It’s a good thing North Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»gymnast Scott Morgan has a powerful upper body because he’ll need a pretty strong neck to hold all of the medals that he’s collected at the Commonwealth Games.
The Flicka Gymnastics member picked up three medals at the 2018 Games held on Australia’s Gold Coast, which on top of the four he earned at the 2014 Games in Glasgow make him one of Canada’s most decorated Commonwealth champions.
Morgan earned silver in the men’s team competition last week and then picked up a pair of medals in one day during event finals held Sunday in Australia. His first individual medal of the weekend came on floor where he scored 13.833 points to finish just behind Marios Georgiou of Cyprus who scored 13.966. Scotland’s Daniel Purvis was third with a score of 13.733.
Morgan was back on the podium later in the day after earning bronze on the rings with a score of 14.000. A pair from England claimed gold and silver in the event, with Courtney Tulloch scoring of 14.833 and Nile Wilson 14.400.
“It was a bit of a tough day, I was a bit tired coming in, and the format changed a bit for finals so we weren’t able to touch the equipment which changed things up a bit, but all in all it was a great day,” stated Morgan in a Gymnastics Canada release.
The 28-year-old started gymnastics at age four and at age six did a short stint as a pint-sized, highflying mini sidekick for Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»Grizzlies mascot Grizz. He dropped out of elite gymnastics while attending high school at Seycove Secondary but picked it up again in 2007 before his Grade 12 year and made his national team debut in 2011. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games he won gold in rings and vault, silver on floor and bronze in the team competition. Morgan was also Canada’s lone male representative in gymnastics at the 2016 Olympic Games.
