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Great weekend of gymnastics in Liverpool with medals for Beth Tweddle and Vanessa Hobbs!
July 29, 2003
Over a thrilling two days of competition, spectators at the Park Road Sports Centre in Liverpool saw some spectacular gymnastics from one of the World's best teams, Russia, and some encouraging performances from the home team. Russia took the team title comfortably, although this was never really in doubt, but suffered more falls than one would expect. Nicola Willis was not present, but will be competing next weekend at the British Championships, and Beth Tweddle only competed bars and beam. However, the British team gave their all and have improved massively since the Achtlandentoernooi only 2 months ago.

Team totals
1. Russia - 146.600
2. Great Britain -139.375

Unofficial All-around
1. Anna Pavlova RUS 37.050
2. Natalia Zignahsina RUS 36.800
3. Svetlana Khorkina RUS 36.750
4. Rebecca Mason GBR 35.750

In the event finals, the British team managed to take home two medals, with a gold on Bars for Beth after Svetlana Khorkina had a pause on after her markelov release and a bronze on floor for an excellent routine by Vanessa Hobbs. On beam, Beth and Becky just missed out on the bronze with joint 4th.

Vault
1. Natalia Ziganshina RUS 9.437
2. Anna Pavlova RUS 9.350
3. Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.225
4. Vanessa Hobbs GBR 9.000
5. Cherelle Fennell GBR 8.925
6. Lizzy Line GBR 8.912

Bars
1. Beth Tweddle GBR 9.525
2. Natalia Ziganshina RUS 9.425
3. Svetlana Khorkina, Polina Miller RUS 9.200(tie)
5. Rebecca Mason GBR 8.75
6. Amy Doddsley GBR 8.400

Beam
1. Ludmilla Ezhova RUS 9.525
2. Natalia Ziganshina RUS 9.500
3. Anna Pavlova RUS 9.200
4. Rebecca Mason, Beth Tweddle GBR 9.050
6. Lizzy Line GBR 8.325

Floor
1. Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.500
2. Natalia Ziganshina RUS 9.450
3. Vanessa Hobbs GBR 8.900
4. Anna Pavlova RUS 8.850
5. Rebecca Mason GBR 8.300
6. Amy Doddsley GBR 8.100

Look for a full report in the coming week!

Rebecca Mason and Sam Bayley the new English Champions!
June 12, 2003
Rebecca Mason and Sam Bayley were the winners of the Senior and Junior English Championships this weekend at Wiltshire School of Gymnastics. With many seniors absent, resting after a training camp in Europe, Rebecca and second placed Lizzy Line dominated the event, with Lizzy winning the vault and beam titles and Becky winning the floor and bars titles. Amy Doddsely was third after a disappointing competition. Sam made a triumphant return to competition taking the Junior title quite comfortably over Lamara Robb and Aisling Williams. Sam also won Vault, Bars and Floor, with Lamara taking beam. Look for a full report in the coming days and complete results and apparatus rankings shortly.

Miss Milano 2003 announced
Abigail Hopkins has been named Miss Milano 2003, and will appear in the British leotard manufacturer's new catalogue in July. More details on the contest can be found on their website.

British juniors dominate in Holland
May 18, 2003
This past weekend, the Great Britain Junior squad of Lamara Robb, Kim Lyons, Kerry Passmore, Melanie Revens, Amy Fossheim and Leonni Jennison convincingly won a tri-meet against Holland and Germany in Ter Apel, Holland. The team managed their nearly 3 point margin of victory is particularly encouraging as Holland are currently the 2nd best senior and 5th best junior team in Europe. Individually, Great Britain had 3 of the top 5 gymnast, with Kim Lyons 1st, Kerry Passmore 3rd and Amy Fossheim 5th.

Team Total:
1. Great Britain 132.958
2. Netherlands 129.975
3. Germany 129.942

Individual
1. Kim Lyons (GBR) 33.675
2. Nathalie Bletterman (NED) 33.358
3. Kerry Passmore (GBR) 33.267
4. Melanie Ferber (GER) 32.858
5. Amy Fossheim (GBR) 32.558
6. Kim Bui (GER) 32.192
9. Melanie Revens (GBR) 32.008
10. Lamara Robb (GBR) 32.000
11. Leonni Jennsion (GBR) 31.400

Italians Impress in Birmingham
May 9, 2003
Yesterday fans of British gymnastics were treated to another home international. Junior squads from Great Britain and Italy met at the Cocks Moores Woods, Birmingham for the duel. The Italian squad, of which all but one gymnast is old enough to compete at the upcoming world championsips, put in stylish, classy and technically precise exercises. In the end, the Italians were the victors by 9 points!

