FOUR Basingstoke Gymnastics Club members had successful outings at national grade finals as members of southern region teams.
Gemma Tydeman was the youngest in her British voluntary level one championship at Kettering but the 13-year-old took the overall silver medal from a field of 41 gymnasts.
Tydeman achieved a lifetime best score of 30.95 after a less-than-perfect warm-up. She successfully introduced new elements into her routine, mapped out by her club head coach Janet Wilson.
In the same level, Philippa Bolton had an overall score of 29.325 for 11th place.
Tydeman and Bolton just missed out on the team bronze medal by 16 hundredths of a mark when their southern region team finished fourth.
In the grade three competition at Kettering, Lucy Bolton, younger sister of Philippa Bolton, was fourth overall. But the 11-year-old had the satisfaction of taking home a medal when her southern region team finished second.
A week later, at the British compulsory level four championships at Birmingham, another Basingstoke gymnast, Rebecca Curtis-Harris, came ninth overall out of 53 competitors. Her overall total was 43.775.
Curtis-Harris also had the satisfaction of taking home a silver medal as a member of the regional team.
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