Name: Daniel Keatings Age: 20 years Sport: Gymnastics
At 19 years old Daniel Keatings
made British history at the 2009 World Championships in London when he finished
in second place in the men’s all-around final, winning Britain's first ever all-around
World Gymnastics medal.
Daniel’s first senior international
event was with Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Following
on from that experience he continued his rise within the junior ranks and at
the 2008 Junior European Championships he took the world by storm
with an incredible four gold medals including the most prestigious
title of junior all-around Champion.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Daniel
exceeded everyone’s expectations by qualifying for the all-around event and
finished in 20th place, a valuable experience and one that will help
in the run-up to London 2012.
Daniel started 2009 with a Silver
and Bronze medal at the European Championships in Milan and completed the year
with a historic Silver Medal at the 2009 World Championships at the O2 arena in
London.
2010 promises to be a great year for Daniel with
World and European Championships to look forward to and one eye is already on
the 2012 Olympics where he hopes to go one step further at the O2 arena in
front of his home crowd.
