ISLE OF MAN GYMNASTICS
 

Official Association for General Gymnastics, Artistic Gymnastics
Affiliated to British Gymnastics
 Secretary : Mrs J Donnelly, IOMAGA, c/o Ellan Vannin Gym, Groves Rd, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 1AD 












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IOMGA WAG LEVEL 2 COACHES COURSE

Dates :
Day 1 : 26 February 2012
Day 2&3 : 6th & 7th April (EASTER)
Day 4&5 : 19th&20th May 2012
Exam : 8th&9th Sept : Manx Gym & Ellan Vannin
Tutors : Gennady Tsyganov 7 Jayne Evett
Courses will be held at Manx Gymnastics and some sessions at Ellan Vannin

Please contact Jayne at Ellan Vannin or email secretary@iomgymnastics.org for more information

IOMGA INVITATIONAL COMPETITION - 26 & 27 NOV

The 9th annual IOM Invitational took place at Ellan Vannin Gymnastics Club. Teams from Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, the North West, Scotland & IOM competed.

Results : Girls Regional L3 : Harrogate / Glasgow / IOM C.

Girls Junior FIG team : IOM D / IOM E team  / Diamonds

Girls Regional Level 4 : Glasgow / Garstang / IOM A

Further Results can be found on the results page

IOM NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011

Congratulations to the 2011 IOM National WAG Champion : Kaitlin Kneen, who won her section and achieve the highest average score of the day at the WAG Competitions held 15 October 2011.

Section winners are as follows :

PreNovice : Ciara Bell (EV)

Jnr Novice : India Trimble (MG)

Snr Novice : Hannah Darnill (MG)

Intermediate : Ciara Wilders (EV)

U9 : Madison Nicol (EV)

u11 : Chloe Donnelly (MG)

u13 : Kaitlin Kneen (EV)

u15 : Rebecca Johnson (MG)

o15 : Grace Harrison (MG)

BOYS u8 : Adam Palmer (EV)

u10 : Callum Kewley (MG)

u12 : Nicholas Harvey (EV)

u14 : Daniel Isherwood (EV)

u16 : Lawrence Godsell (MG) apologies for the omission

16&o : Adam Hedges (MG) 

* Results Here * Report WAG/MAG Photos Here

LEVEL 1 COACHES COURSE

Well done to our newly qualified Level 1 coaches:

 

Rhyanne Hancock

Stacey Saltwell

Michelle Godsell

Ruth Warrilow

Kayleigh Masson

Bryony Goldsmith

Rachel Cook

Alex Hardman

Bethany Quayle

Scott Christian

 

We will be holding a Level 2 MA & WA course in February / March 2012, with the exams in July.

Please contact Jayne Evett at Ellan Vannin Gymnastics if you are interested in taking part.

COMMONWEALTH YOUTH GAMES 2011

The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games are under way.

 

The Team / Qualifying event was held Friday 9th for both WAG & MAG (at the same time in different venues !)

 

WAG : Emily, Kaitlin & Rebecca competed finishing 19th, 21st and 23rd respectively. Kaitlin & Emily qualified for AA finals and Rebecca and Emily as reserves for the Vault finals.

The Girls' team placed 7th as a team

MAG : Anand competed floor only following his injury and unfortunately didn't qualify for Floor Final, Brandon finished 21st & made finals for floor.

 

AA finals on Saturday : Emily and Kaitlin competed placing 14th & 16th respectively.

 

Full results can be found HERE

 

ISLE OF MAN WINS  INTER ISLAND GAMES 2011 !!

Isle of Man won the Inter Island Games with a brilliant 112 points total, ahead of Jersey (79) and Faroe Islands (57)

 

4 Overall Medals were won by our gymnasts at the InterIsland Games in Jersey.
A very special congratulations to
Nick Harvey - Winner of Junior Mens' voluntary
Adam Hedges - Winner of Senior Mens' set
Adam Hedges - Winner of Senior Mens' FIG
Grace Harrison - Winner of Senior Women's FIG

Results now available via the Results Page
Well done Isle of Man !!

SOME PHOTOS (so far) : HERE
(Many Thanks to M Ferguson, Niamh Goddard & Jayne Evett)

 

SOME CYG 2011 GYMNASTS MEET KRIS AKABUSI

Some of the CYG Gymnasts from Isle of Man were recently treated to afternoon tea with Kriss Akabusi MBE. 

Kriss won three medals at the Summer Olympics and three World Championship medals, amongst others.

Akabusi has presented the television shows Record Breakers and The Big Breakfast, and has regularly appeared as a panellist on many quiz shows such as A Question of Sport, They Think It’s All Over and Through the Keyhole where his trademark infectious laugh brings smiles to many.


Kriss began his motivational speaking career over 10 years ago and is now one of Britain’s most recognised and respected motivational speakers, presenting his FIT4Business” speech to Blue Chip and FTSE 100 companies.

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE IOM CYG 2011 TEAM

The Isle of Man Commonwealth Games Association recently announced the Isle of Man team members to represent the island in the 7 different sports which will be contested against other Commonwealth Countries during September 2011.


Congratulations to Rebecca Johnson (MG), Emily Dale-Beeton and Kaitlin Kneen (both EV) to make a full team of 3 on the Artistic Women's side. (Holly Black is the reserve.) Anand Patel & Brandon Garrett (both MG) are the Artistic Men Gymnasts to compete at the event.

Jayne Evett & Gennady Tsganov will be the 2 coaches.

Congratulations to all concerned ! We wish these gymnasts all the best during their final preparations for the competition.

Minutes of the Selection Meeting : HERE & the Spreadsheets of All considered scores : HERE & HERE

GOOD LUCK IN JERSEY - ALT. ISLAND GAMES 2011

Good luck to the Gymnasts & their coaches who arrived in Jersey today (Tynwald Day). As the sport of gymnastics was not included in the full Island Games, Jersey offered to host the Gymnastics competition on their island as an 'Alternate Island Games'.

 

Islands competing include Bermuda, Jersey, Aland, Faroes, Ynys Mon, Cayman and IOM.

Representing the IOM are :
Senior girls : Rhyanne Hancock, Grace Harrison, Stacey Saltwell and Ciara Goddard.
Junior girls : Tara  Ferguson, Isabel Hester, Emelie Haddock, Iona Cheetham, Radha Patel & Sinead Hands.
Senior boys : Adam Hedges, Anand Patel, Brandon Garrett and Lawrence Godsel
Junior  boys  : Glenn Yates, Nick Harvey, Daniel  Isherwood, Robert Jones, and Oliver Scott.

We hope to add results as soon as possible.
SOME PHOTOS (so far) : HERE
(Many Thanks to VJD, Niamh Goddard & Jayne Evett)

IOMGA LEVEL 1 COACHES COURSE

This weekend was a busy one for the Level 1 Coaches Course candidates and all the demonstration gymnasts.

The course, held both days at Manx Gymnastics, had a good number of new coaches in attendance. George, a facilitator from England supervised the course with Gennady, Graham and Jayne as facilitators.

Good Luck to all participants who will further prepare for their formal assessment to be held later in the year. Thank you to all the children who assisted as demonstrators over the weekend.

Photos : HERE


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