GYMNASTS from Chippenham Moonrakers have been tasting success at regional and national level recently.

The British Gymnastics Disability Championships at Lilleshall National Sports Centre saw 150 gymnasts competed in men and women’s artistic events.

Moonrakers entered Millie Strange in the Open Class Two – women’s senior category but suffered an injury dismounting the beam and was unable to complete all four pieces of apparatus, scoring a respectable 23.025 over the three pieces.

Competing in the Open Class 2 Women’s Junior category was Teigan Higgs who had some solid performances with a personal best on bars to become Bars silver champion and overall all-around bronze champion.

Francesca Di Pisa competed in the Category B U12s, also achieving a personal best and coming away as overall all-around bronze champion.

Dipisa also delivered a tidy floor routine and placed second, with a third on beam, fourth on bars and third on vault with a fine 11.25.

At the regional West County League Round Two in Melksham, Moonrakers entered two teams.

The first success of the day was in the A League, in which they came away with team bronze.

The team consisted of Katherine Allday, Leah Bishop, Emily Clark, Danielle Amado, Megan Baker and Millie Stokes.

Bishop took overall second place on vault with a score of 12.10 and a third on beam, whilst Allday gained overall third place on vault.

The next success was B League with Eva Falcone-Healy, Jemma Vincent, Emily Macklin-Day, Ellie Treacy, Sophie Townsend and Tamar Hibbert competing.

With solid performances they took the gold with 186.84 a 10-point lead.

Falcone-Healy's fine round took second on vault with third on bars and beam and overall third.

Vincent was third on vault, Macklin-Day and Townsend both had solid rounds with Treacy gaining first on floor and second on bars and beam and coming third overall.

Townsend took first position on vault and beam giving her overall first.