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Daniel Purvis 2011 Mens British Champ

Daniel_PurvisDaniel Purvis has been crowned the 2011 men’s gym­nas­tics British cham­pion. Hav­ing shared the crown with Sam Hunter in 2010, Dan made cer­tain of being the out­right win­ner in a nail-biting com­pe­ti­tion with his last rou­tine, a 16.000 on vault, secur­ing the title. William Trood, Frank Baines, Brinn Bevan and Loukas Jones took the age-group titles.

Full details here

Online video of the comp here

Joint British Champions!

mens britishGB has not one but two Senior men’s cham­pi­ons as Sam Hunter and Daniel Purvis tied for all-around gold at the men’s artis­tic gym­nas­tics cham­pi­onships in Leices­ter this weekend.

The two recently placed an impres­sive 5th (Purvis) and 9th (Hunter) at the World Cham­pi­onships. Purvis also won bronze in Rot­ter­dam on floor, which also was his high­est score at the british champs too.

Olympic Champions worked with Hertfordshire County Squad Members (November 2010)

5 mem­bers of Berkham­sted G.C. top girls squads met Russ­ian Rhyth­mic Olympic Cham­pi­ons Tatiana Gor­bunova and Mar­garita Aliy­chuk at County Squad train­ing on Sun­day 7th November. 

Poppy and Amelia (stand­ing front right in black leo­tards) were put through their paces by Tatiana and Mar­garita dur­ing a tuff stretch­ing session. 

Although stretch­ing is a very impor­tant part of Artis­tic Gym­nas­tics it is a vital part of Rhyth­mic Gym­nas­tics.  Tatiana and Mar­garita showed the girls just how flex­i­ble they could become if they stretched prop­erly every session.

November - Olympic Champions ...

1, 2, 3 at World Chapionships!

Amaz­ing Gold, Sil­ver and Bronze won at the 2010 World cham­pi­onships appa­ra­tus finals by British Gymnasts!

Daniel Purvis led the days com­pe­ti­tion by per­form­ing a bril­liant Floor rou­tine to gain a bronze medal swiftly fol­lowed by a nail-biting Pom­mels final for Louis Smith who just missed out on gold by 0.1 to gain the Sil­ver medal posi­tion with the high­est dif­fi­culty to date. To close the day, Beth Twed­dle com­pleted a stun­ningly clean rou­tine on asym­met­ric Bars to win the Gold medal place and prove British Gym­nas­tics is def­i­nitely on the rise in the world arena.

Daniel and Louis’s routines

A-Bars final

Full cov­er­age of Day 1 appa­ra­tus finals.

Not only that, but the British Mens Squad qual­i­fied in 4th place over­all, a fan­tas­tic achieve­ment as they only hoped to be in the top 25 this year! Read here for more with video footage.

Berkhamsted Gymnasts win medals at Regional Championships (October 2010)

Sas Shan Clau Oct 2010

Level 2 Championships

Saskia and Shan­non com­peted at the Regional OOA Level 2 Cham­pi­onships in Ipswich on Sat­ur­day 16th Octo­ber.  Both gym­nasts had a good com­pe­ti­tion.  Saskia fin­ished in 4th place over all in the 12–13 age cat­e­gory with a score of 43.100 win­ning bronze on Bars and Floor with team mate Shan­non win­ning the Sil­ver medal over­all in the 14+ Age group with a score of 42.200, tak­ing sil­ver on Floor and bronze on vault and beam.

FIG Cham­pi­onships

Clau­dia com­peted in the pres­ti­gious FIG Espoir cat­e­gory at the Regional Cham­pi­onships on Sun­day 17th Octo­ber.  Clau­dia had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion, with clean  rou­tines on all pieces and achiev­ing her per­sonal best score of 43.100 plac­ing her in 6th place over­all.  She was awarded a sil­ver medal for vault with a mas­sive score of 12.800 miss­ing out on the gold by only .15 of a mark.

