Another British title for Holly
SWANSEA’S Holly Jones regained her British senior vault title at last weekend’s Women’s Artistic British Championships
A dozen medals, including a clean sweep in the juniors and seven won by four Commonwealth Games contenders, capped a brilliant 2021 Women’s Artistic British Championships for Welsh gymnasts in Guildford.
Jones, from Morriston, a member of Team Wales at the last Games on Australia’s Gold Coast in 2018, was crowned senior British vault champion for the second time, while three other Welsh Birmingham 2022 hopefuls, Jea Maracha, Mali Morgan and Poppy Stickler, also won medals.
Jones, 20, from Swansea Gymnastics Centre, regained the British vault title she first won back in 2018, taking gold with a 13.425 average for her two vaults. She also finished sixth on floor (12.000) and was 23rd on beam (9.900).
The win on vault also came less than two weeks after winning silver on the same apparatus at the Northern
Europeans in Cardiff, which was her first competition back in almost two years.
It sets her up nicely for what promises to be a big year in 2022, when she will be aiming to first secure her place at a second Games – and will then be hoping to go on and better her performance from Gold Coast, where she only narrowly missed out on a medal after finishing fourth on vault.
“I’m super pleased with my vault result and to be crowned British senior vault champion again,” she said.
“I also felt really happy with my floor routine and it was an improvement on the Northern Europeans.”