha World Cup, he competed his eponymous skill, a 5/4 salto straddled with ½ turn to upper arms, which was added to the Code of Points.[14]
2026
In January 2026, Hall announced his retirement from gymnastics after more than a decade representing Great Britain.[15]
Eponymous skill
Hall has one skill named after him in the Code of Points.[16]
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty[a] | Added to the Code of Points |
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| Parallel bars | Hall | 5/4 salto straddled with ½ turn to upper arms | E (0.5) | 2025 Doha World Cup |
- Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points
Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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| 2014 | Glasgow World Cup | 6 | |||||||
| 2015 | Varna World Challenge Cup |  |  | ||||||
| World Championships | | ||||||||
| 2016 | Cottbus World Cup | 9 | |||||||
| 2017 | Stuttgart World Cup | 5 | |||||||
| European Championships | N/a | | 4 | ||||||
| World Championships | N/a | 29 | 21 | ||||||
| 2018 | American Cup | | |||||||
| Birmingham World Cup | | ||||||||
| Commonwealth Games |  | | 5 | 5 | | ||||
| European Championships | | 5 | |||||||
| World Championships | 5 | 8 | |||||||
| 2019 | American Cup | 5 | |||||||
| European Championships | N/a | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| World Championships | 5 | 14 | |||||||
| 2020 | American Cup | | |||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||
| Olympic Games | 4 | 8 | |||||||
| 2022 | |||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | | | 5 | 5 | |||||
| European Championships | | 4 | |||||||
| World Championships | | ||||||||
| 2023 | |||||||||
| World Championships | 4 | 9 | |||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||
| European Championships | | 5 | |||||||
| 2025 | Doha World Cup | 7 |
