Photos online from the British Gymnastics Championships 2015. Nikon D4S and Nikon 70-200 2.8 combination used for the majority of the photos. focusing quick and accurate with the D4. Some images below. The rest of the photos can be viewed at http://www.f2images.com
Covered this event for British Gymnastics at the weekend. It was held at the Europa Gymnastics Centre in London. Great venue 12 apparatus pieces working at the same time.
Photos online at http://bit.ly/Ar6CsP
Kristian Thomas and Jennifer Pinches English Champions 2012
Report from British Gymnastics below:
On the 2nd-4th March, the women’s and men’s artistic English Championships took place at the new Europa centre in Kent. One of the first major competitions in the artistic calendar, the championships saw many big names fighting for the various titles up for grabs.
Women
In the senior women’s category, Jennifer Pinches from the City of Liverpool took the title ahead of : Francis in silver and Niamh Rippin from Notts in bronze. Beth Tweddle MBE only competed on the bars but produced an almost flawless performance to score 15.9 and take the apparatus title.
In the junior competition Gabby Jupp from Sapphire comfortably took gold, with impressive scores on the vault, beam and floor. Charlie Fellowsfrom Sandbach took the silver with Katy Bramley from Notts in bronze.
Tyesha Mattis of East London took the espoir title with a huge score of 52.5, ahead of the younger of the Downie sisters, Ellie Downie and Amy Tinkler from South Durham in the bronze.
Men
In the men’s senior competition, Kristian Thomas took the top spot with South Essex team mates Max Whitlock and Reiss Beckford in second and third respectively. Louis Smith took the pommel horse title with 15.400.
In the men’s Senior B category, Frank Baines was crowned the champion, with Brinn Bevan from South Essex taking the junior title and Donell Osbourne from Earls taking the boys.
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Hannah Whelan in action
Kuksenkov of Russia on High Bar
| 2010 Glasgow Grand Prix Kelvin Hall – November 20th The British gymnasts finished with a magnificent 5 medals at the Glasgow Grand Prix World Cup Event. Hannah Whelan Silver on Beam, Jenni Pinches Bronze on Floor, Imogen Cairns Silver on Vault, Theo Seager Silver on Vault and Louis Smith Gold on Pommel. Louis Smith fresh from his recent World Championship Silver medal once again produced the goods to take the Pommel Horse Gold medal scoring 15.550 ahead of great rival Kristian Berki in second -15.300. Louis said: “I’m really pleased with my routine today and the Gold medal against a truly World class field in Glasgow, including the two former World Champions. This year I’ve achieved everything I set out to do and next year I will be unleashing a bit more difficulty and continue to progress towards my goals at London 2012.” Theo Seager, the powerhouse of the Men’s Team took the Vault Silver behind Chile’s Gonzalez, Theo scored 15.875 on Vault and also made the Rings Final. Imogen Cairns, Commonwealth Vault Champion and recent World Vault finalist took the Silver on “her” piece, with 13.875. Hannah Whelan, 2010 British Champion took Australian Lauren Mitchell on in the Beam competition and came a very close second with 14.500 behind Lauren’s 14.675. Jenni Pinches then took her first ever Grand Prix medal with the Bronze on Floor scoring 14.150. Daniel Purvis failed to medal but produced solid routines in his 3 Finals, whilst debutant Ashley Watson competed in the High Bar Final. Overall, Australian Lauren Mitchell was the star performer in the Women’s events, taking the Beam and Floor titles along with the Asymmetric Bars Bronze; Lauren said: “It’s been an amazing few months, not only for me but for the whole Australian Team. The Commonwealth Games was a great chance for us all to compete in a big event and get experience ahead of the World Championships, which were the big aim for the whole Team. To qualify for the next step of the Olympic Qualification was key so we were really happy with that and then of course for me to win the Floor title was just the icing on the cake – the day just went perfectly for me and I was amazed to get the title! Since the It’s been really hectic traveling to lots of events which have given me great experience. Here in Glasgow I’ve been really happy with my performance and winning the two title,s as the equipment wasn’t what I was used too so it show that I can adapt and work in a range of environments, which is important and shows I’m developing.” The Men’s events were more evenly split with apparatus specialists battling it out on each separate piece. Results- Womens- Mens- Reports- WOMENS VAULT ASYMMETRIC BARS BEAM WOMENS FLOOR MENS FLOOR POMMELS RINGS MENS VAULT PARALLEL BARS HIGH BAR World Cup winners- As the final event of the 2010 Grand Prix series the World Cup winners for the year were also announced- Men’s Floor – Eletherios Kosmidis (GRE) Women’s Vault – Tijana Tkalcec (CRO) |
From British Gymnastics
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Men’s
China’s Kohei Uchimura dazzled the Rotterdam crowd to comfortably take the Men’s All Around World title scoring 92.331 a whole 2.283 points clear of the chasing pack. Germanys Phillip Boy (90.048) took Silver, despite problems on his last piece, High Bar, meaning he had a nervy wait to secure a medal. America’s Jonathon Horton (89.864) finished in Bronze, with Russian gymnast Maxim Devyatovskiy ruining his podium chances by falling twice on Pommels, his last piece of apparatus.
