Fifteen-year-old Gabby Jupp (Sapphire) and 20-year-old Max Whitlock (South Essex) won their first senior all-around titles Saturday at the 2013 British Gymnastics Championships, held on podium at the Echo Centre in Liverpool.
… the British championships included competition for both women (junior and senior) and men (hopes, junior and senior).
Jupp looked extremely poised as she comfortably claimed the all-around title over fellow first-year senior Charlie Fellows (Sandbach Gymnastics) and Niamh Rippin (Notts). …
Jupp, the 2012 British junior champion, is coached by Steve Price at Sapphire School of Gymnastics in Hemel Hempstead near London.
… Whitlock grabbed the senior title with a solid 90.650, more than a point above the 89.400 he had scored three weeks ago at the English championships. He took gold medals on floor exercise (3 1/2 punch front full; 2 1/2 to Rudi; Thomas; Randi; triple twist; 15.300) and on vault (Yurchenko 2 1/2; 15.100). The double Olympic bronze medalist also scored 15.700 on pommel horse, his best event.
“I’m well happy!” he said. “To start the year by winning the English title, which has always been one of my main ambitions, and then to win the British is just crazy. I’m happy with all my routines, particularly vault, which I’ve worked hard to improve and it’s paid off. It’s been important to me to prove to people I’m an all-around gymnast, the pommel will always be my strongest piece but I wanted to go out and show I can do all-around …
2008 Olympian Daniel Keatings, who served as a frustrated alternate to Britain’s bronze-medal winning team at the 2012 Olympics in London, competed three events and grabbed gold on each. Keatings, the 2009 world all-around runner-up, scored 158900 on pommel horse, 15.600 on parallel bars and 15.150 on high bar. …
read more on Amanda Turner’s excellent IG wrap-up post – Rising Talent Rules British Championships
As usual, she has full results.
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