Ellie Black of Halifax, Nova Scotia has won her third career medal at the World Gymnastics Championships. On Sunday at the 2022 World Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool, Great Britain, she won the silver medal in the women’s balance beam.
Black posted a score of 13.566 points. Hazuki Watanabe of Japan won the gold medal with a score 13.6 points. Shoko Miyata of Japan won the bronze medal with a score of 13.533 points. Black reached the podium by 0.266 points over the fourth place finishers, Marine Boyer of France and Skye Blakely of the United States, who each had 13.3 points.
This was an exceptional performance by Black on the beam. She may have had a lower level of difficulty compared to some of her competitors, but Black’s performance was clean. Black did not fall off the balance beam and had an excellent landing.
Black won her first medal at the World Gymnastics Championships in 2017 in Montreal when she won the silver medal in the women’s all-around. Her second World Gymnastics Championship medal came this past Tuesday when she was part of the first Canadian team to win a medal in the women’s team competition– a bronze medal with Laurie Denommee of Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Denelle Pedrick of Brandon, Manitoba, Emma Spence of Cambridge, Ontario, and Sydney Turner of New Westminster, British Columbia. The silver medal for Black will give her confidence as she prepares for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
