| Anthony Gatto | |
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 7-10 ring world record holder | |
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Anthony Commarota (born April 14, 1973), known by his stage name Anthony Gatto,[1][2][3] is an American former juggler. Regarded 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 was in the top 40 every year since the chart began in 2003 until 2015.[7] He is the only juggler who has ever won the Golden Clown award at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo.[8]
Anthony was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland.[9] He started juggling when he was about four years old, and was coached by his stepfather, Nick Gatto.[1][10] He won the IJA Junior Championship at the age of eight in his first year competing.[9][11] 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).[12][13]
Anthony quit juggling[14] at 40 so he could spend more time with his family.[15] He now runs a concrete resurfacing business,[1][16] which he started in August 2012.[17][18][19]
World records[]
Records verified by JISCON:[20]
- 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)
Records with publicly available video evidence:
Isolation[]
- 7 clubs isolated: 238 catches in 2011 (video)
Balancing[]
- 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[]
- 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: 119 catches in 2008 (video at 2:34)
- 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[]
Spins[]
- 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), Spencer Androli in 2020 (video), Masahiro Takahashi in 2021 (video), and Kaito Tanioka in 2023 (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), tied with Luca Pferdmenges in 2020 (video) and Adolfo Almonacid in 2023 (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), tied with Luca Pferdmenges in 2020 (video)
- 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) and Moritz Rosner in 2020 (video)
- 9 balls: 348 catches
- 8 rings: 368 catches
- 9 rings: 275 catches
- 10 rings: 68 catches
- 11 rings: 22 catches
- 12 rings: 16 catches
- 8 clubs: 21 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[]
Anthony won the following IJA competitions.[23]
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)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ https://www.juggle.org/nick-gatto-obituary/
- ↑ 99 - Anthony Gatto - The Trading Card Database
- ↑ The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2003 as voted by YOU! - IJDb
- ↑ The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2005 - IJDb
- ↑ http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1643
- ↑ http://www.montecarlofestival.mc/palmares/palmares-1998-2002/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/biography.php#
- ↑ http://anthonygatto.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4974
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/1981-cleveland-oh/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/01/world-renowned-juggler-joins-la-nouba-by-cirque-du-soleil/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/627839443952281
- ↑ https://www.floridatrend.com/article/19006/a-famous-jugglers-concrete-plans
- ↑ http://bigtopcr.com/about/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/bigtopcr/info
- ↑ http://www.floridatrend.com/article/19006/a-famous-jugglers-concrete-plans
- ↑ List of Numbers Juggling Records - JISCON
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030220114516fw_/http://www.anthonygatto.com/records1.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070902181415/http://www.anthonygatto.com/Gatto-fan-index.html
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/