page_title: Warwick Forbes
section_title: Gymnastics career
hierarchical_section_title: Warwick Forbes / Gymnastics career
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Institute of Sport Head Coach Men's Artistic Gymnastics Warwick Forbes in 1991
context_page_description: Warwick Ian Forbes OAM is a former Australian men's gymnast and national gymnastics coach. He was the Head Coach of the Australian Men's Artistic Team and Australian Institute of Sport Men's Artistic Gymnastics program from 1983 to 2014.
context_section_description: Forbes commenced his gymnastics career at the Sydney YMCA. Forbes moved to Germany in  1971 to be coached by Lazslo Szakacsi, a previous Hungarian coach in Australia. After failing to qualify for the Australian team at the 1972 Munich Olympics team, he remained in Germany to study and train at the Deutsche Turnschule in Frankfurt. In 1975, he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he commenced a bachelor's degree in Human Biology and Anatomy at the University of Western Australia but in 1976 changed to Physical Education to continue his interest in exercise physiology and biomechanics. He failed to qualify for the Australian team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics team. In September 1977, he was awarded at scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley and he competed for the University of California Berkeley in the NCAA circuit from 1977 to 1979 and part of 1980. He  completed a master's degree in 1981 in Kinesiology and Neuromotor Control. Whilst at the University, and after completing his NCAA competitive eligibility he worked as an assistant coach and an academic teaching assistant.
  Forbes was an Australian men's gymnastics team member from 1975 to 1980 and during this period he represented Australia at the 1977 Summer Universiade in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1978 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Strasbourg, France, 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico City and 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, he won a bronze medal in the men's team competition.
caption: Portrait of Warwick Forbes in 1991
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