Warwick Forbes

Warwick Ian Forbes OAM (born 10 December 1951 in Sydney) is a former Australian men's gymnast and national gymnastics coach. He was the head coach of the Australian Men's Artistic Team and Australian Institute of Sport Men's Artistic Gymnastics program from 1983 to 2004.

Gymnastics career Forbes commenced his gymnastics career at the Sydney YMCA. Forbes moved to Germany in 1971 to be coached by Lazslo Szakacsi, a previous Hungarian coach in Australia. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, he won a bronze medal in the men's team competition.

Coaching career From 1981 to 1982, Forbes was employed as a senior tutor in biomechanics and exercise physiology at the Footscray Institute of Technology when approached to take over from Peter Lloyd as head coach of the Australian Institute of Sport Men's Artistic Gymnastics program. 1986 Commonwealth Gymnastic Federation Championships – 3rd in team competition. 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – 21st in team competition.

Rizzo under the individual coaching of Vladmir Vatkin went on to win the Silver Medal on the Horizontal bar at the 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ghent, Belgium and the Gold Medal on the Horizontal bar at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aahus, Denmark.

Sports administration After retiring as a gymnastics coach in 2004, Forbes has held several high performance sport management positions with the Australia Institute of Sport, including managing from 2007 to 2011 the final negotiations with the province of Varese, the construction of the building and staffing and running of the Australian Institute of Sport, European Training Centre (AIS-ETC) in Varese, Italy. In 2014 he returned to the AIS-ETC a head of AIS Europe and director of the ETC.

Recognition 1984 – Gymnastics Australia Coach of The Year 1994 – Gymnastics Australia Coach of The Year 1995 – Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of service to the sport of gymnastics.