27. Juni 2000  
Liverpool / Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Great Britain and Tweddle successfully

Beth Tweddle (GBR)

Friendly Meet Great Britain - China
LIVERPOOL'S world-class gymnast Beth Tweddle gave yet another magnificent performance for her country to inspire victory over mighty China at the weekend.
She not only helped Britain win the team championship by 0.700 points on Saturday, but picked up three golds in the individual events yesterday, one of them shared with Olympic finalist Fan Ye, who tied with her on the floor.....

A historical victory: Great Britain beats China!

FAN, Ye, winning on beam and floor

The team event could hardly have been more closely contested, with Britain scoring 145.520 points to China's 145.450 after a most exciting encounter at Liverpool's Park Road sports centre.
Tweddle scored 9.325 in the vault, a magnificent 9.625 on the asymmetric bars, a slightly less impressive 8.50 on the beam and then a superb 9.650 on the floor to remind everyone that she is as brilliant in that discipline as on the bars.
The great Fan Ye responded with 8.4, 9.425, 9.30 and 9.525 in her favourite event, the floor, but still could not prevent the British team pipping them for the title.
And Sunday Tweddle was in even more confident mood, taking no fewer than three individual golds on the bars, the vault and on the floor, where she tied with the girl generally regarded as the best in the world at that event.
Liverpool's other representative, Melanie Roberts, also did very well, without finishing among the medal winners.
'She was extremely reliable, helped to inspire everybody else and did a first class job with the rest of the team,' coach Amanda Kirby, also from Liverpool, said.
'It was good to see that Beth suffered no ill-effects from the injury she received recently from a fall and now we can go full steam ahead for the British national championships in Guildford in a fortnight's time.'
source: cheshireOnline

Great Britain vs. China
June 26, Liverpool

RESULTS
TEAMS:
1. Great Britain 145,525
2. China 145,450

All-around
1. Beth Tweddle (GBR)- 37.100
2. Fan Ye (CHN)- (CHN)- 36.650
3. Imogen Cairns (GBR)- 36.325
4. Samantha Bayley (GBR)- 35.775
5. Melanie Roberts (GBR)- 35.725
6. Guo Li (CHN)- 35.700

VAULT
1. Beth Tweddle GBR 9.237
2. Imogen Cairns GBR 9.2125
3. Guo Li CHN 9.075

UNEVEN BARS
1. Beth Tweddle GBR 9.700
2. Li Ya CHN 9.650
3. Fan Ye CHN 9.575

BALANCE BEAM
1. Fan Ye CHN 9.700
2. Li Ya CHN 9.500
3. Xiao Sha CHN 9.400

FLOOR EXERCISES
1. Fan Ye CHN 9.675
2. Beth Tweddle GBR 9.675
3. Lin Xia CHN 9.550
source: baga