London 2012 Louis Smith breaks most Thomas flairs on a pommel horse record

The most Thomas flairs performed on a pommel horse in one minute is 50 by Louis Smith (UK) on the set of Guinness World Records - Smashed, in London, UK, on 21 April 2009. Louis Antoine Smith (born 22 April 1989) is an English artistic gymnast from Eye near Peterborough. Louis went to school at Arthur Mellows Village College in Glinton, Peterborough. His strongest event is the pommel horse, at which he has been junior European champion (twice) and Commonwealth Games champion. On 8 September 2007 Smith won a bronze medal for pommel horse at the World Championship in Stuttgart. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics. On 9 August 2008 he qualified in 5th place for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse, and on 17 August he won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming the first Briton to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in 1908 and the first Briton to win a medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games since the women's team won a bronze medal in 1928. He is also the first black man to win a medal in an Olympic Gymnastics competition since Jair Lynch of the United States in 1996.

• 2012-07-31T17:07:17+00:00
• Duration: 02:06

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