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14 passes, 2 bronze and a silver medal

The 2009 Yorkshire Gymnastics Grade 14 and 13 competitions were held at Wetherby Gymnastics Club, Boston Spa.

In the Regional Club Grade 14 Amy Henderson, Lauren Morley, Robyn Campbell, Alex Mason and Lydia Howie all achieved a pass mark.

Bethany Turner was ranked 5 on floor, 4 on bars, and 2 on beam. An unfortunate fall during Range and Conditioning cost Bethany the overall gold leaving her with bronze.

In the Regional Club Grade 13 Megan Parsley was ranked 1 on vault, 2 on beam and floor taking the overall silver medal. Rhiannon Hepworth was ranked 6 on vault, 4 on beam and floor, 3 on Range and Conditioning taking the overall bronze medal. Phoebe Banks, Sophie Barrington, Maia Ellis, Natalie Moore, Holly Brooke and Alice Dewhirst all achieved a pass mark.

Two for National Finals

The annual Yorkshire Gymnastics grading competition, the first on the competition calendar, was held under a completely revised National Development Plan at Diamonds Gymnastics Club in Halifax. Both the level of difficulty and the deductions for mistakes have increased and the need to pass separately the apparatus work and conditioning exercise at 74% added another dimension.

Airedale based Featherstone Gymnastics club fielded an entry of 5 gymnasts with excellent results.

In the National Club Grade 8 Lucy Amery was one of only 14 to pass the grade at the first attempt. Charlotte Bramleywas ranked 6th overall with a score of 45.05, a mere 0.55 and 11% short on conditioning from joining the team at the final, whilst Ella Calvert,20 months younger was ranked 8th with a score of 44.75 but 9.25% short on conditioning. Both Charlotte and Ella were allowed to re-sit conditioning and pass the grade.

In the National Club Grade 6 Rachel Beanland was ranked 2nd on vault, bars, and floor, 3rd on beam, 4th on conditioning and silver medal overall with a place in the Yorkshire team for the National final to be held at the end of April in Birmingham. Kate Clover was ranked 2nd on beam and took the bronze medal on conditioning to be ranked 5th overall and selected as travelling reserve for the National Final.

Silver for Ella

The 2008 Yorkshire Level 5 (Intermediate) gymnastics competition held at York attracted 81 competitors.

Airedale based Featherstone Gymnastics Club was represented by 4 gymnasts, who all gave a terrific performance.

The 8-9-10 year old age group was a closely fought competition where the medallists were separated by less than 1%. Ella Calvert, aged 9 of Sherburn, took gold on bars, silver on floor, and bronze on vault. A single fall from beam resulted in 4th place, costing the overall gold leaving Ella with the overall silver. Lucy Amery, aged 9 of Ackworth, managed to stay on the beam, despite a couple of large wobbles to be ranked 4th. Whilst Lucy has improved her vaulting to be ranked 4th, an untidy bar routine and well executed floor routine short of two requirements ranked Lucy 11th of 18.

Ebony Naylor, aged 11 of Rothwell, performed well on floor to be ranked 4th of 26 in the 11-12 age group. An excellent vault was ranked 6th, only 0.2 behind the gold medallist. An uncharacteristic slip on the dismount from the bars cost the gold medal and 6 places whilst two falls from beam meant that any hope of an overall medal disappeared, ranking Ebony a respectable 8th. .

Rita Yates, aged 13 of Pontefract, gave a consistently good all round performance in the 13+ age group to be ranked 5th of 30 competitors. Sadly, one floor move was deemed incomplete which lost the gold medal whilst a solid beam routine was only 0.2 behind silver.

Bronze medal for Megan

Megan Parsley, aged 8 of Woodlesford, performed exceptionally well at the 2008 Yorkshire Regional Final for Level 6 (Novice) held at Dewsbury. Ranked first on Beam, second on floor by a mere 0.05, second on vault and fifth on Bars she took a well deserved overall bronze medal.

In the age 9 & 10 age group, Rachael Millett , aged 10 of Pontefract, in a closely fought competition was ranked first on Vault, fifth on Floor, sixth on bars but a fall from Beam cost her the overall gold leaving her ranked fourth.

