Bart Deurloo

Bart Deurloo
Deurloo in 2022
Personal information
Born	(1991-02-23) 23 February 1991 (age 34) Ridderkerk, Netherlands
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Netherlands (2009–present)
Club	O&O Zwijndrecht
Head coach(es)	Jeroen Jacobs
Medal record Men's gymnastics Representing the  Netherlands World Championships 2017 Montreal Horizontal bar FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Apparatus World Cup 1 0 0 World Challenge Cup 2 5 2 Total 3 5 2

Bart Deurloo (born 23 February 1991) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. He is the 2017 World bronze medalist on the horizontal bar and a five-time Dutch national champion in the all-around. He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.

Deurloo's mother was a former gymnast, so he began the sport at the age of six.^[2]

Deurloo competed at his first World Championships in 2009 and was the third reserve for the all-around final.^[3] He competed at the 2010 European Championships, where the Dutch team finished 11th in the qualifications.^[4]

Deurloo advanced to the all-around final at the 2011 European Championships and finished 14th.^[5] He was unable to compete at the 2011 World Championships due to a hand injury.^[6] He won a gold medal on the horizontal bar at the 2012 Ostrava World Challenge Cup.^[7] In 2012, he won his first national all-around title.^[8]

Deurloo missed the 2013 European Championships due to a knee injury.^[9] He was able to compete at the 2013 World Championships, where he finished 14th in the all-around final.^[10] At the 2014 Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, Deurloo won the silver medal on the horizontal bar to teammate Epke Zonderland.^[11] He competed with the Dutch team that placed sixth at the 2014 European Championships.^[12] He was unable to compete at the 2014 World Championships due to a wrist injury.^[2]

Deurloo won a bronze medal on the floor exercise at the 2015 Cottbus World Challenge Cup.^[13] He then won gold on the floor exercise at the Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, where he also won the vault silver medal and horizontal bar bronze medal.^[14] At the 2015 European Championships, he finished sixth in the floor exercise final.^[15] He finished 14th in the all-around at the 2015 World Championships, matching his placement from 2013.^[16]

Deurloo competed with the team at the 2016 Olympic Test Event that won the bronze medal, qualifying them as a full team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[17] He represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He became the first Dutch male artistic gymnast to compete in an Olympic all-around final,^[2] where he finished 15th.^[18] Additionally, the Dutch team finished 10th during the qualification round.^[19]

Deurloo finished fourth in the all-around at the 2017 American Cup.^[20] He won a silver medal on the horizontal bar at the Koper World Challenge Cup behind Tin Srbić.^[21] Later that same month, he won another horizontal silver medal to Srbić at the Osijek World Challenge Cup.^[22] At the Paris World Challenge Cup, he won another silver medal on the horizontal bar, this time behind Epke Zonderland.^[23] He then won the horizontal bar bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships, behind Srbić and Zonderland.^[24]

Deurloo won the horizontal bar gold medal at the 2018 Baku World Cup.^[25] He then helped the Dutch team finish ninth at the 2018 European Championships, making them the first reserves for the team final.^[26] Then at the 2018 World Championships, Deurloo and the Dutch team qualified for the team final, finishing eighth.^[27]

At the 2019 American Cup, Deurloo finished seventh in the all-around.^[28] He then finished sixth at the Stuttgart World Cup,^[29] and he placed eighth at the Tokyo World Cup.^[30]

Deurloo represented the Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics and qualified for the horizontal bar final, finishing seventh after falling.^[31][32] After the Olympic Games, he had surgery on his knee,^[2] and he took a break from competition.^[10] He then announced his retirement from the sport in February 2023 and began coaching for the Dutch national team.^[33] He came out of retirement a few months later to help the Dutch team attempt to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[34]

At the 2023 World Championships, Deurloo and the Dutch team placed 11th in the qualification round and earned a team berth for the 2024 Olympic Games.^[35] Individually, he finished tenth in the horizontal bar qualifications and was the first reserve for the final.^[10]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bart Deurloo.

• Bart Deurloo at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Bart Deurloo at Olympics.com
• Bart Deurloo at TeamNL (archived) (in Dutch)
• Bart Deurloo at Olympedia