EDITORIAL

Martin Laws

Dear Reader, 

Welcome to the October edition of TRAMPOLINE NEWS 2006.  My thanks to all those who contribute to this our most important Newsletter.  As always, please circulate this latest edition, as widely as possible.

As we race towards the end of the year, and especially towards Christmas (time fly’s fast at my age), some of our younger up and coming stars will get the opportunity to shine in two international youth matches.  The first at the end of September is our annual match against GERMANY, then GB versus SWEDEN and PORTUGAL at Gillingham on October 21^st will see our under 15s, some for their first International event. 

We also look forward to seeing the seniors show what they are made of at the World Cup Finals to be held in Birmingham on November 25^th.  More I am sure will follow in other reports.

The NTTC has offered an injection of cash to region’s and squads to help catch up with all the changing activity. To date only 4 regions (SE, S, N & E Mids) plus Scotland and Wales have actually responded, so it seems some areas are still not active enough.  If this is one of your areas, please start asking questions – you may be missing a great deal of information and opportunities.

I spoke two years ago at our Technical Conference about the wave of changes that was due to touch all areas of our sport and that is now accelerating.  With the New Year, comes a whole new Coaching Scheme, “Cycle 6”.  After many, many hours of reviewing the structure, it will come into force in January 2007.  Cathy Page’s article will inform you even more of what will be required by our coaches to ensure a smooth progression through the change.  Please keep vigilant to ensure you are able to remain licensed.

Details are also expected to be released in January (to be brought in Jan 08) concerning the new Competitions Scheme. This has been worked on all through 2006 and the team are expected to be making some radical suggestions!   

The LTAD team have begun work implementing this very important side of our sport and more will follow on this subject I am sure.

World Class is under review again! I know some of you will be saying “oh no not again”, but it’s vital that we stay cutting edge in structure, training and performance. UKSport are very keen to assist Trampolining, which means they now recognise the potential in our sport. Unfortunately the rest of the world seems to be switching on as well. I think we can all see that Europe is going to struggle to remain a dominant force in world trampolining unless it finds an antidote to the onslaught of some new continental strength. 

We are due soon to start a new group up and running on “Technology Integration”.  If you have skills you feel may be of advantage, please get in touch with me immediately. Specifically sought are skills in journalism, IT, video and Internet.

At the recent UEG meeting, it was decided that Kavalla (Greece) was to host another international training camp in 2007, as the camp held in August this year was a great success.  This is an ideal way to mix and enjoy the sport internationally before you reach that stage and enjoy a beach as well!  Look out for application forms in the near future, but put week 36 in your diaries now.  

2007 will also see the introduction of a new European Club Cup competition.  More details will follow as they become available, but this exciting new event should see some British success!

I am now looking forward to the January Technical Conference to start learning about all these innovations….

SPOTTING

Seven British Gymnasts have made it through to the 2006 FIG World Cup Finals to be staged in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, on Saturday 25^th November – Claire Wright IND TRA, Claire/Jamie Moore SYN TRA, Mark Alexander/ Simon Milnes SYN TRA, Damien Walters men’s TUM  and  Samantha Palmer and Zoe Mclean women’s TUM. Good luck to all. Ed.

8^th FIG WORLD CUP FINAL

Trampoline & Tumbling

BIRMINGHAM

25 November 2006

National Indoor Arena

Tickets 0870 366 6543

Ticket Prices

Adult Gold: £13

Adult Silver: £9 Concession £7

Adult Bronze: £6 Concession £4

Concessions = U16, Students, Passport to Leisure holders, Senior Citizens over 60.

There will be a booking fee for each ticket that you purchase plus a transaction fee of £1.50.

Disabled customers are advised to book early.

Discounts are available for group bookings. Free phone 0800 378 985.

Every ticket holder will also be entitled to a free British Gymnastics radio, on which you will be able to hear full commentary on the event.

*Ticket Hotline: 0870 366 6543

Online bookings: www.necgroup.co.uk

Programme: the action will start at 1.30pm and the events will take place in the following order:

Women’s Synchronised Trampoline

Men’s Synchronised Trampoline

Women’s Tumbling

Men’s Tumbling

Women’s Individual Trampoline

Men’s Individual Trampoline

* Tickets  are  on  sale now and can be purchased by telephone, online or in person at the ICC or NEC box offices.