Victoria Partridge, aged 13 of Castleford, improved her scores above those in the qualifying sub- regional competition being ranked fifth on Floor. Beam, was the exception, where a fall and a resulting loss of two required moves meant that medals rapidly disappeared out of sight leaving her ranked thirteenth.

9 medals and 3 for Regional Final

The 2008 West Yorkshire Level 6 competition held at Dewsbury attracted 95 gymnasts competing in 5 age groups with the top 6 in each age group being selected to represent the sub region at the Regional final.

Airedale based Featherstone Gymnastics Club were represented by 10 gymnasts, 3 of whom were selected for the Regional Final.

In the age 7 and 8 section, Rhiannon Hepworth, aged 8 of Castleford, had a good all round competition; an excellent beam routine with no falls was rewarded with the gold medal. Rhiannon was ranked 4th overall and selected for the regional final. Sadly, Rhiannon is unavailable for the final and is replaced by Megan Parsley, aged 8 of Woodlesford, who was ranked 7th. Megan took gold on both floor and vault but 3 mistakes on bars lost her the silver medal. Phoebe Banks aged 7 from Swillington was also in contention, she took silver on floor and bronze on vault to be ranked 8th

In the age 9 and 10 section, Rachael Millett aged 10 of Pontefract, performed consistently well to take silver medal on both floor and vault to be ranked 4th overall with a place in the regional final. A superb vault from Dariella Boswell, aged 9 of Normanton, was rewarded with a gold medal to be ranked 24th, closely followed by Sophie Barrington aged 9 of Pontefract, who was ranked 26th. Natalie Moore, aged 10 of Pontefract was ranked 36th.

Holly Brooke aged 11 of Beal, is developing well, ranked 4th on both bars and vault, 9th on both floor and beam to be ranked 7th, scoring well with 42.32, only 0.37 from the final.

At 13+ , Victoria Partridge aged 13 of Castleford, took silver on bars to be ranked 6th with a place in the regional final, whilst Sarah Wain aged 14 of Matlock with 2 falls from beam dropped from 6th to 9th.

3 distinctions at Regional Grades

The first Yorkshire Women’s Artistic competition for 2008 attracted an entry of over 200 gymnasts for the National Development Plan grades 6 and 5. Thirty nine gymnasts who were born in 2000 competed in grade 6 at York.

Airedale based Featherstone gymnastics Club was represented by three gymnasts who all performed exceptionally well to pass with distinction for scoring over 85%: Phoebe Banks, the youngest competitor, was ranked 7th, Megan Parsley was ranked 10th and Rhiannon Hepworth was ranked 12th.

Phoebe was ranked 3rd on conditioning (92%), 5th on vault (94%), 6th on beam (84.44%) with no falls to be ranked 7th overall.

Megan was scored well in conditioning (86.3%) let down by wrong leg splits, was ranked 4th on vault (94.4%), 2nd on bars with an incredble 97%, 3rd on beam (87.8%) with no falls but a couple of mistakes on floor resulted in 10th overall

Rhiannon was ranked 4th on conditioning (91.11%) , 4th on vault (94.4%) 9th on bars with an exceptional 95.55%, but failure to mount the beam at the first attempt and an unusual fall during the beam routine, despite a recovery on floor ranked 12th (81.5%) resulted in 12th overall

Silver for Holly, distinction for Sophie

The first Yorkshire Women’s Artistic competition for the year attracted an entry of over 200 gymnasts for the National Development Plan grades 6 and 5. The grade 6 gymnasts who were born earlier than 2000 and grade 5 gymnasts who were born earlier than 1999 competed at Dewsbury.

Airedale based Featherstone gymnastics Club was represented by four gymnasts.

Holly Brooke competed in the age 11 section of grade 6 which had 18 competitors. An excellent all round performance with no falls from beam ranked Holly 5th on Conditioning, 3rd on floor and the top scorer on bars to be not only one of 9 gymnasts to pass with distinction but also take the silver medal for this age group, a mere 1.12 per cent away from gold.

Victoria Partridge was one of 19 gymnasts competing in the age 11and over section of grade 5. A consistent all round performance, highlighted by a good vault produced a good pass for scoring 82 per cent to be ranked 11th.