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ENGLISH TEAM NOW ANNOUNCED! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!
29 January - FINAL TRIAL FOR ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH TEAM AT LILLESHALL TODAY!
SHAVAHN AND ROSS LEAD COMMONWEALTH FINAL TRIALS!
The final trials for the English Men and Women’s Artistic Teams who will compete in the Commonwealth Games took place at Lilleshall this afternoon. This was the 3rd trial following the Alpha Factor and English Championships and Shavahn Church from Heathrow won the Women’s Trial with a score of 54.900 with Becky Downie from Notts in second place. Beth Tweddle has already been pre-selected due to her outstanding performance at the World Championships and did not take part in today’s trial.
Imogen Cairns and Ross Brewer are virtually already in the Team after their very successful performances in the first two trials. Imogen did not take part in today’s trial, but Ross preferred to compete as the men’s trial today also served as the first trial for the Men’s European Championships in Greece in May. An exciting competition saw 4 of England’s top male gymnasts finish in joint 3rd and joint 5th positions with only 0.1 of a mark dividing all four men! Louis Smith and Khristian Thomas tied for 3rd place on 83.000, closely followed by Huntingdon Team mate Luke Folwell and Danny Lawrence on 82.900!
The Gymnastics Team England will be announced officially after the approval of the English Commonwealth Games Council, at the beginning of the next week.
The Team departs on 27th February 2006 and begin competing in Melbourne on 16th March. We will bring you news of both Teams as soon as they are selected.
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