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}} Louis Antoine Smith, MBE (born 22 April 1989) is a British artistic gymnast who specialises in the pommel horse. He received a bronze medal and a silver medal on the pommel horse at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics respectively, with the former marking the first time a British gymnast had placed in an Olympic event since 1928.〔 Smith was also part of the Great Britain team that took the bronze in the men's artistic team all-around at the 2012 London Olympics. In 2015 he became the European champion on Pommel Horse. Smith is a member of the Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, training alongside teammate Daniel Keatings under coach Paul Hall. He was a part of the European Gold medal winning Great Britain's men's team in 2012, 2010 Commonwealth Games Champion, and is also a four-time European Silver medallist. Away from the gym, Smith's high media profile has offered a number of television opportunities in his home country. Smith won the 2012 series of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. ==Early life== Smith was born in Eye, Cambridgeshire to his English mother, Elaine who separated from his Jamaican-born father, Claude when he was three. He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 1995 and was on Ritalin from when he was six until he was eleven.〔(The Guardian, 15 December 2012, Interview with Louis Smith by Patrick Barkham )〕 His mother commented that it was a case of his "running around the house and climbing everywhere or going somewhere more structured."〔(Cambridge News | Sport | VIDEO: My son the Olympic gymnast )〕 His local friends included Aston Merrygold, later a member of boy band JLS. When he was seven, Smith was offered a choral scholarship, but instead chose to focus on gymnastics. He first learned to use the pommel by putting his feet in a bucket that was tied to a rope and hung from a ceiling.〔 He attended Arthur Mellows Village College in Glinton, Cambridgeshire.〔 Smith has since described his childhood, saying that "My mum took me to a variety of sports but from a young age it was gymnastics that captured my attention and which I really wanted to progress in. I had to sacrifice a lot of things in my social life, and I also didn't do A-Levels as I wanted to focus on the sport" 〔http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/interviews/0023857-interview-louis-smith-mbe.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Smith (gymnast)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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