For Great Britain, once again two men in the top ten in the World, Dan Purvis (88.965) finished in a sensational 5th place with Sam Hunter (88.365) in 9th – Britain very firmly established in the World elite.
Women’s
Russian sensation Aliya Mustafina (61.032) took the Women’s World All Around title with a superb display of consistency proving too good for China’s Yuyan Jiang (59.998) in Silver and America’s Rebecca Bross (58.966) who dramatically fell from Beam, her third piece of apparatus.
Britain’s Hannah Whelan put up a great fight but tired towards the end finishing in 16th with teammate Nicole Hibbert improving two places on her qualification ranking to finish in 22nd.
MUSTAFINA Aliya
MUSTAFINA Aliya
MUSTAFINA Aliya
China’s Kohei Uchimura
China’s Kohei Uchimura
Photos now online at http://www.f2images-gymnastics.co.uk from the Media Day at Lilleshall NSC the home of British Gymnastics.
Becky Downie trains on beam
The British Womens Senior Team
I have added more photos to the UK School Games Gallery. Some training and presentation shots.
Angel Romaeo of Wales
Gallery can be viewed at http://www.f2images-gymnastics.co.uk
Been really busy these last few weeks and will post some news and photos soon from recent events.
I attended the British Gymnastics awards yesterday .They were held at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon. Lot of cars and trucks on display for guests to see once the awards were over. A couple of photos below from the event.
Members of the British Women’s Senior Team pictured after receiving awards for their medal success at the Europeans in Birmingham.
Nicole Hibbert receives her award from the President of British Gymnastics Paul Garber
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All Images now online at http://www.photoshelter.com/c/u0000fpbizfqgfes/gallery-collection/European-Championships-2010-Public/P0000aDG4Tmzfr8E
Alan Edwards http://www.f2images.co.uk
The European Gymnastics Championships for men and women is in Birmingham England this year. The event happens over two weeks starting on the 17.4.10 and finishing on 2.5.10. http://www.british-gymnastics.org/site/
I have been covering the Euros for the last 15 years as Official Photographer to British Gymnastics. This year I am also shooting the event as official UEG Photographer http://www.ueg-gymnastics.com
The venue is the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.I have photographed here on many occasions.Transport links are good and the hotel is a 5 minute walk away.A rare luxury.I will be shooting from inside the podium so the main lens camera combination will be the Nikon 200 f2 and aD3.
The Women’s Teams juniors and seniors include: 2009 World Floor Champion Beth Tweddle, British Senior Champion Becky Downie, and first time Seniors Nicole Hibbert, Danusia Francis and Niamh Rippin. The accompanying Junior Team includes Lizzie Beddoe, who finished 2nd in the All-Around in the 2009 Junior British Championships, UK Schools Games All-Around Champion Laura Mitchell, Venus Romaeo (2nd in the All-around at the British Espoir Championships), British Espoir Vault Champion Rebecca Tunney and Ruby Harrold (4th on Vault at the British Espoir Championships).
Beth Tweddle
Becky Downie
The mens line ups include 2009 World All-around Silver medallist Daniel Keatings, 2008 Olympic Pommel Horse Bronze medallist Louis Smith, and World 6th placed All-around gymnast Kristian Thomas; along with the current Under-18, Under-16 and Under-14 British All-around Champions Reiss Beckford, Sam Oldham and Frank Baines who will compete in the Junior Team.
Daniel Keatings
British Gymnastics, Men’s Technical Director, Eddie Van Hoof said: “We are very excited and looking forward to testing ourselves against the best European Teams in Birmingham. We hope to follow the individual successes from the 2009 World Championships, with success in the Team rankings. Great Britain are current Junior European Team Champions and we know we face a very tough test to retain such a high position.”
Alan Edwards www.sports-photo.co.uk http://www.f2images.co.uk
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