Anthony Gatto

Anthony Gatto
	<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/juggle/images/7/75/Anthony_Gatto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111204235106" alt="Anthony Gatto" class="" data-image-key="Anthony_Gatto.jpg" data-image-name="Anthony Gatto.jpg" width="233" height="274" >; 7-10 ring world record holder
Websites	www.anthonygatto.com; YouTube: Anthony Gatto
Highest numbers juggled	9 balls solid; 10 balls flashed; 10 balls qualified? (claim); 10 rings qualified; 11 rings qualified? (claim); 12 rings flashed; 8 clubs qualified

Anthony Gatto (born Anthony Commarota on April 14, 1973)^[1]^[2] is an American juggler who holds nine official, JISCON-verified world records,^[3] and is regarded by many as the most skilled juggler in the world.^[4] He was voted the world's most popular juggler in Luke Burrage's Top 40 Jugglers poll in 2003 and 2005,^[5]^[6] and he has been in the top 40 every year since the chart began in 2003 except 2016 and 2019.^[7] He is the only juggler who has ever won the Golden Clown award at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo^[8], and he is the only juggler who has been featured on a Topps trading card.^[4]^[9]

Anthony was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland.^[10] He started juggling when he was almost four years old,^[11] and won the IJA Junior Championship at the age of eight in his first year competing.^[10]^[12] He was trained by his stepfather^[1] Nick Gatto, a former vaudeville entertainer and a member of the Los Gatos acrobatic trio,^[10] who had had years of training as a coach in several fields, including boxing and gymnastics.^[13] Anthony began performing professionally in Las Vegas at age ten. He has performed in the Cirque du Soleil shows Kooza (2007-2009) and La Nouba (2010-2012).^[14]^[15]

Anthony has quit juggling^[16] and now runs a concrete resurfacing business,^[1]^[17] which he started in August 2012.^[18]^[19]^[20]

World records Edit

Records verified by JISCON:^[3]

8 balls: 1 minute and 13 seconds in 2006 (video)
9 balls: 54 seconds in 2006 (video)

7 rings: 15 minutes and 6 seconds in 2006 (video)
8 rings: 1 minute and 17 seconds in 1989 (video)
9 rings: 235 catches in 2005 (video)
10 rings: 47 catches in 2005 (video)

6 clubs: 7 minutes 38 seconds in 2005 (video)
7 clubs: 4 minutes 23 seconds in 2005 (video)
8 clubs: 16 catches in 2006 (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)

Records with publicly available video evidence:

Isolation Edit

8 rings isolated: 125 catches in 2011 (video)
9 rings isolated: 45 catches in 2011 (video)

7 clubs isolated: 238 catches in 2011 (video)

Balancing Edit

8 balls with ball balance: 40 catches in 2007 (video at 0:40)
8 balls with club balance: 48 catches (video)
8 balls with pole balance: 24 catches in 2007 (video)
9 balls with ball balance: 14 catches in 2000 (video)
10 balls with ball balance: 10 catches in 2009 (video)

8 rings with pole balance: 47 catches in 2007 (video at 7:22)
9 rings with pole balance: 20 catches in 2007 (video at 6:17)
10 rings with ring balance: 10 catches in 2010 (video), tied with Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 and Laido Dittmar in 2014
10 rings with club balance: 10 catches in 2007 (video), tied with Pavel Evsukevich in 2013, Willy Colombaioni in 2015 and Laido Dittmar in 2015
10 rings with pole balance: 10 catches in 1991 (video), tied with Nikolai Gerasimov in 2001 (video), Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video), and Rudolf Levitskiy in 2016 (video)
11 rings with pole balance: 11 catches in 2000 (video)

7 clubs with ball balance: 43 catches in 2007 (video at 2:50)
7 clubs with club balance: 44 catches in 2006 (video)

Head bounce Edit

6 balls with head bounce: 1 minute and 4 seconds in 2000 (video)
7 balls with head bounce: 143 catches in 2001 (video)
8 balls with head bounce: 31 catches in 2009 (video)
9 balls with head bounce: 18 catches in 2005 (video)

6 rings with head bounce: 213 catches in 2000 (video)
7 rings with head bounce: 75 catches in 2000 (video, 2005 video)
8 rings with head bounce: 61 catches in 2006 (video)
9 rings with head bounce: 31 catches in 2007 (video at 2:46)
10 rings with head bounce: 14 catches in 2009 (video)
11 rings with head bounce: 11 catches in 2005 (video)

7 clubs with head bounce: 28 catches in 2009 (video)

2 ball head bounce: 62 bounces in 2006 (video at 1:13:42)

Halfshower Edit

7 ring halfshower: 55 catches in 2008 (video)
9 ring halfshower: 11 catches in 2006 (video)

Body throws Edit

4 club back-to-front body throws: 4 catches in 2005 (video), tied with Ameron Rosvall in 2010 (video, more recent video), Kenny Cheung in 2018 (video), and Sebastian Madrid in 2020 (video)
5 club back-to-front body throws: 5 catches in 2006 (video at 58:55)

