Birthplace: Halifax, NS
Year of Birth: 1995
Club: Halifax Alta Gymnastics Club
Favourite Event: Vault
Sr. National Team since: 2010
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Most decorated Canadian gymnast 2019 Pan Am Games, winning a total of 10 medals in two Games (5 at each Games – including 2x AA Gold); Named the closing ceremonies flag-bearer for Canada at the 2019 Pan Am Games closing ceremony… All-Around Canadian Champion for the 6th time in 2019… Winner of the All-Around World Cup Series in 2019…  Qualified for 4 finals at the 2018 World Championships and finished 4th with Team Canada, a best-ever result… Posted Canada’s best-ever performance in the all-around competition at the Olympic Games with a 5^th in 2016. Canada’s most decorated athlete at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto with 5 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze); Her gold in the AA competition was the first by a non-American since 1983. Two-time Olympian (2012, 2016); 5^th in the team-event in 2012 is also a Canadian best-ever result… Five-time World Championships team member (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018). Canadian AA Champion in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013. Triple-medallist at 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Studying Kinesiology at Dalhousie University.

Family: Parents Thomas and Katharine Black. Older sister Karen. Younger brother William.

Getting into the Sport: Started competitive gymnastics at age 9.

Favourite motto: Dream big, don’t let anyone else set your limits.

• 2020
• American Cup (Milwaukee, USA) 
• 5th A-Around

• 2020
• Elite Canada (Calgary, AB)
• 1st Bars, 4th Beam

• 2019
• World Championships (Stuttgart, GER)
• 4th A-Around, 7th Team, 8th Beam (Qualification), 10th Vault

• 2019
• Pan Am Games (Lima, PER)
• 1st A-Around, 1st Vault, 2nd Team, 2nd Beam, 3rd Bars, 4th Floor

• 2019
• Canadian Championships (Ottawa, ON)
• 1st A-Around, 1st Floor, 2nd Bars, 3rd Beam

• 2019
• World Cup (Tokyo, JPN)
• 2nd A-Around

• 2019
• American Cup (Greensboro, USA)
• 3rd A-Around

• 2019
• Elite Canada (Gatineau, QC)
• 2nd A-Around, 1st Vault, 2nd Bars, 3rd Beam, 4th Floor

• 2018
• World Championships (Doha, Qatar)
• 4th Team, 5th Beam, 7th Vault, 12th A-Around

• 2018
• World Challenge Cup (Paris, FRA)
• 1st Beam, 2nd Vault, 2nd Floor, 3rd Bars

• 2018
• Canadian Championships (Waterloo, ON)
• 1st A-Around, 1st Bars, 1st Beam, 2nd Floor

• 2018
• Commonwealth Games (Gold Coast, AUS)
• 1st Team, 1st A-Around, 2nd Vault

• 2018
• Elite Canada (Quebec, QC)
• 7th Bars

• 2017
• World Championships (Montreal, QC)
• 2nd A-Around, 4th Vault, 8th Beam, 7th Floor

• 2017
• FISU Games (Taipei, TW)
• 3rd A-Around, 4th Vault, 3rd U. Bars, 1st Beam, 4th Floor

• 2017
• Canadian Championships (Montreal, QC)
• 1st A-Around, 2nd Vault, 6th U. Bars, 2nd Beam, 1st Floor

• 2017
• World Challenge Cup (Koper, SLO)
• 4th Vault, 2nd U. Bars, 2nd Beam, 2nd Floor

• 2016
• Olympic Games (Rio de Janeiro, BRA)
• 9th Team, 5th A-Around 

• 2016
• Canadian Championships (Edmonton, AB)
• 2nd A-Around, 3rd Vault, 11th U. Bars, 2nd Beam, 1st Floor 

• 2016
• American World Cup (Newark, USA)
• 3rd A-Around

• 2016
• Elite Canada (Halifax, NS)
• 3rd A-Around, 2nd Vault, 4th U. Bars, 2nd Beam, 2nd Floor

• 2015
• World Championships (Glasgow, SCO)
• 6th Team, 7th A-Around, 12th Vault, 7th Beam, 16th Floor 

• 2015
• Pan American Games (Toronto, ON)
• 2nd Team, 1st A-Around, 3rd Vault, 1st Beam, 1st Floor 

• 2015
• Canadian Championships (Gatineau, QC)
• 1st A-Around, 2nd U. Bars, 1st Beam, 2nd Floor

• 2015
• Trofeo Citta di Jesolo (Jesolo, ITA)
• 3rd Team, 3rd Vault

• 2015
• Elite Canada (Trois-Rivières, QC)
• 1st Beam

• 2014
• World Cup Glasgow (Glasgow, SCO)
• 2nd A-Around

• 2014
• World Championships (Nanning, CHN)
• 12th Team, 9th A-Around, 11th Vault, 34th U. Bars, 7th Beam, 64th Floor

• 2014
• Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, SCO)
• 4th Team, 4th A-Around, 2nd Vault, 4th U. Bars, 1st Beam, 3rd Floor

• 2014
• Canadian Championships (Ottawa, ON)
• 1st A-Around, 1st U. Bars

• 2014
• Pacific Rim Championships (Richmond, BC)
• 2nd Team, 3rd A-Around, 1st Vault

• 2014
• International Gymnix Challenge Cup (Montreal, QC)
• 1st A-Around, 3rd U. Bars, 3rd Beam, 1st Floor

• 2014
• Elite Canada (Gatineau, QC)
• 3rd A-Around, 2nd U. Bars, 1st Beam

• 2013
• World Championships (Antwerp, BEL)
• 13th A-Around, 9th Vault, 28th U. Bars, 15th Beam, 8th Floor

• 2013
• Canadian Championships (Ottawa, ON)
• 1st A-Around, 3rd Vault, 1st Beam, 2nd Floor

• 2013
• Challenge Cup Ljubljana (Ljubjlana, SLO)
• 1st Vault, 1st Beam, 1st Floor

• 2013
• World Cup Tokyo (Tokyo, JPN)
• 3rd A-Around

• 2013
• Elite Canada (Edmonton, AB)
• 1st A-Around, 1st Vault, 3rd U. Bars, 1st Beam, 1st Floor

• 2012
• Olympic Games (London, GBR)
• 5th Team, 8th Vault

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