English Champs: Pinches wins, Beth Tweddle upgrades again!

As well as the American Cup, Many of team GB's potential olympic squad were competing this week at the English Championships at the newly refurbished Europa Centre in Kent. This event marks the first competition of 2012 for most of the elite gymnasts and will contribute to the selection of senior and junior teams for the European Championships (There is also a Scottish, Welsh and Irish championships, with the combined British championships taking place in June as part of the Olympic selection)

Very little formal information is online regarding the results but Liverpool's Jennifer Pinches (pictured) came away with the all around gold. According to The World Gymnast on twitter (@TWGgymblog) and The All Around the results were:

1. Jennifer Pinches (City of Liverpool) 55.150
2. Danusia Francis (Heathrow) 54.650
3. Niamh Rippin (Notts) 53.600
4. Ruby Harrold (The Academy) 52.600
5. Jocelyn Hunt (Horsham) 52.050
6. Billie Mackenzie (Notts) 51.450
7, Sophie Fitzgerald (Carousel) 50.350
8. Laura Mitchell (Heathrow) 49.850
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Imogen Cairns (The Academy) 40.600 (VT/BB/FX)
Beckie Downie (Notts) 35.050 (UB/BB/FX)
Hannah Whelan (City of Liverpool) 27.350 (UB/BB)
Beth Tweddle MBE (City of Liverpool) 15.950 (UB)


Vault: 1. Danielle McNaney (Hinkley) 2. Kelly Simm 3. Jessica Nicholson 4. Natasha Walker
Bars: 1. Beth Tweddle,  2. Danusia Francis 3. Becky Downie 4. Jenny Pinches 5. Hannah Whelan 6. Ruby Harrold 7. Jocelyn Hunt 8. Jasmine Reed-Yang 9. Billie McKenzie 9. Niamh Rippin
Beam: 1. Hannah Whelan 2. Jenny Pinches 3. Imogen Cairns 4. Danusia Francis 5. Laura Mitchell 6. Billie Mckenzie 6. Sophie Fitzgerald 8. Niamh Rippin 9. Ruby Harrold 10. Jocelyn Hunt
Floor: 1. Jenny Pinches 2. Niamh Rippin 3. Danusia Francis 3. Ruby Harrold 5. Kelly Simm 6. Loriah James 6. Jocelyn Hunt 8. Billie Mckenzie 9. Danielle McNaney 10. Charlotte Lindsley

View the full results here. In the junior competition Gabby Jupp took the all-around ahead of Charlie Fellowes and in Espoirs Tyesha Mattis narrowly beat Ellie Downie (Becky's little sister). Kristen Thomas won the men's competition by a clear 3 points ahead of Max Whitlock and Reiss Beckford.  

Beth Tweddle competed only bars but showed she is not sitting on her laurels in this olympic year, adding a new double-double dismount to her already incredibly difficult beam routine.