After a very successful 2009, the club continued to go from strength to strength in all competitions, this year we have introduced a new squad for the boys, as we did for the girls, the squad members have increased since the beginning of 2009, already looking at the competition calendar it seems we will be rather busy, in fact, we will have around 120 gymnasts competing at various events throughout March!
COMPETITIONS.
GIRLS:
January 30th/31st: Greater Manchester Grades (Copley)
February 27th/28th: North West Regional Grades. (Warrington)
March: 27th/28th: Phil Tighe 2 Piece Competition. (Copley)
April;9th/11th. Daimler cup. 4 piece competition.(Schorndorf)
BOYS:
March 6th/7th: English Championships (Leicester)
March 13th: London Open (Dagenham)
March 21st: North West Team Championships (Warrington)
March 27th/28th: Phil Tighe 2 Piece Competition (Copley)

COMPETITION. North West County 4 Piece and Regional Championships
VENUE: Birchwood Leisure and Tennis Centre Benson Road Warrington WA3 7PQ
DATE: Sunday 8th November.
20 gymnasts from the boys competition squad competed in the above competitions, the 4 piece county competition saw the young gymnasts produce some excellent routines, in the under 10’s age group Harrison Daly came away with the overall silver medal, in the under 12’s age group William Ratcliffe also won the overall silver medal.
In the regional championships 6 six nine year old gymnasts competed in the under 12’s championships, Joseph Spellacy won a overall silver medal, in the under 14’s competition Mason Whealing won the overall gold medal retaining his trophy for the second year running, Mason also won the gold medals on Floor, Rings, Parallel Bars and High Bar, in the under 16’s Michael Finch won the overall Bronze medal and gold medal on the vault.
A great weekend for the Bury gymnasts, all the gymnasts now will prepare for 2010 in the club and elite grades.
Well done to all the competing gymnasts.
County 4 piece: Conor Rodgers, Matthew Barber, Callum Fielding, Sam Lee, Adam Phillips, Jack Smith, Daniel Froggatt, Harrison Daly, William Ratcliffe, Thomas Hardy.
Regional Championships: Niall Edgehill, Alex Lomax, Rhys Hickman, Sam Bowden, Jack Headley, Joseph Spellacy, Mason Whealing, Jack Knights, Joshua Donohoe and Michael Finch.

The 2009 UK Schools Games took place in Cardiff last weekend with gymnasts from the home Nations competing in the multi-sport major event.Mason Whealing was selected as part of the English mens team, thus becoming our second international gymnast.
The Saturday competition saw the English team facing strong opposition from Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish teams.
After the Welsh Team forged an early lead over the first 2 rotations the English boys took the competition by a 12-point margin with the Scottish Team taking the Bronze.

The English Team scored 310.500, with Wales on 292.700, Scotland on 272.450 and the two man Northern Irish Team scoring 123.050.

Sunday saw the aparatus finals where Mason qualified second in the floor competition. One deduction of 0.5 meant that Mason finished in a very creditable fourth place, just denying him the chance to add an individual medal to the previous day's team gold.
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Full results.
http://www.ukschoolgames.com/2009/results/gymnastics/