FIG TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING WORLD CUP FINAL

Qualifiers

After the final qualifying event (where Ranking Points could be obtained) held in Salzgitter GER  earlier in the month, the following gymnasts have qualified for the World Cup Final due to be staged in Birmingham GBR on 25^th November 2006, in the National Indoor Arena:

Women’s Synchronised Trampoline Final

01 A Dogonadze/J Simon GER 280.36 points

02 N Chernova/I Karavaeva RUS 246.47 points

03 K Cockburn/R MacLennan CAN 215.50 points

04 Y Domchevska/ E Movchan UKR 206.63 points

05 H Hanmoto/Y Seto JPN 161.00 points

06 J Moore/C Wright GBR 67.50 points

07 T Petrenia/E Mironova BLR 66.00 points

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Reserve:

Men’s Synchronised Trampoline Final

01 N Kazak/V Kakorko BLR 308.03 points

02 M Serth/H Stehlik GER 242.55 points

03 T Sotomura/Y Ueyama JPN 209.20 points

04 M Boillet/L Martin SUI 171.66 points

05 M Jala/S Laifa FRA 149.59

06 A Villefuerte/S Mooij NED 126.58 points

07 T Kawanishi/D Nakata JPN 109.03

08 M Alexander/S Milnes GBR 102.61 points

Reserve: O Chernonos/Y Nikitin UKR

Women’s Tumbling Final

01 A Korobeynikova RUS 459.10 points

02 Y Hall USA 165.50 points

03 H Terrenia BLR 152.21 points

04 S Palmer GBR 122.50 points

05 Z McLean GBR 121.50 points

06 E Smith CAN 78.68 points

07 E Millory FRA 54.29 points

08 A de Win BEL

Reserve: O Murtazina KAZ

Men’s Tumbling Final

01 A Kabishav BLR 249.30 points

02 J Wadecki POL 228.50 points

03 N Fournials FRA 155.89 points

04 J Wang CHN 147.50 points

05 H Pan CHN 147.49 points

06 D Walters GBR 144.70 points

07 A Skorodoumov RUS 112.91 points

08 Y Tarin FRA 92.46 point

Reserve:  A Batienko RUS 90.28 points

Women’s Individual Trampoline Final

01 I Karavaeva RUS 461.40 points

02 K Cockburn CAN 387.60 points

03 A Dogonadze GER 333.80 points

04 N Chernova RUS 248.95 points

05 E Movchan UKR 241.04 points

06 S Huang CHN 197.99 points

07 C Wright GBR 106.62 points

08 A Lenders NED 63.56 points

Reserve: E Khilko UZB

Men’s Individual Trampoline Final

01 Y Ueyama JPN 303.92 points

02 Rusakov RUS 248.12 points

03 Y Nikitin UKR 244.91 points

04 H Stehlik GER 224.31 points

05 D Martin FRA 132.01 points

06 G Knychev RUS 115.36 points

07 Z Que CHN 112.40 points

08 T Sotomura JPN 86.45 points

Reserve: A Goetz GER

The Pictograms for the 28 International Sports Federations of the Beijing Olympic Games were released on 8^th August past, exactly two years prior to the start of the XXIX Olympiad.

The icons were designed by the Chinese Fine Arts and the Academy of Arts and Design.

Trampoline Review in Partnership with UK Sport

Following the relatively disappointing results at the 2005 World Championships and the European Championships in Metz, British Gymnastics in collaboration with UK Sport have agreed to undertake a detailed review of the current World Class programmes, to ensure the best possible preparation and supporting performance structure is in place leading up to the London Olympic Games. This review will be undertaken by a core working group comprised of representatives from BG, UK Sport and an independent consultant. The jointly agreed project brief will focus on current practice within the programme and also quantify the 'gap' to the podium.
One to one interviews with the key stakeholders will build upon the internal BG review conducted after the European Championships. The outcome will be to provide an independent

assessment, utilising both sport specific expertise and the accrued experience of a range of other successful, consistently medal producing Olympic sports in the UK and abroad, of the steps necessary to ensure that British performers produce medal-winning performances at 2012 Games.

Development Update

Joanne Shackleton

PE and School Sport

In England a national PE, School Sport and Club Links strategy was launched by the Prime Minister in October 2002.  It went live in April 2003.  In total over £1½ billion is being invested into physical education and school sport in the five years up to 2008.

The Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have come together to jointly lead the strategy.  Its overall objective — a public service agreement target shared by the two Departments — is to enhance the take-up of sporting opportunities by 5-16 year-olds.  The ambitious target is to increase the percentage of schoolchildren who spend a minimum of two hours a week on high quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum to 75% by 2006 and then 85% by 2008.

