Английская Википедия:Caitlin Rooskrantz

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Caitlin Aileen Rooskrantz (born 5 November 2001) is a South African artistic gymnast. She represented South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics and was the first South African gymnast to qualify for the Olympics without a continental quota. Rooskrantz and teammate Naveen Daries became the first female gymnasts of color to represent South Africa and the Olympics. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games uneven bars bronze medalist, South Africa's first gymnastics medal at the Commonwealth Games since 2010. She is the 2022 African all-around champion and a two-time African uneven bars champion (2018, 2022). She is a two-time uneven bars gold medalist on the FIG World Cup series.

Career

Rooskrantz is a member of Johannesburg Gymnastics Centre, and started gymnastics at the age of eight.

Junior

Between 2015 and 2017, Rooskrantz dislocated her fingers on five separate occasions. In 2016, she came second in the junior all-around event at the African Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the 2016 Junior Commonwealth Games in Namibia, Rooskrantz came second in the vault event, third in the bars event, and second in the all-around event.

Senior

Rooskrantz made her senior debut at the 2017 Koper Challenge Cup, finishing fifth in the uneven bars event. She was not selected for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, due to fitness concerns. In 2018, she won the uneven bars event at the African Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and the all-around event at that year's South African National Championships. As a result of her national championship win, Rooskrantz qualified for the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar. That year, she also participated in a training camp in Frankfurt, Germany.

In 2019, she won the uneven bars Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Challenge event in Szombathely, Hungary. She was the first South African to win a medal at an international gymnastics competition. At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Rooskrantz qualified for the all-around event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was the fourth South African artistic gymnast to qualify for the Olympics since South African re-introduction in 1992, and was the first South African artistic gymnast to qualify for the Olympics since Zandre Labuschagne in 2004. Rooskrantz was one of the first person of colour artistic gymnasts to represent South Africa, along with Naveen Daries, who also competed at the Games. As the 2020 Summer Olympics were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine that she would have performed at the Games in August 2020. She finished 61st in the qualifying stage of the event, and did not qualify for any apparatus final; her score at the Games was a personal best.

Rooskrantz won a gold medal on the uneven bars at the 2022 World Cup event in Cairo, Egypt. She also won the uneven bars event at the 2022 African Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She came third in the uneven bars event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She also finished 9th in the final of the individual all-around event, and 12th in qualification for the women's floor event, and did not qualify for the final. She was also part of the South African team that finished fourth in the artistic team all-around event.

Personal life

Rooskrantz attended Parktown High School for Girls. She had planned to have a gap year to focus on competing at the Olympics, though those plans were changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she enrolled in the University of Johannesburg and began studying marketing management. She comes from an athletic family: her father played football and her older brother was involved in field hockey and cricket. Her father died when she was eight. Her mother gave up working full-time as a nurse to support Rooskrantz's gymnastics career.

External links

• Шаблон:FIG