Louis Smith (gymnast)
Louis Antoine Smith, MBE is a British artistic gymnast who specialises in the pommel horse. He received a bronze medal and a silver medal on the pommel horse at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics respectively, with the former marking the first time a British gymnast had placed in an Olympic event since 1928. Smith was also part of the Great Britain team that took the bronze in the mens artistic team allaround at the 2012 London Olympics. In 2015 he became the European champion on Pommel Horse. He is colour blind.
Smith was born in England to his English mother, Elaine who separated from his Jamaicanborn father, Claude when he was three. He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In 1995 and was on Ritalin from when he was six until he was eleven. His mother commented that it was a case of his running around the house and climbing everywhere or going somewhere more structured. His local friends included Aston Merrygold, later a member of boy band JLS.
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