Brooklyn Moors
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Full name | Brooklyn Chloe Moors[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (2001-02-23) February 23, 2001 (age 23) Cambridge, Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 158 cm (5 ft 2 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2017–21 (CAN)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | UCLA Bruins (2022–25) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Elvira Saadi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Awards | Longines Prize for Elegance (2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brooklyn Chloe Moors (born February 23, 2001)[2] is a Canadian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games and represented Canada at the 2017, 2018, and 2019 World Championships. At the 2017 World Championships, she became the first Canadian to win the Longines Prize for Elegance.[2] She is the 2019 Pan American Games champion on the floor exercise and the silver medalist with the team. She is also the 2017 Pan American champion on the floor exercise. She currently competes for the UCLA Bruins in collegiate gymnastics.
Early life
Brooklyn Chloe Moors was born on February 23, 2001, in Cambridge, Ontario.[2] She is the younger sister of 2012 Olympic gymnast Victoria Moors, who inspired her to begin gymnastics when she was three years old.[4][5]
Junior career
Moors made her elite debut at 2016 Elite Canada where she finished twenty-first in the all-around.[6] In the event finals, she won the silver medal on the balance beam behind Jade Chrobok.[7] She then made her international debut at the 2016 Nadia Comaneci Invitational and finished eighth in the all-around.[8] Then at the 2016 International Gymnix, she finished fourth in the all-around and won the gold medal on the floor exercise.[9][10] She then won the bronze medal in the all-around at the 2016 Canadian Championships.[11] Her final meet of the 2016 season was the Elite Gym Massilia in Marseille where she finished seventeenth in the all-around.[12]
Senior career
2017
Moors became age-eligible for senior competition in 2017, and she made her senior debut at Elite Canada where she won the bronze medal in the all-around. She then finished fifth in the vault and floor final and sixth in the balance beam final.[13] Then at the International Gymnix, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Hitomi Hatakeda and Shallon Olsen and won the gold medal with the Canadian team. In the event finals, she placed fourth on vault and balance beam, and fifth on the floor exercise.[14] At the City of Jesolo Trophy, Moors helped the Canadian team finish sixth, and she finished fifth in the vault final.[15] She then finished seventh in the all-around at the Canadian Championships, and she won the bronze medal on vault.[16]
Moors was then selected to compete at the Pan American Championships in Lima. She won the silver medal on vault behind Mexican gymnast Ahtziri Sandoval, won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind Jade Chrobok and Sandoval, placed seventh on the balance beam, and won the gold medal on the floor exercise.[17] She then competed at the Szombathely Challenge Cup and won the bronze medal on vault behind Marina Nekrasova and Boglárka Dévai, and she won the gold medal on floor exercise.[18] She was then selected to compete at the World Championships in Montreal where she finished 15th in the all-around and fifth on the floor exercise.[19][20] After the competition, she was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance and became the first Canadian to receive this award.[21][2]
2018
In February, Moors competed at Elite Canada where she placed first in the all-around and on floor exercise and placed second on balance beam behind Rose-Kaying Woo.[22] Then in March she competed at the American Cup where she placed seventh in the all-around.[23] Then at the Canadian National Championships, she placed fourth in the all-around behind Ellie Black, Isabela Onyshko, and Jade Chrobok.[24]
In early October, Moors was selected to represent Canada at the World Championships in Doha alongside Black, Ana Padurariu, Shallon Olsen, and Laurie Dénommée (later replaced by Sophie Marois).[25] During the qualification round Moors helped Canada qualify to the team final in fourth place, and individually, she qualified to the all-around and floor exercise finals.[26] During the team final, Moors contributed scores of 13.233 on the floor exercise and 13.066 on the uneven bars to help Canada finish fourth behind the United States, Russia, and China—[27] Team Canada's best finish ever at the World Championships.[28] Moors then finished 24th in the all-around final with a total score of 50.332.[29] She then finished eighth in the floor exercise final with a score of 13.066.[30]
2019
At the Canadian Championships, Moors won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Ellie Black and Ana Padurariu, and she won the gold medal on the balance beam and the silver medal on the floor exercise behind Black.[31] In June, she was selected to compete at the Pan American Games alongside Black, Isabela Onyshko, Shallon Olsen, and Victoria-Kayen Woo.[32] They won the silver medal in the team competition behind the United States. During the first day of event finals, Moors placed sixth on uneven bars with a score of 13.000.[33] The following day she scored a 13.900 to win the gold medal on floor exercise ahead of Kara Eaker of the United States and Flávia Saraiva of Brazil.[34]
On September 4, Moors was named to compete at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Ana Padurariu, Shallon Olsen, Ellie Black, and Victoria-Kayen Woo.[35] Canada finished seventh in the team final and qualified as a team for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.[36] During the individual finals, Moors finished 14th in the all-around with a total score of 54.498.[37] She then finished seventh on floor exercise with a score of 13.600.[38]
2020
