Louis Antoine Smith, MBE is a British artistic gymnast. 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 born in Peterborough to his English mother, Elaine, who separated from his Jamaican-born father, Claude, when he was three. He was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in 1995 and was on Ritalin from when he was six until he was eleven.
