In her first year of senior competition, Mitchell qualified for the balance beam event final at the 2007 World Championships. Then at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she helped the Australian team place sixth, their highest finish ever. She then became the first Australian gymnast to win more than one medal at the same World Championships when she won two silver medals in 2009. The next year, she tied the record for the most gold medals won by a female gymnast at a single Commonwealth Games and became Australia's first female World champion in gymnastics. At her second Olympic Games in 2012, she qualified for the floor exercise final and finished fifth. She won two more Commonwealth medals in 2014, silver with the team and on the floor exercise. Mitchell retired from gymnastics in 2016 as Australia's most decorated gymnast.
Early life
Lauren Mitchell was born on 23 July 1991 in Subiaco, an inner suburb of Perth, to Leanne and Graeme Mitchell, and she is the oldest of four siblings.[2][3][4] She is of Romanian descent through her mother.[3] She began gymnastics when she was six years old after a gymnastics birthday party.[5]
Career
At the 2005 Australian Junior Championships, Mitchell finished seventh in the all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise and eighth on the uneven bars.[6] She missed the 2006 season due to a hamstring injury.[7]
2007: Senior and World Championships debut
Mitchell became age-eligible for senior international competition in 2007. She competed at the WOGA Classic in Plano, Texas and helped the Australian team win the bronze medal. Individually, Mitchell placed fourth in the all-around, won the silver medal on the balance beam and the bronze medal on the floor exercise.[6] She then traveled to Kyiv to compete in the Stella Zakharova Cup where the Australian team finished sixth. Individually, Mitchell won the bronze medal in the all-around and the silver medal on the balance beam, and she finished fifth on the uneven bars and seventh on the floor exercise.[6] Then in May at the Australian Championships, she won the gold medal with the Western Australian team and the silver medal in the all-around. She also won the gold medal on the balance beam and the silver medal on the floor exercise, and she placed fifth on the uneven bars and eleventh on the vault.[6]
In July, Mitchell helped the Australian team win a gold medal against Japan in a friendly meet. Individually, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Daria Joura and Kōko Tsurumi. She also won the silver medals on the balance beam and on the floor exercise.[6] She was selected to compete at the World Championships alongside Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, Hollie Dykes, and Chloe Sims, and they finished eleventh in the qualification round.[8] Individually, she qualified for the balance beam event final and placed fifth with a score of 15.425.[9] After her debut World Championships, she competed at the DTB Cup in Germany and won a silver medal on the balance beam and a bronze medal on the floor exercise.[6] Her final competition of the season was the Olympic Test Event, where she won the silver medal on the balance beam and placed fourth in the all-around.[10]
2008: First Olympic Games
Mitchell competed at the Pacific Rim Championships where the Australian team finished fourth behind the United States, Canada, and China.[11] She qualified for the uneven bars final and placed fourth with a score of 15.100.[12] In May, she competed at the Australian Championships where she finished fourth in the all-around, and she helped Western Australia win the silver medal in the team competition behind Victoria. She also placed seventh on the uneven bars, won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Shona Morgan, and finished fourth on the floor exercise.[6] She then competed at the Moscow World Cup where she finished fifth on both the uneven bars and the balance beam.[13][14]
Mitchell was selected to represent Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Daria Joura, Shona Morgan, and Olivia Vivian. The team finished sixth in the team final which was the highest team finish in Australian gymnastics history.[15] After the Olympics, she competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won the silver medal on both the balance beam and the floor exercise.[6] She then won the gold medal on the balance beam at the World Cup Final making her the first Australian gymnast to win a gold medal at the World Cup Final.[7][15]
2009: World silver medalist
