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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.
Luke Whitehouse (born 2 July 2002) [2] is a British Olympic gymnast. He is an English, [3] British [4] and double European Floor Champion. He won gold for the floor exercise and was part of the Great Britain team who won Team bronze at the 2023 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
In British Gymnastics’ Wednesday statement, Powell said: “Above all else, we care about gymnasts as people, and these new policies make clear that what matters most in gymnastics is the ...
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.
Louis Antoine Smith (born 22 April 1989) is a retired English artistic gymnast.. He received a bronze medal and two silver medals on the pommel horse at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics respectively, [2] [3] with the former marking the first time a British gymnast had placed in an Olympic event since 1928. [4]
British gymnasts first competed at the Olympic Games in 1908. [1] They won their first Olympic team medal, a bronze, at the 1912 Olympic Games. [2] They would win their second team medal, another bronze, 100 years later at the 2012 Olympic Games. [3]
Neil Roderick Thomas MBE (6 April 1968- ) is a retired English artistic gymnast who experienced most of his success in the floor exercises.An acknowledged inspiration to the golden generation of British gymnasts from 2004 onwards, and a pathfinder for his national programme, he was former world silver medalist and Commonwealth Games Champion and one of the most successful British gymnasts in ...