The team was very successful, gaining a total of 7 gold’s, 7 silvers and 6 bronzes. Horsham gained another 3 regional champions, receiving 3 shields for the club. 

This is a breakdown of the results they achieved:

Olivia, Summer and Naima (Grade 2 WG) – 2^nd

Jackson and Lily (Grade 2 MXP) – 3^rd

Indie and Sophie (Grade 2 WP) – 4^th

Devon and Kitty (Grade 3 MXP) – 2^nd

Macy and Olivia (Grade 3 WP) – 3^rd

Grace, Annabelle and Nina (Grade 3 WG) – 4^th

Dom. G and Darcy (Grade 4 MXP) – 4th

Dom. S and Phoebe (Grade 4 MXP) – 2^nd

Caitlin and Lily (Grade 4 WP) – 11^th

Isabella, Ella and Amelia (Grade 4 WG) – 7^th

Matilda and Alexis (Grade 5 WP) – 4^th

Aimee and Ella (Grade 6 WP) – 1^st

Ella, Manami and Alex (11-16 WG) – 4^th

Myla and Zoe (11-16 WP) – 3^rd

Ben and Maddie (11-16 MXP) – 1^st

Emily, Zoe and Natalie (Junior WG) – 1^st

10 gymnasts represented Horsham at the Neon Competition in Tolworth on the 22nd November. For a few this is the first competition that they had done outside of the club.

In the Level 3 5-6 year category Isabella Haynes Weller being one of the youngest competitors at just 5 years old placed a creditable 7th overall and 5th on the floor. Her team mate Isabella Aegosditar finished in 2nd place overall 3rd on vault and 2nd on floor. Kiera Oxley took 1st place overall in this section placing 2nd on vault and 1st on the floor. At Level 4 Callie Nelson finished in a very well deserved 3rd place overall, 3rd on the floor and 2nd on the vault. Level 5 7 years saw 4 gymnasts from Horsham take the top 4 places with Tana McArthur 4th overall and 4th on floor and vault. Aimee Osbourne was 3rd overall and 3rd on the floor and vault, Sophie Rayner placed 2nd overall 2nd on the vault and 1st on floor. Chloe Gunning was 1st overall, 2nd on floor and 1st on the vault. Level 5 8 years finished the competition for Horsham with a 5th place for Emily Boyd overall and 3rd on the floor. Melissa Hayes finishing 2nd overall and 2nd on the vault.

6 members of Horsham Gymnastics Centre Women's Artistic Squad competed at the English Bronze and Silver Championships in Leicester last weekend with all achieving a top 10 placing on at least one apparatus.

In the Bronze 11-12 year section, which had over 40 competitors, Millie Craven finished in 22nd place overall with a 10th place on the asymmetric bars. Charley Bargman competed well claiming 7th place overall, 7th place on vault and received a bronze medal for her 3rd place on the floor. Scarlett Tidy and Francesca Clark competed in a highly competitive 12-13 year Silver category. Scarlett had a few errors on the day but finished in 11th place overall and 9th place on the asymmetric bars. Fran finished in overall 16th place and achieved 4th place on the vault, just 0.1 away from the bronze medal. The Silver 10-11 years saw Poppy Griggs and Honesty South both compete extremely well, with Poppy placing 11th overall and 9th on the asymmetric bars. Honesty had a fantastic day, coming away with 5 English Championship medals. Honesty placed 2nd overall, 3rd on the vault and floor, 2nd on the bars and was crowned the English Silver level beam Champion with a score nearly 2 marks ahead of the silver medalist. 

Saturdays competition started with the Level 5 9yrs where Phoebe Light placed 7th overall, gaining a bronze award for floor, silver award for vault and a gold award for bars. Elena Jones finished 20th overall and picked up a gold award for bars and bronze awards for floor and vault. Lily Garrard had a few mistakes putting her in 39th overall.  In the Level 5 10 years Isabel Carr finished 11th overall and 3rd on beam, gaining bronze award for beam, bars and floor. Charley Bargman competed in the Level 4 11 years category placing 14th overall and 2nd on floor as well as receiving a bronze award for vault and a silver award for floor. Poppy Griggs finished a respectable 9th overall and 1st place on vault in the Level 4 10 years section as well as receiving a bronze award for her vault.

