Lisa Elena Jane Mason (born 26 February 1982 in Aylesbury, England) is a British gymnast who has competed for her country at the Commonwealth Games (for England), European championships, World championships and the Olympic Games. She was the vault champion at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and was part of the first Great Britain women's artistic gymnastic team to qualify for the team event at the Olympic Games. Having retired aged 18 in 2001, Mason unusually made a very successful elite comeback aged 31, winning numerous national titles and being invited to World trials for the Great Britain team, despite that teams ranking having improved dramatically in the years since her first retirement. In 2020 Mason, with fellow gymnast Catherine Lyons went public with allegations of serious physical and mental abuse within the British Gymnastics system In response several elite and former elite gymnasts came forward, corroborating Lyons and Mason's allegations in their own careers, including European champions Becky Downie and Ellie Downie and Olympic medallist Amy Tinkler . Later that year, British Gymnastics CEO Jane Allen resigned from her role, though denied her resignation was linked to the Lyons and Mason interviews and their fallout. Gymnastics career Lisa Mason began training at Huntingdon Gym Club at the age of five. She has represented her country at three European championships and world championships events, Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games. She represented England and won a gold medal in the vault and also won a silver medal in the team event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. She was the first British gymnast to make finals in European and World Championships. In Tianjin she earned the highest ever placing in the All-Around for a British Gymnast in the World Championships, also helping Great Britain take the first-ever full team to the Olympic Games. On the domestic scene, she has been a British gymnastic champion on three occasions, her first title being won at the age of 14, making her the youngest ever gymnast to win the senior title. Her worst noteworthy injury was when she broke her arm in 1995 at the junior British championships after falling off the uneven bars. During the resulting surgery, she had two plates and twelve bolts inserted in the injury. Six months later, she returned to claim the title of senior British champion. She then defended that title twice consecutively, a first for any