Women's Artistic Squad Championships

Women’s Artistic Squad Championships are run quarterly for all WAG Squad members wishing to progress. These championships are structured like all British Gymnastics competitions, working the same skills and routines, with gymnasts competing on 5 pieces: floor, bars, beam, vault and range. Gymnasts do not compete against each other, but support one another in competing against the British Gymnastics scores.

Squad championships complement our John Pounds novice competitions. During our novice displays, participants are encouraged to take part with a participation medal. For our developing Squad children, the focus is more on preparing for the next phase of competitive gymnastics. This means that we don’t award participation medals or certificates at Squad Championships, and instead the children focus on showing off the routines they’ve learned and improving their scores against British Gymnastics standards.

Championships gives gymnasts the chance to demonstrate a routine comprising all the skills they work on in every session and gives them the chance to share their hard work, training and skill routines with their families. Holding our Women’s Artistic Squad Championships every 3 months will also help to measure gymnasts’ progress and assess their readiness for British Gymnastics competitions. BG competitions score gymnasts as ‘working towards’, ‘working at’ or ‘working above’. At the point our gymnasts achieve the ‘working above’ score, we will know that they are ready for progressing to British Gymnastics competitions.