In January, it was announced that Moors would represent Canada at the American Cup, but she was later replaced by Ellie Black.[39] Her first competition of the season was Elite Canada, where she placed second in the all-around behind Ana Padurariu.[40] She also won the silver medals on the uneven bars and the balance beam, and she won the gold medal on the floor exercise.[41] In February, she signed her national letter of intent with UCLA, intending to start competing during the 2020–21 school year.[42] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic she took classes remotely and redshirted the 2021 season in order to train for the postponed 2020 Olympic Games.[1][43] She also took eight months off of training due to a back injury.[5][44]
2021
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Brooklyn_Moors_CAN_2021.png/220px-Brooklyn_Moors_CAN_2021.png)
At the Second Canadian Technical Trial, Moors only competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise due to recovering from her back injury.[5][44] She won the silver medal on the floor exercise behind Rose-Kaying Woo.[45] At the Canadian National Championships, she placed eighth in the all-around after struggling on the uneven bars. However, she won gold on floor exercise and placed sixth on balance beam.[46] On June 17, Moors was officially named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team alongside Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, and Ava Stewart.[47] The team finished tenth in the qualification round and did not qualify for the team final, but Moors qualified for the all-around final in 22nd place.[48] She finished 16th in the all-around final with a total score of 53.299.[49]
NCAA career
Moors enrolled at UCLA and began taking classes remotely during the 2020–21 school year; however she redshirted the season to focus on training for the 2020 Olympic Games. She started competing for the UCLA Bruins during the 2021–22 season.[50]
Competitive history
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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Junior | |||||||
2016 | Elite Canada | 21 | ![]() | ||||
Nadia Comaneci Invitational | 8 | ||||||
International Gymnix | 4 | ![]() | |||||
Canadian Championships | ![]() | ||||||
Elite Gym Massilia | 17 | ||||||
Senior | |||||||
2017 | Elite Canada | ![]() | 5 | 6 | 5 | ||
International Gymnix | ![]() | ![]() | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||
City of Jesolo Trophy | 6 | 27 | 5 | ||||
Canadian Championships | 7 | ![]() | |||||
Pan American Championships | ![]() | ![]() | 7 | ![]() | |||
Szombathely Challenge Cup | ![]() | ![]() | |||||
World Championships | 15 | 5 | |||||
2018 | Elite Canada | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |||
American Cup | 7 | ||||||
Canadian Championships | 4 | 7 | 4 | ||||
World Championships | 4 | 24 | 8 | ||||
2019 | Canadian Championships | ![]() | 5 | ![]() | ![]() | ||
Pan American Games | ![]() | 6 | ![]() | ||||
World Championships | 7 | 14 | 7 | ||||
2020 | Elite Canada | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
2021 | Canadian Championships | 8 | 26 | 6 | ![]() | ||
Olympic Games | 10 | 16 | R3 |
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- ^ a b c d e "Brooklyn Moors". Team Canada. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
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- ^ Johnson, Anna Rose (December 19, 2017). "Brooklyn Moors: "It was one of the Best Experiences of my Life"". Inside Gymnastics. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ a b c Bregman, Scott (May 15, 2021). "Brooklyn Moors ready to go for Olympic dream, virtually". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
- ^ "Elite Canada 2016 Junior Results" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. February 6, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (February 5, 2016). "2016 Elite Canada Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (February 16, 2016). "2016 Nadia Comaneci International Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (February 3, 2017). "2017 Elite Canada Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (September 8, 2017). "2017 Szombathely Challenge Cup Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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- ^ "Canadas's Brooklyn Moors and Japan's Kenzo Shirai presented with the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 47th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montréal". Longines. October 10, 2017. Archived from the original on January 19, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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- ^ "Canadian team announced for 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, QAT". Gymnastics Canada. October 1, 2018.
- ^ "Canada qualifies for women's team finals in 4th position at 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships". Gymnastics Canada. October 28, 2018.
- ^ "48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha (QAT), 25 October - 3 November 2018 Women's Team Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. International Gymnastics Federation. October 30, 2018. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ "Canada finishes historic fourth in women's team finals at 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships". Gymnastics Canada. October 30, 2018.
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- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (February 12, 2020). "2020 Elite Canada Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ "Brooklyn Moors Signs with UCLA Gymnastics". UCLA Bruins. February 13, 2020.
- ^ Settleman, Sam (February 25, 2021). "Ana Padurariu and Brooklyn Moors take friendship across borders to UCLA gymnastics". The Daily Bruin. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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External links
- Brooklyn Moors at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Brooklyn Moors on Instagram
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