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