On Sunday Millie Craven in the Level 4 12 year section finished 15th overall with a 4th place on beam. She also gained a gold award for bars, silver award for beam and a bronze award for vault. Honesty South in the Level 3 11/12 year age group placed 12th overall and 3rd on vault having put out her Tsukahara vault for the first time. Francesca Clark placed 5th overall, 3rd on vault and 3rd on beam as well as picking up a bronze award for floor in the Level 2 12/13 years age group. Finishing off the competition was Scarlett Tidy in the Espoir FIG category where she placed 7th overall with a bronze award for vault and bars.

Horsham finished 6th in the Quatro Cup rankings from all the competing teams for points gained throughout the weekend.

Well done girls!

It was a very long, competitive competition with a lot of entries from 11 different clubs from around Kent.

Well done to the Horsham squad, receiving a total of 5 golds, 6 silvers, 7 bronzes.

For the results, click here.

Isabelle Lamb finished 2nd in the In Age Level 3 category with Katie Ridley placing 3rd. Both these gymnasts will be representing the South East at National Finals in November

From both Regional Championships Horsham totalled 3 Team Titles and 2 team silvers as well as 5 Regional Champions being crowned along with 3 individual silvers and 2 bronze medals being won and 7 other top 10 placings.

Horsham were also the winners of the Presidents Trophy 2015. This is awarded to the club that scored the highest number of points combined from all the South East Regional Grades and Voluntary Championships.

Izzy Hilliard competed for the England team that placed 3rd overall and 19th individually. She also qualified for the floor final held the following day where she finished in 10th place. Izzy was also awarded her England team colours as this was her first competition representing England.

Floor Results:

Sophie.A 1st, Alice 1st, Georgia 1st, Kate 2nd, Florence 2nd, Jasmine 2nd, Sophie.H 2nd and Holly 2nd.

Vault Results:

Sophie.A 1st, Alice 2nd, Georgia 1st, Kate 3rd, Florence 2nd, Jasmine 1st, Sophie.H 1st, Holly 2nd, Annabel 2nd, Amy 1st and Catrin 3rd.

Beam Results:

Sophie.A 1st, Alice 2nd, Georgia 3rd, Kate 3rd, Florence 1st, Jasmine 3rd, Emma 3rd, Sophie.H 1st, Holly 2nd, Annabel 2nd, Amy 3rd, Darcey 2nd and Catrin 1st.

Bar Results:

Sophie.A 2nd, Alice 2nd, Georgia 2nd, Kate 1st, Florence 2nd, Jasmine 1st, Emma 3rd, Sophie.H 3rd, Holly 1st, Amy 1st and Catrin 3rd.

Click Here for the scores from the Sussex Floor and Vault Competition in March 2015, the Regional Floor and Vault Competition in September 2015 and the Sussex Four Piece Competition that took place in October 2015.

Members of Horsham Gymnastics Centre Women's Artistic Squads competed at the South East Regional Championships at Guildford Spectrum at the weekend. The competition started on the Saturday with the Level 5 gymnasts. 2 gymnasts took part in the In Age section with Lola McNaughton placing 9th overall and Morgan Miller in her first competition placing 22nd. In the Out of Age category Isabel Carr placed 2nd overall, Elena Jones 7th, Lily Garrard 26th and Phoebe Light 30th. The Level 5 team of Lola, Izzy, Phoebe and Elena placed 2nd. The following round saw the Prep 6 gymnasts compete with Elisha Venturini taking the silver medal, Tabitha Lees the bronze medal and Brooke Stocker placing 5th. These 3 gymnasts also became the prep 6 team champions.

