LEICESTERSHIRE JUNIOR COUNTY TEAM ARE DECLARED CHAMPIONS AT REGIONAL COUNTY TEAM COMPETITION.

The Leicestershire team of Beth Childs, Charlotte Law, Ebony Birt, Millie Tye, Phoebie Bakewell & Yoana Yankova competed well to win the junior title for 2011. They were safely in gold medal position ahead of Northampton in silver. This is a great achievement for this young team 4 of which will still be juniors for 2012.

The senior team of Ellie Bryan, Charlotte Hancock,Dina Simons, Honor Dickens, Jeanie Polishook & Laura Hewitt won silver and can be very pleased with themselves as 4 of the team are only level 4 gymnasts and had to compete at level 2.

With all 5 Counties in the region fielding teams the County can be very proud of these team results and thanks must go to the coaches at their clubs who have put in so much hard work (Coalville, Hinckley and Hinckley & Burbage)

Full results on regional website

2011 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Leicestershire again won several medals at this event. Notably Laura Kaletha from Hinckley & Burbage was 4th in the In Age Level 4 competition and will represent the Region at the national finals in November.

At Level 3 age 11-13 Beth Childs from Hinckley took Gold and Charlotte Law from Hinckley & Burbage silver and between them won all of the apparatus gold medals (Beth Beam and Charlotte the other 3 pieces).

Silver overall medals were won by Millie Horne from Hinckley  in the Junior Challenge section and Layla Joachim from Coalville at level 2 in age.

FULL RESULTS ARE ON THE REGIONAL WEBSITE.

IN AGE NATIONAL FINALS

Hinckley & Burbage  gymnast Laura Kaletha travelled to Guilford on November 6th 2011 to compete as part of the East Midlands level 4 team. Laura finished a creditable 22nd out of a field of 60 9 year olds and improved considerably on her qualifying score to beat her East Midlands team mates.

Full results on British Gymnastics website

GOLD FOR JUNIOR TEAM

The Junior team of Ashleigh Peters , Aimee Riley , Emily Clark , Keara Peters, Millie Horne &  Paris Curtis-Smith came home with the Gold medal. a close run competition between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire saw only just over a mark difference in team totals.

Our Senior team consisting of Anna McDonald  Jemma Thompson  Laura Hewitt  Emily Denham  Fleur Kingsley-Mills  Harriet Copeland took the silver medal behind Northamptonshire. The competition ended with Gemma Thompson performing her floor routine, her last competitive routine before retirement after over 10 years in the sport.

Full results on the East Midlands web site. 

LEICESTERSHIRE TEAMS DO WELL IN REGIONAL FINAL - GOLD FOR AGE 8/9 TEAM

Leicestershire did the best they have for some time in coming 2nd overall in the Regional final of the floor and vault championships, held in Spalding on Sunday April 26th 2009. Previous years have seen some poor results and last year we couldn't produce a 14+ team. To see a full set of teams entering this year and doing so well for the County has been a great achievement and improvement.

All girls competed earlier in the year at a county qualifying competition, so to make the final was an achievement in itself (see results page for qualifying scores)

Our 8/9 year olds showed great hope for the future by taking the gold team medal in this age group with Charlotte Law winning individual gold and Phoebie Bakewell individual bronze. Alannah Hartley and Maddie Pipes the other team members finished in the top 6. Reserve Grace Mikhael achieved a top 6 score also. All girls in this team train at Hinckley & Burbage gymnastic club.

Our 10/11 team of Rhianna Modi , Molly Mee, Natasha Elks, Angel Sutherland and reserve Millie Tye narrowly failed to make the medals, but all put in good performances,. This team is made up from gymnasts from RATAE and Hinckley & Burbage.

Our 12/13 team of Hinckley & Burbage gym club gymnasts, Corinne Tomsett, Rosie Shaw, Jade Toms Charlotte Hancock and reserve Kim Inott brought home the Silver team medal with Corinne Tomsett also winning the silver individual medal in this age group.

Our 14+ team of Aisha El-Ahmar, Evie Grewcock, Leonie Etchells, Danielle Lindsay and reserve Nicola Walker took the bronze team medal. Gymnasts in this team were from Greenbank, Coalville and RATAE.

Well done to Rebecca Grenfell from Hinckley on winning the 14+ age group and to Chloe Cooper of Coalville for her bronze medal in the same event.

In the Age 11 section Dina Simmons from Hinckley was second and at age 10 Louise Wotherspoon was third.

Apparatus ribbons were won by the following gymnasts.

Louise Wotherspoon, Kimberley Inott & Chloe Shakell from Hinckley & Burbage, Dina Simmons & Rebecca Grenfell from Hinckley and Chloe Cooper from Coalville 

Well done

Anna Mc Donald from Coalville who was 2nd in the senior competition and was the 15+ challenge champion as well as picking up a individual apparatus medals on all pieces in both sections.

Laura Hewitt 13/14 challenge Regional champion & Emily Denham open age level 2 champion both from Coalville.

At level 3 open age (11/12)well done to Millie Horne from Hinckley was 3rd