Squad Championships 2006 results

Thank you to everyone who helped make this such a great event

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Goodwill Classic Competition, Cumbernauld, Scotland

Well done to the team: Emma Beales, Natasha Nolan, Laura Edwards and Lora Long with Kelly Simm and Ellie Arbuthnot joining the United Nations Team.

The Dynamo Team finished in 3rd position with all members making the apparatus finals.

Emma: Vault 1st place; Bars 6th place

Natasha: Beam 2nd place; Floor 3rd place

Laura: Vault 5th place; Lora Floor 6th place

All the girls had a fantastic time enjoying the Mayors Banquet and learning the traditional Scottish dances!

National Challenge Cup 27th November

Congratulations to Emma Beales who competed in the National Challenge Cup.  Emma had a fantastice competition.  On vault competed a very difficult full twisting Yurchenko winning 2nd place; on bars managed to swing a complete routine to win third place; on beam stayed on her flic layout 1st place and floor landed her double pike 3rd place.

Emma finished 2nd overall with a score of 48.85, we now have to wait to see if its enough to qualify for the British Championships.

Fingers crossed Em...

Alsterpokal 2006

Fantastic results for the boys

A squad of 7 boys travelled to Hamburg and competed against a strong field of gymnasts from a variety different nations.
In the junior competition Nathan Jones (17) pipped the top two junior gymnasts from Egypt into 1st place. Craig Lovelock finished in an impressive 5th with Alex Blake just behind in 6th. Both had very good competitions. Nathan Kitcher ,currently injured ,was able to aid the team with a strong rings routine. Dynamo Team II finished in 3rd place. A fantastic result. Dynamo Team I  was made up of younger boys. Charlie Howard (9) finished a strong 11th place, Ryan Morgan (10) finished in 13th and Charlie Smith (8) finished in 16th place. These boys were competing in a field of 28 gymnasts from Holland, Egypt and Germany with gymnasts up to the age of 18 in the competition. Team I finished in a very credible 5th place.

Apparatus finals on the following day were taken by Nathan Jones - Floor 3rd place, Pommels 6th, Some top high class vaulting gave Nathan the title on Vault by a clear margin and an impressive P-bar routine was rewarded with 2nd place. Craig Lovelock competing in the H-bar final against Senior gymnasts from Germany placed a very respectable 4th place. Alex Blake was also reserve for the vault final.

Men's Coach Adam Paterson said " What a fantastic display of gymnastics from all of our boys! They certainly showed their ability and mentality to compete in a big competition like this. I am especially pleased with the younger team who were competing in their first major competition away from home. Their performances indicated a very promising future for them in gymnastics."

The boy's also proved to be very popular with other participants and the audience, signing autographs for the German crowd and also Ukrainian and Finnish teams at the end of the competition.

Mens results.....Mens results finals.....Mens results team..... (pdf)

Hampshire Teams

Team A finished the Division 1 competition on floor and winning the gold and also the overall gold medal: Emma Beales, Natasha Nolan, Laura Edwards, Kelly Somm and Lora Long. Very well done to Tash who completed her first Tkatchev.

Team B finished Division 2 in 3rd place, a great experience and some new elements tried out in competion for the first time: Emily Banks, Ellie Hall, Hailey Golding, Mollie James, Ellie Arbuthnot and Lily Raine.

Thanks to Debbie and Karen for judging and to Kirsty and Jade for their support.

National Final Results

Level 4 Mollie James 32nd National Grades and 27th National Levels GB Rank 22nd

Level 3 Lora Long National Grade 24th National Levels 7th GB Rank 12th

Level 3 Ellie Arbuthnot Grade 21st National Levels 36th GB Rank 25th

Level 2 Kelly Simm National Level 40th GB Rank 42nd

Rushmoor Rosebowl

Great competition for Emma Beales and Laura Edwards who made the vault final, and for Natasha Nolan who made beam and floor finals. See all the competition scores (Excel doc.)

Busy weekend with girls competing in Basingstoke and Jersey

Southern Region Levels

Level 5 - Ellie Markwick and Lana Harry. This competition was for experience for the two 8 year olds - both girls competed new elements on the bars and beam. The Level 4 competition was very tough for 9 year olds Lily Raine and Mollie James. Lily finished in 17th Place and Mollie 6th Place - Mollie is eligible to compete in the National finals in November. In the Level 3 competition Lora Long won vault, bars and floor but a fall on beam dropped her into 2nd place on that apparatus however, Lora managed to regain her title by a massive 3 whole marks. A new member to the Dynamo Team is Ellie Arbuthnot who finished in 5th place gaining the bronze medal on bars and beam both girls will go to the National Finals with Mollie. Kelly Simm competed in level 2 - Kelly had a very good competition, competing a double back somersault on floor winning her the gold medal on this apparatus - unfortunately missing an important handstand on bars dropped her into 3rd position overall and taking the bronze on beam, vault and bars. Women's Coach Sarah Wilson said "The girls are all working extremely hard and I am very pleased with their performances, We have a great deal of potential at Dynamo and its great to see the girls perform so well in competition and not just in training. On behalf of everyone at Dynamo I would like to wish Mollie, Lora, Ellie and Kelly good luck at the National finals in November at Guildford"

Festival to celebrate 25th Anniversary of Regent Gymnastics Club.

