Tweet So with the VISA Championships coming up next week, lets have a look back at the past National Champions of the last 30 years.
 

Year
Name
Club
Age
Score

1980
Julianne McNamara
National Academy of Gymnastics
14
76.15

1981
Tracee Talavera
National Academy of Gymnastics
14
74.15

1982
Tracee Talavera
National Academy of Gymnastics
15
75.95

1983
Dianne Durham
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
14
76.10

1984
Mary Lou Retton
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
16
77.02

1985
Sabrina Mar
SCATS
15
74.94

1986
Jennifer Sey
Parkettes
17
74.50

1987
Kristie Phillips
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
15
77.32

1988
Phoebe Mills
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
15
77.86

1989
Brandy Johnson
Brown’s Gymnastics
16
77.02

1990
Kim Zmeskal
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
14
77.42

1991
Kim Zmeskal
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
15
78.42

1992
Kim Zmeskal
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
16
78.59

1993
Shannon Miller
Dynamo’s Gymnastics
16
78.41

1994
Dominique Dawes
Hill’s Angels
17
78.00

1995
Dominique Moceanu
Karolyi’s Gymnastics
13
78.45

1996
Shannon Miller
Dynamo’s Gymnastics
19
78.38

1997
Vanessa Atler
Charter Oak Gliders
15
74.612

Kristy Powell
Cincinnati
17
74.612

1998
Kristen Maloney
Parkettes
17
76.749

1999
Kristen Maloney
Parkettes
18
38.687

2000
Elise Ray
Hill’s Gymnastics
18
76.987

2001
Tasha Schwikert
GymCats
16
74.912

2002
Tasha Schwikert
GymCats
17
75.550

2003
Courtney Kupets
Hill’s Gymnastics
16
74.950

2004
Courtney Kupets
Hill’s Gymnastics
17
76.450

Carly Patterson
WOGA
16
76.450

2005
Nastia Liukin
WOGA
15
76.164

2006
Nastia Liukin
WOGA
16
123.700

2007
Shawn Johnson
Chow’s
15
123.650

2008
Shawn Johnson
Chow’s
16
127.500

2009
Bridget Sloan
Sharp’s
17
117.550

2010
Rebecca Bross
WOGA
17
120.300

Above is the AA podium from …

Tweet Scotland announces it’s team for the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, due to take place on the Isle of Man 7-12 September 2011. The below have Been selected to compete:

Carpenter, Jamie - Newcastle - 14yrs
Davie, Liam - Cambroe, ML5 - 18yrs
Ross, Douglas - Johnstone, PA5 - 17yrs
Archer, Shannon - Edinburgh, EH52 - 13yrs
Kennedy, Cara - Paisley, PA2 - 13yrs
Smith, Carly - Glasgow,GA15 - 14yrs

Russia’s Junior Anastasia Grishina has a new official website
Luke Folwell the most successful British gymnast in Commonwealth Games history is on the road to recovery after injuring his shoulder and is now focusing on London 2012. He hopes to …

Tweet It is now less than a year to go before London hosts the 2012 Olympic Games, awful scenes of rioting and looting just a few miles from the main Olympic sites have raised huge concerns about security and policing for the event.The unrest started on Saturday night in the Tottenham area of north London following a a police shooting of a civilian on Thursday night, details are this shooting are sketchy.  Yesterday the violence spread much closer to the Olympic site when violent scenes broke out in the Hackney …

Tweet I recently purchased Bela Karolyi’s book “Feel No Fear: The Power, Passion & Politics in a life of gymnastics“.It arrived today, I’m really looking forward to reading it although I haven’t yet finished the other book I purchased Vladimir Zaglada’s book “One Coach’s Journey from East to West:  How the Fall of the Iron Curtain Changed the World of Gymnastics”. In saying that I also haven’t finished Monem Jemni’s “The Science of Gymnastics“, it’s heavy reading so I flit in and out of it from time to time.

