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Shetland Gymnastics Club celebrates its anniversary this weekend.

SHETLAND Gymnastics Club will celebrate its tenth anniversary this weekend with a series of coaching events, displays and high profile visits.

The isles will be graced by the visit of 65 gymnasts, including five time Scottish champion Amy Regan and Scottish national coach Sandy Richardson.

Both will undertake coaching sessions for locals, while attendees from Irvine Bay Gymnastics Club will also hold workshops.

Members from Garioch Gymnastics Club in Inverurie, the City of Aberdeen Gymnastics Club and Deveron Gymnastics Club in Banff will also attend.

The Shetland club, which has grown to involve over 130 local gymnasts, will host a competition at the Clickimin Centre on the Sunday from 9.30am, with locals and visiting gymnasts due to take part.

The public meanwhile are invited to watch displays from gymnasts at 3.30pm on both days.

Shetland Gymnastics’ head coach Julie Grant said the club has “achieved so much” since forming in 2005.

The group regularly sends participants to competitions on the mainland and they took part in an inter-island gymnastics event held in Ynys Mon in July as gymnastics wasn’t included in this summer’s NatWest Island Games in Jersey.

The team, however, hopes to send Shetland gymnasts to the island games for the first time in 2017 at the Gotland event.

“I’d like to thank everyone who has been involved since we first started,” Grant added.

“We’re so excited to be hosting so many visitors here for our tenth birthday weekend and we’d love to see as many folk as possible come along to watch the displays by both local and visiting gymnasts.”

 

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