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Britain's senior women’s gymnastics team have taken silver at the 2016 European Championship in Bern (SUI).

The GB line up of Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Gabby Jupp and Ruby Harrold matched the medal won in 2014 with a final score of 170.312. Britain and Russia proved to be a class above the other nations in the final despite both counting falls in the ‘all routines count’ format of the competition.

Rebecca Downie “It’s amazing to win the silver medal but there’s also mixed emotions as we know we could have performed even better. Coming in to the final we were dreaming of the gold but a few mistakes cost us today and that’s something we will learn from. Every girl tried their hardest and put everything in to it so there are no regrets. The fact there are those mixed emotions show how far we have come, when we won silver in 2014 we were all amazed and delighted. It just shows how much we’ve grown as a team and how much our ambitions have developed.”

Britain were competing in the same group Russia and had to watch as their closets rivals in qualifying competed. Ruby Harrold began the British campaign on vault with a tidy performance, just a small step back on landing to score 14.766 points. Claudia Fragapane followed with a tiny hop on landing her double twisting vault for 14.733 and then our own Ellie Downie confirmed our great start with an almost perfectly executed vault for 15.100 points.  With Russia excelling on bars the British girls knew they were in a fight for the medals.  Gabby Jupp got GB off to a solid start on bars, some loss of form but a clean routine overall to scores 14.383.  Ruby Harrold unfortunately had trouble early on as she couldn’t quite re-grab the bar on her opening Tkatchev skill and fell; the rest of her difficult routine went well for 13.166. Finally Becky Downie completed a superb routine, rewarded with high execution scores form the judges to score an impressive 15.066.

At the halfway point this left Britain just over three points adrift of first placed Russia. On beam Gabby Jupp showed her class with some beautiful work in her difficult routine to score a superb 14.100. Unfortunately there were falls on beam for both Claudia Fragapane and Becky Downie, Claudia on her second series of skills, and Becky twice in her routine to score 13.266 and 12.533 respectively. The falls, whilst costly to the team score, had little impact on the standings as GB remained in silver medal position heading to the final apparatus, the floor.  Ruby Harrold put in a good display for 13.933 points and Ellie Downie showed some huge tumbling skills to score 14.433. Last up Claudia Fragapane showed all her personality and skill to score 14.833 and seal the silver.

Huge congratulations to Becky, Ellie and the rest of the GB team!

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On Sunday 15^th May, many of our general competitive gymnasts entered into the general county floor and vault competition held at Joseph Whitaker School in Rainworth. For several of our gymnasts this was their first competition as well as the first time Notts had entered boys into a general competition.

First up we have the advanced and novice groups, all starting on Vault. After a slightly shaky start with handsprings from a couple of the girls, we opted for a flat back vault instead. This really picked up their confidence and everyone vaulted fantastically.

Next up was floor with the girls competing a set routine rather than their usual floor routine with music accompaniment. The boys also competed a set routine – something that they have never done before and to compete in front of an audience was a huge achievement for them.

Once the advanced and novice had competed, it was time for the under 8 gymnasts. We started on vault again with all the girls performing a squat on vault at various heights. We had lots of impressive vaults from our young gymnasts.

After vault, the girls had to perform their set routines. Even though it was a first competition for some of the gymnasts, this didn’t faze them at all. We are so proud of our younger gymnasts for performing on their own to a big audience.

The coaches are very proud of every single gymnast who competed.

We are even more delighted to announce the results:

6 years

Hattie Jackson - 1st
Megan Crampton 2nd

7 years

Lily Hawthorne- 1^st

8 years novice

Antonia Crofts - 3^rd

9 years advances 

Jemima O’Neill - 1st
D'Arcy Jackson - 2nd

11 years advanced

Poppy Ritchie - 1st
Hannah Marshall- 3^rd

Boys over 8 advanced

Jake Molyneux – 2nd 
Wade Shaw- 2nd
Hugo Sasai – 3^rd

A very big congratulations as well to the following gymnasts who also competed:

Isla Johnson – Waine

Honey Farnsworth

Ianthe Panayiotou

Olivia Gladstone

Abi Noble

Mia Harrison

Saturday 23rd April our very own Notts gymnast Becky Downie officially opened the Midlands Gymnastics Centre - a new facility in Nuneaton to aid budding gymnasts take up this fantastic sport. Becky attended the academy and met many of it's up and coming gymnasts.