Luke Whitehouse

Luke Benjamin Whitehouse (born 2 July 2002) is a British artistic gymnast. He represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics and is a silver medallist on floor exercise at the 2025 World Championships. Whitehouse is a four-time European Champion, winning three titles on floor exercise in 2023, 2024, and 2025. He is one of only two men to achieve three consecutive titles in the event (the other being Italian Franco Minicelli in 1964) and is the first male British gymnast to win three consecutive European apparatus titles. He also won gold as part of the Great Britain team at the 2025 European Championships and bronze at the 2023 European Championships. Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise. He also competed at the inaugural 2019 Junior World Championships in Győr, Hungary.

2021–2024 As a senior, Whitehouse competed at the 2021 Osijek World Challenge Cup. During the qualification round, he became the first British gymnast to complete a triple back somersault in competition on floor exercise.

At the 2022 English Championships, Whitehouse won bronze in the all-around and won gold on floor exercise and bronze on vault. At the 2022 British Championships, he won bronze on floor exercise.

At the 2023 English Championships, Whitehouse won gold on parallel bars and floor exercise, defending his 2022 title. He also won silver on Vault. At the 2023 British Championships, he won gold on floor exercise and bronze on vault.

Whitehouse competed at the 2023 European Championships where he won gold on floor exercise and helped Great Britain win team bronze. He was later selected as the travelling alternate for the 2023 World Championships where the team placed fourth.

At the 2024 English Championships, Whitehouse placed fourth in the all-around but won silver on vault. At the 2024 British Championships, he won bronze on vault and placed sixth in the all-around and fourth on rings. Whitehouse competed at the 2024 Doha World Cup and won silver on floor exercise. A week later he retained his title as European Champion on floor exercise at the 2024 European Championships where he competed as an individual. He was able to participate after Max Whitlock dropped out of the competition due to injury, allowing Whitehouse to defend his title. He became the first male British gymnast to retain a European title. He placed sixth on vault.

In June 2024, Whitehouse was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth, Joe Fraser, and Max Whitlock. Great Britain qualified for the team final in third, but ultimately placed fourth, with the USA taking bronze. Whitehouse individually qualified for the Olympic floor exercise final, where he ended up finishing in sixth place with a score of 14.466.

2025–present At the 2025 British Championships, Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise and bronze in the all-around. He was selected to compete at the 2025 European Championships alongside Harry Hepworth, Jamie Lewis, Jonas Rushworth, and Jake Jarman, where he helped Great Britain win their third European team title. He also qualified for the all-around and floor exercise finals. In the all-around, Whitehouse finished twenty-second despite qualifying in third due to errors on pommel horse and horizontal bar. Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise, winning his third consecutive European title on the apparatus. He became the first male British gymnast to win three back-to-back titles on the same apparatus. He is the first gymnast since Franco Menichelli in 1965 to win three consecutive titles on floor exercise. Whitehouse was selected to compete at the 2025 World University Games where he won gold on floor exercise. In doing so, he became the first British male gymnast to win a medal at the FISU World University Games since its inception in 1959.

In late September Whitehouse was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2025 World Championships. He qualified for the floor exercise final where he won his first world medal, a silver behind teammate Jake Jarman.

Whitehouse was selected to represent Team England at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow alongside Adam Tobin, Alex Yolshin-Cash, Joshua Nathan, and Max Whitlock (later replaced by Gabriel Langton). Together the team won silver behind Canada despite Langton suffering a "sickening fall" off the horizontal bar in the final rotation. Individually Whitehouse qualified to the all-around, floor exercise, and vault event finals. During the all-around final, Whitehouse suffered a few falls and ended the competition in seventh place. On the first day of event finals, Whitehouse won gold on floor exercise. On the final day of competition he won silver on vault behind Félix Dolci.

Competitive history