Luke Folwell, Gold at Commonwealth Games

lukeFolwellCWG2010Luke Luke-Folwell-Reiss-Beckfo-006Fol­well (Hunt­ing­don GC) has led the Eng­lish medal charge at the Com­mon­wealth Games by tak­ing the Men’s All Around title, with team-mate Reiss Beck­ford (South Essex GC) in Sil­ver. The result fol­lows Team Sil­vers for the Eng­lish Men and Women in the open­ing days of com­pe­ti­tion. Home Nation gym­nasts now look for­ward to the Artis­tic appa­ra­tus event finals, with the Rhyth­mic Gym­nas­tics event begin­ning next week.

See news video at the BBC site…

View the indi­vid­ual Mens finals broad­cast on iplayer…

View the Mens Team finals on iplayer…

Berkhamsted Gymnasts Compete at the Regional In-Age Level 5 and 4 Championships (Sept 2010)

Sept Regional in age

East­ern Region In-Age Level 5 and 4 Championships

Poppy aged 8 and Amelia aged 9 com­peted in the East­ern Region’s In-Age Level 5 and 4 Cham­pi­onships on Sat­ur­day 25th Sept.

Poppy com­peted in the Level 5 com­pe­ti­tion and had a good com­pe­ti­tion fin­ish­ing in 6th place over­all.  Poppy was awarded a Bronze medal for the 3rd high­est vault score.

Squad mate Amelia had a tough com­pe­ti­tion com­pet­ing against the top 20 gym­nasts at Level 4 in the age 9 cat­e­gory.  She fin­ished in 12th place over­all with a respectable score of 41.20.

Well done girls!!!!

BGC Gymnasts Take 3 Titles at Hert’s County Championships Sept 2010

Herts levels Sept 2010

Level 4

Amelia wins the 9yr old age cat­e­gory & is crowned Hert­ford­shire County Champion.

Amelia was the only gym­nast in Hert­ford­shire to com­pete in the In-Age 9 year old cat­e­gory at Level 4.  Even though she had no imme­di­ate com­pe­ti­tion she had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion fin­ish­ing with a score of 41.60, beat­ing many gym­nasts scores who were in older age groups.  Amelia com­pet­ing at her age at this high level is an excel­lent achieve­ment for both her­self and Berkham­sted Gym­nas­tics Club, Amelia is on the route to com­pete at British Level.

Squad mate Erin com­peted in the 10/11 age cat­e­gory also hav­ing an excel­lent com­ple­tion fin­ish­ing with a score of 41.55, win­ning the bronze rib­bon on Bars & plac­ing 6th overall.

Level 2 and FIG

Saskia wins the 12/13 age cat­e­gory @ Level 2 and is crowned Hert­ford­shire County Cham­pion, with Squad mate Shan­non win­ning the 14+ age cat­e­gory also being crowned Hert­ford­shire County Champion.

Saskia & Shan­non both had excel­lent com­pe­ti­tions. All their hard work paid off when they took home a bun­dle of appa­ra­tus Rib­bons, medals & tro­phies.  Shan­non was also awarded the sil­ver plat­ter for the high­est floor score at level 2.

Squad mate Clau­dia com­peted in the pres­ti­gious FIG Espoir cat­e­gory win­ning bronze medal over­all and tak­ing home three appa­ra­tus rib­bons.  Clau­dia had an excel­lent com­pe­ti­tion despite only returned to full train­ing the Fri­day night before the com­pe­ti­tion after she sus­tained an injury train­ing in the USA over the summer.

New Trampoline Classes Start

Excit­ing new tram­po­line course starts this term on Mon­days 4:15pm-5:15pm

Click here for the Tram­po­line Class Details

The New Spiderman is a former Gymnast!

andrew_garfieldDid you know that the new ‘Spi­der­man’ actor Andrew Garfield is a for­mer gym­nast? He won a medal at the NDP’s when he was 13 years old!

Hey, who can beat a gymnast?!

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