TRAMPOLINE NEWS No 58 October 2009 Editor: John D Beeton: [email protected]
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BRITISH GYMNASTICS: Trampoline Technical Committee TRAMPOLINE NEWS No 58 October 2009 Editor: John D Beeton: [email protected] Class team have been working on a process that will help improve development of our gymnasts from Juniors, right EDITORIAL through to world class Senior gymnasts. Each group have so far Martin Laws worked excellently on their own different streams and we are all now working to pull everything together to complete the part Dear Reader, of the scheme to give all of our talented gymnasts every opportunity to fulfil their potential. Welcome to the October edition of TRAMPOLINE NEWS 2009. My thanks to all those who contribute to this our most I would like to thank the World Class team of John Beeton, important newsletter, especially our Editor, JOHN BEETON . Georgina Sharples & Tim Jones for all their efforts so far and As always, please circulate this latest edition as widely as hope that we can continue to work together to complete the possible. Note: Trampoline News can also be viewed on the BG scheme. webpage under Trampoline – Download. Please let your club members know. Next Steps (Schools) has now taken off and there is great interest in trampoline for school activity. There will soon be Since August we have seen quite a busy two months with released further information on the simplified judging level for International competitions! First over the August bank holiday students and teachers, following the second pilot held this week. weekend, England took a team to the Flanders Fliffus Cup in As clubs you may well get the opportunity to link with local Belgium, with GB taking a squad to the Ostend World Cup. schools and stimulate this competitive opportunity. I would Belgium saw the sky painted Gold for Kat Driscoll, who won encourage you all to form these links, but please remember this her first World Cup! It’s been a while since a GB lady has is a gentle introduction. It is however pleasing to see that body taken top podium position; the last was Claire Wright’s win in management has been included even at this embryonic stage. Sophia in 2005! Well done Kat. With the current international season coming to a close it only For many attending the Flanders Fliffus Cup, it was their first leaves me to wish our Senior team every good wish for the representative international competition. The English Team forthcoming World Championships in St Petersburg RUS performed very well indeed, taking 7 out of a possible 18 during the month of November (11-14), followed the week medals. Special mention goes to Rebecca Finch & Clare afterwards with the World Age-Group Competitions (WAGC) Stapenhill, who claimed top spot in the Junior Girls Synchro. (18-21) at the same venue. Then GB sent a team to the Polish World Cup in Zielona I am certain that all BG members will join with me in the same Góra and then Germany for the World Cup in Salzgitter . The sentiment. Polish World Cup was not as successful as Belgium with a Good luck to all. young team attending, but in a large field dominated by the formidable Chinese, all of our gymnasts gained some valuable experience. European Championships Germany saw the GB team fair slightly better, with Katherine Driscoll claiming the highest ranking of the GB team, finishing Date Change in 10th place in the ladies, with James Higgins being the highest placed GB male in 15th. Well done to all those who 20-25 April 2010 competed. Varna, Bulgaria I hope that you all enjoyed the summer break and are now well into your training for the new season kicking off in October for the Regions and January for the National Competitors. I am Content certain that all your hard work and effort will be rewarded in the Page 02-04: World Cup / Flanders Cup - results coming months and you will all achieve your personal goals. Page 04: World Championship team 2009 - confirmation Page 06: International Calendar - 2010-2012 Coming soon, will also be the publication of the Trampoline Page 07-08: World Records - update Development Pathway. The NTTC and BG Trampoline World Page 09-10: World Cup series 2009 – final placing Trampoline News is an official TTC publication for British Gymnastics Email: [email protected] Tumbling Men (15 entries) 01 Andrey Krylov RUS 73.9 (36.5/11.1+37.3/11.4) points 02 Kalon Ludvigdon USA 73.7 (35.3/10.4+38.4/11.4) points 03 Alex Seifert CAN 69.5 (35.2/10.0+34.2/8.8) points Tumbling Women (17 entries) 01 Anna Korobeynikova RUS 67.1 (34.0/7.9+33.1/6.9) points 02 Rachael Letsche GBR 66.5 (33.0/6.5+ 