Sunday began with the Level 4 gymnasts. Poppy Griggs placed 7th in her Out of Age section with Charley Bargman placing 4th in hers with Millie Craven becoming the Level 4 Out of Age Champion. The Level 4 team of Poppy, Millie, Cissy Marlow and Amara McGeachie also became Level 4 Team Champions.

The following round was for the F.I.G. gymnasts. In the Espoir Challenge group Scarlett Tidy took 6th place with Evie Lamb winning the overall title. Isobel Hilliard was crowned champion for the F.I.G Junior category. These 3 gymnasts with their combined scores also took the overall F.I.G. Team Trophy.

Next to compete was the Level 3 gymnasts the team, consisting of Isabelle Lamb, Katie Ridley and Honesty South, placed a very close 2nd. Honesty was also crowned overall Level 3 Out of Age Champion. Finishing the weekends competition was Fran Clark who placed 5th in the Level 2 Out of Age section.

This was a great weekend of competition with 3 Team Titles and 2  team silvers being won as well as 4 Regional Champions being crowned along with 2 individual silvers and a bronze medal and 7 other top 10 placings.

The In Age gymnasts, Cissy Marlow, Amara McGeachie, Izzy Lamb and Katie Ridley, competed this weekend for team scores but will compete for their individual titles on October 18th at NDGA in Tunbridge Wells. 

It was a very successful day where Horsham achieved 2 Golds, 3 Silvers and 4 Bronzes.

Well done to every gymnasts that competed at this Floor and Vault Event.

Click here for all the results from the day.

 The Women's Artistic gymnasts had a fabulous day at the Sussex Championships last weekend, collecting 7 titles, 4 silver medals and 2 bronze medals. The day started with Poppy Griggs and Millie Craven finishing 2nd and 3rd overall for the Out of Age 4 level, whilst team mate Charley Bargman finished 6th overall. Honesty South performed well to place 3rd at Level 3 Out of Age in an extremely close competition with only 0.3 splitting the top 3 gymnasts. Lola McNaughton became Sussex Champion at Level 5 In Age, winning by 2 marks. Phoebe Light also took the Level 5 Out of Age title with team mates Elena Jones 5th, Izzy Carr 6th and Lily Garrard 10th at this level. The final round of the day saw Fran Clark become Sussex Champion at Level 2 Out of Age. Amara McGeachie took the Level 4 In Age title ahead of team mate Cissy Marlow. Katie Ridley won the Level 3 In Age section ahead of her team mate Izzy Lamb. Scarlett Tidy won the title for the Espoir Challenge section with Evie Lamb placing 2nd overall. The final presentation was to Izzy Hilliard who collected the FIG Junior title as well as the FIG Supreme Champion and the Bars and Beam apparatus titles.

This was the last in a busy period of competitions for these girls, a massive well done to all who have taken part in all of these. A total of 17 1st places, 17 2nd places and 13 3rd places were achieved from these competitions with numerous top 10 placings to add to this.

Floor and Vault

 The 5 and 8 hour gymnasts competed at the Floor and Vault section of the Sussex Championships last weekend at K2. In the Bronze Category 1 Women 10-11 section  Alice Coyle became Sussex Champion taking the gold ahead of team mate Jasmine Murray in 2nd. The Bronze Category 1 Women 12-14 section was extremely close with 0.15 splitting the top 3 gymnasts. Holly Goodsir took the silver medal just 0.1 ahead of Frenki Morina in third. Sophie Hilliard took the bronze medal in the Bronze Category 2 Women 10-11 section just 0.15 from gold. The Silver Category 1 Women 12-14 section could not be split and therefore saw Catrin Rathbone and Amy Roberts both collecting the Gold medal and Sussex Champion title for this level. One of the biggest categories of the day was the Silver Category 2 Women 12-14 section with only 0.5 splitting the top 10 gymnasts. Darcey Tidy placed 10th with Ellie Bachelor 5th and Sophie Sheldon taking the gold and being crowned Sussex Champion. Sophie also had the highest floor score of the whole day and received the Warner trophy for achieving this. 

