(1999-07-21) 21 July 1999 (age 24) County Down, Northern Ireland[1]
Hometown
Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland[2]
Residence
Dublin, Ireland[3][4]
Height
171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Discipline
Men's artistic gymnastics
Club
Origin Gymnastics
Head coach(es)
Luke Carson
Former coach(es)
Vladimir Shchegelov
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
World Championships
2
0
1
European Championships
3
0
0
Commonwealth Games
1
1
0
N. European Championships
1
0
1
Total
7
1
2
Representing Ireland
World Championships
2022 Liverpool
Pommel Horse
2023 Antwerp
Pommel Horse
2019 Stuttgart
Pommel Horse
European Championships
2018 Glasgow
Pommel Horse
2023 Antalya
Pommel Horse
2024 Rimini
Pommel Horse
Northern European Championships
2015 Limerick
Team
2015 Limerick
Pommel Horse
Representing Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast
Pommel Horse
2022 Birmingham
Pommel Horse
FIG World Cup
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
World Cup
0
0
1
World Challenge Cup
0
0
0
Total
0
0
1
Rhys Joshua McClenaghanBEM (born 21 July 1999) is a Northern Irish artistic gymnast competing internationally for both Ireland and Northern Ireland. A specialist on pommel horse, he is recognised as one of the best pommel workers of his generation.[5] He is a double world champion on the pommel horse, having won gold in 2022 and 2023, the first Irish artistic gymnast ever to win world championship gold.[6] In 2019, he became the first Irish gymnast to qualify to a world championships final and to also win a medal, taking bronze on pommel horse.[7]
He is a three-time European champion and a Commonwealth Games champion on the same apparatus. McClenaghan is the first Irish gymnast to compete in a European final and also the first to win a European medal.[8]
He also competed for Northern Ireland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games,[9] winning the gold medal on the pommel horse. He followed this by winning the 2018 European Championships, pipping the reigning Olympic and two-time world champion, Max Whitlock on both occasions.[10][11] In 2023, McClenaghan won a second European title and retained the world title. His third European crown came in Rimini in 2024.
He was named RTÉ's Sportsperson of the Year for 2023.[12]
^"MCCLENAGHAN, Rhys (IRL)". International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
^"Commonwealth Games: NI secretary calls for ban on gymnasts to be lifted". BBC News. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
^"MCCLENAGHAN, Rhys (IRL)". International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
^"Euros a stepping-stone to Olympics for ambitious Rhys". RTE.ie. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^Jessica Gadirova, born in Dublin, Ireland, won the Floor exercise world gold at the same championships, but representing Great Britain
^"MCCLENAGHAN, Rhys (IRL)". International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
^"Rhys McClenaghan takes pommel horse gold at Europeans". RTE.ie. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^"McCleanaghan wins Northern Ireland's first Commonwealth Gold". Belfast Telegraph. 8 April 2018.
^Corr, Shauna (8 April 2018). "Northern Ireland gymnast Rhys McClenaghan 'pommels' Olympic champ Max Whitlock to take Commonwealth gold". Belfast Live.
^"Rhys McClenaghan takes pommel horse gold at Europeans". RTE.ie. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^
'Newtownards gymnast Rhys McClenaghan wins RTE Sportsperson of the year for 2023'. ITV News, 17 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023
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