Donnell Whittenburg

Donnell Whittenburg
Whittenburg at the 2024 Winter Cup
Personal information
Full nameDonnell Whittenburg
Country representedUnited States
Born (1994-08-18) August 18, 1994 (age 30)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
ResidenceMilwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team2013–present
GymSalto Gymnastics Center
USOTC
Team Hilton
Head coach(es)Anthony Ingrelli
Former coach(es)Vitaly Marinich, Abdul Mammeri
Eponymous skillsWhittenburg (still rings)
Medal record
Representing  United States
Men's artistic gymnastics
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 0 0 2
Pan American Games 3 3 1
Pacific Rim Championships 3 2 0
Pan American Championships 0 1 0
Total 6 6 3
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nanning Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow Vault
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Santiago Rings
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Floor
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Rings
Silver medal – second place 2015 Toronto Vault
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Santiago All-around
Pan American Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team
Pacific Rim Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Everett Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Everett Rings
Gold medal – first place 2016 Everett Parallel bars
Silver medal – second place 2016 Everett All-around
Silver medal – second place 2016 Everett Vault
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
All-Around World Cup 0 2 0
World Challenge Cup 1 2 2
Total 1 4 2

Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American artistic gymnast. He is a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.

Early life and education

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Whittenburg was born on August 18, 1994, in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He attended Edgewood High School and later a local community college and DeVry University.[2] He was coached as a youth by Abdul Mammeri.[2] He decided to pursue gymnastics and moved to Colorado to attend the United States Olympic Training Center under Vitaly Marinich.[2]

Gymnastics career

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Whittenburg's strongest events are rings, vault, and floor.[3] He won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[4] He was the 2014 U.S. National champion on Vault and is the 2015 U.S. national champion on rings. At the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Whittenburg won the bronze medal in the team event with the Americans,[5] and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633).[6] At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he won the individual bronze medal on vault with an average combined score of 15.350 behind Ri Se Gwang of North Korea (15.450) and Marian Drăgulescu of Romania (15.400). He also qualified for the individual still rings event final but finished in eighth place with 15.300. At the 2017 London World Cup, Whittenburg won gold in that all-around competition, and at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup, the individual apparatus competition, in Slovenia, Whittenburg won gold on parallel bars, and silvers on floor and vault.

In 2022 he placed second in the United States men's all-around behind Brody Malone, scoring highest in rings and second highest on vault.[7][3] At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings.[8]

In 2024, Whittenburg placed seventh in the All Around at the 2024 U.S. National Gymnastics Championships and 2024 United States Olympic trials and was named as a non-traveling replacement athlete for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[9]

Eponymous skills

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Whittenburg has one named element on the rings.[10][11]

Gymnastics elements named after Donnell Whittenburg
Apparatus Name Description Difficulty[a] Added to Code of Points
Rings Whittenburg "Triple salto backward piked." I, 0.9 Newsletter 32, 2017. Performed at the 2017 World Challenge Cup in Koper[12]
  1. ^ Valid for the 2025–2028 Code of Points

Competitive history

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Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
Junior
2010 U.S. National Championships (14-15) 10 11 20 6 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 12 5
2011 U.S. National Championships (16-18) 6 11 17 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 6 4
2012 Winter Cup 21 9 35 13 25 32 28
U.S. National Championships (16-18) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 6 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Mexican Open 6
Senior
2013 Winter Cup 11 17 30 7 6 16 25
National Qualifier 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 11 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7
U.S. National Championships 13 24 17 6 7 8 24
DTB Pokal Team Cup 5
2014 Winter Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 20 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 7 10
Doha Challenge Cup 4
National Qualifier 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 21 13
U.S. National Championships 4 7 14 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 11
World Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 17 7
Stuttgart World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2015 Winter Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 21 4 14 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 13
American Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Pan American Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
U.S. National Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 8 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 9 26
World Championships 5 8 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2016 Winter Cup 6 32 17 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10 12
American Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Pacific Rim Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
U.S. National Championships 5 11 25 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 5 12
Olympic Trials 4 8 14 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 12
2017 Winter Cup 4 4 14 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 13 5 7
London World Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Koper Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
U.S. National Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11 10 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1
World Championships 6 R2 R1
2018 U.S. National Championships 5 9
2019 National Qualifier 12 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 22
U.S. National Championships 7 7 14 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7 11 16
2021 Winter Cup 11 4 21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 11 10
Pan American Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Trials 14 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 30 12
2022 U.S. Classic 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 20 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 13 23
U.S. National Championships 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 14 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 10 8
Paris Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 5 8
2023 U.S. Classic 7 10 65 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 13 9 16
U.S. National Championships 7 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 25 1st place, gold medalist(s) 18 13
Pan American Games 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Winter Cup 5 4 19 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 16
U.S. National Championships 7 7 13 4 1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 22
Olympic Trials 7 5 15 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11 12

References

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  1. ^ "Donnell Whittenburg closes in on stardom, one vault at a time". Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Cheng, Brittany (August 19, 2019). "Gymnast Donnell Whittenburg's tough call helps him to international stage". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Donnell Whittenburg, still chasing an Olympic spot, in hunt at nationals". Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  4. ^ Nick; Zaccardi (October 7, 2014). "China stuns Japan at World Gymnastics Championships; U.S. wins bronze (video)". NBC Sports. NBC. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  5. ^ "Donnell Whittenburg". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  6. ^ Graves, Will (June 25, 2021). "Whittenburg making one last stand at US gymnastics trials". Associated Press.
  7. ^ "Donnell Whittenburg wins second at 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships". August 21, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  8. ^ "U.S. gymnasts capture 10 medals, including four gold, as Paris World Challenge Cup concludes". USA Gymnastics. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
  9. ^ Crumlish, John (July 3, 2024). "Frederick Richard on topping U.S. Olympic Trials: 'I was pretty cool on the inside'". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  10. ^ "Table of Named Elements Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. December 2023. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  11. ^ "Men's Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025–2028" (PDF). gymnastics.sport. July 3, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  12. ^ "FIG Men's Technical Committee approves 'The Whittenburg'". gymnastics.sport. June 2, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
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