Yuri van Gelder facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Yuri van Gelder
Van Gelder in 2008.
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Lord of the Rings
Country represented	Netherlands
Born	(1983-04-20) 20 April 1983 (age 41) Waalwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Club	Flik-Flak 's-Hertogenbosch
Eponymous skills	From planche, lower horizontally and slowly to hanging scale rw. and press to swallow (2 s.) or from swallow same to planche or planche to planche.
Medal record World Championships Gold 2005 Melbourne Rings Silver 2007 Stuttgart Rings Bronze 2006 Aarhus Rings European Championships Gold 2004 Ljubljana Rings Gold 2008 Lausanne Rings Gold 2009 Milan Rings

Yuri van Gelder (born 20 April 1983) is a Dutch gymnast, whose best discipline is the rings. His nickname is "Lord of the Rings".

Career

Born in Waalwijk, Netherlands, Van Gelder took the gold in the men's rings at the 2005 European Championships held in Debrecen, Hungary. He became world champion in the same discipline at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne, Australia. He won bronze at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. At the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, he won a silver medal.

2016 Olympic Games

Van Gelder performing at the Olympics in the qualification

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he reached the finals on rings. On August 8, 2016 (one week before the finals), he was dismissed from the Dutch team as a disciplinary measure, because against team rules he had not returned to the Olympic Village until early the next morning. As a variation on his nickname "lord of the rings", the Dutch media immediately referred to Van Gelder as "lord of the drinks". A request of a preliminary injunction requiring that the National Olympic Committee would attempt to reinstate Van Gelder's position in the finals was rejected.

See also

In Spanish: Yuri van Gelder para niños