Acrobatics

The 31 squad members that competed claimed an amazing 21 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 2 bronze medals as well as taking the Milano Supreme Champions Shield (Highest Score of the Day) after Dominic Goddard and Darcy Luke’s superb performance.

Sussex Champions (Gold Medals)

Olivia Barry, Summer Smith, Naima Hyder - Grade 2 Women’s Group 

Dominic Goddard, Darcy Luke - Grade 3 Mixed Pair

Dominic Smith, Jackson Laing - Grade 4 Men’s Pair

Myla Kettel, Zoe Gaudiano - Grade 5 Women’s Pair

Manami Imada, Ella Dronfield, Alex Rogers - Grade 5 Women’s Group

Aimee Tolhurst, Ella Louise Nelson - Grade 6 Women’s Pair

Grace Ellis, Sophie Hogton - FIG 11- 16 Women’s Pair

Benjamin Ratcliffe, Madeline Kent - FIG 11- 16 Mixed Pair

Emily Steere, Zoe Schubert, Natalie O’Hara FIG Junior Women’s Group

Silver Medals:

Dominic Smith, Alexis O’Hara - Grade 3 Mixed Pair

Grace Hanger, Anabelle Wright, Nina Butler-Laplace - Grade 3 Women’s Group                                                                   

Bronze Medals:

Devon Thomas, Nina Butler Laplace - Grade 3 Mixed Pair

Caitlin Simpson and Lilly Knight come in 4th place in the Grade 4 Women’s Pair and Isabella Powell, Ella Turtle and Amelia Edson finished in 5th Place in the Grade 4 Women’s Group.

Click here to see all the results and scores.

A place in the England squad means she gets to train with other top gymnasts and coaches from around the country and also may get the opportunity to compete for England in international competitions in places like Belgium and Russia.

Isobel is the current Sussex Champion and also finished in silver medal position at the South East Regional Championships. She has also competed in two Espoire British Championships in Scotland where she gained some much needed experience.

Isobel is currently working towards the Junior British Championships which is a high level elite competition. This will take a lot of hard work and dedication but since she's always shown plenty of that to get where she is now, we have every faith that she will continue to succeed at the highest level with her gymnastics.

We wish her all the best.

Silver 11-12 yrs (cat 2) - Ellie Bachelor 2nd, Darcy Tidy 3rd.
Silver 12-14 yrs (cat 1) - Catrin Rathbone 1st, Amy Roberts 2nd.
Silver 13-14 yrs (cat 2) - Sophie Sheldon 4th.
Advanced 9-11 yrs (cat 1) - Katie Robertson 2nd, Sophie Ashton 3rd, Harriet Miller 6th.
Bronze 10-13 yrs (cat 1) - Frenki Marina 1st, Jasmine Murray 2nd, Holly Goodsir 3rd, Alice Coyle 4th.
Bronze 11-13 yrs (cat 2) - Sophie Hilliard 4th.

 A fabulous set of results, well done everybody.

Izzy Lamb competed as part of the Compulsory Grade 3 team which went on to place 7th.  Izzy performed well and finished the competition in 21st place with a 5th place on Bars and 6th place on Range and Conditioning.

In May it was the turn of the Club Grade finals to be held in Stoke also. Poppy Griggs, Millie Craven and Charley Bargman (reserve) were members of the Grade 4 team with Scarlett Tidy and Honesty South (reserve) members of the Grade 3 team. Poppy and Millie both performed clean competitions with Poppy placing 39th overall and Millie 34th overall with a 4th place on Bars. The team placed 9th. Scarlett performed a steady competition finishing 4th with the team and 18th overall individually. 

Isabel Carr came away with the bronze medal for her age group with Phoebe Light also collecting a bronze medal. Elena Jones competed extremely well taking the silver in their category. Lily Garrard competed well but a few errors prevented her from placing in the top group. Phoebe Light represented the Sussex squad and took the bronze medal all around in this category as well. Lola McNaughton competing in the youngest category placed a tremendous 3rd overall just 0.350 behind first place.

