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]
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]