Team Total:
1. Italy 140.625
2. Great Britain 131.700

Individual
1. Giorgia Benecchi (ITA) 35.875
2. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) 34.825
3. Ilaria Rosso (ITA) 34.725
4. Michela Merzario (ITA) 33.675
5. Francesca Benolli (ITA) 33.550
6. Giuseppina Cozzolino (ITA) 32.825
7. Melanie Revens (GBR) 32.625
8. Amy Bagshaw (GBR) 32.600
9. Kim Lyon (GBR) 32.500
10. Rhian Pugh (GBR) 32.275
11. Leonni Jennison (GBR) 31.725
12. Lamara Robb (GBR) 31.575

Junior Squad to Challenge in Europe
May 9, 2003
A squad of talented juniors will be travelling to Holland to compete against the Dutch team and a squad from Germany. The competition will be held May 17th-19th and the squad is as following:

Lamara Robb (Heathrow)
Rhian Pugh (Bristol Hawks)
Melanie Revens (Wigan)
Kim Lyon (Liverpool)
Amy Fossheim (South Durham)
Leonni Jennison (South Durham)
Kerry Passmore (Park Wrekin)

Beth Best in Gronigen
May 5, 2003
Congrats to Beth who performed amazingly to take the bar title, with a 9.525!! Nicola also performed well on vault, placing 7th.

Team 7th, finals for Beth and Nic
May 4, 2003
The British girls performed well and placed 7th, ahead of the Ukraine, with Beth scoring a whopping 9.45 on bars. Unfortunately, her foot is still bothering her and this was the only event she performed on. She made finals in 2nd place, just behind France's Emily Lepennec. Nicola also made vault finals, good luck this afternoon girls and Happy Birthday to Vanessa Hobbs who celebrates today!

Team Ready for 'Achtlandentoernooi'
April 30, 2003
The team lead by Beth Tweddle and including Nicola Willis, Becky Mason, Amy Dodsley and Vanessa Hobbs compete against Australia, France, China, Netherlands, Russia, Romania and Canada in what could prove to be a mini-worlds. This competition could be an excellent warm up and indicator for the up coming Anaheim world championships in the summer. Good luck to the British girls!!

Third for GBR
The British girls placed third behind Italy and the Netherlands last weekend. Italy performed almost flawlessly to win win a huge margin over the other teams.

British girls take on Netherlands, Italy
April 26, 2003
This weekend the team made up of Nicola Willis, Sara Swift, Cherrell Fennel, Lizzie Line and Vanessa Hobbs are competing aborad in a friendly tri-meet. Good luck, girls!!

Liverpool Defend Title
April 13, 2003
Liverpool GC have managed to topple the opposition to become the British Team Champions for the second year in a row! 2nd was Heathrow, infront of 3rd placed Park Wrekin. Lizzie Line took top AA honours, followed by Lamara Robb and Cherelle Fennel.

News from Ukraine
March 29, 2003
As you know, Great Britain have had a team of gymnasts representing them in the Stella Zakarova Cup, in Kiev, Ukraine. The British girls all performed well considering the standard of competition was so high. Vanessa Hobbs was Britain's highest AAer, followed by Lamara Robb with 33.05, and then Rhian Pugh. Vanessa scored well enough on beam to make the final on that piece. Unfortunately, some major errors in the final meant her score was 7.525, placing her 6th. For the men, Kevin Sellars opened is AA competition on floor and unfortunately fractured his foot on his first tumble! Also injured was Amy Dodsley, who watched the competition from the stands after peeling off bars and hurting her foot in training.

Gomez and Co defeat GB
March 29, 2003
This evening the Spanish team, lead by world floor champion, Elena Gomez, defeated the British Senior and Junior teams in a fun and friendly match in Aldershot. British captain Beth Tweddle performed only on bars due to a slightly hurt ankle. Her score of 9.575 was the highest of the meet, and one of only 6 scores over 9.0. One of the others was from Becky Mason on vault, and the other 4 belonged to Elena Gomez. The British Jnrs looked stylish but had a lot of falls on beam and floor. However, all deserve a pat on the back, for some girls this was their first international and they did really well under the pressure. A more indepth report and some photos are coming very soon!

