Lauren Mitchell

Lauren Mitchell OAM
Mitchell in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Lauren Stephanie Mitchell[1]
Nickname(s)	Lauren Mitch
Country represented	Australia
Born	(1991-07-23) 23 July 1991 (age 32) Subiaco, Western Australia
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International Elite
Years on national team	2007–2016 (AUS)
Club	Western Australian Institute of Sport
Head coach(es)	Nikolai Lapchine Martine George
Eponymous skills	Balance Beam and Floor Exercise: triple turn (1080°) in tuck stand on one leg – free leg optional[2]
Retired	27 September 2016
Medal record Representing  Australia World Championships 2010 Rotterdam Floor exercise 2009 London Balance beam 2009 London Floor exercise World Cup Final 2008 Madrid Balance beam Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Team 2010 Delhi All-around 2010 Delhi Uneven bars 2010 Delhi Balance beam 2010 Delhi Floor exercise 2014 Glasgow Team 2014 Glasgow Floor exercise FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Apparatus World Cup 5 3 2 World Challenge Cup 1 0 1 Total 6 3 3

Lauren Stephanie Mitchell OAM (born 23 July 1991)^[2] is an Australian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World champion on the floor exercise and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on the balance beam and floor exercise. Mitchell is only the second Australian female gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships, and she is the first to win a gold medal. She is the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam, and with the Australian team, and she is the 2008 World Cup Final balance beam champion. She also represented Australia at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.

In her first year of senior competition, Mitchell qualified for the balance beam event final at the 2007 World Championships. Then at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she helped the Australian team place sixth, their highest finish ever. She then became the first Australian gymnast to win more than one medal at the same World Championships when she won two silver medals in 2009. The next year, she tied the record for the most gold medals won by a female gymnast at a single Commonwealth Games and became Australia's first female World champion in gymnastics. At her second Olympic Games in 2012, she qualified for the floor exercise final and finished fifth. She won two more Commonwealth medals in 2014, silver with the team and on the floor exercise. Mitchell retired from gymnastics in 2016 as Australia's most decorated gymnast.