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− | |image = File: Anthony Gatto.jpg|caption = 7-11 [[Ring juggling|ring]] [[World records|world record]] holder}}'''Anthony Gatto''' (born '''Anthony Commarota''' on April 14, 1973)<ref name=dropped>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref> is an American juggler who holds 10 official, [[JISCON]]-verified [[World records|world records]],<ref name=jiscon>[http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html List of Numbers Juggling Records] - [[JISCON]]</ref> and is regarded by many as the most skilled juggler in the world.<ref name=card>[http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/9935/cid/433319/2010-Topps-Allen-&-Ginter-99-Anthony-Gatto 99 - Anthony Gatto] - The Trading Card Database</ref> He was voted the world's most popular juggler in [[Luke Burrage|Luke Burrage's]] [[Top 40 Jugglers]] poll in 2003 and 2005,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110713052226/http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2003.html The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2003 as voted by YOU!] - [[IJDb]]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120207142351/http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2005.html The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2005] - [[IJDb]]</ref> and he |
+ | |image = File: Anthony Gatto.jpg|caption = 7-11 [[Ring juggling|ring]] [[World records|world record]] holder}}'''Anthony Gatto''' (born '''Anthony Commarota''' on April 14, 1973)<ref name=dropped>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref> is an American juggler who holds 10 official, [[JISCON]]-verified [[World records|world records]],<ref name=jiscon>[http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html List of Numbers Juggling Records] - [[JISCON]]</ref> and is regarded by many as the most skilled juggler in the world.<ref name=card>[http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/9935/cid/433319/2010-Topps-Allen-&-Ginter-99-Anthony-Gatto 99 - Anthony Gatto] - The Trading Card Database</ref> He was voted the world's most popular juggler in [[Luke Burrage|Luke Burrage's]] [[Top 40 Jugglers]] poll in 2003 and 2005,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110713052226/http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2003.html The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2003 as voted by YOU!] - [[IJDb]]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120207142351/http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2005.html The Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of 2005] - [[IJDb]]</ref> and he has been in the top 40 every year since the chart began in 2003 except 2016.<ref>http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1643</ref> He is the only juggler who has ever won the Golden Clown award at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Circus_Festival_of_Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo]<ref>http://www.montecarlofestival.mc/palmares/palmares-1998-2002/</ref>, and he is the only juggler who has been featured on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topps Topps] trading card.<ref name=card/><ref>http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/career.php</ref> |
Anthony was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland.<ref name=bio>http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/biography.php#</ref> He started juggling when he was almost four years old,<ref>http://anthonygatto.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4974</ref> and won the [[IJA]] Junior Championship at the age of eight in his first year competing.<ref name=bio/><ref>http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/1981-cleveland-oh/</ref> He was trained by his stepfather<ref name=dropped/> [[Nick Gatto]], a former vaudeville entertainer and a member of the Los Gatos acrobatic trio,<ref name=bio/> who had had years of training as a coach in several fields, including boxing and gymnastics.<ref>http://www.juggling.org/help/essays/gatto.html</ref> 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).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref><ref>http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/01/world-renowned-juggler-joins-la-nouba-by-cirque-du-soleil/</ref> Anthony has retired from performing,<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/627839443952281</ref> and now runs [http://bigtopcr.com/ a concrete resurfacing business],<ref name=dropped/><ref>http://bigtopcr.com/about/</ref> which he started in August 2012.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/bigtopcr/info</ref><ref>http://www.floridatrend.com/article/19006/a-famous-jugglers-concrete-plans</ref> |
Anthony was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland.<ref name=bio>http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/biography.php#</ref> He started juggling when he was almost four years old,<ref>http://anthonygatto.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4974</ref> and won the [[IJA]] Junior Championship at the age of eight in his first year competing.<ref name=bio/><ref>http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/1981-cleveland-oh/</ref> He was trained by his stepfather<ref name=dropped/> [[Nick Gatto]], a former vaudeville entertainer and a member of the Los Gatos acrobatic trio,<ref name=bio/> who had had years of training as a coach in several fields, including boxing and gymnastics.<ref>http://www.juggling.org/help/essays/gatto.html</ref> 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).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref><ref>http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/01/world-renowned-juggler-joins-la-nouba-by-cirque-du-soleil/</ref> Anthony has retired from performing,<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/627839443952281</ref> and now runs [http://bigtopcr.com/ a concrete resurfacing business],<ref name=dropped/><ref>http://bigtopcr.com/about/</ref> which he started in August 2012.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/bigtopcr/info</ref><ref>http://www.floridatrend.com/article/19006/a-famous-jugglers-concrete-plans</ref> |
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Anthony Gatto (born Anthony Commarota on April 14, 1973)[1][2] is an American juggler who holds 10 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.[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 retired from performing,[16] and now runs a concrete resurfacing business,[1][17] which he started in August 2012.[18][19][20]
World records
Records verified by JISCON:[3]
- 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)
- 11 rings: 17 catches in 2006
- 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
- 9 balls isolated: 46 catches in 2011 (video)
- 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: 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
Body throws
- 4 club back-to-front body throws: 4 catches in 2005 (video), tied with Ameron Rosvall in 2010 (video) and Kenny Cheung in 2018 (video)
- 5 club back-to-front body throws: 5 catches in 2006 (video at 58:55)
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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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), and Kento Tanioka in 2017 (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
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)
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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 List of Numbers Juggling Records - JISCON
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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/
- ↑ http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/career.php
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 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://www.juggling.org/help/essays/gatto.html
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070902181415/http://www.anthonygatto.com/Gatto-fan-index.html
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/