The Bart Deurloo Story | EP 184
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Today’s guest is Dutch men’s artistic gymnast, Bart Deurloo.
At the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada, Bart Deurloo won bronze on the horizontal bar for the Netherlands, sharing the podium with his teammate and Olympic champion, Epke Zonderland.
Over a professional career spanning sixteen years, Bart represented the Dutch men’s gymnastics team at two Olympic Games. At Rio 2016, he made history by becoming the first Dutch male artistic gymnast to qualify for the Olympic all-around final, where he finished 15th.
Four years later, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Bart qualified for the horizontal bar final, finishing seventh. Throughout his career, he has continued to push the boundaries of what’s possible on his specialist apparatus.
This is the story of Bart Deurloo.