Lots of wins and great fun for the Dynamo Team taking part in the Jersey Gymnastics Festival, thank you to Debbie, Keith, Carol and Becky for keeping the team under control.  Special thanks to Carol for allowing the tiddlers to share her hotel room!

Dynamo entered a team in the Level 2 competition: Ellie Hall, Jade Shepperd, Kirsty Kitcher, Jessica Oliver, Catherine Tilling and Hailey Golding. Everyone involved played a big part to the team finishing in 2nd place. Ellie Hall and Kirsty Kitcher finished in joint 4th place overall, with Ellie finishing 1st on Vault and Floor and Jade Shepperd finishing in 3rd place on the Vault. Laura Edwards, Emily Banks and Kerry Munday competed as individuals in the Level 1 category. Laura finished in 1st place overall winning the competition on vault, bars and floor however a fall on beam dropped her into 3rd place on beam. Emily finished in 2nd place overall just behind team mate Laura, Emily came 2nd on Vault, beam and floor and 3rd on bars. Kerry finished a very credible 8th on Bars.  

Copenhagen 06

Hampshire Team 1st Laura Edwards won silver medal overall!

Alpha Factor Invitational

Brilliant results for girls: FIG Senior: Emma Beales Gold on vault and floor;  Emily Banks Level 2/11 Years Gold on floor; Level 3 in age Lora Long 3rd overall, Gold on beam and floor; also competing Laura Edwards, Kelly Sim, Mollie James and Lily Raine

Great Britain v Romania

Well done Kerri, team scores on beam and bars, bar final 5th.

*****Kerri Upton has been selected to represent Great Britain in the Moscow Grand Prix taking place between 23rd and 27th May.  Congratulations and good luck Kerri.****

Compulsory Level 4 & 3 National Finals 6th May

Congratulations to Lora Long 24th overall in the Level 3,  (4th on Floor!) and to Mollie James 32nd and Lily Raine 61st overall in the Level 4 National Finals. Lora and Mollie were part of the Southern Region Team for their Level, both teams came 5th overall.

Grade 2 National Finals 1st May

Great result for Emily Banks who came 7th overall! Emily was part of the Southern Region Team which came 6th overall.

Men's Club Grades National Finals 29th April

Great results for the boys......

In the Primary 2 National Final Ryan Morgan was 8th overall with a place in the National Squad; Charlie Smith was 17th and Adam Morgan 27th overall in the Primary 4, both Charlie and Adam were part of the Southern Region Team that came 4th overall.

All the best for a speedy recovery to Anthony Munday who was unable to complete the competition due to injury.

Men's Elite National Finals

Charlie Howard 11th in the Under 9 Elite Grade with a place in the National Squad.

Hampshire County Grades 5th March 2006

Congratulations to Lana Harry, Olivia Hazlitt, Ellie Markwick, Emily Kent and Hannah Summers who all passed their Grade 6 with Lana and Olivia qualifying for the Regional Finals.

Jess Oliver and Catherine Tilling passed Grade 5 with Jess qualifying for the regional finals

Colette Bell and Hailey Golding passed Grade 4

Southern Region Grades 19th March 2006

Congratulations to Mollie James and Lily Raine who passed Compulsory Grade 4 with distinction, Mollie was second overall and qualified for the Southern Region Team, Mollie and Lily both qualified for the National Finals.

Lora Long, Laura Edwards and Kelly Simm all passed Compulsory Grade 3 with distinction. Lora was first overall and qualified for the Southern Region Team and the National Finals, Laura Edwards was 3rd and Kelly 5th overall.

Connie Pletts, Rebecca Kent and Jade Shepperd passed Club Grade 3.

Emily Banks passed Grade 2 and was 2nd overall qualifying for the National Finals.

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11th International Junior Team Cup 2006

Congratulations to Nathan Jones who competed in Berlin for Great Britain Juniors on 4th and 5th March, he was 15th out of 45, helping the GB team to 9th place out of 17 nations.

Congratulations to Debbie who has passed the National Judges Course.

Nathan Jones, picture above, is on the selection list for GB/South Africa 25th & 26th February