To our Adult Squad Gymnasts who all performed superbly at this year’s British Veterans competition - held at the Basingstoke Gymnastics Club last Saturday 19^th September.  The competition was an early start and it was clear to see who had been out clubbing the night before! However 150 gymnasts descended from all over the country at the Basingstoke gym centre. The age range was from the age 20 to Dorothy McLennan from Woking who took part at 74 years young!  Dorothy amazed everyone with her performances and got a standing ovation for her floor routine. All the ladies teams had to perform 3 out of their 4 disciplines where as the men had to work 4 out of 6 apparatus – teams could consist of 3 or 4 gymnasts but only the top 3 individual scores would count plus an age bonus to reach a final total.

There were some nail biting performances with Coach Jackie Lewis praying they’d get through their routines without having to come on with an oxygen tank! With all but 2 gymnasts carrying injuries it was touch and go if they’d even compete the night before. Amazingly with the old adrenalin pumping pain was soon forgotten or maybe it was down to the teams Physio - Michael doing a superb job with the strapping? Nevertheless, both teams put in excellent performances with no major slip ups and did the club proud. As you can see from the delighted faces in the picture below they were all so thrilled to be on the medal rostrum taking the silver team medals. Some individual outstanding performances were seen by Kyle white & Rachel Payne saw them take an individual silver and bronze medal. An absolute brilliant result this year for our women’s team after only coming in 8^th last year to bring home a silver is outstanding work ladies!

 

East London Floor & Vault Competition 7th June 2009

To our Senior Floor & Vault Squad Gymnasts, who all performed splendidly and between them managed to bring home 3 Gold medals (2 with pins for achieving maximum score on F&V), 3 Silver’s & 2 bronze medals in the LGF F&V Competition held at East London on Sunday 8^th June 2009.

For David Simms this was his first gymnastics competition and not only did he win a gold medal but he also won a pin which means he can now compete in the Gold Level in December.

Becky Stone one of our old ex-squad girls returned to our adult’s class recently and in just 2 weeks put together a wonderful floor routine. Also our Zoe Aubert went to the competition with a completely new choreographed floor routine that wowed the judges with her cheeky dance moves, however a small tumbling error cost Zoe a medal position. Better luck next time round Zoe!

A brilliant performance by Kyle White although the judges nearly fainted with his spectacular wipe out in warm-up, thank goodness he didn’t repeat it in competition otherwise he wouldn’t have won gold or that prestigious pin at this level which now means the LGF organising committee will now have to invent another level of competition just for Kyle as he’s blown the roof off the rules for these two events! Well done Kyle.

Now not everything was roses for us on Sunday, another one of our coaches - Ina Tsankvoa had to be withdrawn from competition after rupturing her Achilles tendon in warm-up just before she was due to perform her floor routine. However, after 17 years retirement from competitive gymnastics Ina did manage to perform the best vault of the day by the women so not all was lost, although she was disappointed she could not finish the competition as she had to be taken to hospital and to undergo surgery. We are happy to report that she has now recovered and is back coaching.

Congratulations & well done to you all!

CONGRATULATIONS TO

Luke Dawes, Declan Jones & Niall Watson 

Pictured below are our medal winners who took part in

The LGF Bronze Level Floor & Vault Competition held on

17^TH May 2009 at The Cheam High School for Girls

Luke Dawes Won Silver in the Age 14 category - Niall Watson also won a Silver Medal in the Age 12 category and Declan Jones came home with a Bronze in the Age 13 category

Our other girls and boys who took part in this competition were placed as follows: - Age 13 Category - Rhianna Best 15^th

Age 12 Category - Aron Awofadeju 6^th, Rachel Walker 26^th & Jahnai Thomas 33^rd

Age 11 Category - Aiden O’Brien 5^th – & Shaquel Jarrett 20^th

WELL DONE EVERYONE!

CONGRATULATIONS TO

Rachel Walker, Rhianna Best, Nicole Thompson & Hannah Stock

Pictured above are our girls who took part in

The LGF Bronze Level Floor & Vault Competition held on

23rd November 2008 at Newham Leisure Centre

Congratulations to Nicole Thompson

For winning a Silver Medal in The London Gymnastics Federation - Bronze Level - Floor & Vault Competition held at North East London on Sunday 23^rd November 2008. Nicole also won a LGF pin for her high scores of 15.25 – Floor & 10.70 for her vault which means she must now move up to the Silver Level.  Results below: -

Name	Year Born	Floor	Vault	Total	Position
Nicole Thompson	1994	15.25	10.70	25.95	2nd Awarded LGF Pin
Hannah Stock	1995	14.80	10.00	24.80	5th
Rhianna Best	1996	14.40	8.30	22.70	9th
Rachel Walker	1997	14.15	10.60	24.75	15th

 

British Veterans - 20th Sept 2008

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ADULT GYMNASTS WHO TOOK PART IN THE BRITISH VETERANS COMPETITION HELD AT PIPERS VALE

IPSWICH ON SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER

On 20th September gymnasts from far and wide descended at Pipers Vale for a full days programme with a record entry brought gymnasts competing in Men's & Women's Artistic Gymnastics, Sports Acrobatics & Trampolining. The categories split into former competitive and gymnasts who entered adult recreational classes and got the but for gymnastics! and with those formers never seeming to lose that competitive streak saw some brilliant performances.

For all of them it was about personal achievement and being able to socialise with people of all ages who just love the sport. There was even a lady called Dorothy who had to enter the over 60's because there wasn't a category for the over 70's! Yes at the grand age of 73 she competed and everyone gave her a standing ovation every time she took to the floor to compete. We even picked up a Trampolinist from the competition who wanted to join our team after seeing our Men perform. Mark is now a regular who attends every Thursday night.
 

Pictured below is our Men's Team who were placed 2nd with Ian Coupar winning the overall silver medal too! (Pictured - Left to right) Kyle White, Ian Coupar & Jon Stevens.

 Pictured below is our Ladies Team

(left to right) Zoë Aubert, Stephanie Bethancourt, Belinda Knol

Team placed a credible 8th position.

Well done all of you, just shows all those blistered hands,

blood, sweat & tears pays off in the end!

East London Floor & Vault Competition - 8th June 2008
On the 8th June 2008 our Senior Adults & Junior Floor and Vault Squads travelled to East London to compete in a Floor & Vault Competition run by the London Gymnastics Federation (General Gymnastics Committee).

Our team of gymnasts consisted of Kyle White, Julia Fitzelle, Zoe Aubert, Philippa Roscoe, Jessica Mills & Stephanie Bethancourt, any of whom have retired from artistic gymnastics and now only compete 2 apparatus came away with a Gold & Bronze medal between them.



The Juniors competing in this competition were: - Bethany Charlton, Akilah Greyson and Chloe Thompson who brought back 2 Gold & 1 Bronze medal between them.

Congratulations & well done to you all!

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