Christopher Remkes

Christopher Remkes is an Australian gymnast who has competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Early life An orphan, Christopher Remkes's date of birth is listed as 3 September 1996. According to the orphanage that took care of him, he was abandoned as a two-day-old in a hospital in Bacolod, Philippines. At two years old, Christopher Remkes was adopted by Mike and Dora Remkes who brought him to Australia.

He spent his childhood in Happy Valley, a suburb of Adelaide He has an adoptive brother and sister who were adopted from Manila. He tried playing other sports but eventually focused on gymnastics. For his primary education, Remkes attended Aberfoyle Park and later Ascot Park, which maintains a specialist gymnastics program. Remkes also went to Hamilton Secondary College before moving to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in 2015. and although he was recovered enough to be on Australia's 2020 World Cup Team, he was not chosen for the Olympics team, which had only one slot for Men's Artistic Gymnastics.