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Pint-size gymnast floors national rivals

A gymnast at The Blue Coat School, Birmingham, has floored his rivals in a national competition….with nearly three years to spare!

Eight-year-old Emilio Olson became U11 individual floor winner in the Trinity Gymnastics Competition, Wycombe Abbey, with an almost equally peerless performance on the vault.

Attracting teams from several counties – West Midlands, Shropshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and North Devon – the annual competition enables children to perform new routines, skills and vaults under the searching scrutiny of a judge.

A faultlessly executed floor performance propelled Emilio to first place, but his vaulting ambitions fell 0.1 of a mark short of gold. The winner? Elder brother Paolo, aged 10!

Not content with his national success, Emilio cleared the board again later the same month – this time at the Revolution Gymnastics Club Competition, Birmingham – taking six golds in a row for trampette, bars, floor, vault, rings and U9 Champion.

Quite an achievement!