Bill Slater, Fenton Manor

13th & 14th September 2014

by Jemma Wilson

Bill Slater Team Results

Bill Slater Individual Results

Saturday 13th September a young Notts team, with last minute changes, competed in the Bill Slater competition at Fenton manor in Stoke. 

Becky Downie continues to impress the selectors this year and has been chosen for the British squad heading out to Nanning in China, 3rd-12th October.

British Gymnastics is delighted to announce the men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics teams selected to represent Great Britain at the 2014 World Championships taking place in Nanning, China.

The British men’s team includes 2014 all-around British, Commonwealth and European Champion Max Whitlock, alongside his English Commonwealth gold medal teammates Nile Wilson and Kristian Thomas. 2014 Commonwealth parallel bars Champion for Scotland Daniel Purvis also takes a spot, as does his teammate 2014 Commonwealth pommel horse Champion Daniel Keatings and double junior European Champion Courtney Tulloch. The reserve is 2012 Junior European Champion Frank Baines.

The women’s team includes 2014 European silver medallists and Commonwealth Champions Becky Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold and Hannah Whelan alongside member of the English Commonwealth winning team Kelly Simm, 2013 British Champion Gabby Jupp and 2013 British silver medallist Charlie Fellows. A team is made up of six gymnasts and a reserve will be named at a later date.

The Championships include team, individual all-around and apparatus competitions for both men and women and will be held in Nanning, China at the Guangxi Gymnasium.

Fenton Manor, Stoke-on-Trent

Notts sent a team of 4 plus reserve, representing the East Midlands. Each team member competes one apparatus each. The competition also served as a trial for the Worlds team selection for Great Britain.

Team: Becky Downie, Jess Coombs, Sadia Wilson, Laura Kaletha, Res; Kirsty Baldwin

by Claire Starkey

After a frantic summer with the Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympic Games this was a good warm up competition to kick off the season especially for Laura to compete her new floor routine.

Jess performed a confident beam routine finishing in 5th place with 12.150. Laura's delivered a fabulous floor routine finishing in 4th place with 12.300. Unfortunately the bars proved a big problem for many on day 1 for the senior trialists. A different make of bars meant a watering down of Becky's bar routine but still she couldn't find her usual rhythm, finishing well below par in =5th with 11.650. Sadia, only recently back from her home of Bermuda executed her vault cleanly, scoring 12.050, 9th place.

Overall the Notts team, as the East Midlands, finished 5th with a total of 59.800.

Notts County Championships

 27th July, Notts Gymnastics Academy

Notts County Champs - Full Results

Well done to all our gymnasts, some competing at their very first competiton. Below is a summary of the Notts results but for the full results click on the PDF attached.

In Age Level 5

AA 1st Piper Tobin-Storer, Notts 2nd Leasha Penkerego-Ravenscroft, Notts 3rd Geneva Jones, Notts

Competing for Notts: Gabby Sutton (4th), Lara Hill (5th), Sofia Saporita (6th), Erin Scott (7th), Katie Watson (8th), Molly Nicholls (9th), Bijou Tucker (10th)

Apparatus Medals: Piper: Gold VT, UB, FX Silver FX, Leasha: Silver FX Bronze UB Geneva: Silver VT, Bronze BB, FX Gabby: Silver UB Lara: Bronze UB, Sofia: Bronze VT Erin: Gold BB

 

Open Age Level 5

AA 1st Acacia Green, Worksop 2nd Olivia Coventry, Notts 3rd Megan Ginnever, Dukeries

Competing for Notts: Charlotte Simpson (5th), Jessica Garment (7th), Jessie Mitchell (8th)

Apparatus Medals: Olivia: Gold UB Silver FX, Jessica Garment: Bronze VT, Jessie Mitchell: Silver FX

 

In Age Level 4

AA 1st Alyssa Hawkins, Notts 2nd Annalise Dolby, Worksop 3rd Summer Hill, Notts

Competing for Notts: Georgia Lewis (4th), Alice Marriott (5th), Honey Harris (6th)

Apparatus Medals: Alyssa: Gold VT, UB, BB, Bronze FX, Summer: Silver VT, UB, FX Georgie: Bronze UB, BB

 

Open Age Level 4

AA 1st Isabella Willocks, Notts 2nd Hanna Morton, Worksop 3rd Leah Waddington, Worksop