The long-term ambition, by 2010, is to offer all children at least four hours of sport every week made up of:

·         at least two hours of high quality PE and sport at schools — with the expectation that this will be delivered totally within the curriculum; and

·         an additional 2-3 hours beyond the school day delivered by a range of school, community and club providers.

The first two work strands within the national PE, School Sport and Club Links Strategy are a national school sports infrastructure of specialist sports colleges and school sport partnerships.  As specialist schools, the vision of Sports Colleges is to raise standards of achievement in physical education and sport for all their students across the ability range leading to whole school improvement.  School Sport Partnerships are families of schools that received additional funding from the Government to come together to enhance sports opportunities for all, centered on increasing participation.

Whilst the Strategy is an England only document much is also happening in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales associated with the development of physical education and school sport.

One new initiative, being driven through the School Sport Partnerships in England, is the National Competition Framework for Young People. Following consultation with a wide range of National Governing Bodies, a National Competition Framework for the delivery of each sport has been established, which can be delivered by teachers, school sport coordinators and coaches within the school sport partnership infrastructures.   In the first phase of this programme 20 Competition Managers were employed within School Sport Partnerships to manage and facilitate the systemic change with school competition structures, aligning them to the nationally produced templates.  In the second phase, fourteen areas across England will have a team of Competition Managers led by a senior Competition Manager who will work strategically to support the development of schools competition.    Gymnastics was one of the first eight sports to produce a framework and I am excited to announce that trampoline will be one of the next.

Gymmark

Congratulations to all those clubs who have recently achieved the quality standard mark – Gymmark.  As you will probably be aware, we are particularly keen for all clubs to work towards and achieve the award, but especially those clubs with performers at Grade 1 and 2, as this was a target within our Four Year Strategic Plan. 

Communication Agreement

Following the distribution of the communication agreement via the Home Country Associations, can I just add a plea that a development/communication contact is identified within each regional/home country technical committee.  This will create a communication network within the development /communication agenda that will be proactive from both sides.

So far I have a development/communications contact for the following: Scotland, South East, North and East Midlands.   Could the other regions/home country associations please complete the communication agreement and return to their Home Country Association who will then forward it back to us, identifying someone who will be a development/communications officer.

Congratulations to Asha Philip, our young DMT champion who was selected to represent Great Britain in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) – World Junior Championships, held in Beijing August 2006. Asha was the youngest athlete in the competition and the only girl from Great Britain to make the qualifying score for the 100m. Asha set a new personal best of 11.45sec in the heats and went on to finish 3^rd in the semi finals and 4^th in the final.

SCOTS MAKING PROGRESS

During the past two to three years a number of young Scottish Gymnasts have begun showing promise on the Domestic Circuit, culminating this year in one of their top gymnasts making the British Youth team for a number of international events, namely Cara Jamieson from the East Kilbride Club.

Amongst her representative honours in 2006 were:

Cup of Flanders BEL where she placed 5^th in the individual event, the highest placed GB girl. This was followed shortly afterwards with her selection to represent GB in the annual 4 Nations Match, held in Sunderland GBR against CZE POR and DEN where once again she finished as the top GB female.

Her hard work over the years finally paid off by being selected for the major youth event of the year, the European Youth Championships where she made the final, finishing in 7^th place overall, a truly tremendous achievement for a relatively new internationalist. She was also a member of the GB team which finished in 4^th place in the team final.

Now a fully established youth team member, Cara recently represented Great Britain in the Nissen Cup SUI in August past where she placed 4^th in the girl’s individual event.

Her progress in the sport has been tremendous and at the 2006 National Championships held in Birmingham in July, she finished in 2^nd place in the Under 17 Age-Group event, and 5^th in the senior ladies competition, a tremendous achievement.

Other notable results at the 2006 Nationals were the 2^nd place of Pamela Clarke in the Under 13 Age-Group, and 3^rd place of Louise Witters in the Under 11 Age-Group. Both girls’ members of the East Kilbride Club.

