Philippe Rizzo
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Country represented | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1981-02-09) 9 February 1981 (age 43) Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Canberra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Australian Institute of Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Vladimir Vatkin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | YU BO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Philippe Rizzo (born 9 February 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian gymnast and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He was the first Australian to win a medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships when he won silver on the horizontal bar in Ghent in 2001. He is also the first Australian to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships when he won the horizontal bar in Aarhus in 2006.[1]
Rizzo is also a multiple Commonwealth Games gold medalist and has represented Australia at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
His hobbies include playing the guitar and surfing. Rizzo joined the AIS in 1995. His family is highly involved with gymnastics and runs the Australian Academy of Sport.
Inaugural inductee to University of Canberra Sport Walk of Fame in 2022.[2]
References
External links
- Philippe Rizzo at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Philippe Rizzo at Gymnastics Australia (archived)
- Philippe Rizzo at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Philippe Rizzo at Olympics.com
- Philippe Rizzo at Olympic.org (archived)
- Philippe Rizzo at Olympedia
- Philippe Rizzo at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Philippe Rizzo at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1903: Joseph Martinez (FRA)
- 1905: Marcel Lalu (FRA)
- 1907: Gustave Charmoille (FRA)
1907 František Erben (BOH) - 1909: Joseph Martinez (FRA)
- 1911: Josef Čada (BOH)
- 1913: Josef Čada (BOH)
1913 Marco Torrès (FRA) - 1922: Miroslav Klinger (TCH)
1913 Peter Šumi (TCH)
1913 Leon Štukelj (YUG) - 1926: Leon Štukelj (YUG)
- 1930: István Pelle (HUN)
- 1931: Heikki_Savolainen (FIN)
- 1934: Ernst Winter (GER)
- 1938: Michael Reusch (SUI)
- 1950: Paavo Aaltonen (FIN)
- 1954: Valentin Muratov (URS)
- 1958: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1962: Takashi Ono (JPN)
- 1966: Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
- 1970: Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)
- 1974: Eberhard Gienger (FRG)
- 1978: Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)
- 1979: Kurt Thomas (USA)
- 1981: Aleksandr Tkachyov (URS)
- 1983: Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1985: Tong Fei (CHN)
- 1987: Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
- 1989: Li Chunyang (CHN)
- 1991: Ralf Büchner (GER)
1991 Li Chunyang (CHN) - 1992: Hrihoriy Misyutin (CIS)
- 1993: Sergey Kharkov (RUS)
- 1994: Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
- 1995: Andreas Wecker (GER)
- 1996: Jesús Carballo (ESP)
- 1997: Jani Tanskanen (FIN)
- 1999: Jesús Carballo (ESP)
- 2001: Vlasios Maras (GRE)
- 2002: Vlasios Maras (GRE)
- 2003: Takehiro Kashima (JPN)
- 2005: Aljaž Pegan (SLO)
- 2006: Philippe Rizzo (AUS)
- 2007: Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
- 2009: Zou Kai (CHN)
- 2010: Zhang Chenglong (CHN)
- 2011: Zou Kai (CHN)
- 2013: Epke Zonderland (NED)
- 2014: Epke Zonderland (NED)
- 2015: Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)
- 2017: Tin Srbić (CRO)
- 2018: Epke Zonderland (NED)
- 2019: Arthur Mariano (BRA)
- 2021: Hu Xuwei (CHN)
- 2022: Brody Malone (USA)
- 2023: Daiki Hashimoto (JPN)