Amara McGeachie and Cissy Marlow competed for the Sussex squad at Level 4 In Age with Cissy taking the silver medal and Amara taking the gold medal in both sections of this competition. Izzy Lamb and Katie Ridley were the only gymnasts competing at level 3 in age with Izzy edging in to 1st place with Katy 2nd in a hard fought competition. Honesty South in the level 3 out of age section placed 1st, winning by an impressive 6 marks.

Millie Craven took the silver medal for the level 4 2003 year of births, Charley Bargman also took silver in the L4 2004 year of birth and Poppy Griggs took the Gold medal for the L4 2005 year of births. All 3 girls represented the Sussex squad and with all age groups combined Mille Craven was 4th, Charley Bargman 3rd and Poppy Griggs again took Gold.

Fran Clark competed for the Sussex squad in the Level 2 out of age section taking the silver medal in both sections of competition. Scarlett Tidy and Evie Lamb competed in the Espoir Challenge level with Evie placing 3rd and Scarlett 2nd. Scarlett represented the Sussex squad at this level and took home the Gold medal. Izzy Hilliard competed in the Junior FIG category and with a steady competition took the Gold medal overall.

This was a good competition for all Horsham gymnasts involved and was an extremely good preparation for the next competitions coming up over the next few weeks.

Well Done Horsham.

For more details and results click on the following links: 

Round 1 Results

Round 2 Results

Round 3 Results

The competition is a great chance for the gymnasts to show off the skills they have learnt on floor and vault as well as a few gymnasts competing on bars and beam.

All of the gymnasts did amazingly well and it was a fun day for all the gymnasts and parents who attended. 

Cissy came 4^th on vault, 1^st on floor and 4^th overall. Amara came 4^th on vault, 5^th on bars, 3^rd on beam, 2^nd on floor and 2^nd overall. Katie came 3^rd on vault, 4^th on bars and 6^th on floor and Izzy Lamb came 3^rd on vault, 6^th on bars, 3^rd on beam and 6^th all around.

Honesty came 3^rd on beam and 5^th overall. Scarlett was competing in her first F.I.G competition and came 8^th on beam.

Fran placed 2^nd on bars, 4^th on floor, 5^th on beam and 5^th all around.

Izzy Carr came 1^st on floor.

Lola came 8^th on vault and 10^th all around. Poppy came 2^nd on bars and Charley placed 6^th on floor, 6^th on beam and won a prize for her handstand on bars.

Millie won a prize for her execution on beam, Lily won a prize for her execution on bars and phoebe won a prize for the only gymnast to achieve split bonus on beam, as well as 5^th on vault and 4^th on floor.

Well done to everyone who competed, it was a very successful weekend. 

As could be expected the competition was to a very high standard with over 350 gymnasts competing from all over Great Britain.

In what was a fantastic achievement for the club five of them have come away with gold medals and the very special accolade of National champions. In addition, in what was a tremendous achievement for the club, its coaches and gymnasts, all the remaining Horsham gymnasts finished in the top six.

The new National NDP Champions are Ben Ratcliffe and Madeline Kent who won gold in the Grade 5 Mixed Pairs and Ella Turtle, Grace Hanger and Darcy Luke who took the gold medal in the Grade 2 Groups.

The other competitors over the weekend were Aimee Tolhurst and Ella Louise-Nelson who finished an agonising fourth in the Grade 5 Women’s Pairs, Grade 5 Women’s Group, Myla Kettell, Matilda Tester and Phoebe Rochead who finished fifth, Grade 6 Women’s Group Emily Steere, Zoe Schubert and Natalie O’Hara who were also placed 5th and to complete the tremendous series of results Dom Goddard and Zoe Gaudiano who came sixth in the Grade 3 Mixed Pairs competition.

To have fifteen gymnastics competing at the National Finals from one club is a huge achievement for Horsham Gymnastics Centre and to have them all finish so highly and to include overall champions shows the strength and commitment of the current Acro squad.

Both weekends were extremely successful with all of the gymnasts passing their grades and bringing home an amazing collection of medals, rosettes and shields. Including 6 Golds, 4 Silvers and 2 Bronze Meldals.