44^th Nissen Cup 2006

Junior Results

2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Medal

Great Britain youngsters took the above event by storm by making podium places in all four events, as well as all team members, with the exception of two, making the finals. Results of the various competitions were as follows::

Junior Boys (38 entries)

02 Michael FREEMAN (60.80) 35.50 points

04 Andrew FREEMAN (59.70) 35.02 points

06 Luke RENDELL (61.40) 34.40 points

12 Nicholas DAVIES (55.90) points

18 Jack HELME (53.40) points

Junior Girls (26 entries)

02 Yasmin GUMBS (59.00) 34.70 points

03 Danielle PIETRUSZKA (58.80) 34.20 points

04 Cara JAMIESON (58.00) 34.10 points

06 Katy IANSON (57.10) 32.80 points

08 Laura GALLAGHER (58.02) 4.70 points

Junior Boys Synchro (09 entries)

01 Andrew/Michael FREEMAN (83.00) 45.80 points

Junior Girls Synchro (08 entries)

01 Danielle PIETRUSZKA/Yasmin GUMBS (80.50) 43.70 pts

This was a great effort by all team members with Luke Rendell producing his best international performance to-date, leading going into the final, only to slip up at the last minute in the finals. Well done everyone. Ed.

FIG WORLD CUP

Savognin SUI

Chasing World Cup points in this the penultimate event in the present series, Claire Wright easily made the ladies final, only to fall on her third move. However, her 7^th placing gave her an additional 6 World Ranking points towards her overall total of 96.62 points, which at this time secures her World Cup Final place in Birmingham, with only one event to go.

The last minute withdrawal of Jamie Moore from the team with an injury lessened the chances of both she and Claire competing in Birmingham in the synchronised event, but there is still an outside chance at the time of writing this article of both gymnasts making the finals.

Results were as follows:

Men’s Individual event (63 entries)

32 Jem CAMBLE 61.10 points

33 Phillip DODSON 61.00 points

45 Mark ALEXANDER 39.50 points

56 Simon MILNES 31.90 points

Ladies Individual event (40 entries)

07 Claire WRIGHT (66.20) 5.10 points

18 Lauren ALLEN (62.00) points

24 Stacey DANN (59.70) points

30 Natalie O’CONNOR (58.90) points

Men’s Synchronised event (22 entries)

10 Mark ALEXANDER/Simon MILNES (83.40) points

Ladies Synchronised event (11 entries)

08 Lauren ALLEN/Stacey DANN (81.80) 17.50 points

By failing to make the final of the men’s synchronised event, Mark and Simon’s place in the Birmingham Finals is beginning to look pretty precarious with the last world cup scheduled for Salzgitter GER four days away and with a host of potential finalists close on their heels. Note: Both men are sitting in 8^th place at the present time.

This was another disappointing performance from the Great Britain senior men in the individual event, all finishing outside the top twenty places. Ed.

FIG WORLD CUP

Salzgitter GER

Obtaining World Ranking Points to ensure qualification for the World Cup Finals was the main objective of this particular event and that is exactly what Claire Wright, Simon Milnes and Mark Alexander achieved. However, it was really touch and go in the men’s synchronised event with the pairing of Chernonos/Nikitin UKR being a close threat to whether or not the British men’s pair would qualify. In the end, it was the Brits who saw off their main challengers, to qualify in 8^th place for Birmingham.

Claire pulled out all the stops here, performing at her very best and achieving a Finals 4^th place, and consolidating her Birmingham slot.

With the absence of Jamie Moore through injury for the last two world cup events in the present series, it was a pleasant surprise to learn that both she and Claire had amassed sufficient points earlier in the series to go through to Birmingham, a brilliant achievement for this relatively new synchro pairing. Results from Salzgitter were:

Men’s Individual event (59 entries)

23 Simon MILNES 66.20 points

35 Mark Alexander 63.70 points

39 Jem Camble 63.00 points 

43 Gary Smith 62.30 points

Ladies Individual event (41 entries)

04 Claire Wright (66.80) 38.20 points

29 Lauren Allen 60.90 points

35 Stacey Dann 58.00 points

Men’s Synchronised event (22 entries)

04 Simon Milnes/Mark Alexander (86.50) 46.70 points

Women’s Synchronised event (13 entries)

12 Lauren Allen/Stacey Dann 80.30 points

Many congratulations also to Samantha Palmer, Damien Walters and Zoe McLean for qualifying for Birmingham in the Tumbling events.

Sam is also to be congratulated in winning Gold in Salzgitter.

New Director for BOA

Sir Clive Woodward has been appointed as the new Director of Elite Performance at the British Olympic Association (BOA). 

Clive will lead on the performance input into all aspects of the BOA's work, contributing to the successful performance of Team GB at future Olympic and Olympic Winter Games.

