Tweet British Gymnastics have an exciting job opportunity to someone out there.

Due to expansion within the Communications and Marketing Division we currently have an exciting job opportunity for a Graduate from within the Gymnastics community, to join the Media Team as a Copywriter, salary £17,280 plus expenses, on a full time permanent contract.
Based out of Lilleshall but covering news stories and events all across the UK, we are ideally looking for a newly qualified graduate of English, Journalism or Media Studies to bring …

Tweet Coach Nick Ruddock has been newly appointed the position of Junior National Coach by British Gymnastics.  Nick previously coached in Notts Gym Club and has recently been working as a Performance Coach in the City of Manchester Institute of Gymnastics. It’s a great move for the young coach.

Nick with Notts gymnast Billie McKenzie 2009
In July this year, Nick attended the WAG UEG Training Camp in Tirrenia, Italy where 35 gymnasts were coached by 36 coaches for 10 days. Nick coached on vault and was described as being “a young coach professional …

Tweet It was announced today that six summer Olympic Sports have been awarded extra funding by the UK Sport’s annual review ahead of  the London 2012 Games. The six sports are boxing, canoeing, gymnastics, hockey, rowing and taekwondo. Unfortunately for figure skating they have had all funding cut. What an awful pity, I’m sure that  Going For Gold will have something to say about that.There’s a very strong and powerful quote on the Ollie Williams BBC article by Gordon Farquhar, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sports News and Olympics Correspondent;
For every …

Tweet Beth Tweddle today received the award for “fair play and inspiration” from the UK Sports Journalists Association. She had to settle in third place while World & European Heptathlon Champion Jessica Ennis received the award for UK Sportswoman of the year.
A great achievement although I still really feel that she should have at least been short listed for the BBC Sports personality of the Year award. Read more from British Gymnastics.

Tweet In Daniel Keatings latest blog post, he reflects on the past year for British Gymnastics and looks forward to 2011. BG has had a very successful year in competition.
15 medals at the European Championships including:

Daniel Keatings – Gold Pommel Horse
Louis Smith – Silver Pommel Horse
Beth Tweddle – Gold on both Uneven Bars and Floor
Daniel Purvis  - Bronze Floor
Women’s Silver Team Medal
Men’s Silver Team Medal

24 Medals at the Commonwealth Games

Luke Folwell – Gold All Around & Vault, Silver Parallel Bars & Rings
Imogen Cairns – Gold Floor & Vault
Reiss Beckford – …

Tweet Great Britain’s Rhythmic Gymnast Francesca Jones has been selected to receive an Olympic Solidarity Athlete Scholarship by the IOC. The scholarship helps athletes in their ambition to compete for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. 4 athletes were chosen along with Francesca to receive the a scholarship; Martin Ward (boxing), Stevan Walton (shooting) and Peter Kirkbride (weightlifting). Each will receive financial support towards their training and preparation for Olympic participation for London 2012.

Francesca won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games back in October in …

Tweet It’s a possibility. In this short interview Great Britain’s Imogen Cairns tells how she will take a short break from training and keep trying for 2012 but knows that the road ahead might be tough with new and up coming talent catching up on the current Team GB stars. She also spoke last month about 2012.
“There’s no point in me retiring at the moment because I’m at my peak,” Cairns told BBC Points West.
“It’s going to be a hard road but I’m going to try [for 2012].”
Cairns continued: …

Tweet I recently posted about up and coming British Gymnasts Rebecca Tunney and Ellie Downie who are thought to be in the running to represent Great Britain as future Olympians. Norfolk Academy gymnast Bethany Harmer is too showing great potential at the age of 10.Bethany competed at the National Age Group Championships at the Guildford Spectrum in the Level 3 competition for her year group at the start of November.

Bethany placed 12th on the day of her competition. When her scores were combined with that of the Compulsory competition which …

Tweet Recently the British Olympic sports gave their verdicts for London 2012 to the media. Each Olympic sport has a Sports Performance Director who oversees the sports determination to win those Olympic medals that are up for grabs in each event.

Tim Jones the British Gymnastics Sports Performance Director says that he sees Sam Oldham  as the “one to watch” for 2012.
“Picking one to watch is tough but, if I’m being objective, then it’s Sam Oldham. He went to the Youth Olympic Games and won a gold medal, then …

Tweet Day one of the event took place today with the MAG and WAG Qualifiers. The Great British Team excelled and now has 12 gymnasts representing them in the finals tomorrow. The new World Floor Champion Lauren Mitchell made it through to 3 event finals.

Results: See here for MAG Results and see WAG Results here
Reviews: British Gymnastics has a great report up here.
Photos: On the British Gymnastics Facebook page
Videos: On BGtv
If you have any other links, please leave them in the comments below.

Tweet The WAG results are in. Imogen Cairns has continued to do well on vault, qualifying in 2nd place and Jennifer Pinches in 8th.
Vault

Floor

Beam

Bars

Tweet Follow the Live Scoring from the Glasgow Grand Prix here on British Gymnastics. The BG Facebook page will also be updated regularly and BGtv will stream the highlights during the Finals tomorrow.

View the Women’s Start Lists here:
Vault
Bars
Floor
Beam
View the Men’s Start List here:
Vault
Pommel Horse
Rings
High Bar
Floor
Parallel Bars

Tweet As mentioned the Glasgow Grand Prix finals will be shown on Sky TV on Saturday, 20 November live on Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports HD3 from 1:30pm-6: 30pm. British Gymnastics have announced on their Facebook page that BGtv will be screening highlights of the qualifications tomorrow during the event. The finals will also be broadcast on BGtv next week. That’s pretty sweet!!
British Gymnastics have also been posting some photos from training which took place today. The pictures are also up on the Facebook page. Given how well they’ve …

Tweet The Glasgow Grand Prix will begin tomorrow in Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena. See here on Full Twist for the participants list or here. Training has just begun for the competition today. I’d really hoped to make it to Glasgow this year but things didn’t go my way! I’ll do the best I can to give updates from the competition.

Friday, 19 November 1:00 pm- 6:30pm – Qualifications
Saturday, 20 November 1:30 pm- 6:00pm – Finals

Sky TV will broadcast the Finals on Saturday, 20 November live on Sky Sports 3 …

Tweet Full Twist was contacted by a Gym Mom from the UK this week. She was delighted to see that Full Twist had highlighted the new and upcoming talent on the UK gymnastics scene. Recently we posted about British U12 Champion Ellie Downie, yesterday about Rebecca Tunney and last year about Catherine Lyons. All gymnasts hope to represent Great Britain in the near future at Olympic level and are showing great talent.
It’s a pity that young gymnasts with this much talent don’t get the recognition they deserve, a good …