Nile Wilson - My Story

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Wilson was crowned British Junior Champion in March 2014 and received the Young Sportsman male award at the Leeds Sports Awards.

The risk was starting to outweigh the reward. How badly do I want an Olympic gold medal? I've got a medal and it's an object collecting dust. He competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia in May, winning five gold medals to become the first British gymnast ever to win five gold medals at the European Junior Gymnastics Championships. He was then selected to compete for the England Commonwealth Games team, graduating to senior level.

'It was tough to accept that I wasn’t going to be the athlete I once was'

He helped Great Britain to team silver at the World Championships in 2015 before a memorable 2016 where he became European horizontal bar champion before his Olympic achievement.

Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) [2] is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British team at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the first world men's team medal in British gymnastics history. A five-time Commonwealth Games champion, he won the all-around title in 2018, and is a former European horizontal bar champion, the first Briton to win the title. [3] In January 2021, Wilson announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics due to injuries. [4] In March 2023, he won the fifteenth series of Dancing on Ice with dance partner Olivia Smart. [5] Personal life [ edit ]Nile Wilson - My Story is the autobiographical story of British gymnast Nile Wilson. Nile chronicles his gymnastics career from the early years, to the Rio Olympics, and all the way through to his retirement in early 2021. The book also covers the hardships he experienced throughout his journey, dealing with topics such as injuries, addictions, mental health struggles, and coming forward with allegations of the abusive culture in British gymnastics. An ankle injury after Rio left him with a race to be fit for the 2017 World Championships, but he recovered in time and was sixth in the all-around final. Roan, Dan (10 August 2020). "Nile Wilson: British gymnasts are treated like 'pieces of meat' ". BBC Sport . Retrieved 3 November 2021.