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Jimmy Verbaeys
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Hello everyone,
Welcome to my road to Rio. My name is Jimmy Verbaeys, I started gymnastics when I was 3 years old in a little gymclub in Brussels. After 4 years of training for pleasure, I realized, even if I was only 7 years, that I wanted to do more gymnastics, so I moved to a bigger gymclub called Gymphenix, also in Brussels. At this time, I also tried football and tennis, but I gived up after one week because gymnastics was my biggest passion and I wanted to do only this sport.
When I reached the age of 10, I have been tested to go to the Top Sport School in Ghent (only the futur talents could access this special school) but it meant leaving my family and live in a place where I didn't know the language (flemish). And how can you take a decision like this at 10? So my parents stepped up because they knew that I wanted to become better in gymnastics and that was the only solution, but It was a big and hard decision for all of us. Today, after many years of hard training and many sacrifies, I'm really happy that I didn't give up.
The Olympic Games were always my goal and motivation to keep my head up when I had hard times. When I went to London 2012 that's where my life changed. I started to believe more in myself and enjoying even more gymnastics. I'm now training every sessions to become better then I was the previous competition.
My main goal is getting to the Olympics in Rio , and my goal if I get there is a final. But there is a long way to get there and that's why I thought of Rising Track. I think Rising Track is an amazing project because it makes you believe even more in your goals if others people/fans/trackers also believe and support you. I think it would be amazing to dedicate my performance to them!
You need to know that I'm training 30 hours a week and in these, conditions I'm not able to have a full time job, your help will help me to focus on my trainings. Below, you can see how to finance my road to Rio :
- Trainingcamps : to see how others athletes are training for the Olympics and learn from them
- Accomodation
- Transport
- Cryotherapy sessions : it's a therapy that helps your body to have a full recovery before competition.
- Sportmaterials (tape, grips for high bar and rings, honey for parallel bars,...)
- Foodsupplements : I need these supplements to recover faster and feel better after each training.
Thank you very much
See you on the tracks :)
Jimmy Verbaeys
About the riser1993/08/26 years old
Brussels and Ghent, Belgium
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Curriculum Vitae
Olympic Games
• London 2012 : 21th - All-round final
European Games
• Baku 2015 : 16th - All-round final; 18th - Team
World Championships
• 2015 Glasgow : 17th - Team
• 2014 Nanning : 19th - Team
• 2013 Antwerp
• 2011 Tokyo : qualified the gymnast to go to the Test-event - London 2012
• 2010 Rotterdam : 28th - Team
Testevent
• London 2012 : spot for the Olympic Games
European Championships
• 2014 Sofia : 11th place with team , 8th place individual
• 2013 Moscow : All-round final
• 2012 Montpellier : 14th -team , 8th individual
• 2011 Berlin : 1st time on the seniors competition
• 2010 : Birmingham :5th - Team; 4th - pommel horse
World Cup's
• Doha 2012 : 5th place - floor
• Ghent 2012 : 5th place - floor
• Maribor: 2th place - parralel bars (qualification)
Belgian Championships:
• 2015 : gold
• 2014 : silver
• 2013 : gold
• 2012 : silver
• 2011 : gold
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