6, 5 & 4 gymnasts travelled to Llanelli to compete in this years club grades competition. All 10 gymnasts passed with two commended and one distinction.

Megan came 4th overall in grade 5 and is through to represent west area in the Welsh national finals in Cardiff in two weeks.

Well done girls!

More images can be found on our gallery page.

Maldwyn Dragons travelled to Llanelli gymnastic club to take part in “Gymspire” for the first time, which is a regional, three apparatus competition. Well done girls for an excellent competition, particularly some gymnasts competing away from Powys for their first time and performing new routines. To top it all, we came home with two regional overall champions; Rosie  in the under 12’s and Millie in the 12+ category.

The results were as follows:

Under 8’s – Megan 4th overall and Olivia 3rd on trampette.  Team 3rd.  Well done!

Under 10’s – Erin 3rd overall and Ffion 5th overall.  Vault: Ffion 2nd and Erin 3rd.  Maldwyn Dragons had two teams in this age group, both teams performed brilliantly achieving team 2nd and 3rd.

Under12’s – Overall winner Rosie 1st place, Eleanor 2nd, Carys 4th and Ylyssia 6th.  Well done girls…first regional competition with a floor routine set to music.  Vault: 1st Rosie, joint 2nd Eleanor and Carys, Floor: 1st Eleanor, 2nd Rosie, Trampette: 1st Eleanor, 3rd Rosie.  Team 1st.

12+ Overall winner Millie 1st place, Katie 3rd and Shona 4th. Vault: 1st Millie, 2nd Shona, Floor: Millie 1st place. Well done girls, excellent results.

More photographs from the competition can be viewed on the gallery page.

Some of our female gymnasts travelled to Llanelli on 27th September to compete in the 5, 6 and 7 year old Preparation Grades competition. Even at this young age, it was a tough competition but the girls did us proud.  The 5 year olds won a team silver medal with Daisy winning the 5th place ribbon for her vault and Chloe winning 6th place on floor.  In the 6 year old category, Poppy took 6th place on bar and it was a double fifth place achievement for Megan, who competed in the 7 year old age group and was placed fifth for both bar and floor.

Well done girls, we hope you enjoyed the experience and you all looked fantastic. There are a few more photographs on our gallery page, so do take a look.

On 4/5th July weekend Maldwyn Dragons hosted its annual A-Z competition, for the first time in the new premises.  Over 200 gymnasts competed from all over Powys, in four age categories and at three levels.  There were both individual and team competitions for girls and boys and a plethora of medals and trophies to be won.

A full list of winners will be available shortly but in the meantime we’d like to say a massive congratulations to everyone who took part.  There are lots of podium photographs on the gallery page, with loads of medals on show and even more smiles.  What a fabulous weekend gymnasts!

On 20th June, 24 of our gymnasts travelled to the National Sports Centre in Cardiff to take part in the Gymeisteddfod 2015.  There were over 300 gymnasts performing from around Britain, on a great stage to a packed audience.  The Maldwyn girls transformed into the “Weather Girls” for the event and their display combined some wonderful artistic gymnastics and cheerleading moves.  The accompanying music was a mash up of ‘I’m singing in the Rain,’ ‘Umbrella’ and ‘It’s raining Men,’ and was beautifully choreographed from start to finish.  What an exciting display girls and great team work, you should all be very proud!

More photographs from the event can be seen within the gallery and there’s a video of the performance on our facebook page.