MAY 2011 BRITISH GYMNASTICS OFFICIAL MAGAZINE MATTHEW GREENWOOD 2012 OLYMPIC GYMNASTICS COMPETITION MANAGER INTERVIEW BETH TWEDDLE UNEVEN BARS EUROPEAN CHAMPION Warm-Up MAY 2011 he ‘Golden Era’ of British Gymnastics continued in Berlin and Glasgow with more outstanding results as Beth Tweddle retained her European uneven bars title followed six days later by Daniel TPurvis winning the all-around gold medal in Glasgow, beating the new European Champion Philipp Boy in the process. Daniel is fast becoming a world star having finished fifth in last year’s worlds and winning bronze in Berlin. Sam Oldham also gave notice in Berlin of his outstanding potential, just missing an individual medal on the high bar. This month will see the FIG Council meeting in San Jose award the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. It will come as no surprise that a strong bid has been presented by the city of Glasgow and our thoughts and best wishes will travel with our bid team in the hope of a positive outcome for the sport and the city of Glasgow. For the second year running, the UEG Trampoline Training Camp for coaches will take place at Gillingham. Facilities such as those in Gillingham have been crucial to the development of gymnastics in recent years. But where will future funding come from with rising costs in a complex financial climate? The Government in recent months published what is known as the Localism Bill. It is aimed at increasing resources at the grass roots level by giving power to professionals and communities to create better services and outcomes. This new legislation has incredible benefit to our sport as we continue to signal the need for new facilities to house our sport. At the same time, new planning guidance is emerging to replace PPG 17 ‘Sport & Recreation’. I am ensuring that representation and input is being made to the appropriate agencies and will endeavour to ensure our interests and those of the sport are met. In the coming weeks I will be attending many BG Championships and hope that you continue to enjoy our wonderful sport of gymnastics. PAUL GARBER PRESIDENT BRITISH Gymnastics UEG VICE PRESIDENT [email protected] 0845 1297129 www.british-gymnastics.org 3 Contents VOLUME 49 GymFusion has begun! 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British Gymnastics is unable to recommend any product, DE PHOTO guarantee that it is free of any banned substance or take any responsibility for SUBSCRIBE TO THE LATEST NEWS FROM 4 any claims of effectiveness. www.dephoto.biz BRITISH GYMNASTICS WITH OUR RSS FEEDS 5 2011 Glasgow World Cup Dan Purvis celebrates gold with Philipp Boy (GER) silver, and Rafael Martinez (ESP) bronze GLasGoW WorLD Cup {2011 lasgow is one of only four cities hosting the newly revamped FIG World Cup all-around events, the new spectator-focused formatG saw the world’s top 8 gymnasts battle it out over two sessions: the men’s and women’s all-around finals on Saturday 16th April, with close to capacity crowds flocking to the Kelvin Hall for both. The men’s event promised an intriguing battle with recently crowned European Champion Philipp Boy up against Olympic Jonathon Horton medallist , Daniel Purvis 5th at the World Sam Hunter Championships, 9th in the World Championships and Daniel Keatings the returning - competing as a wildcard. The women’s event was harder to pick with 16 year old Romanian’s Raluca Haidu Amelia Racea and Elisabeth Amelia Racea (ROU) gold alongside Germany’s Seitz Jessica Lopez Jessica Lopez (VEN) silver and , with Hannah Whelan Jenni Pinches Raluca Haidu (ROU) bronze and in the line up for GBR. 6 7 Glasgow2011 Glasgow World World Cup Preview Cup Men - Overall Standings 1 PURVIS Daniel 88.598 2 BOY Philipp 88.498 3 MARTINEZ Rafael 88.065 4 KUKSENKOV Mykola ­ 86.832 5 SHATILOV Alexander ­ 86.331 6 TOMMASONE Cyril 86.298 7 HORTON Jonathan 85.131 8 HUNTER Sam 85.099 WILDCARD KEATINGS Daniel 87.366 Watch Daniel at the 2011 Glasgow World Cup... Philipp Boy GER Sam Hunter mEn... who shares the British Dan Purvis title with , finished in 8th purvis TakEs position just behind Olympic medallist Jonathan Horton Daniel , whilst wildcard { the GoLD! Keatings (GBR) put in a very promising performance - 87.366. The men’s competition contained a lot of experienced gymnasts that all had the potential to take home a medal. Dan Purvis (GBR) gave a superb clean I’m really pleased although it was a bit of a shock to performance throughout to claim the " be honest! Coming back from the Euros I just wanted Gold medal in front of a supportive home crowd and maintain his position to have fun but I managed some clean routines and as one of the worlds very best all- came first. It’ll be straight back to training now. I’ve Dan Purvis GBR around gymnasts. Purvis was closely followed by the recently crowned still got quite a few competitions coming up so my Philipp Boy European Champion, (GER), aim is to just keep fit and at the same time continue whose fall on vault cost him the title. Rafael Martinez to compete well. The bronze went to Dan Purvis from Spain who performed some exciting routines to please the crowd. " 8 9 Glasgow World Cup 2011 Amelia Racea ROU WomEn... racea is the WomEn’s { CHampion The women’s event took place in front of a sell out crowd in the Kelvin Hall arena. There were some strong contenders in the group but with a lot of falls counted, the medal places Racea were fought right to the finish. (ROU) took the top spot after a clean all-around performance showing Lopez composure throughout. (VEN) took the silver medal position with consistent scores on all pieces. The Haidu young Romanian grabbed the bronze despite two falls, performing an energetic floor routine to secure her Hannah place in the top 3. Britain’s Whelan finished in 5th, with some good work but unfortunate falls that Jennifer left her outside the medals. Pinches finished in 8th, she ended with a solid performance on floor but earlier mistakes proved to be costly. Women - Overall Standings 1 RACEA Amelia 54.566 2 LOPEZ Jessica 53.931 3 HAIDU Raluca 52.432 4 SEITZ Elisabeth 52.232 5 WHELAN Hannah 52.132 6 STEINGRUBER Giulia 52.032 7 MILLOUSI Vasiliiki 51.799 8 PINCHES Jennifer 51.300 Jessica Lopez VEN 10 xxxxx xxxx Matthew Greenwood The Olympic Stadium is complete ext summer the biggest sporting event in the world Ncomes to London! Gymnasts and gymnastics fans have talked about little else since London was announced as the host city of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Games not only showcase the finest athletes in the world, it also gives the chance for Britain to excel in the delivery of the events and demonstrate how good a show we Tim Peake Matthew Greenwood can put on. spoke to , who is on secondment from British Gymnastics as the Gymnastics Competition Manager for 2012... 13 Matthew Greenwood Matthew, can you tell us how you How much of a help was it having the How key is it that British Gymnastics began in gymnastics and came to take 2009 Artistic World Championships in resources and expertise are used in the on the role at LOCOG? the Olympic venue? preparation for the Games? I began my involvement in the sport It was a huge advantage for us to have We have people like Ben Murphy and as a gymnast - and not a particularly run the Worlds in 2009 in the arena Nicky Richards on board who have good one! I then moved on to coaching that the Olympics will be in, and to a experience and know-how of major and eventually volunteered with British great extent, in terms of layout and use events so we aren’t short of experts Gymnastics to the position of Men’s of the space things will stay much the and clearly we feel they should be used.