Name	Louis Smith
Height	5 ft 10 in
Naionality	English
Date of Birth	22-April-1989
Place of Birth	Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Famous for	Gymnast

Louis Smith is a British artistic gymnast who specialises in the pommel horse. He received a bronze medal and a silver medal on the pommel horse at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics respectively, with the former marking the first time a British gymnast had placed in an Olympic event since 1928.

Smith was also part of the Great Britain team that took the bronze in the men's artistic team all-around at the 2012 London Olympics. Smith is a member of the Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, training alongside teammate Daniel Keatings under Coach Paul Hall. He was a part of the European Gold medal winning Great Britain's men's team in 2012, 2010 Commonwealth Games Champion, and is also a four-time European Silver medallist. Smith is the 2012 winner of the BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing. On 9 August 2008 he qualified in fifth place for the Olympic final of the men's pommel horse, and on 17 August he won a bronze medal in the finals, becoming first British man to win a medal in the individual gymnastics at the Olympic Games since Walter Tysall won a silver medal in 1908 and the first Briton generally to win a medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games since the women's team won a bronze medal in 1928. He is also the second black male gymnast to win a medal in an Olympic competition. The first was Jair Lynch of the United States in 1996, a silver medalist on the parallel bars. In 2009 he won his first silver medal at the European Championships on the Pommel Horse as a senior.

In 2010 he helped the British men's team to win Silver at the European Championships, and once again took the Silver medal in the Pommel Horse. He went on to the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam where he beat Prashanth Sellathurai once again to take the Silver medal. In 2012, Smith won the silver medal in the pommel horse finals in the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Smith was part of the Great Britain team at the London Olympics. The team won a bronze medal at the men's artistic team all-around event on 30 July 2012, marking the first team medal for a British Olympic gymnastics team in 100 years. Smith also won the silver medal in the men's pommel horse final, receiving the same score as Hungary's Krisztian Berki; Berki, however, was awarded the gold medal due to having a higher execution score.