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Full name | Dylan Matthew Schmidt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Southport, Queensland, Australia | 7 January 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Te Anau, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Trampoline gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Icon Trampoline Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Angie Dougal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dylan Matthew Schmidt (born 7 January 1997)[2] is a New Zealand trampoline gymnast. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished in seventh place. He was New Zealand's first athlete to compete in trampoline at the Olympic Games. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal and became New Zealand's first Olympic medallist in any gymnastics discipline. He became the individual trampoline world champion at the 2022 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships and is New Zealand's first world champion in men's trampoline. He won the gold medal in the individual event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.