Louis Smith

Louis Antoine Smith, MBE (born 22 April 1989) 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,[2] with the former marking the first time a British gymnast had placed in an Olympic event since 1928.[3] 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.

Strictly Come Dancing
On 10 September 2012, it was announced that Smith would take part in the 2012 series of Strictly Come Dancing. On 15 September, the launch show revealed that his professional partner was Flavia Cacace. From weeks 1–8, his performances received mixed to positive reviews from the judges, until weeks 9–12 when the reviews became more positive and landed him in the top half of the leaderboard. He came top of the leaderboard for the first time in the Halloween week with his Tango and then again in week 9 with his Charleston, but his best and perfect score came in the grand final with his Showdance, for which he scored a perfect 40. On 22 December in the grand final, Smith and Cacace were announced as the winners of the series.[20] Smith said "It was brilliant. The training was harder than Gymnastics as everything was a new challenge. I never expected to win – I just went out every week with the aim of doing my best."[9] In 2014, Smith will participate in the Christmas special with guest pro, Aliona Vilani.

Tumble
In 2014 Smith was a judge on BBC One's gymnastics show Tumble.