Before Christmas five of our Powys Squad boys travelled to Cardiff to compete in a Men’s Artistic Gymnastic Floor and Vault competition and each of them came home with at least one medal. Particular congratulations go to Jack Nash, who won a gold medal on both pieces of apparatus and hence was the overall champion within his age group.  Stan Blake and Stephen Thomas-Parkes also competed well, taking a silver and bronze medal respectively for floor.  With all gymnasts having solid performances on vault, this resulted in Steve winning the overall bronze medal for the under 16 age category and together with Bob and Toby, they secured the team gold.  Well done lads.

In December’14, we held a Gymspire Competition within the club featuring three pieces of apparatus; floor, vault and trampette.  Thirteen girls took part in two age categories and the results were very close.

Within the younger age category, Caitlin won gold on floor, with Katie in silver and Rosie in bronze position.  On vault, Katie took gold, with Taylor winning silver and Caitlin bronze and on trampette Katie again won gold, with Kaitlin in second place and Eleanor and Megan sharing the bronze position.  This gave an overall result of Katie winning the first place trophy, Caitlin second and Taylor third.

In the 14 and over age range,  Millie won gold on floor, with Ffion taking silver and Buffy bronze.  On vault, Ffion took first, with Buffy second and Millie third and on trampette Ffion again won gold, with Maggie taking silver and Millie in bronze position.  When all the results were added up, this made Ffion the overall first place winner, with Millie taking the second place trophy and Buffy third.  Well done to all the girls for a fantastic competition.

The regional Gymspire competition will take place in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff in November 2015.  Please take a look in our gallery for more photographs of this club event.

On 16^th November 2014, four of our 5-7 year old gymnasts traveled to Llanelli to enter the Girl’s Welsh Preparation Grades for the first time. Each gymnast had to learn and perform 5 routines including floor, bar, vault, bench/beam and a range of conditioning.  Our four girls were Phoebe Short, Libby Loxam, Megan Thomas and Francesca Humphreys.

We are extremely proud of all our girls, who were competing against 15 – 30 gymnasts in each age group from some of the largest clubs in Wales, such as Llanelli, E.G.A, City of Swansea, and Neath Afon.

Phoebe and Libby had a very good day for their first major competition. Phoebe had joint 5^th place for bars and joint 6^th for her bench routine. Megan Thomas had a great competition positioning on all apparatus, including winning a silver medal for vault and finishing 6^th overall. Francesca Humphreys performed well and just missed out on a position for her bar routine.  Congratulation to you all.

There are more photographs from the competition on our gallery page.

Well done to all of the 25 Maldwyn Dragon gymnasts who competed at the Regional Tumbling Competition in Abersytwyth on Sunday.  For many, it was their first regional competition and they managed to overcome the nerves and perform well, resulting in some very proud, happy coaches and parents alike.

There was a reasonable haul of medals too, with particular congratulations going to; Eddison who won silver in 8/9 aged boys, Rosie who came a close fourth in 8/9 aged girls, Henry taking silver in 10/11 boys, Caitlin winning gold in 12/13 year girls and Buffy who secured a bronze in 14+ girl’s category.  In additional to the individual medals, the two younger girl’s teams won silver within the team events and the 14+ girls age group took the gold.  Great result!

For more photographs from the day, visit the gallery page.