The Sam Oldham Podcast

Over the past decade, Pegasus Gymnastics Club has consistently nurtured some of Great Britain's finest men's artistic gymnastics talent. Among those athletes is Sam Ghinn, who has proudly represented both Great Britain and Team England throughout his competitive career. Alongside Olympians James Hall and Courtney Tulloch, Sam is a product of the exceptional culture cultivated at Pegasus...

At the 2026 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, Sebastian Sponevik delivered the performance of his career, capturing the vault gold medal for his home nation of Norway. The victory marked the culmination of a remarkable 12 months. Sebastian announced himself on the international stage by collecting multiple medals on the World Cup circuit before qualifying for the men's all-aro...

At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan, Megan Oldham captured Olympic gold for Team Canada in the women's freestyle skiing big air event. She also earned an Olympic bronze medal in women's slopestyle, marking a remarkable performance at her second Olympic Games following her Olympic debut in Beijing in 2022. Megan made history at the 2023 X Games when she landed the first-ever triple...

On Saturday, 6 June, at the British Team Championships, I successfully performed a horizontal bar routine—five years after retiring from men's artistic gymnastics. At 33 years old, I wanted to challenge myself and question some of the traditional beliefs that are often accepted within the gymnastics community. This journey was about proving that limitations are not always where we think they...

At the 2025 artistic gymnastics World Cup in Doha, Sam Mostowfi claimed the bronze medal on floor exercise, earning one of the most significant international results of his career. That performance helped secure his selection for Great Britain at the FISU World University Games in Germany. Competing against some of the world's best gymnasts, Mostowfi finished 14th in the all-around final and...

🥇 In 2026, we’re launching a brand‑new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast. Each month, we’ll explore the biggest names, emerging storylines, and major championship build‑ups in artistic gymnastics — plus post‑competition debriefs with some of the sport’s most passionate experts and analysts. In this week's episode, I'm going to look at the biggest stories from the world o...

At just 22 years of age, Jesse Moore is already rewriting the history books for Australian gymnastics. At the 2025 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, Moore delivered the performance of his career, finishing 11th in the men’s all-around final — the highest placing ever achieved by an Australian male gymnast at the World Championships.  Twelve months earlier, at the Paris 2024 Olymp...

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were ultimately held in 2021 due to the global pandemic, Anna Hopkin swam the anchor leg for Team GB’s 4 x 100m mixed medley relay team alongside Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty and James Guy. Together, they won Olympic gold for Great Britain while breaking the world record in the process. Across her professional swimming career, Anna won a total of seventeen major c...

In 2025, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, Kameron Nelson announced himself on the world stage. Competing in his first major championships for Team USA, Nelson qualified for the floor exercise final and narrowly missed the medal podium, finishing an impressive fourth against the world’s best. His rise to international gymnastics had been anything but conventiona...

🥇 In 2026, we’re launching a brand‑new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast . Each month, we’ll explore the biggest names, emerging storylines, and major championship build‑ups in artistic gymnastics — plus post‑competition debriefs with some of the sport’s most passionate experts and analysts. In this week’s episode, Lewis Thomson  — the young, talented athlete turned independent gy...

At the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Bram Verhofstad delivered a standout performance, qualifying for the floor exercise final and finishing fourth. He trailed a podium of elite competitors: Kenzo Shirai, Artem Dolgopyat, and Yul Moldauer—a lineup that reflected the sport’s rapidly rising technical standard. But Bram’s story goes beyond rankings. While competing at the...

Kacper Garnczarek has already built an impressive résumé in the world of artistic gymnastics. At the 2025 European Championships, he qualified for the men’s all-around final and made history as part of Poland’s first-ever mixed team final. Awarded a full scholarship to Pennsylvania State University, Kacper has balanced elite sport with academics, representing Penn State’s gymnastics team while stu...

