As part of our research files, we’re going to keep track of every country’s national champions each year. I’m always looking up various national records from random countries and you’d be surprised how few countries actually keep track of this stuff, at least in a public way.
So in addition to keeping results for every national championships on this website, it’ll now be as easy as clicking a link to find out who won each year in each country. We’re kicking things off with the current year, and will slowly make our way back in time until we have as many holes filled as possible.
In the table below, the senior all-around champions are listed on the left and the juniors on the right. For national championships that don’t split their all-around finals between levels, I included the top senior and the top junior from that single field (e.g. for Japan, Mai Murakami won the meet, so she is the senior champion, while Soyoka Hanawa was the best junior, finishing 10th, so she is the junior champion).
For future reference, this document will always be available under The Research Files on the main menu bar above. Enjoy!
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Very interesting and ambitious project! Good luck with it.
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Thanks!
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England has a separate nationals from GB? Do the GB gymnasts that are from England compete there too? ….how does that whole separation work?
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Well, England, Scotland, and Wales all have their own nationals…and then everyone from these three countries compete for GB. There is an English squad, a Scottish squad, and a Welsh squad (and Northern Ireland fits into that too I believe but they’re much smaller, and same goes for some of the islands that are also part of GB for international competition, like Isle of Man, Jersey, etc). For non-major international competition, Scotland can send a squad to meets, England can, etc. The English squad often goes to the Leverkusen Cup in Germany, and the Scottish squad goes to a German meet as well, and then Isle of Man has competed at a couple of meets like Northern Euros, and all of these countries are broken down into separate countries for the Commonwealth Games. Any gymnast who is part of Team GB is also part of one of these smaller programs, so Ellie Downie could be both English and British champion in the same year, and Maisie Methuen could be Welsh and British champion, and so on. Generally at the smaller meets like English nationals, Welsh nationals, etc, the bigger name gymnasts tend not to always do the AA, and they use those meets more for like, a trial run…but yes, next year for Commonwealth Games you will see all of these programs putting teams together separate from Team GB, and so at CWGs, someone like Ellie Downie would compete for England while Maisie Methuen would compete for Wales, and even though they’re both part of the British national team, they’d be broken down into these smaller ‘federations’ for a meet like that.
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