33.5/5.9) points FIG World Cup 03 Olena Chalanenko UKR 66.2 (33.4/7.4+32.8/6.8) points 05 Zara Mclean GBR 64.3 (32.6/6.2+31.7/5.3) points Ostend BEL 26-30 Aug 09 : team composition:- 06 after prelims: Jennifer Dawes GBR 62.6 points (2 to final) 17 withdrawn: Sarah Turner GBR HOD: Sharon Wood Team Manager: Georgina Sharples These were excellent results, both for Katherine Driscoll, 1 st in Coaches: women’s individual trampoline, Rachael Letsche 2 nd and Zara TRA – Tracy Whittaker-Smith, Bill Leach Maclean 5 th in the women’s tumbling events. Our synchronised TUM – Craig Lowther pairings of Katherine Driscoll / Cara Jamieson, along with Judges: Steven Williams / Jack Helme reached their respective finals TRA – Elizabeth Scales finishing in 5th and 7th place respectively – another good result TUM – Claire Thompson for TeamGB. Physio: Chris Dunne Gymnasts: This was also Laura Gallagher and Jack Helme’s first senior TRA – Cara Jamieson, Katherine Driscoll, Yasmin Gumbs, international event. Congratulations to you both. Editor Laura Gallagher, James Higgins, Luke Rendell, Steven Walsh, Jack Helme, Steven Williams Additional Report by Sharon Wood HOD TUM – Rachael Letsche, Zara McLean, Jennifer Dawes, Sarah Turner An excellent competition with some outstanding results, There was a smaller than usual entry for this particular World notably from Katherine Driscoll who won the ladies event in a Cup, although entries in TUM appear to be on the rise once very impressive way and from Rachael Letsche who won the more. No GBR tumbling men entered on this occasion. Results Silver medal in the tumbling competition. Rachel, Zara and were as follows: Jenny finished the preliminaries in the top 6 which bodes well for the World Championships team event and in the ladies Trampoline Men – Individual (44 entries) trampoline, with Katherine taking first place, Yasmin just 01 Logan Dooley USA 40.8/16.2 points outside the final in 9 th , Cara in 10 th and Laura 14 th , shows 02 Yuriy Nikitin UKR 40.2/15.8 points encouraging signs for ladies trampolining moving forward. 03 Viachaslev Model BLR40.0/16.2 points 14 Steven Walsh GBR 66.6/15.2 points The men didn’t fair so well. All team members completed 30 James Higgins GBR 57.7/11.1 points some very good compulsory routines but failed to impress with 32 Luke Rendell GBR 48.8/9.2 points their voluntary routines with the exception of Steven Walsh 33 Jack Helme GBR 43.7/6.7 points who finished a credible 14 th overall. More work on consistency in competition is required if we are going to make headway in Trampoline Men – Synchronised (17 entries) these events. 01 Steven Gluckstein/Logan Dooley USA 49.3/15.6 points 02 Yevgen Doka/Andriy Matvyeyev UKR 48.9/14.4 points 03 Manabu Yamaguchi/Hideyasu IshikawaJPN 48.6/14.6 points 07 Jack Helme/Steven Williams GBR 42.4/12.8 points Trampoline Women – Individual (29 entries) 01 Katherine Driscoll GBR 36.9/13.5 points 02 Olena Movchan UKR 35.7/12.8 points 03 Claudia Prat ESP 34.7/12.3 points 09 Yasmin Gumbs GBR 62.1/14.0 points 10 Cara Jamieson GBR 61.8/13.1 points 16 Laura Gallagher GBR 59.8/13.3 points Flanders Fliffis Cup Trampoline Women – Synchronised (10 entries) A large number of English gymnasts attended this bi-annual 01 Yulia Domchevska/Olena Movchan UKR 46.1/11.8 points event, held in Ostend BEL in conjunction with the FIG World 02 Tatsiana Leaniuk/Hanna Harchonak BLR 45.4/11.8 points Cup. 03 Andrea Lenders/Tara Fokké NED 44.7/11.2 points 05 Katherine Driscoll/Cara Jamieson GBR 44.6/11.8 points Results of the various events were as follows Trampoline News is an official TTC publication for British Gymnastics Email: [email protected] Youth Boys – Individual (26 entries) considerable increase in entries from that of Ostend BEL the 04 Jason Ryall 34.1/12.3 points week previous. It was noted that GBR did not enter any 05 Daniel Fawcett 33.5/12.0 points tumblers or women synchronised pairings in this particular 06 Philip Jackson 33.2/10.3 points competition. It was pleasing to see however, the current 24 Zach Sherridan 26.7 /1.6 points Olympic men’s champion LU Chunlong CHI participating for the first time in an FIG event since Beijing – he did not Youth Girls – Individual (26 entries) disappoint, winning the men’s event in an impressive 42.4/16.6 03 Kate Overman 31.1/8.5 points points over his countryman TU Xiao 41.9/17.4 points . LU’s 05 Lucy Alcock 30.5/9.1 points overall score for the three rounds was also a new world record, 07 Natasha Short 28.0/9.6 points previously held by the great Alexandre Moskalenko RUS 25 Daina Rose 37.2/3.9 points since the 2001 World Championships which were held in Odense DEN.