TAMWORTH Gymnastics Club Inc tasted more success in Inverell on the weekend when the Northern Inland Credit Union-sponsored club won the Inverell Gymnastics Club’s Regional Carnival.

Tamworth edged out the strong Gunnedah club by just .44 points with RSL Club third.

Tamworth coach Jan McGinnity said the best-performing gymnast for the club was Rebecca Short competing on level two junior and placing first on bars, beam, floor and third on vault to earn the overall gold medal.

Other gold medallists included Caitlin Ham (level one senior) and Megan Su (level three senior) while silver medals were won by Alysha Baker (one senior), Georgia Pryer (two junior) and Hannah Ellison (two

senior).

Bronze medals were won by Julia Hannaford (one junior), Amber Kuczer (two senior) and Georgina Cross (three senior).

“The club brought home some 35 individual apparatus medals as well as the nine overall medal placings,” McGinnity said.

“This was quite an achievement for a club that only took twelve gymnasts to the

competition.”

She said the next major event for the club is the North West Regional Trials for level one to three to select a North West team to compete at the NSW State Titles in

September.

“These trials are being held in Gunnedah this Saturday and a fortnight later the regional championships will be hosted by the Tamworth Gymnastics Club where we will see visitors from Dubbo, Orange, Inverell, Armidale, Gunnedah as well as Tamworth competing,” McGinnity said.

“These events are the start of a very busy season.”

An annual golfing fundraising day is held at the end of the month (August 31) followed by the Level 1-3 State Championships and then October’s Country Championships in Tamworth and then the National Club Championships in

November.