Tweet The Olympic Floor Champion has begun competing bars once again. She debuted her new bars at the ROM V SUI V GER friendly last weekend. She scored 13.200 which in my opinion isn’t bad for getting it together in such a short space of time.

What do you make of Sandra’s bars?
 

Tweet While their female counterparts were taking on the Italians, the French men took on the Dutch and Spanish in Chaumont last weekend.  The french continued their winning streak from the WAG competition, into the mens, winning with a score of 351.05 ahead of the Spanish 347.70 and the Dutch 310.65.  In the AA competition, Hamilton Sabot from France took first place with 88.50, followed by Spain’s Rafael Martinez 87.75 and Javier Gomez from Spain with 86.85.
Those competing were:
France

Samir Ait Said
Pierre-Yves Beny 
Thomas Bouhail
Cucherat Yann
Gaël Da Silva
Hamilton Sabot
Cyril Tommason  
Arnaud Willig
Axel …

Tweet Two more World Championships warm up competitions were held last weekend between the French and Italians, this was a WAG only competition. A friendly warm up was also held between the French, Dutch and Spanish Men at the same venue in France.
 
The teams were as follows:
France (WAG) 

Mira Boumejmajen
Navy Patent
Camille Coudret
Youna Dufournet
Aurélie Malausséna
Sophia Serseri
Clara Della Vedova
Marine Roszczka

Italy (WAG)

Armi Emily
Giorgia Campana
Chiara Gandolfi
Martinazzi Deborah
Lia Parolari
Elisabetta Preziosa

The French team came out on top scoring 218.50 ahead of the Italians who scored 216.50. Marine Brevet was the highest scoring gymnast scoring 55.25 followed by …

Tweet Last month we posted that the 2011 MAG British Championships will take place this month. British Gymnastics have released the schedule for the event. The Championships will take place this weekend September 16th – 18th in Fenton Manor Sports Complex, Stoke on Trent.
British Gymnastics expect the senior AA competition to be tough and interesting with Daniel Keatings, Daniel Purvis, Sam Hunter, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas and Ruslan Panteleymonov all in contention for the title. Also expected to win titles and make big impressions are Max Whitlock, Louis Smith, Reiss Beckford, Courtney …

Tweet With only 24 days to go, the FIG have launched their micro-site for the 2011 World Championships. The micro-site for last years WCh’s was excellent so I imagine that this website will only be better with the advancements that FIG have made in the last year in relation to social media and quick and concise updates.  Visit the site here.

Tweet Today was the individual apparatus finals at the Commonwealth Youth Games.The English boys performed excellently in their apparatus finals, picking up seven medals of the 18 available, the English and Welsh girls followed suit. The English girls picked up five of the available twelve, while the Welsh picked up three.

Vault
1. Rebecca Tunney (ENG) 13.350
2. Kirsten Beckett (RSA) 13.250
3. Abi Caig (ENG) 13.200
Full results.
Uneven Bars
1. Charlie Fellows (ENG) 13.250
2. Raer Theaker (WAL) 13.100
3. Angel Romaeo (WAL) 13.000
Full results.
Beam
1. Emma Nedov (AUS) 13.300
2. Raer Theaker (WAL) 13.050
3. Charlie Fellows (ENG) 12.750
Full …

Tweet Today was the individuals apparatus finals at the Commonwealth Youth Games. Yet again England swept the board, picking up seven medals of those 18 available.

Men’s High Bar
1. Dominick Cunningham (ENG) 13.750
2. Curtis Graves (CAN) 13.750
3. Kal Nemier (CAN) 13.600
Full results.
Parallel Bars
1. Jay Thompson (ENG) 14.000
2. Brinn Bevan (ENG) 13.400
3. Curtis Graves (CAN) 13.250
Full results.
Vault
1. Douglas Ross (SCO) 14.825
2. Dominick Cunningham (ENG) 14.775
3. Wei-an Terry Tay (SIN) 14.450
Full results.
Rings
1. Michails Krasias (CYP) 13.850
2. Tyson Bull (AUS) 13.700
3. Curtis Graves (CAN) 13.400
Full results.
Pommel Horse
1. Michails Krasias (CYP) 13.800
2. Jay Thompson (ENG) …

Tweet England really came out on top yesterday at the MAG AA competition finals winning both the gold and silver medal.
1. Dominick Cunningham (England)
2. Jay Thompson (England)
3. Harry Owen (Wales)

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Tweet Wales’ Angel Romaeo continued to perform well at the CYG yesterday, winning the AA title for her country.
1. Angel Romaeo (Wales)
2. Brittany Robertson (New Zealand)
3. Abi Caig (England)

I’m delighted for the Irish girls Sarah Strawbridge and Nicole Mawhinney who placed 10th and 11th.
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Tweet Romania and Ana Porgras came out top at this World Championships warm up friendly competition over Germany and Switzerland in Erzinger, Germany yesterday.

This was Germany’s last trial before the selection of their Worlds Team takes place. Sandra Izabasa competed on bars, something that we have not seen in a long time.

A bit of work on it and Izbasa could become an AA gymnast again. Ana Porgras had the highest score at the event, a 15.300 on beam. Catalina Ponor did not compete with the Romanian team but as an individual, …

Tweet The men’s competition concluded shortly after the women’s competition this evening. England continued on top qualifying first and second and also winning the gold medal for the team competition.See below for the top 20 qualifiers:

The team competition finished with England in first place,Canada in second and Australia in third.

Tweet The gymnastics at the Commonwealth Youth Games kicked off today. Live scoring was available on two different websites. As expected Englands  Rebecca Tunney competed well and finished on top as did her team mate Abi Caig and Angel Romaeo from Wales. These gymnasts are expected to be the future of British Gymnastics. View the results below:

The English girls also finished top of the Team competition with Wales and Australia folowing behind in second and third place. I’m also delighted for the girls from Northern Ireland who placed fifth.

The MAG …