Donnell Whittenburg facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Donnell Whittenburg
Whittenburg at the 2024 Winter Cup
Personal information
Full name	Donnell Whittenburg
Country represented	United States
Born	(1994-08-18) August 18, 1994 (age 30) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Residence	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team	2013–present
Gym	Salto Gymnastics Center USOTC Team Hilton
Head coach(es)	Anthony Ingrelli
Former coach(es)	Vitaly Marinich, Abdul Mammeri
Eponymous skills	Whittenburg (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 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 Silver 2015 Toronto Rings Silver 2015 Toronto Vault Bronze 2023 Santiago All-around Pan American Championships Silver 2021 Rio de Janeiro Team Pacific Rim Championships Gold 2016 Everett Team Gold 2016 Everett Rings Gold 2016 Everett Parallel bars Silver 2016 Everett All-around Silver 2016 Everett Vault 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. He is a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.

Early life and education

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

Gymnastics career

Whittenburg's strongest events are rings, vault, and floor. He 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 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. At the 2022 World Challenge Cup in Paris he won bronze medal on parallel bars and rings.

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.

Eponymous skills

Whittenburg has one named element on the rings.

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
2024	Winter Cup		5	4	19	2		6	16
	U.S. National Championships		7	7	13	4	1	8	22
	Olympic Trials		7	5	15	3		11	12

See also

In Spanish: Donnell Whittenburg para niños