Willis to miss Duel
March 28, 2003
Unfortunately, Nicola Willis will not be competing at GBR vs Spain this coming weekend due to illness. She's been under the weather for a few days and has been able to train. Get well soon, Nic!

Senior Squad to Take On Spain
March 26, 2003
BGA have released the names of the British seniors competing this weekend in the friendly duel against Spain:

Beth Tweddle
Nicola Willis
Becky Mason
Vanessa Hobbs
Amy Dodsley
Renay Jones

TBGN has three members at the competition, please come over and say hi if you spot us!

British School's Results
March 23, 2003
TBGN's Cat was in Newcastle for all the action this weekend. Look out for a full report with photos coming soon. The results of the Senior AA are as follows:

1 Kim Lyon
2 Amy Fossheim
3 Pascal Craymer
4 Aisling Wilson
5 Hannah Wickens
6=Leonni Jennison, Katie Slader

Jagger and Smith Safely State Side
January 27, 2003
South Essex's Emma Jagger and coach Rod Smith have safely arrived in Pottsville, USA. The pair were picked up at the airport by a stretch limousine! The competition starts on Saturday and the international competition boasts an impressive field with the likes of Kristina Coccia, Grace Taylor, Gulnar Ziganshina, Brenda Magana and many, many more! We wish Emma the very best of luck! Please visit the FC website for more info on the competition. Also, please click here to view some photos of Emma's arrival!

Brits to compete in Ukraine
March 20, 2003
A talented squad of British up-and-comers have been selected to attend the Stella Zakarova Cup, in the Ukraine in April. The squads are as follows:

WOMENS ARTISTIC
Amy Dodsley
Vanessa Hobbs
Rhian Pugh
Lamara Robb
Amy Fossheim (as non-travelling reserve)

MENS ARTISTIC
Kevin Sellars
Oleg Podobin
Ryan Bradley
Danny Lawrence

COACHES:
Zoltan Jordanov
Nicholai Liskovitch

JUDGES
Keith Brewer
Carole Malone

Success for Young Juniors in Italy
March 17, 2003
Beth Tweddle flew home from her successful Paris Grand Prix, where she won silver on bars behind Khorkina, to appear live in the Blue Peter Studios. Shown on BBC1 this evening, Beth performed her beam routine. Hopefully we will have a video of this up very soon!

Exciting weekend!
March 7, 2003
Exciting weekend promised as Beth aims for hatrick and new talent aim to make their mark Guildford Spectrum hosts the British Championships this weekend, with Beth Tweddle the only defending champ on the start list. Going for her third consecutive title, Beth is hoping to equal the record set by Lisa Mason in 1996, 1997 and 1998. With her amazing routines, especially on bars, the title is well within her reach, but Beth has recently been bothered by a foor injury. However, starting on floor, Beth has her two weakest events out the way to begin with, leaving her to make up room on bars and beam. Beths main rivals for the title will be best frien Nicola Willis of South Essex and Sandbachs Rebecca Mason. Vanessa Hobbs, Lizzie Line, Cherell Fennel and Amy Dodsley will also be fighting for all around medals. Top contenders for the Junior title are Sam Bayley (WSOG), Heathrows Lamara Robb, Bristols Rhian Pugh, Amy Bagshaw from Park Wrekin and Liverpool duo Melanie Roberts and Kim Lyon.

The espoir catagory promises to showcase Britain's Olympic hopefuls of the future, the up and coming talent who will one day become the next Annika Reeder, the next Beth Tweddle. Aislings Williams is one of the main threats for this title, along with Amy Fossheim and Hayley Dodsley from South Durham, and WSOG's Hannah Wickens.

Notable absentees from the competition will be Becky Owen and Katie Lennon in the senior competion with back and elbow injuries respectively and Danielle Border in the juniors, who injured her knee last week during vault training. Best of luck for all recoveries!

TBGN will be in Guildford and will bring you results, reports and photos as soon as we can so please stay tuned!!

GOOD LUCK TO ALL COMPETING!!!

Beth still best in Cottbus
Beth Tweddle retained the title she won last year by out scoring everyone on bars. Her score of 9.40 earned her the gold medal a head of Ukrainian up-and-coming talent Alina Kozich, who scored 9.375. Congrats to Beth!

British Brillance at Blue Water
Melanie Roberts and Amy Bagshaw were again Britain's top performers in Canada. Mel earned another bronze AA medal, her second in a week, and Amy placed fifth. Rhian Pugh came in 7th.