Horsham also won the Eileen Disley cup for the second year running. The cup is presented to the club that has achieved the highest number of points in total over the two weekends.

The first round saw the National Grade 4 gymnasts compete. Poppy Griggs came 1st,  Millie Craven came 2nd and Charley Bargman came 5th overall. All three girls will  be representing the South East at National Finals in Stoke in May.

The second round had National Grade 3 competitors. Scarlett Tidy came 3rd, Honesty South came 5th and Fran Clark came 9th overall. Scarlett and Honesty will be  representing the South East at National Finals in Stoke in May.

The final round included all of the Compulsory grades.

At Compulsory 4 in age Amara McGeachie came 1st and Cissy Marlow came  2nd overall. Amara and Cissy will both be representing the South East at National  Finals in Stoke in April.

Compulsory 4 out of age Katie Ridley came 1st and Christina Pollington  came 2nd overall.

At Compulsory 3 in age Izzy Lamb came 1st overall and will also be representing  the South East at the National Finals.

Horsham also won the Eileen Disley Cup for the second year running. This is presented  to the club that has the highest points total achieved taken from gymnasts overall placings  throughout the 2 weekends of grades competition.

Phoebe Light came 1^st overall and Elena Jones came 4th overall in Grade 5 in age and they both passed with distinction. Phoebe Light also secured the highest score of her round.

Isabelle Carr came 1^st overall and Lily Garrard came 4^th overall in Grade 6 out of age. Lola McNaughton came 2^nd overall in Grade 6 in age.

Mandy Rabina came 3^rd overall in Grade 4.

Congratulations to all the gymnasts who competed it was amazing weekend with wonderful results.

Isobel competed fantastically in the FIG Barbie Team Challenge, coming in 3rd place with her other team members from Tolworth.

Click here for results.

Horsham's gymnasts hard work pays off in gold, with the teams returning with 13 Gold's, 7 Silver's and 2 Bronze's.

Please see our results for more information.

 Horsham did exceptionally well over the weekend returning home with an impressive tally of medals.

 Benjamin Ratcliffe and Madeleine Kent won Gold in the Grade 5 mixed pairs, Aimee Tolhurst and Ella Nelson also won Gold in the Grade 5 women’s pairs, and Caitlin Simpson, Amy Barry and Sophie Hogton won 5^th place in the Grade 4 women’s groups. Horsham then dominated the podium in the Grade 5 women’s groups with Myla Kettell, Matilda Tester and Phoebe Rochead winning Gold and Manami Imada, Ella Dronfield and Alexandra Rodgers taking home Silver medals. To finish off an already extremely successful day, Emily Steere, Zoe Schubert and Natalie O’Hara won Gold in the Grade 6 women’s groups.    

 The younger categories competed on the Sunday. Isabella Powell and Alexis O’Hara came 6^th and Annabelle Wright and Holly Cartwright came 9^th in the Grade 2 women’s pairs and Dominic Smith and Jackson Laing won Silver in the Grade 3 men’s pairs. Devon Thomas and Nina Butler- Laplace won Silver and Dean Ede and India Fieldon came 4^th in the Grade 2 mixed pairs. Summer Smith, Rhiannon Elwell and Clementine Tester came 4^th and Ella Turtle, Grace Hanger and Darcy Luke won Gold in the Grade 2 women’s groups. Dominic Goddard and Zoe Gaudiano won Gold medals in the Grade 3 mixed pairs. Finally, to end the day Till Moore, Abbey Marsden and Olivia Barry came in 7^th in the Grade 3 women’s groups.

 Congratulations to everyone who competed, fantastic results. Good luck to all the gymnasts who are now through to the national finals held in May in Stoke-on-Trent.

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Local companies in Horsham came together to race on Tuesday 17th February 2015 to help raise money for local charities.

Thank-you to the Horsham Rotary Club for hosting another successful and enjoyable event.

The podium results were 2 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals and 2 Bronze Medals. 

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