City of Plymouth Trampoline Club are celebrating after returning home with a number of medals and titles from English Championships which were held in Sheffield.
The impressive haul included gold medal places for Nyla Every from Millbrook in the 11-12 year female event and Ben Bluett in the 15-16 year male competition. Nyla also teamed up with a gymnast from Leeds to finish in silver medal position in the 11-12 syncro.
Ben, who travels from Tavistock to Plymouth three times a week to train, made his first championship finals in trampoline and double mini trampoline.
In an action-packed field Ben competed incredibly well making the top eight and a place in the final. Ben competed the highest difficulty of the age group event in the final, showing off his impressive double somersaults with complete control. Ben gained himself Gold and the English 15-16 Double Mini Trampoline Title.
In the trampoline 11-12 female category Nyla grew with confidence showing off her quality on the apparatus. She qualified for the final eight and improved again with her final routine, giving her a season personal best, a gold medal and English 11-12 Female Champion title.
Jenny Moore from Yealmbridge also captured top spot in the trampoline 15+ disability category and then partnered an Exeter gymnast to first place in the disability syncro. Jenny was also the club’s first disability double mini trampoline competitor and experienced the event for the first time herself this year, finishing fourth overall.
Oscar Piper from Brixton, who has recently been selected to represent British Gymnastics in France on the trampoline, qualified through to the top eight finals in an incredibly competitive trampoline male 13-14 years field. Oscar competed again showing determination and a number of complex double somersaults to finish seventh overall.
Oscar has a number of events in crucial preparation for the Junior World Championships in Tokyo later this year. The English Championships being the fist saw Oscar plan to again raise the bar on his difficulty level across the event.
Oscar made it through to the final, after making a small mistake in his second pass. This left Oscar with it all to play for, and needed to stick his final two passes to gain the placing he was hoping for.
Oscar delivered twisting double somersaults over his next two passes, and convicted them with pure control and determination, scoring a personal best on one of his final passes. It saw him secure a silver medal and second place at the championships.
Oscar’s sister Evangeline prepared herself for the British Championships in a couple of weeks time and her second call up for the England team in Portugal in October, with some incredible form, executing her skills with the highest quality, gaining herself a spot in the finals. Evangeline continued to deliver with two more impressively executed passes securing her a fourth place finish.
Adam Lee 11-12yrs, completed his preliminary passes well to book himself a place in the final of the 11-12 years male trampoline. Adam went on to impress with his final passes and the inclusion of some new double somersaults this season, and some great quality landings saw Adam secure a silver medal in the event.
Other competitors were: Ollie Lacey sixth place in the 9-10 male trampoline and ninth in the 9-10 mixed double mini trampoline; Billy Lucey twelfth in the 9-10 male trampoline and Adam Lee twelfth in the 11-12 male trampoline.
