Donnell Whittenburg facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Donnell Whittenburg
Country represented	United States
Born	(1994-08-18) August 18, 1994 (age 29) Baltimore, Maryland
Residence	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International Elite
Club	U.S.O.T.C. Gymnastics
College team	DeVry University
Head coach(es)	Vitaly Marinitch
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing  United States World Championships Bronze 2014 Nanning Team Bronze 2015 Glasgow Vault Pan American Games Gold 2015 Toronto Team Gold 2023 Santiago Team Gold 2023 Santiago Rings Silver 2015 Toronto Floor exercise Silver 2015 Toronto Rings Silver 2015 Toronto Vault Bronze 2023 Santiago All-Around Pan American Championships Gold 2023 Medellín Team Silver 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd All-Around World Cup 0 2 0 World Challenge Cup 1 2 2

Donnell Whittenburg (born August 18, 1994) is an American artistic gymnast whose strongest events are rings, vault, and floor.

Early life

Whittenburg is from central Baltimore, Maryland.

Career

Whittenburg won a bronze medal at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. 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, and contributed scored on floor exercise (15.300), still rings (14.766), vault (14.966) and parallel bars (14.633). 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 eight 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. At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings.

Named skill

Whittenburg has one skill in gymnastics named after him in the 2022–2024 Code of Points, the triple salto backwards piked on still rings. The Whittenburg dismount has the highest difficulty score (D-score) in still rings at H (0.8).

Competitive history

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

See also

In Spanish: Donnell Whittenburg para niños