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.

In May half term, some of our younger gymnasts aged 5, 6 & 7 travelled to Llanelli to compete in a Tumble and Vault competition.  They all performed beautifully and the 5 year old team won third place.  In the 7 year old category, Megan Thomas did well individually, coming joint third and we’d like to say a big ‘congratulations’ to all of our competitors.  More photographs can be viewed on the gallery page.

This May, we took two girls teams to Deeside to compete in a floor and vault competition. Once again many gymnasts came home with medals, with coaches and parents very proud of their performances. In the younger age category, Team Cartwheel girls won three medals; Cerys Jones placed 3rd for 5 year olds and in the 8 year old section, Molly Cooke took 3rd and Ffion Jones 2nd.

Team Flick represented our older girls and they won a total of 8 medals, including a gold each for Shona Jones, Ffion Pugh and Buffy Knill. Well done girls!  The other medal winners are as follows: Megan Thomas – 2nd (7yrs), Francesca Humphreys – 3rd (8yrs), Caitlin Price – 3rd (13yrs), Seren Richards – 2nd (16yrs) and Millie Jones – 2nd (17yrs).

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

Over the weekend of 18/19th April, a large number of our gymnasts travelled down to Cardiff to compete in the Welsh National Prelims Competition.  We are delighted to report that many of them came home with medals, including Katie Shackleton and Nick Negri who came 1st in their catagory and won overall individual champion awards and Caitlin Price, Shona Jones and Katie who collectively became the under 14’s team champions.  The full results are detailed below and photographs from the day can be seen on or gallery page.  Well done everyone.

 Under 10’s – Girls Phase 1 (out of 130 girls):

On 29th March MDC Diamonds cheerleading team entered their first ever competition, taking place at Llanidloes community centre.  All the cheerleaders performed individual arm drills, jumps, flexibility & tumbling moves in the technical section of the competition.  In addition, MDC Diamonds entered and performed in 7 team routines with routines results as follows:

Mini Diamonds cheer routine = 2nd place
Mini Diamonds hip hop/free style routine = 2nd place
Youth Diamonds (Rubies) cheer routine = 1st place
Junior Diamonds cheer routine  = 2nd place
Junior Diamonds hip hop/free style routine = 2nd place
Junior Diamonds (Sapphire) Pom routine = 4th place
Junior Diamonds (Crystal) cheer routine = 3rd place

All the girls did extremely well and made their coaches very proud!  MDC Diamonds very much enjoyed the experience and are now preparing for more events in 2015.  For more photos from the competition please look on our gallery page.