About

Luke Whitehouse is a British Olympic finalist, World Championship silver medallist and three-time European floor champion. Having represented Team GB at Olympic, World and European level, Luke has established himself as one of Britain’s leading artistic gymnasts.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

A member of Great Britain’s Senior National Squad and World Performance Programme, Luke represented Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Competing alongside Max Whitlock OBE, Joe Fraser, Jake Jarman and Harry Hepworth. He helped Great Britain finish fourth in the men’s team final and also reached the Olympic men’s floor final.

International Success & Achievements

Luke has established himself as one of the world’s leading floor gymnasts. He made history by becoming the first British male gymnast to win three consecutive European floor titles, taking gold in 2023, 2024 and 2025. He is also one of only two men to have achieved three consecutive European floor titles. In 2025, Luke also won European team gold with Great Britain, World Championship silver on floor in Jakarta, and floor gold at the World University Games in Essen, Germany.

Luke's Breakthrough & Historic Triple Back

His international breakthrough came in 2019, when he represented Great Britain at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku and the inaugural Junior World Championships in Gyor. In 2021, at the Croatia World Cup, Luke became the first British gymnast to compete a triple back somersault on floor, a skill performed by only a handful of gymnasts worldwide and one of the hardest-valued elements in men’s artistic gymnastics.

Training as an All-Around Gymnast

Based at Leeds Gymnastics Club, Luke trains around 30 hours a week. As an all-around gymnast, he competes across all six men’s artistic apparatus: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar. He is coached by Dave Murray, Andy Butcher and Tom Rawlinson, while also working closely with the Great Britain national coaching team.

Student-Athlete Life

Alongside gymnastics, Luke is studying for a BSc in Sport and Exercise Therapy at Leeds Beckett University. With support from the university, he has split his final year across two years, allowing him to balance his studies with the demands of elite gymnastics.

Did you know?

From starting gymnastics in Halifax to competing on the Olympic stage, here are a few facts and milestones from Luke's journey so far.

Luke was born and raised in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where he still lives today.
He is 5 ft 8 in tall, or 1.73 metres.
His first taste of gymnastics came through Tumble Tots, before joining an after-school gymnastics club at Salterhebble School when he was five.
He joined Diamonds Gymnastics Club in Halifax at the age of six, before moving to Leeds Gymnastics Club in 2016 to further his career.
Luke’s Olympic dream began at the age of eight after a reward camp at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, and was fuelled further by watching the London 2012 Olympic Games.
He became part of the Great Britain squad at 17 - later than many elite gymnasts - something he believes helped him stay hungry and never take the honour of wearing the GBR kit for granted.
In 2021, Luke became the first British gymnast to compete a triple back somersault on floor, one of the rarest and hardest-valued skills in men’s artistic gymnastics.
He won his third consecutive European floor title in 2025 while competing with a fractured shin bone.
At the 2025 World University Games, Luke won floor gold for Great Britain, becoming the first British male gymnast to win a medal in artistic gymnastics at the event.
Luke is a student at Leeds Beckett University, where he studies Sport and Exercise Therapy where he is also on a sports scholarship.
Luke has won Leeds Beckett University’s Sportsman of the Year award three times: 2022, 2025 and 2026.
He has run a sub-20-minute 5K at Parkrun, finishing in 19 minutes 52 seconds - an impressive benchmark for an Olympic gymnast.
His childhood gymnastics hero was Max Whitlock, who later became his Team GB teammate at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.