Amy Tinkler has been crowned senior all-around women’s British Champions at the Echo Area, Liverpool in a thrilling day of world class gymnastics action.
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.
Amy was elated afterwards saying “It's amazing I can't believe it! To be honest I would have just been happy to go through my routines cleanly but to win is just unreal. The support I've had from coaches, friends, teammates everyone has been incredible an absolute dream come. To go from junior to senior champion I can believe it, I'm excited to now hopefully be selected for the European Championships and just continue improving"
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. 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).
