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The master coach award recognises outstanding achievement by British coaches and is awarded to the personal coaches of any master gymnast. The club are delighted to announce that Nicola Preston and Rachael Wright received the master coach award for coaching a gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games. Nic and Rach were presented with their awards this weekend at the 2017 British Championships.[..]
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This weekend saw the first major competition of the 2017 British Gymnastics calendar with the British Championships held in Liverpool, starting with podium training on Thursday, junior all around competition Friday, senior all around competition Saturday and apparatus finals on Sunday. The club had two representatives with Mia Scott taking part in the junior competition and Leah Rockett in the senior competition.
Mia Scott started off her British Championships on Thursday. Podium trainin[..]
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On Sunday the Elite Squad had their first competition of 2017 at their compulsory, national and development grades held at the City of Newcastle Gymnastics Academy.
The first round saw our development 5, development 4, national 2, compulsory 4 and compulsory 3 girls take to the floor where they all had to compete routines on range, vault, bars, beam and floor. The girls had a fantastic competition with South Durham taking the top spot in every level! As well as the development 5 girls winning[..]
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A number of our gymnasts from the Intermediate Squad took part in North Grades at the weekend, having a very successful competition with every gymnast from the club passing their grade! The gymnasts had to deliver routines on all four pieces from a set of compulsory skills ranging from grade 6 all the way down to grade 1.
Special mention to our overall grade winners:
Grade 6, 8 years: Bethany Blackburn
Grade 6, 11 & under: Mia Dowson
Grade 6, 12 & over: Katie Johnson
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