The weekend saw a number of the Island’s gymnasts come together for the annual IOM Gymnastics Championships. Both the Men’s and Women’s competition saw a reduced entry due to illness, injury and gymnasts being off Island at University and at International events, but those competing produced high difficulty routines to wow the audience.

In Round 1 to kick start the event, gymnasts competing in the Women’s Espoir, Junior and Senior categories and Men’s U/18 category and Senoir category started off the day’s competition in true competitive style.

Starting the event off, Reine Temporaza was the sole competitor in the difficult Compulsory 3 competition. Steady nerves for such a young gymnast saw her perform beautiful and neat routines across 5 apparatus to successfully take the Compulsory 3 Championship title. After battling out on all 4 pieces, Madison Nicol took the overall Espoir Championship title after delivery of a particular well executed beam routine, with Emma Sutton finishing in Silver medal position with the Floor her strongest piece, followed by Jasmine Hamer taking the Bronze after a consistent performance throughout. Chloe Donnelly, showing real strength on Vault, performed well across all apparatus to secure the Junior Championship title. In the senior category, Grace Harrison delivered particularly well routines on Beam and Floor and consistently across all pieces to take the Senior Women’s Championship title, with Nicole Burns taking the overall Silver after strong performance on Bars and Isabel Hester finishing in Bronze position. In addition to the Championships titles, highest scoring gymnasts on each of the four apparatus were awarded individual Apparatus titles. Nicole secured the highest scores on Vault and Bars to take the Championships titles on these pieces with Grace taking the Beam and Floor titles. Grace was also awarded the Overall Senior Women’s title for the highest overall score across the Junior and Senior category. A special artistry award for Floor went to Lauren Kerruish for a well performed floor routine, which she delivered with style.

Grace would like to thank her sponsors Ramsey Crookall Limited and IOM Sports Aid for their continued support.

In the Men’s category, Lawrence Godsell was crowned Senior and overall National Champion scoring well on all pieces but particularly on Rings, having performed the difficult cross move which demands control and strength. Nicholas Harvey who should have competed in the under 16 category made the decision to compete at u18 level to gain consideration scores for international events and provided strong challenge against the older gymnasts. The audience held their breath as on vault he completed a double twisting straight Tsukhara dropping only 0.85 marks and a hand spring pike front summersault, the 1st the first time he had completed this vault in a competition again receiving minimal deductions from the judges. Nick was placed ahead of 17 year old Glenn Yates who showed his strength on Rings and neatness on pommel.

Tony Duchars who trains in the UK but is a member of the Ellan Vannin gymnastics club showed his class on all 6 pieces but especially on pommel and high bar. The audience gasped as he completed Kovac on high bar, involving a summersault above the bar to re-catch. Tony would like to thank IOM Sport for their continued support.

Round 2 saw the younger up and coming talent in the Women’s category produce some quality performances in the afternoon. The youngest competitors showcased their talent in the U8 category with Chloe McKenzie taking the Championship title and Georgia Price taking the overall Silver. After a close challenge across all four pieces, Maya Kewley, by a small margin took the U11 Championship title ahead of Reine Temporaza, who finished in Silver medal position and Keely Shimmin taking the Bronze.
Next up was the Intermediate category which saw a battle for the top spot change after each apparatus. In the end Sacha Bailey took the Intermediate Championship title, closely followed by India Trimble taking the Overall Silver.

The Novice categories involved a high number of gymnasts across a wide age range. Junior Novice Champion title went to Becky Bellhouse, with Sophie Reid taking the Silver and Amelia Waddicor taking the Bronze. Georgia Vernon finished in top spot in the Senior Novice event taking this Championship title, with Natasha Hird taking the Silver and Keri Hampson taking the Bronze. Pre Novice Junior title went to Khayla Corkill followed by Shannon Hands taking the Silver being only 0.4 behind Khayla and Annelise Mellor also close on final score to take the Bronze. The final category was the Pre Novice Seniors and again a tight competition was experienced across all 4 pieces with Chloe Geddes taking the Championship title by only 0.2 ahead of Claire Mason taking the Silver medal over.

Special thanks goes out to all the coaches, officials and volunteers who worked hard to ensure the gymnasts delivered top performances on the day and the event itself was a success and enjoyed by all.

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