Novice gymnasts bring back gold from Bristol Invitational

Faith Symons, Saffy Herbert, and Emily Bristol  - coached by Pam Burns and Melissa Ilsley - achieved the highest scores in the novice women's trio event, taking the honours with a score of 25.05.

The young partnership train around nine hours each week in the Squad Acro 2 group at Honiton Gym Club.

Also in the medals at the competition - which boasted competitors from Russia, Holland, Switzerland and throughout the UK - were 11-16 men's pair Buster Tutcher and Ashley Wallis (silver), and grade 2 mixed pair Adam Fullick and Megan Jones (bronze).

Pam Burns, senior club coach at Honiton Gym Clubs, said: "The girls competed excellently at the competition.  It's the first of the year for them, and hopefully their confidence will grow further and spur them onto even greater things.  They've got just a week until their national development plan prelims in Sherborne, so we hope they can repeat their medal-winning performance there."

The annual competition, hosted by King Edmund Acrobatic Gymnastics Club, is one of the most prestigious in the sport's calendar, and features competitors from all the UK's top clubs, plus many top performers from around the world.  It serves as an excellent preparation for Honiton's young gymnasts who are either preparing for regional preliminary competitions or the British Championships.

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