2015 British Championships

Luis SMITH (GBR)

The final day of the 2015 British Championships from Echo Arena in Liverpool saw the apparatus medals decided as Britain’s top gymnasts competed for coveted titles.
For the women it was the best of the best senior and junior gymnasts on each apparatus, for the men it was the Masters finals where the top gymnasts from the weekend across all ages compete together and the top men and women also fought it out for the disability British titles.
<< Louis Smith delivered a masterful pommel horse routine for gold whilst in the women’s event Tyesha Mattis was unbeatable on bars and beam.
The standout performances in an action packed day included superb routines from 16 year old Giarrni Regini-Moran who took the floor and vault Masters gold ahead of his senior compatriots.

Amy TINKLER (GBR)

All-around champion Amy Tinkler (photo, right >)
took the women’s floor gold with Claudia Fragapane vaulting to glory.
On men's side also doubled up as the men’s apparatus finals. On the floor, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas tied for first with 15.300. Both gymnasts scored exactly the same execution and difficulty therefore shared the title.
On the pommel horse it was Max Whitlock (South Essex) and Sam Oldham who tied for silver. Max who had to pull out of the all-around event due to illness still managed to take the silver even with a fall. It was Louis Smith MBE (Huntingdon GC) who took the title, looking impressive and confident on his sole piece of apparatus to take the crown.
Over on the rings, Daniel Purvis successfully took the title with 14.950 ahead of Sam Oldham in silver (14.450) and Kristian Thomas in bronze (14.350).
Kristian continued his strong competition by taking the vault title with 15.050; Dominick Cunningham took the silver with 14.825 and Harry Carter of Loughborough Students the bronze with 13.675.
Ashley Watson of Leeds took the parallel bars crown with a very strong performance scoring 15.450. Daniel Purvis was then not far behind in silver with 15.350 and in the bronze was his teammate Frank with 15.150.
Finally on the horizontal bar, Kristian Thomas took his third title of the day with a 15.300. Frank Baines took another silver with 14.900, with Brinn Bevan taking bronze with 14.550.

* Junior all-around champion Catherine Lyons continued her dominance with outstanding displays on beam, floor and vault for gold with Georgia-Mae Fenton winning on bars.

Alexander Buesnel and David Rae led the way in the disability men’s finals, David winning floor, high bar and vault and Alex and rings, Sophie Crawford and Natahsa Coates shared the gold’s in the women’s finals , Sophie winning beam and floor and Natasha vault and bars.

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Daniel Purvis (GBR)

2015 British All-around Championships
Amy Tinkler and Daniel Purvis have been crowned senior all-around men’s and women’s British Champions at the Echo Area, Liverpool in a thrilling day of world class gymnastics action. In the men’s event, Daniel Purvis, who last won the British all-around title back in 2012, took the top spot in convincing style. The experienced gymnast put in clean performances across all six pieces of apparatus to take the title with 88.500.
It was Dan’s teammate and fellow Scot, Frank Baines who took the silver medal. After a few nervy competitions of late, the 2012 Junior European Champion proved here he has what it takes to challenge the best. He finished with 86.350.
Completing the podium was Sam Oldham of Loughborough Students and James Hall of Pegasus who tied for the bronze medal. James Hall has improved immensely in the past year and this position proves the hard work is paying off. Sam Oldham had to count a few major errors but looked good back on all six pieces of apparatus and will be sure to build on this experience. In 5th place was City of Birmingham’s Dominick Cunningham (85.500) and 6th South Essex’s Brinn Bevan (83.950).
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In the women’s all-around event it was first year senior gymnast and the current English Champion, Amy Tinkler from South Durham who rose the challenge and took the gold. Amy showed plenty of consistent and confident work including an impressive floor routine packed with difficulty. With a clean competition she scores 56.650.
It was the ‘pocket rocket’ Claudia Fragapane of Bristol Hawks who took the silver medal. Claudia showed some impressive work which included a world class score of 14.900 on the floor exercise. Putting in several upgrades to her routines since winning Commonwealth gold last summer, Claudia unfortunately had to count a fall on her beam exercise. Nothertheless the starlet looks to be improving after each competition. She finished with a score of 55.550.
Taking the bronze was the younger of the Downie sisters Ellie Downie. Ellie, who competes for Notts Gymnastics Club was coming back from a minor injury and although started with a fall on the floor exercise pulled it back with impressive routines on the rest of the apparatus. Not competing to her full difficulty and counting a fall Ellie still scored and impressive 54.950. Tying for 4th place overall was Dynamo’s Kelly Simm and Cardiff Central’s Angel Romaeo (53.100). Finishing in 6th was Angel’s teammate Raer Theaker (52.950).

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