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In 1963 the Amateur Gymnastics Association became the British Amateur Gymnastics Association, and the BAGA first received a government grant, allowing it to pay coaches, and appoint a full-time national coach, Nik Stuart. He developed the BAGA Awards, a proficiency scheme for young gymnasts, which was adopted by seventy other countries.
The Great Britain women's national artistic gymnastics team represents Great Britain in FIG international competitions. After winning the bronze medal at the 1928 Olympics , the British team have placed consistently well in modern-day 21st-century artistic gymnastics.
Rebecca Lauren Downie MBE (born 24 January 1992 in Nottingham) is a British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008, 2016, and 2024 Summer Olympics.She is a double European champion (2014 and 2016) and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World silver medallist.
Jessica Gadirova (born 3 October 2004) is an English artistic gymnast of Irish birth and Azerbaijani descent, representing Great Britain internationally. [4] She represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the team event and was part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2022 World Championships and gold medal-winning team at the 2023 European Artistic ...
In 1980, Kathleen was selected as the youngest gymnast to represent Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics, however due to injury had to withdraw.. Four years later, Kathleen was selected for the 1984 Summer Olympics, becoming the first black gymnast to be selected for and compete at an Olympic Games for Great Britain.
Giarnni Regini-Moran (born 2 August 1998) is a British artistic gymnast representing Great Britain and England internationally. He is the 2022 world champion on floor exercise (the second British world floor champion after Beth Tweddle and the first British male) and the fourth British world champion in the sport of artistic gymnastics (after Tweddle, Max Whitlock, and Joe Fraser).
Simm competed at the English Gymnastics Championships in Loughborough, England on 14 March 2015. She finished in third place at the all-around competition with a score of 54.550, she scored 14.100 on the vault, 13.750 on the uneven bars, 12.700 on the balance beam and 14.000 on the floor exercise.
Martin became age-eligible for senior competition in 2024. At the British Championships she placed third in the all-around behind Ondine Achampong and Ruby Evans. [6] Early in the year she competed at the Cottbus World Cup and the Osijek World Challenge Cup. She qualified to the vault and floor exercise event finals at both competitions; she ...