The role will provide support and services directly to the 35 Olympic Sports, working with them on a one-to-one basis to assist their individual aspirations for Olympic success.

Judges for World Cup Final

Unlike in previous World Cup Finals, the FIG TR TC will appoint the 30 judges required for this prestigious event, from amongst those countries that do not have gymnasts participating in any of the disciplines. These judges, on the whole will come from European member federations. Judges will be of Cat I and II status where possible.

The list of selected judges will be issued soon; and once federations have agreed to allow their judges to participate in the event. As Great Britain will have no fewer than seven gymnasts taking part in the various disciplines, no British judges have been selected.

The FIG will be responsible for airfares/accommodation etc. Ed.

Winobranie Tournament

 Zielona Gora, Poland

Sharon Woods

Nine Olga members teamed up with Wakefield Tumbling club to compete in this Tournament early in September.  During the weekend, eleven countries participated over 3 disciplines: Trampoline, Tumbling and Sports Acro.  Olga took 4 Junior girls (World B) and 4 Junior boys and 1 senior Lady.

In the Junior girl’s event, Danielle Pietruszka maintained her form to win the competition from Katy Ianson in 2^nd and Sian Meldrum in 3^rd.  Cat Lees a new member to this team finished a very credible 6^th place overall.

In the Junior Boys event, Tom Lewis let his lead slip away and finished in 8^th place after hitting the mat in the final.  Luke Rendell finished in 2^nd place with Joe McAdam in 3^rd.  Joe had a fantastic competition and gave the more senior boys a run for their money!  Luke Newey finished in 6^th place.

LOULE CUP, Portugal

Sharon Woods

For this event, Olga took some of the more junior members, 5 under 13 boys, 2 under 13 girls and 1 under 15 girl and we had a lot of successes.  The first medal to be won was in the Under 13 boy’s synchro event which was won by Ryan Stickland and Jason Ryall.  4^th place went to Sina Abolghassam and Joe Berry.  In the junior girl’s synchro event, Rebecca Finch and Claire Stapenhill took the bronze medal.

In the individual competitions, Jordan George was unlucky picking up the silver medal and only losing the gold on count back!  Jason Ryall picked up the bronze whilst Sina Abolghassam finished in 4^th place, again only missing the bronze on count back and Joe Berry finished 5^th.  Ryan Stickland unfortunately made an error in the final and finished in 8^th place.

Rebecca Finch was 4^th in the girl’s competition after going into the final in 2^nd place but couldn’t match the difficulty of those who finished above her and Kayleigh Ward-Bailey finished in 8^th place.  Claire Stapenhill unfortunately made an uncharacteristic error in her voluntary routine and finished in 14^th place.

FIG WORLD CUP FINAL

(Cameras and video recorders)

If you are planning in attending the above event at the NIA this

coming November, please note that CAMERAS and VIDEO RECORDERS will NOT be allowed into the Arena. In addition, MOBILE PHONES must be switched off during competition.

British Gymnastics will record all Finals and offer for sale the complete event on *DVD/Video format in due course.

PLEASE DO NOT BRING ANY OF THE ABOVE ITEMS WITH YOU TO THE EVENT – they may be confiscated! Your assistance in this matter will be greatly appreciated.

*format still to be decided.

FIG WORLD CUP FINAL

(Access to Podium Training)

British Gymnastics has decided to offer access to Podium Training (only) in the Competition Hall of the NIA on Friday 24^th November 2006 for those who wish to attend FREE of charge.

To help plan your day, Podium training times are as follows:

1030 hrs: women IND/SYN TRA plus men TUM

1130 hrs: men IND/SYN TRA plus women TUM

1230 hrs: women IND/SYN TRA plus men TUM

1330 hrs: men IND/SYN TRA plus women TUM

1430 hrs: women IND/SYN TRA plus men TUM

1530 hrs: men IND/SYN TRA plus women TUM

1630 hrs: women IND/SYN TRA plus men TUM

1730 hrs: men IND/SYN TRA plus women TUM

There will be NO access to Podium training on Saturday 25^th November 2006. Ed.

GBR v SWE v POR Under 15 Match

(Competition Schedule)

As previously reported, this junior international match will be held at Jumpers Rebound Centre, Gillingham, Kent.

The competition schedule has now been finalised and is as follows:

Saturday 21^st October 2006

1400-1700 hrs Competition

1700-1715 hrs Award Ceremony