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Gymnasts from Crumlin-based Valleys Gymnastics Academy were among the medals at the 2023 Welsh Open Artistic Championships over the weekend.
The gymnasts, coached by Aled Jones and Adam Perman, starred in what was the second day of the championships in Cardiff on Sunday March 12.
Clint Alleyne was crowned Welsh men’s Closed Under-16 champion at the event with a score of 70.000, while also taking silver in the Open section.
Alleyne also secured gold on floor, parallel bars and high bars and silver on rings.
In the closed section of the competition, he won gold on those four pieces of apparatus, along with a bronze medal on pommel.
Meanwhile, there was success for Harrison Harris and Wil Wheeler, who won silver and bronze respectively in the under-18 closed all-round section.
Harris won apparatus gold on rings and on high bar in both the open and closed sections of the competition, as well as floor bronze in the open.
In the closed section, he won silver on floor and bronze on parallel bars.
Wheeler meanwhile won silver on pommel and bronze on high bar, floor and rings in the closed section.
In the under-14s section, Ben Scourse, also of Valleys Gymnastics Academy, won all-round silver in both the open and closed sections.
Scourse also won gold on vault, silver on parallel bars and bronze on floor, pommels and rings in the open section.
In the closed section, he won gold on vault, silver on parallel bars and bronze on floor, pommel and rings.
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