British Gymnastics

British Gymnastics
Motto	More than a sport
Formation	1888
Type	National sports governing body
Legal status	Private Limited company without share capital (01630001)
Purpose	Developing gymnasts, coaches and gymnastics clubs
Headquarters	Ford Hall
Location	Lilleshall NSC, Shropshire, TF10 9NB
Region served	UK
Membership	British gymnasts, coaches, judges and clubs
Chairman	Alan Sommerville OBE
CEO	Jane Allen
Affiliations	European Union of Gymnastics, Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, Central Council of Physical Recreation, British Olympic Association
Staff	150
Website	British Gymnastics
Formerly called	British Amateur Gymnastics Association Ambassadors =. Stefan M

British Gymnastics, also known as the British Amateur Gymnastics Association (BAGA), is the sports governing body for gymnastics in the UK.

History

It was founded in 1888 as the Amateur Gymnastics and Fencing Association. Gymnastics had been adopted in this country, having been invented in Germany by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, to improve the health and fitness of its soldiers. The rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar were developed by Jahn. In the late 1800s gymnastics became popular for men thanks to the Army Physical Training Corps which was formed in 1860. Walter Tysall won the men's silver medal in the 1908 Olympics. After this time the Swedish form of gymnastics became more popular, a more artistic version developed by Pehr Henrik Ling which was for men and women, and needed little apparatus.

Women first competed at the Olympics in gymnastics at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, where the British women's team took the bronze – its best performance.

After the Second World War, the German and Swedish forms of gymnastics were combined. The 1960 Rome Olympics were the first to be televised, and this led to a greater interest in Britain of gymnastics. This Olympics had been dominated by Russian female gymnasts. In 1963 the Amateur Gymnastics Association became the British Amateur Gymnastics Association, and the BAGA first received a government grant, allowing it to pay coaches, and appoint a full-time national coach, Wray Stuart. He developed the BAGA Awards, a proficiency scheme for young gymnasts, which was adopted by seventy other countries.

The BAGA Awards started to produce results for Britain. Gymnastics was given superstar status by the 1972 Olympics at Munich.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an individual Bronze for Louis Smith was a breakthrough with the first medal in decades.

At the 2012 London Olympics, the Men's Artistic Gymnastics team won Bronze with individual Silver for Louis Smith and Bronze for Max Whitlock on Pommel and individual Bronze for Beth Tweddle on Uneven bars.

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Lilleshall Hall

BAGA was registered as a company on 20 April 1982. In 1979 the Sports Council had built a gym at Lilleshall, equipped to international standards in 1980, with the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 1981 a £18,000 feasibility study looked at developing Lilleshall into a national centre, and in October 1982 the Sports Council allocated £1 million to develop a national centre.

Anne, Princess Royal opened the £1.75 million Princess Royal Hall at Lilleshall on 26 April 1988, paid for by the Sports Council. There is also the King George VI Hall and Ford Hall. Use of Lilleshall for gymnastics increased greatly throughout the late 1970s under Derek Tremayne. In 1997 BAGA became British Gymnastics.^[1]

Function

It is the main sport governing body for gymnastics throughout the UK, developing gymnasts, coaches clubs and officiating in all gymnastic disciplines.

British Gymnastics aims to meet the following aspirations by 2017:^[2]

Gymnastics is seen as one of the top three sports in the UK
The British Gymnastics brand is internationally recognised and a household name
The Gymnastics club is the hub of the local community
Success creates global icons

The eight strategic priorities of the 2013-2017 plan are as follows:

Create a brand that reflects the values of the sport and unifies the gymnastics community in the UK
Ensure systems and processes enable the effective and efficient delivery of the sport in the UK
Invest in the development of coaches and associated delivery systems
Define new markets/experiences for the 9+ cohort and introduce strategies to stimulate greater participation
Strengthen and support the high performance network/system across all disciplines
Increase club access to facilities and new spaces resulting from austerity measures being introduced in local government and businesses
Assist clubs and coaches to fill the gap in service provision in schools and identify future talent
Create a spectacular event in every major city designed to entertain a non-gymnastics’ audience

Publications

Its main publication is The Gymnast, having been published since 1959. Since 2011 it has been released in an online format only ^[3] Most news is now released via the British Gymnastics Website,^[4] Social Media and the weekly Gymblast email newsletter^[5]

Regional Associations and Home Countries

References

External links

Video clips

BGTV YouTube channel

Sports governing bodies of the United Kingdom (GBR)

Summer Olympic sports	Aquatics Diving Swimming Synchronized swimming Water polo Archery Athletics Badminton ENG WAL SCO Basketball Boxing Professional Amateur GBR ENG SCO WAL Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football ENG NI SCO WAL Golf GBR ENG WAL SCO Gymnastics Handball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Hockey GBR ENG SCO WAL Judo Modern Pentathlon Rugby 7's ENG NI SCO WAL Rowing Sailing Shooting Table Tennis ENG SCO WAL Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Beach Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling

Winter Olympic sports	Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling Ice skating Ice Hockey Luge Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding

Other IOC recognised sports	Air sports Bandy Baseball Billiard sports ENG NI SCO WAL Boules Bowling Bridge Chess Cricket ENG & WAL SCO Dance sport Floorball Karate Korfball Lacrosse ENG SCO WAL Lifesaving Motorcycle racing Motorsport Mountaineering and climbing Netball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Orienteering Pelota vasca Polo Powerboating Racquetball Roller Sports Rugby Union ENG WAL SCO Softball Squash ENG SCO WAL Sumo Surfing Tug-of-war Underwater sports Water ski Wushu

Disability and Paralympic sports	Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair basketball

Other sports	American football Australian rules football Bog snorkelling Caving Croquet Darts Kiteboarding Quidditch Radio-controlled racing Real Tennis Rugby league Sub Aqua ENG NI SCO WAL

British Olympic Association British Paralympic Association UK Sport Team GB Department for Culture, Media and Sport

National members of the International Federation of Gymnastics

Disciplines Acrobatics Aerobics Artistic Rhythmic Trampolining Tumbling

African Gymnastics Union (UAG)	ALG ANG ǂ BEN BUR † CPV CMR CAF †ǂ CGO EGY ETH LBA MRI ǂ MAR MOZ NAM NGR SEN SEY ǂ RSA SUD SWZ † TUN UGA ǂ ZAM ǂ ZIM

Pan-American Gymnastics Union (PAGU)	ARG ARU BAH BAR BER BOL BRA CAN CAY CHI COL CRC CUB DOM ECU ESA GUA HON JAM MEX NCA PAN PAR PER PUR TTO USA URU VEN VIN

Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU)	AFG BRN BAN CAM CHN TPE HKG IND INA IRQ IRI JPN JOR KAZ KOR PRK KUW ǂ KGZ LIB MAC † MAS MGL MYA NEP PAK PLE PHI QAT KSA SIN SRI SYR TJK ǂ THA TKM UZB VIE YEM

European Union of Gymnastics (UEG)	ALB AND ARM AUT AZE BLR BEL BUL BIH CRO CYP CZE DEN EST FIN FRA GEO GER GBR GRE HUN ISL IRL ISR ITA KOS LAT LIE LTU LUX MKD ǂ MLT MDA MON MNE NED NOR POL POR ROU RUS SMR SRB SVK SLO ESP SWE SUI TUR UKR

Oceania	ASA AUS COK FIJ NZL

Events Olympics World Championships † = associated members ǂ = suspended

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