Portsmouth Gymnastics Centre celebrating unprecedented Elite results in British Grade finals

Portsmouth Gymnastics Centre boys squad claimed unprecedented results when they competed in the British Grade finals in Birmingham.
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The three-day event is held annual at the GMAC centre, Alexander Stadium, and day one saw Elijah Robinson, Jack Sheen, Alex Fraser and Duro Houghton compete in the Level 1 Club grade. 

Individually Elijah finished 5th, Jack 6th, Alex 8th and Duro 18th as the team won overall bronze.

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Elijah, Jack and Alex have all been invited - along with their coach Alex Leidlmair - to attend a National reward training camp in Manchester next month.

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On day two, Isaiah Lewis-Powell finished 10th in the Elite Level 3 category.

On the final day, PGC had three gymnasts in the five-man level 1 Elite team and three more that made the five-man level 2 Elite team.

Louie Pinhorne (14th ), Bertie O’Sullivan (15th ) and Henry Drackett (27th ) helped their team to the silver meda - the best result for the south region at elite level competition for years.

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The Level 2s were not to be outdone and Jake Palmer finished a brilliant 4th place all around and Jude Moore and Loic Adedze were 27th and 28th respectively as their team won overall bronze.

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Jake has also received an invitation to trial for the 2020 Great Britain squads at the end of this month.

Also competing for PGC were Leighton Critchett (54th, Level 2 Club grade), William Jefcoate-Scholes (30th, Level 3 Club grade) and Faris Akhtar (32nd, Level 4 Club grade).

Portsmouth Gymnastics Centre head coach Adam Paterson enthused: ‘The men’s coaching

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team here are extremely proud of the results achieved this year. 

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‘Right from our youngest gymnasts through to our most senior, we have produced some fantastic results in 2019.

‘This was a great way to end the competition season for the team.’

 

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