by wcslingsby | Jun 9, 2023
DANIELLE JONES by herself It was in my blood My name is Danielle Jones, and I am a former King Edmunds and Great Britain Acrobatic Gymnast. I started my gymnastics career at about 7 or 8 years old. From the minute I started, I knew that I loved the sport and that this...
by wcslingsby | Apr 17, 2023
JEFF DAVIS by Meg Warren & Lynn Davis Jeff Davis was born on March 31st, 1954. He went to Tudor Grammar School Feltham Middlesex and joined the school gym club aged 12. He had a head start as he had previously learnt a handspring in the back garden aided by his...
by wcslingsby | Feb 6, 2023
CLAIRE WRIGHT by herself At just five days old I was at Crystal Palace Sports Centre for the 1979 Guinness School of Sport and in the gym for the first time. My parents Bernie & Colin Wright were both coaches so I had chalk between my toes at a very early age. I...
by wcslingsby | Jan 3, 2023
PHILIPPA MUSIKANT by herself Early years in Artistic Gymnastics My parents sent me off to a local gymnastics class when I was 7 years old, mainly because I was always found hanging upside down on a climbing frame or halfway up a tree. Within 12 months, I had been...
by wcslingsby | Oct 19, 2022
BARBARA SLATER by herself Barbara Slater tells of her early life in gymnastics I came to Gymnastics late. I didn’t take up the sport until I was the age of 12. In 1971 we moved cities and I started at senior school in Birmingham. I had been a diver and even...
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