On 27 September Downie was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar alongside Becky Downie, Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton, and Kelly Simm. While Downie had intended to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, her ankle was still causing her issues despite the surgery she had undergone previously and she did not compete for a majority of the year. Due to the surgery Downie was unable to competed at the 2017 World Championships. At the beginning of August she underwent surgery on her ankle due to an injury she had dealt with at both the British Championships and European Championships that year. She also won silver medals on vault and floor exercise, and won the bronze medal on the uneven bars. The next day, she became the first British gymnast to win the all-around title at a major international competition, beating Hungary's Zsófia Kovács and France's Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos. In April Downie represented Great Britain at the European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where she made history by qualifying for all five individual finals. She improved on that performance in the final, finishing 13th, and the British women finished fifth in the team competition. However, she returned in the next rotation, performing two vaults, and qualified to the all-around final in 20th place. In qualifications at the Olympics, Downie landed on her head during a tumbling pass on floor and was unable to finish her routine. In July, she was named to the British team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, along with Becky Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold and Amy Tinkler.
The following month, at the 2016 European Championships in Bern, Switzerland, she won silver medals with the team and on vault and floor exercise. In May 2016, Downie won all four individual event titles at the FIG World Cup event in Osijek, Croatia, becoming the first gymnast to accomplish this feat at a World Cup competition since Ludmilla Tourischeva in 1975.
On 20 December, she was named the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. ĭownie was the Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Month for April 2015. On 17 April, she competed in the all-around final and placed third, behind Giulia Steingruber of Switzerland and Maria Kharenkova of Russia, with a score of 56.623, winning the first ever individual all-around medal for a British female gymnast at the European Championships. She performed well in qualifications at the European Championships, qualifying for the individual all-around, vault and uneven bars finals. She won silver on vault and uneven bars and bronze in the all-around competition, and was named to the British team for the 2015 European Championships along with her sister, Becky Downie. There, she earned four medals: a silver on vault behind Wang Yan and bronzes in the all-around, balance beam and floor exercise.ĭownie made her senior debut at the 2015 British Championships. Based on this performance, she was selected to compete at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. ĭownie competed at the 2014 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, and won a gold medal on vault, a silver medal with the British team and a bronze medal in the all-around. At the 2017 European Championships, she made history again by becoming the first British gymnast to win the all-around at a major international competition. Later that year, she was part of the team that won Britain's first global team medal, a bronze, at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. At the age of 15, she became the first British woman to win an individual all-around medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, with a bronze in 2015. The younger sister of double European champion Becky Downie, Downie first came to prominence as an outstanding junior gymnast at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, winning four medals. She is the All-around 2017 European gymnastics champion, the first gymnast to win a major all-around title for Great Britain. Elissa Rebecca "Ellie" Downie (born 20 July 1999 in Nottingham) is an artistic gymnast who represents Great Britain.
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