Tyesha Wins All-Around Bronze at European Youth Olympic Festival

Team GB’s Tyesha Mattis has taken bronze all-around at the European Youth Olympic Festival. Putting in some excellent performances, including sticking her impressive double double tumbling pass on floor, Tyesha’s four scores combined to give her 54.850 and third just .1 behind Germany’s Kim Janas (54.95) in second and Russia’s Maria Kharenkova who won the tie break and took first with the same score. GB’sEllie Downie was equally impressive and finished just .150 behind her teammate to take 4th place.

Tyesha’s bronze takes the GB gymnastics teams medal tally to 5 (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) with apparatus finals to come tomorrow.

Tyesha Mattis: "It really feels good. I’ve worked really hard for this so I’m happy that I’ve made it. The team silver really gave me confidence and after yesterday’s result I knew I was capable of doing it."

Ellie Downie: "My competition went really well. I’m just a little dissapointed that I’ve missed out on a medal but I'm quite confident for tomorrow’s finals and hopefully will finish amongst the top three on uneven bars. I’m really happy to have scored a personal best on Wednesday and then to have done it again today and I'm really happy for Tyesha taking the bronze."

Full results can be found on the official EYOF website.

The official website and TeamGB website have more information along with videos.
Photo Copyright Joe Morgan/TeamGB

Brinn Bevan Wins European Youth Olympics Festival All-Around Gold

Team GB’s Brinn Bevan continued his dominant form at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival by winning the all-around title in Utrecht. Brinn, who led the standing in qualifications, scored a hugely impressive 85.200 to take the top spot in front of teammate Nile Wilson with 83.700.

Brinn said after “It feels really good. Before this event started I never expected to win a medal in the individual all-around and it feels amazing to be on the podium together with Nile. I went clean and at first I was hoping for a top-three position, or maybe fourth, but to win here is great.”

The gold and silver are added to the boy’s team gold – along with Jay Thompson – and with apparatus finals still to come there is the promise of even more medals once again proving how dominant the British men’s teams have become.

Junior National Coach Barry Collie said: “It feels great; we’ve really put the pressure on the boys. We really wanted them to win the gold and silver medals. Brinn’s performance was outstanding. He has been through some hard times in his life and it’s great to see him winning gold here. He scored 85 points, which is just awesome, especially for a junior competitor.”

London Gymnastics Festival 2013

The London Gymnastics Festival take place at the Brentwood Centre in Essex.

We will be going on the Friday Evening for the Gala. Tickets should be £7.50 in advance or £10 on the door:

For more details please call Antonia - 07590513214

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Great Britain Girls Win Silver at the European Youth Olympics Festival

The British team of Tyesha Mattis, Ellie Downie and Amy Tinkler produced a superb performance at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival scoring 109.750 points taking them to silver in the team competition.

Clean routines all round meant the girls were in top spot ahead of Romania (108.800) going into the final subdivision of the day with Russia the only team capable of bettering them to score 110.300 for gold.

In the all-around standings Tyesha topped the rankings with an impressive 54.700 including performing the highly anticipated double double in her floor routine, she said after: “It feels good. We worked really hard to achieve this results and I feel very relieved. In terms of the all-around I didn’t expect to achieve this. I just did great routines and I hope to perform in the final as well as I did today.”

Ellie said after: “We’ve put in the best we could. We’ve worked our hardest for this. It’s great personally I did good routines on the vault and on the beam and had a great overall score. I’m quite positive for the finals and hope to win a medal on vault.”

In terms of apparatus finals Ellie qualified top on vault (14.500) with Tyesha second (14.375), Tyesha 3rd on bars (13.400) with Ellie 7th (13.100), Tyesha is into the beam final (13.850) with Amy qualifying in 5th for the floor scoring (13.400).


The official website and TeamGB website have more information along with videos.

Free Gymnastics Sessions in Brent

Bridge Park Gymnastic Club will be offering a free taster session this Sunday 21st July 2013 from 10am-11am for people interested in gymnastics.

We offer classes for all ages and abilities, from beginners to junior and senior squad competitive level gymnastics.

We run classes at Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre every Wednesday at 6pm and Sunday at 10am

Please Contact Antonia on 0759 0513 214 to book you place today!

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An Olympic Medal Winner is on to Launch a New Gymnastics Discipline.

Team GB gymnast and bronze medal winner Max Whitlock is set to appear at the City of Preston Gymnastics Club, Campbell Street on July 23, at the opening event for new fusion discipline, FreeG.

Fusing traditional gymnastic and acrobatic tricks, with kicks and leaps made famous through martial arts and stunt actors, FreeG incorporates the power and explosive nature of freestyle activities and brings them indoors with a range of freestyle-specific equipment and training techniques.

The event will give budding gymnasts the opportunity to find out more about the new expressive and fast-growing activity, see demonstrations from trained freestylers and get Max’s view on what makes FreeG the most exciting gymnastics activity around.

The event will run from 12.30pm until 3pm.

British champion looks ahead to World Games

City of Liverpool’s Nicole Short claimed her first senior DMT title at the 2013 trampoline, tumbling and DMT British Championships. Having only been training in the sport for just over a year Nicole, who also competes in trampoline, is now all set to represent Great Britain at the World Games in Cali, Colombia.


The selection honour is a fantastic achievement and testament to her endeavour and hard work as Nicole explains:

“I felt shocked when I first heard I was selected to represent Great Britain at the World Games, especially as I’ve only been training seriously in DMT for 12 Months.  There are several other gymnasts who have many more years of experience than me both training and competing but I rose to the challenge and have had a pretty decent season.


Obviously I'm feeling a certain amount of pressure which is probably normal, but having said that I always try to put my energy into training hard and just to do my very best to be the best that I can be .It helps that I'm also studying Sports Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University which teaches me to deal with the pressures of the sport and how I approach my training.”


Read more about Nicole’s rise to DMT success in the latest GYMNAST e-zine.
You can watch her 2013 British Championship winning DMT performance below.

Whelan, Firth & Francis impress at World University Games

Britain's Hannah Whelan finished a strong 6th in the women's all-around final at the 2013 World University Games. Hannah performed beautifully on the beam to score 14.1 which contributed to an overall score of 53.650. Teammate Charlotte Lindsley finished in 22nd place. Aliya Mustafina from Russia secured first place despite a fall on beam, ahead of teammate Kseniia Afanaseva in second and German Kim Bui in third.

In the men’s all-around final Britain's Matthew Firth also put in an impressive performance against a world class field. Matthew who recently joined the Great Britain men’s senior squad, scored 85.450 placing him in 9th with the title gong to Kuksenkov of Russia (89.950).

The final day of competition saw Danusia Francis up against some of the world’s best gymnasts in the floor final. Scoring 13.450 with a beautiful routine Danusia finished 6th in a competition won by the European floor Champion Ksenia Afanasyeva. 

Full results from the all-around finals at the 2013 World University Games.