Felicity White Explained

Felicity White
Nickname:Flick, Felice, Speedy
Birth Date:25 September 2000
Birth Place:Sunnybank, Queensland[1]
Residence:Brisbane, Queensland
Height:1.67 m
Discipline:RG
Club:Premier Gymnastics Academy
Headcoach:Gina Peluso

Felicity White (born 25 September 2000) is an Australian group rhythmic gymnast who represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]

Career

White grew up studying ballet at the Queensland National Ballet School.[3] She began rhythmic gymnastics when she was nine.[4]

White began competing with Australia's senior rhythmic gymnastics group in 2018. At the 2018 World Championships, the group finished twenty-ninth in the all-around.[5] This was the first time an Australian group had competed at the World Championships in ten years.[3]

White won a gold medal at the 2021 Oceanic Championships with the Australian senior group and qualified a quota for the 2020 Olympic Games. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Emily Abbot, Alexandra Aristoteli, Himeka Onoda, and Alannah Mathews.[6] They were the first rhythmic gymnastics group to represent Australia at the Olympics.[7] They finished fourteenth in the qualification round for the group all-around.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: White Felicity . International Gymnastics Federation . 27 July 2021.
  2. Web site: White Felicity . Tokyo 2020 . 27 July 2021.
  3. Web site: Felicity White . Australian Olympic Committee . 27 July 2021.
  4. Web site: Felicity White ready to take on the world in Tokyo . Gymnastics Australia . 27 July 2021.
  5. Web site: 36th FIG RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Sofia (BUL), 10-16 September 2018 Group All-Around Final . USA Gymnastics . 26 July 2021 . 15 September 2018 . 24 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211024101351/https://www.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/r_18worlds_gpaa.pdf . dead .
  6. Web site: Biggest Australian Olympic Gymnastics team since Tokyo 1964 selected for Tokyo 2020 . Gymnastics Australia . 26 July 2021 . 3 July 2021.
  7. Web site: Smith . Erin . Tokyo Olympics 2021: Dedicated Aussies find rhythm to become trailblazers in their chosen field . Perth Now . 26 July 2021 . 15 July 2021.
  8. Web site: Rhythmic Gymnastics — Group All-Around — Qualification — Results . . 7 August 2021 . 8 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210808053149/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GRY/OG2020-_GRY_C73B_GRYW5AA---------------QUAL--------.pdf . dead .