Jake Jarman

Jake Elmer Jarman (born 3 December 2001) is a British artistic gymnast and competes internationally for Great Britain and England. Representing Great Britain, he is the 2023 World Champion on vault, the 2025 World Champion on floor, the 2024 Olympic floor exercise bronze medalist, and is a four-time European Champion. Representing England, he is a four-time Commonwealth Games champion and is the first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. He trains at Huntington Gymnastics Club.

Early life Jarman was born on 3 December 2001 in Peterborough, England, In an interview with the Philippine Star, Jarman revealed that he lived in the Philippines for two years between the ages of three and five and still communicates with his Filipino relatives.

2021 In 2021, at the age of 19, Jarman finished tenth in the all-around at the European Championships, and was selected as a reserve for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

2022 The following year was Jarman's breakthrough year, taking the British senior titles in floor and vault. Selected to represent England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Jarman won gold in four events; the team competition, the individual all-around, with England teammate James Hall in second place, the floor final with teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran in bronze, and the vault final with Regini-Moran in silver.

Jarman then competed for Great Britain at the 2022 European Championships, where he helped Great Britain win the team final for the first time in a decade, and only the second time ever. Additionally, he finished 8th in the individual all-around and qualified for the floor final, but initially missed the vault final on the two-per-nation rule despite qualifying in fifth. On individual finals day Jarman won bronze on floor before the withdrawal of teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran from the vault final to concentrate on parallel bars allowed Jarman to take part in that final. Taking advantage, Jarman won gold in the vault final, edging out Armenian rival Artur Davtyan on a tie-break.

2023 During the 2023 World Challenge Cup Series, Jarman became the first gymnast to perform a 3.5 twisting double layout salto on floor exercise, getting the skill named after him in the Code of Points. He then was part of the British team that represented Great Britain at the 2023 World Championships, where the British team placed fourth, and individually, Jarman made the all-around final and won the gold medal in the vault final. In doing so he became the first Briton to win world gold on the apparatus, the fourth male British World Champion (after Max Whitlock, Joe Fraser, and Giarnni Regini-Moran), and sixth British World Champion in artistic gymnastics (after Whitlock, Fraser, Regini-Moran, Beth Tweddle, and Jessica Gadirova).

2024 At the 2024 European Championships, Jarman helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine. Individually, he won his second gold medal on vault. In June of that year Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Luke Whitehouse, and Max Whitlock. Paris was Jarman's Olympic debut and with his teammates, finished fourth at the team all-around. He qualified for the finals of the floor exercise with the highest score of 14.966 and ultimately won bronze medal with a score of 14.933, his career-first Olympic medal and Team GB's first Paris medal in artistic gymnastics.

During the Paris Olympics, it was reported in Philippine news media that the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) is recruiting Jarman to potentially represent the country at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, with GAP president Cynthia Carrion stating that "[Jarman] wants to play for the Philippines".

2025 Jarman was selected to attend the 2025 European Championships alongside Harry Hepworth, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth and Luke Whitehouse where he contributed on floor exercise, vault, pommel horse, parallel bar and high bar to help Britain win their third ever European team title. He also qualified for the vault and mixed team final. He won silver with Ruby Evans in the inaugural mixed team final and won silver on vault. In late September, Jarman was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2025 World Championships where he won gold on floor exercise.

Eponymous skill Apparatus Name Description Difficulty Added to the Code of Points Floor exercise Jarman Double salto straight backward with 3½ turn I (0.9) 2023 Paris World Challenge Cup

Competitive history