Christopher Dean Brooks (born December 19, 1986, in Houston, Texas) is a retired American gymnast who represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

[2] He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won four gold medals at the 2012 Pacific Rim Championships.

He has trained alongside Olympic and World Championships medalist Jonathan Horton as a junior, college, and senior elite gymnast.

[5][6] In 2004, he suffered a serious injury when his grip locked while training on horizontal bar, resulting in shattering and splintering of the ulna and radius of his right arm.

He made a huge comeback at the beginning of 2009 at the Winter Cup coming 5th all-around, 4th on horizontal bar, and winning a bronze medal on floor exercise.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma he returned to Houston to train at Cypress Academy of Gymnastics under coach Tom Meadows, with American teammate Jonathan Horton.

He went on to compete at the American Cup where he won bronze in the all-around behind teammate Jonathan Horton and Russian Maxim Devyatovskiy[8] beating the world silver medalist, Daniel Keatings.

[9] In 2014, Brooks won the Winter Cup Challenge all-around competition and was named to the U.S. gymnastics men's senior national team.

He represented the United States in August 2016, in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, alongside team members Jake Dalton, Sam Mikulak, Alex Naddour, and Danell Leyva.