Epke Zonderland

Epke Jan Zonderland is a Dutch artistic gymnast, born on 16 April 1986 in Lemmer, and the 2012 Olympic gold medallist on the high bar. He has competed at four Olympic Games between 2008 and 2020 and won three World Championship titles on the high bar, in 2013, 2014 and 2018, making him the first man to achieve that feat on the apparatus. He is nicknamed the Flying Dutchman. He trained as a doctor alongside his career, enrolling at the University of Groningen in 2006 and qualifying as a medical doctor in 2018, and his two brothers and a sister are also international gymnasts.