Claudia Fragapane
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Fragapane at the 2015 European Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 24 October 1997 Bristol, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 140 cm (4 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Great Britain England (2011–2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bristol Hawks Gymnastics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Helen Potter, Rory Weavers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 9 February 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997) is a retired British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals in a single Games since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning an individual world championship bronze on floor two years later, only the second individual female world medalist for Great Britain after Beth Tweddle.
She competed for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. but failed to make any individual finals. She helped the Great Britain team to finish 5th in the team final. Following a series of injuries beginning with a serious Achilles tendon injury in 2018, which thereafter limited her international career, she returned to the England Commonwealth Games team in 2022, winning her fifth Commonwealth Games gold, her final senior international medal, in the women's team event.
Domestically, Fragapane is an eight-time English champion, and two-time British champion.