Spins Edit

180 qualified with the most rings: 7 rings, 7 up in 2001 (video), tied with Sergei Ignatov (video), Rudolf Levitskiy in 2007 (video), Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 (video)
180 qualified with the most clubs: 7 clubs, 5 up (video), tied with Vova Galchenko in 2006 (video)
360 qualified with the most rings: 8 rings, 8 up in 2008 (video), tied with Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse in 2019 (video)
360 qualified with the most clubs: 7 clubs, 7 up in 2005 (video), tied with Vova Galchenko in 2008 (video)
1080 qualified with the most rings: 6 rings, 6 up 3-stage (video), tied with Jason Garfield (video) and Eivind Dragsjø in 2016 (video at 43:00)

Most 7 ball 7 up 360s in 1 minute: 10 in 2008 (video)
Most 7 ring 7 up 360s in 1 minute: 10 in 2008 (video at 1:17)

Most connected 6 ball 6 up 180s: 2 in 2008 (video), tied with Luca Pferdmenges in 2017 (video)
Most connected 7 ball 7 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
Most connected 6 ring 6 up 180s: 2 in 2009 (video), tied with Thomas Dietz in 2008 (video)
Most connected 7 ring 7 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video), tied with Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 (video)
Most connected 6 club 4 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
Most connected 7 ring 7 up 360s: 2 in 2006 (video at 2:00)
Most connected 8 ring 6 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
Most connected 6 club 4 up 360s: 2 in 2011 (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)

Other Edit

7 ring 966: 45 catches in 2008 (video)
2 clubs with 1 foot: 3 catches in 2006 (video), tied with Brian OConnell in 2014 (video)
6 club overheads: 6 catches (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2019 (video) and Alexey Isamukhamedov in 2019 (video)
Fewest catches of 6 clubs in 1 min: 210 catches in 2005 (video)
7 club backcrosses: 7 catches in 2007 (video at 5:15), tied with Vova Galchenko in 2007 (video), David Ferman in 2012 (video), Jack Denger in 2013 (video), Wes Peden in 2015 (video), Kento Tanioka in 2017 (video), Anderson da Silva in 2019 (video), and Spencer Androli in 2020 (video)

Unverified claims:^[21]

9 balls: 348 catches
9 rings: 272 catches
10 rings: 64 catches
11 rings: 22 catches

9 ball overheads: 9 catches (claim)
360 qualified with the most rings: 9 rings, 7 up in 2000 (claim)
5 clubs with pole balance: 2 minutes in 2000 (claim)

Competitions Edit

Anthony won the following IJA competitions.^[22]

1981 (age 8):

Stage: Juniors

1983:

Numbers: 5 Clubs

1986:

Stage: Individuals

Numbers: Solo Balls
Numbers: Solo Rings
Numbers: Solo Clubs

1989:

Numbers: Solo Balls
Numbers: Solo Rings
Numbers: Solo Clubs (first person ever to juggle 7 clubs for over 100 catches in competition - age 16)

1991 (age 18):

Numbers: Solo Balls (IJA competition record: 60 catches of 9 balls)
Numbers: Solo Rings (43 catches of 9 rings, a new IJA competition record at the time, broken in 1996 by Albert Lucas with 20 catches of 10 rings)
Numbers: Solo Clubs (IJA competition record: 230 catches of 7 clubs)

1991 IJA Numbers Championships highlights video

References Edit

[dropped-0] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/

[1] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto

[jiscon-2] 3.0 ^3.1 List of Numbers Juggling Records - JISCON

[card-3] 4.0 ^4.1 99 - Anthony Gatto - The Trading Card Database

[4] The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2003 as voted by YOU! - IJDb

[5] The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2005 - IJDb

[6] ttp://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1643

[7] ttp://www.montecarlofestival.mc/palmares/palmares-1998-2002/

[8] ttp://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/career.php

[bio-9] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/biography.php#

[10] ttp://anthonygatto.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4974

[11] ttp://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/1981-cleveland-oh/

[12] ttp://www.juggling.org/help/essays/gatto.html

[13] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto

[14] ttp://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/01/world-renowned-juggler-joins-la-nouba-by-cirque-du-soleil/

[15] ttps://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/627839443952281

[16] ttp://bigtopcr.com/about/

[17] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto

[18] ttps://www.facebook.com/bigtopcr/info

[19] ttp://www.floridatrend.com/article/19006/a-famous-jugglers-concrete-plans

[20] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20070902181415/http://www.anthonygatto.com/Gatto-fan-index.html

[21] ttp://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/

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Anthony Gatto
7-10 ring world record holder
Websites	www.anthonygatto.com YouTube: Anthony Gatto
Highest numbers juggled	9 balls solid 10 balls flashed 10 balls qualified? (claim) 10 rings qualified 11 rings qualified? (claim) 12 rings flashed 8 clubs qualified

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