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Tweet Great Britain’s Beth Tweddle, Hannah Whelan, Becky Downie, Becky Wing, Laura Jones, Imogen Cairns and Marissa King will feature in a film which willl be aired on BBC 2 this Saturday at 1.30pm. The film “The Gymnast” shows the girls on their journey to the 2008 Beijing Games.
Between January and July 2008, a film crew from Prospect Pictures (working in conjunction with BBC Films), directed by BAFTA winner Anthony Wonke, were given privileged access to the British women’s artistic squad and its coaches and support staff as they prepared …

Tweet This weekly round up aims to give a synopsis of the week in news. If you haven’t already subscribed to Full Twist by adding the URL to your Google Reader or by entering your email address in the subscribe button on the website, then you may be missing out on some of the exciting gymnastics news.  You can also follow Full Twist on  Twitter and Facebook to keep up with the news.
It was confirmed this week that Russia’s new senior gymnast Viktoria Komova will compete in her first competition since becoming injured late last year. In May, Komova had surgery on …

Tweet The first in a series of posts looking into Great Britain’s potential Worlds 2011 and London 2012 team.  This weeks edition features a firm favourite of Full Twist, 19 year old Hannah Whelan, Britain’s current National Champion.
History
Hannah Whelan was born 1st July 1992 in Singapore. It was here that she spent the first two years of her life before moving to Stockport, Chesire in the UK with her family in 1994. As a result of cartwheeling around a supermarket, her mother took her to a  gymnastics club, Central Manchester …

Tweet This week British Gymnastics released their WAG World Class Squad lists. These gymnasts have been nominated and received an offer for a place in their relevant World Class Squads. This varies from Performance Squad to Potential Squad down to the Start Squad. The Performance Squad gives us an idea of who could be on the Worlds 2011 and London 2012 teams:

Each week, Full Twist will introduce you to each of these gymnasts, featuring one of these ladies in a series called “Meet The Gymnast“.The series will kick off with Full Twists favourite …

Tweet A WAG 3 Nations International competition will be held in the UK on Saturday August 20th. Senior Gymnasts from Great Britain, Spain and Portugal will compete in the two day event in Ipswich, Suffolk.
Schedule:
Saturday August 20th
Teams & All Around Competition 3pm
Sunday August 21st
Apparatus Finals 1pm
Tickets are priced at £8 and are available here. As yet, no competitors list has been released.

Tweet The World University Games or Universiade 2011 will begin on August 12th and run through until August 23rd. Artistic Gymnastics will be held between August 13th and 16th. The competitions will be held in the Bao’an Gymnasium. 132 men will compete – 27 teams and 16 individuals. In the women’s competition  48 women will compete – 7 teams and 17 individuals.

Schedule:
Saturday 13th August
14.30 – 15.50 WAG Team Comp Subdivision 1
16.00 – 17.20 WAG Team Comp Subdivision 2
17.30 – 18.50 WAG Team Comp Subdivision 3
19.00 – 20.20 WAG Team Comp …

Tweet Catalina Ponor
I had seen the report on the International Gymnast Forum regarding Catalina Ponor’s medical procedure. The Gymnastics Examiner has continued with a write up from the Romanian sites report. Check it out here. Wishing Ponor a very quick and speedy recovery.
Australian Gymnastics
Peggy Liddick discusses the Australian girls and how fitness will be a key factor when deciding the Australian Worlds Squad.
Larissa Iordache
Gymnastics No Ceiling has begun to post a brilliant series of posts about Romania’s young star in  the making, Larissa Iordache. Part 1 is an introduction to …

Tweet This weekly round up aims to give a synopsis of the week in news. If you haven’t already subscribed to Full Twist by adding the URL to your Google Reader or by entering your email address in the subscribe button on the website, then you may be missing out on some of the exciting gymnastics news.  You can also follow Full Twist on  Twitter and Facebook to keep up with the news.

The big event this week was the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trazbon, Turkey. It was at the previous EYOF in 2009 that the gymnastics world had it’s first proper …