In December 2025 Victor Yeo made his mixed martial arts professional debut winning by unanimous decision against Zanyar Kamaran. Victor had previously been a very successful British male gymnast out of Devon winning multiple junior National titles and medals for Great Britain on the international stage. He was tipped by many to be a superstar in the sport and was coached by professional stuntman a...

In 2024 at the Paris Olympic Games. Hiroaki Sato lead the Japanese men's artistic gymnastics team to victory as the head coach in the men's team final winning gold for Japan. In 2017 Hiroaki was asked by his childhood friend Kohei Uchimura to play the role of his personal coach in the final chapter of his gymnastics career as he prepared for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He spent four years w...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Gymnastics Show on The Sam Oldham Podcast. In 2026, we’re launching a brand-new monthly series dedicated to the world of artistic gymnastics. Across the year, you can expect deep dives into the sport’s biggest names, analysis of the major storylines building toward championship events, and post-competition debriefs featuring some of the most passionate experts and analy...

On Friday March the 20th 2026 at the 118th British artistic gymnastics championships we had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in the sport. In 2026 we will see three major championships take place and the official LA 2028 Olympic selection process will begin at the World championships in Rotterdam. Heading into the weekend we have three different men toping the home Nations co...

In 2010 at the age of 18, my Dad contacted Red Bull who had seen me perform at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore winning Gold and Silver in artistic gymnastics for Team GB. I was approached by a sports management company and introduced to Chris Smith a chartered accountant, auditor, business coach and trained mediator. Chris was a founding partner of Granite Morgan Smith FC who advise property...

In 2026, we’re launching a brand-new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast . Across the year, you can expect deep dives into the biggest names in the sport, the major storylines building toward championship events, and post-competition debriefs featuring some of the most passionate experts and analysts in artistic gymnastics. In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Kensley Behel , the br...

In 2008 at the Beijing Olympic Games, Justin Spring was part of the USA men's artistic gymnastics team that won the bronze medal in the team event. Justin's journey to becoming an Olympian in 2008 was anything but straight forward and in 2007 whilst performing a triple twist on the vaulting table at the US National championships, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament. After a challengin...

In 2023, Lukas Dauser performed a near perfect parallel bars routine at the men's artistic gymnastics World championships to win the gold medal for team Germany. Lukas took silver on his favoured event at the Tokyo Olympic Games that were held in 2021, finishing behind arguably the most dominant champion in the sport in the modern era Zou Jingyuan of team China. His first major championships...

In 1993, Neil Thomas won a World gymnastics championships floor exercise silver medal for Great Britain in men's artistic gymnastics in front of a home crowd in Birmingham. A year later in 1994, Neil performed one of the best routines of his professional career, defending his silver medal at the World championships held in Brisbane Australia. He had been inspired watching the Seoul Olympic Ga...

In 1983, Eileen Langsley became the official photographer of the international gymnastics federation and held that position for nearly two decades. Eileen has photographed fourteen Olympic Games throughout her career and specialised in artistic gymnastics, figure skating and women's sport. In 2010 she was given the award of merit by the international hall of fame for services to the sport of...

In 2025, Abigail Martin won the World gymnastics championships bronze medal on the floor exercise for Great Britain in the sport of women artistic gymnastics. At the age of just sixteen Abi was selected to represent Team GB at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games where she was part of the artistic gymnastics team that finished 4th in the women's team final. This followed a European team silver earlie...

In 2025, Crystelle Lake represented Great Britain at the World University Games in the sport of women's artistic gymnastics finishing 9th place in the all around final. Crystelle is the Scottish women's all around National champion and over the past twelve months has consistently produced personal best all around scores heading into the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer. Most rec...

In 2026, we’re launching a brand-new monthly gymnastics show on The Sam Oldham Podcast . Across the year, you can expect deep dives into the biggest names in the sport, the major storylines building toward championship events, and post-competition debriefs featuring some of the most passionate experts and analysts in artistic gymnastics. In this week’s episode, we look ahead to the start of the co...