Women's European Championships in Clermont Ferrant (FRA)
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City of Liverpool's Melanie Roberts, Hannah Clowes and Hannah
Whelan swept the top three positions in the first Control
competition for the up and coming Women's European Championships
in Clermont Ferrant (FRA), 3-6 April 2008.
Roberts and Clowes both topped the scoring with 53.450, followed
by Whelan, with 53.150.
Positions four to nine in the Control, held at the Lilleshall
N.S.Centre on Wednesday, 27 February, were taken by Kayleigh
Cooke (Huntingdon), Marissa King (Huntingdon), Rebecca Wing
(Heathrow), Hannah Freeman (Sapphire), Emma White (Huntingdon)
and Rebecca Downie (Nottingham), who performed only on Bars,
but scored the highest score of 14.150 All of these gymnasts
will compete in the Friendly International vs. Czech Republic
on Saturday and Sunday, 1- 2 March at the Lilleshall N.S.C.,
which will also see two top Individuals from Israel.
The weekend's event will serve as the second European Control
for the British squad, with the third, and last being scheduled
for 15-16 March, at the International versus France, in Blackpool.
All the guests arrived in Britain on Monday, 25 February,
and are training together with the British gymnasts.
The Czech's line-up includes the 2007 World Championships
gymnasts Jana Sikulova, Kristyna Palesova, Nicole Pechancova,
Eva Verbova and the newcomer Veronika Ozanova. The most popular
gymnast of the country in the recent years and one of the
best vaulters in the world, Jana Komrskova has retired after
the World Championships in Stuttgart, in September. Both the
Israeli gymnasts, Tali Liak and Vered Finkel, also competed
in Stuttgart.
"This visit has been organised in the spirit of our
long years friendly collaboration and as the initial stage
of our preparation for the two key international events in
2008 - the European Championships in Clermont Ferrant (FRA)
3-6 April, and the Olympic Games in Beijing, in August",
said BG Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Director Adrian
Stan.
The competition on Saturday which will see the Team and the
Individual All-around events begins at 3:00 pm and the Individual
Apparatus Finals on Sunday start at 1:00pm.
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