Maldwyn Dragons gymnasts competed brilliantly at the West Wales Regional Prelims, Tumble and Vault Competition 2015 in Llanelli on Sunday 17th February.  Over 125 regional gymnasts took part and the Dragons came home with a host of medals and five Individual Champions trophies.

Champions in age were; over 17’s Millie Jones, under 17’s Ffion Pugh, Under 14’s boys Jude Westermann, under 14’s girls Caitlin Price and under 12’s Rosie Rees.

In addition, we won Team golds in over 17’s, under 14’s and under 12’s girls category and a bronze for our under 10’s team.  Well done to everyone who competed, a fantastic effort and a great result.  More photos on Gallery page.

On Friday 23rd January, Maldwyn Dragon’s hosted the Urdd gymnastic competition for primary schools within the Powys area.  There were 32 entries from six schools travelling from Churchstoke, Llandysillio, Llanidloes, Montgomery and Newtown.  It was an exciting competition, for 7-11 year olds, where final scores were close in most categories with results as follows:

Girls: Rosie Rees – Gold, Leah Richards – Silver and Eleanor Taylor – Bronze

Boys: Joseph Knox – Gold, Nick Negri – Silver and Finlay Jones – Bronze

Pairs: Eleanor Taylor & Lucy Lee-Jervis – Gold, Rosie & Nadia – Silver and Menna & Leah – Bronze

 

The winners from each category will go on represent their school in  Aberystwyth on 11th February.  We wish them all luck, with particular congratulations to our very own Rosie, Eleanor and Lucy, who’ll also be flying the flag for Maldwyn Dragons.  Lots more competition photographs can be seen on our gallery page, please take a look.

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.