Competing for Notts: Jodie Iverson (8th), Charlotte Thomas (9th), Lucy Marriott (10th), Matilda Larkin (12th=), Elissa Neil Dwyer (12th=), Lily Moss (15th), Maisie Faughey (19th), Aaliyah Risden (20th), Alicia McLeod (21st), Maisie Ash (22nd)

Apparatus Medals: Isabella: Gold BB, Silver UB, Lucy: Silver FX

 

In Age Level 3

AA 1st Ramiyah Kofi, Notts 2nd Isla Lees, Notts

Apparatus medals: Ramiyah: Gold VT =, UB Silver BB, FX Isla: Gold VT=, BB, FX, Silver UB

 

Open Age Level 3

AA 1st  Chantae Wilson, Notts 2nd Molly Palmer, Notts 3rd Jodie Ferrol, Dukeries

Competing for Notts: Jaymee Feely (6th), Elyse Hallam (7th)

Apparatus Medals: Chantae: Gold UB, FX Silver VT Molly: Gold VT, BB, Silver FX, Bronze UB, Jaymee: Bronze FX

In Age Level 2

AA 1st Caitlin Williams, Notts 2nd Scarlett Williams, Notts 3rd Paige Vick, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Caitlin: Gold UB, BB. Silver VT=, Bronze FX Scarlett: Gold VT, Silver UB, BB, FX Paige: Gold FX, Silver VT=, Bronze UB, BB

 

Open Age Level 2

AA 1st Pippa Chalmers, Worksop 2nd Shenea Fawzi - Perrin, Notts 3rd Ella Morel, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Shenea: Gold BB, Silver FX, Bronze VT, UB Ella: Silver VT, UB Bronze BB, FX

 

Challenge

AA 1st Katie Liwoshko, Notts 2nd Anushka Bovill, Notts 3rd Carrie Browm, Notts 4th Hannah Piechota, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Katie: Gold VT, UB, FX Silver BB Anushka: Silver UB, Bronze VT, BB, FX Carrie: Gold BB Silver FX Hannah: Silver VT, Bronze UB

 

Espoir

AA 1st Laura Kaletha, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Laura: Gold VT, UB, BB, FX

 

Junior

AA 1st Ellie Downie, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Ellie: Gold VT, UB, BB, FX

Senior

AA 1st Katy Bramley, Notts 2nd Jess Coombs, Notts

Apparatus Medals: Katy: Gold VT, UB, BB, FX Jess: Silver VT, UB, BB, FX

 

 

Ellie shows off her silver medal

Ellie Downie won 4 medals in all 4 of her finals in Nanjing as British Gymnastics & Notts continue to shine, showcasing the depth of talent in the current crop of gymnasts. Ellie had a hugely successful week in Nanjing. Firstly winning the Bronze in the all-around competition followed by Bronze on floor & beam and silver on vault. TeamGB mate Giarnni from Europa won floor Gold, vault Gold, parallel bars Bronze and high bar Bronze.

Giarnni Regini-Moran & Ellie Downie

Ellie spoke about her experience. “I am really pleased with everything that happened over the whole week and I don’t think it could have gone much better to be honest. I never expected to come away from this competition with four medals, I could never have even dreamed about doing that. I just wanted to come away from the Youth Olympics having done my best with a couple of medals, I really wasn’t expecting four.”

Ellie was the most decorated female gymnast of the Games.

Congratulations Ellie, Notts are so proud of you!

You can find the full results here.

Coach Claire Starkey commented it was a tough few weeks, adjusting to the Chinese system and travelling long distances just to get to training. Ellie coped with the pressure and change in training regime. She performed with confidence on a world stage scrutinizing gymnasts potentially ear-marked for Rio.

Ellie has returned to Notts and within a few days will be back to being a normal teenager with school & homework to add to her already busy schedule!

Ellie Downie's Results, Nanjing Youth Olympics 2014

Women's AA Final - BRONZE - 54.150 - Watch Ellie's AA competition

Women's Vault Final - SILVER - 14.566 Watch the women's vault final

Women's Beam Final - BRONZE - 13.500 Watch Ellie's beam

Women's Floor Final - BRONZE - 13.466 Watch the women's floor final

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