A squad of 10 gymnasts travelled down to Bracknell on Friday 31st August 2012 to compete in the Heathrow Aerobic Gymnastics Championships.

For many of our gymnasts this was their first time competing, all gymnasts did our club extremely proud and showed true potential for the future.

First to compete was 3 of the younger members of the team, they competed in the PRE Foundation section which is for gymnasts aged 6-9years.

The first gymnast to perform for LK was Megan Meadows, she performed a beautiful routine showing excellent strength and fantastic execution, she scored 11.450.

Next up was Emily Blackhurst, our youngest competing gymnasts. Emily showed excellent confidences in her work and performed a lovely artistically pleasing routine and earned herself a score of 11.40.

Lucy Eaves was the final competitor in this section and again performed a lovely routine, fantastic execution and lovely artistic, Lucy scored 11.25. All 3 girls did fantastic in their first competition, well done girls.

The next section was RAC FND, this is for the 9-10 year olds. In this section we hand 2 gymnasts, Bonita Markey-Pedder and Gerogia Bancroft.

This was Georgia’s first competition, she moved in perfect time to her music, a lovely clean routine finishing in 6th place with a score of 11.00.

Next up was Bonita, this was Bonita’s second competition and the experience really paid off. She performed a fantastic routine, scoring 12.350 and securing herself the silver medal.

Moving on to the next section, this sections is National Development (10-11yesrs) Cailtin Hamilton was our only representative in this section. Again this was her first competition. Caitlin performed a lovely routine, she scored 11.20 and finished in 10th place.

Last to compete on Friday was Maddy Firth-Cook, she competes in RAC Group 1 (12-14years). Maddy has competed at all national competitions this year and has improved her position and score at each competition. This competition was no exception, Maddy showed huge improvement , performing a beautifully executed routine and scored all of her difficulty skills. just missing out on a medal, Maddy finished in 4th place with a score of 12.650.

Saturday saw our FIG gymnasts compete. We had 2 gymnasts in this section, Cerys Mellor and Naomi Parkinson. Naomi was first to compete with a clean routine, scoring all but one difficulty skill, she finished in 9th with 15.6 and qualified for finals.

Cerys was next to compete, she performed a lovely routine, unfortunately did not score one of her difficulty elements which meant she missed out on a place in the final, she finished with a score of 14.8 in 13th, with the top 12 qualifying for the final.

Sunday saw the SNR NAC category and Olivia Parkinson was back on form with a beautiful routine, although she missed 2 of her high scoring difficulty elements she still managed a fantastic score of 15.450 and a bronze medal.

The finals for G1 was next, with Naomi finishing in 8th on Saturday we were hoping she could improve on her place and score. She did not disappoint Naomi performed a fantastic routine, scoring all her diffiuclty elements and scored a 16.250 and finished in 4th place. 

The final routine of the weekend was the G1 FIG pair with Cerys and Naomi. They showed huge improvement with their synchronisation and achieved a score of 15.30 and finished in 3rd place.

Well done to all LK Gymnasts, we are very proud of the progress you have made in so little time!