In July, Mitchell competed at the Australian Championships in Perth and claimed her first national all-around title with a total score of 112.325.[16] She also became the national champion on the uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.[17][18][19] Then in October, she competed at the World Championships at The O2 Arena in London. She finished fourth all-around and was 0.025 points away from the bronze medal after she took a 0.100 deduction on the floor exercise for stepping out of bounds.[20][21] She went on to win two silver medals in the event finals, on the floor exercise behind Great Britain's Beth Tweddle and on the balance beam behind China's Deng Linlin.[22][23] This made her the first Australian female gymnast to medal at the World Championships and the first Australian gymnast to win two medals at the same World Championships.[15][24] Mitchell broke her hand in December.[7]
Mitchell was then selected to compete at the World Championships in Rotterdam alongside Georgia Bonora, Ashleigh Brennan, Emily Little, Larrissa Miller, and Georgia Wheeler, and they finished sixth in the team competition.[29] Mitchell also finished sixth in the all-around with a total score of 58.133, 0.833 away from the bronze medal score.[30] In the balance beam final, she finished fourth with a score of 15.200, only 0.033 away from the bronze medal. She then won gold on the floor exercise with a score of 14.833.[31] This was the first World title for a female Australian gymnast and the second World title for any Australian gymnast (Philippe Rizzo won the horizontal bar title in 2006).[32]
In November, Mitchell competed at the Stuttgart World Cup and won the gold medal on the floor exercise, balance beam, and uneven bars, making her the first Australian gymnast to win three gold medals at a single World Cup event.[33] She then competed at the Glasgow World Cup where she won two more gold medals on the balance beam and floor exercise and the bronze medal on the uneven bars.[34] Her final competition of the season was the Toyota Cup where she won the gold medal on the balance beam.[6]
2011: Fourth World Championships
On 5 March, Mitchell competed at the American Cup in Jacksonville, Florida where she finished sixth in the all-around with a total score of 54.932.[35] She then went to the Paris World Cup where she finished fourth on the balance beam.[36] Then at the Japan Cup in Tokyo, she placed fourth in the all-around with a total score of 53.750.[37] She also finished fourth with the Australian team in the team competition.[38]
In March, Mitchell competed at the Pacific Rim Championships where the Australian team finished fourth.[45] In the event finals, she finished fifth on both the balance beam and the floor exercise.[46] Then in April, she competed at the Zibo World Cup and won the bronze medal on the balance beam behind Chinese gymnasts Yao Jinnan and Huang Qiushuang and the gold medal on the floor exercise.[47][48] At the Australian Championships in Sydney, she did not compete on the uneven bars in order to protect a sore shoulder. Although she did not compete in the all-around, she won the gold medal on both the floor exercise and the balance beam.[49][50]
In June, she was one of twelve Australian gymnasts vying to earn a final spot on the Olympic squad at a training session for the national team at the Australian Institute of Sport.[51] Their Olympic training preparations included learning how to deal with flash photography with strobe lighting used at practice and being exposed to distracting noises.[22][52]
Mitchell returned to competition at the Doha World Cup and finished fourth on the floor exercise.[58] She then went to the Korea Cup in Incheon where she once again placed fourth on the floor exercise.[59] Then at the Australian Championships, she won the bronze medal on the balance beam and the gold medal on the floor exercise.[60][61] At the Commonwealth Games, Mitchell won a silver medal with the Australian team and on the floor exercise behind Claudia Fragapane.[62][63] She was initially named to Australia's team for the World Championships, but she withdrew after injuring both of her ankles during podium training.[64]
2015–2016: Injury and retirement
Mitchell competed at the 2015 Australian Championships and won the gold medal on the floor exercise and placed fourth on the balance beam.[65] While preparing to represent Australia at the 2015 Summer Universiade, she tore her ACL and PCL and had surgery in June.[66][67]
Mitchell returned to competition at the 2016 Australian Championships and was inducted into Gymnastics Australia's Hall of Fame after the qualification round.[68] In the event finals, she won the gold medal on the balance beam and the bronze medal on the floor exercise.[69] However, Australia had only qualified one spot for the 2016 Olympics, and Mitchell was not selected.[70] Her final competition was the Anadia World Challenge Cup where she qualified in third place for the balance beam event final, but she withdrew due to an injury.[15]
Mitchell announced her retirement from gymnastics on 27 September 2016, stating "I've given everything that I could to the sport and I have no regrets."[71]
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