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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Elite A Wag and Mag squads will be performing at the Chinese New Year Celebration in the Ulster Hall On Saturday 4th February 2012. This will be the second event that Salto have been asked to attend to celebrate the Chinese year of The Dragon. On Monday 23rd January CEO Tony Byrne, Head coach Sun Jie, Director Amanda McMaster and their partners attended an exclusive event at the Europa Hotel to Celebrate the Chinese New Year. We hope this will be the beginning of a great friendship with the Chinese Community in Northern Ireland in the run up to The Chinese Artistic Olympic Team training at Salto in July 2012
NEW TIMETABLE FOR PARENT AND TODDLER CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL TIMESHEET
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Salto Women's team are Irish Team champions again in a record 9 consecutive championships.
One of our coaches Chloe Mulhern has been nominated for Perkins Slade competition 'Coach you're the best'. Please vote For Chloe Mulhern in 'Coach, you're the best' Perkins Slade competition.
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Salto have been awarded CLUB OF THE YEAR at the sport lisburn, sports personality awards 2012 .
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BREAKING NEWS:
SALTO NGC, DCAL, Sport NI and Lisburn City council are proud to announce that we have secured the Men's and Women's CHINESE OLYMPIC teams for a 2012 OLYMPIC holding camp in JULY prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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PRESS RELEASE 29-09-11 Chinese National Artistic Gymnastics Team choose Northern Ireland as base for Pre-Olympic training.
Salto NGC, DCAL, Sport NI and Lisburn City Council are pleased to announce that we have secured the Chinese National Artistic Gymnastics Team for an Olympic training camp in July 2012.
This announcement has come after months of negotiation with the Chinese Gymnastics Association. Salto CEO Tony Byrne and Head Coach Sun Jie played an integral part in the negotiation process with many late night and early morning phone calls to the Chinese Gymnastics Association and subsequently a 4 day visit to the Northern Ireland was organised in July of this year. Two of the Chinese National coaches Xiong Jingbin and Jin Weiguo visited the facility and were very impressed with the welcome they received from Northern Ireland and the Salto facility in Lisburn.
In the official letter of acceptance they thanked Salto for the warm reception during their visit and that they were ‘deeply moved’ by the ‘sincerity and warmness’ of accepting their national artistic gymnastics team.
The training camp will be jointly funded by DCAL, Sport NI and Lisburn City Council. The Chinese team of up to 30 people will train at Salto for 10 days in July in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Salto are very excited to welcome such a prestigious team to train at the facility. In 2008 they won a total of 18 medals at the Beijing Olympics. Both women’s and men’s teams won all-around gold.
Sports Minister Caral Ni Chuilin made the official announcement at the press conference on Wednesday 28th September at Salto NGC. She spoke of the news.
“The world number one country in gymnastics has chosen the North of Ireland to achieve their Olympic Goals.”
“Having the best in the world to train locally will raise the profile of the sport and the local facilities. This is something everyone can be proud of and I hope that this inspires our young people to get involved in Sport”
Lord Coe, chairman of the London organising committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games, said he had visited Salto on a number of occasions, including the official opening ceremony of Salto in 2007 and knew the Chinese Artistic Gymnasts would enjoy “being based at one of the best gymnastics facilities in the UK”.
“The team is also assured one of the warmest welcomes as they spend time in Lisburn,” he added. “Congratulations to the sports administrators in Northern Ireland for hosting another team before competition begins at the 2012 Games”.
Sarah Brady
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Class Update
From Tuesday 23rd August onwards adult class will be at 8.00-9.30 every Tuesday. all recreation/kindergym/parent and toddlers classes will return on Monday 29th August. Parent and Toddlers will be back to normal times Monday and Friday, 11.00-1.00 Wednesday 10.00-12.00.
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SALTO NGC IN THE RUNNING TO HOST CHINESE PRE- OLYMPIC, GYMNASTICS HOLDING CAMP!!!!
Salto NGC is delighted to announce that on the 14th of July two Chinese Olympic Coaches, from the National Chinese Gymnastics Federation will be visiting Salto NGC for 4 days! The officials will be considering the centre as a possible pre-Olympic training venue for the men’s and women’s Chinese National Artistic Gymnastics teams. If they select Salto Ngc the Chinese team will train at Salto for up to 14 days before travelling to the Olympic Games in London in July 2012.
During their visit to Northern Ireland they will be meeting with officials from Stormont, Lisburn City Council and Sport NI. Olympic Gold Medallist and Salto club president Dame Mary Peters will be welcoming them to Northern Ireland spearheading Salto’s and Northern Ireland's bid to host an Olympic Pre Training Camp.
The women's and men's artistic Chinese team's both won all-around gold at the last Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and are likely to be medallists in all of the gymnastics event in 2012. Yang Wei won individual gold all-around for the men's event and Yang Yilin bronze individual all-around for women. China were ranked number 1 in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics. If selected Salto could possibly be the only pre-Olympic training facility in Northern Ireland to host a team who are almost certainly guaranteed to win medals in London 2012!!
Watch this space for more news on the visit!
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SUMMER TIMETABLE PARENT & TODDLERS
There is no parent & toddlers the week of Monday 27th June to Friday 1st July.
From Monday 4th July Parent and Toddlers will be on every morning Monday-Friday 9.30-11.00am until the end of August. £1.50 per person per session.
(There will be no session on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th July)
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CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE SALTO BOYS WHO COMPETED AT PEGASUS OPEN IN KENT.
MATTHEW O'CONNOR SILVER MEDAL ON HIGH BAR
EWAN MCATEER 10TH PLACE
RHYS McCLENAGHAN 12TH PLACE
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Congratulations to the Salto Boys that competed at the Northern Ireland Championships on Sunday 12th June.
TOP RESULTS,
Under 8 Adam Smyth Bronze,
Under 10 Aidan Macdonald Gold, Sam Smyth Silver, David Martelli Bronze,
Under 12 in age Ewan McAteer Gold, Rhys McClenaghan Silver, William Greer bronze,
Over 16 Matthew O'Connor Bronze,
Amazing Clean sweep on the podium for Under 10 and Under 12 Well Done boys.
Congrats to all the boys that participated:
Under 8: Dylan Yardley, Jay Doherty, Stefan Sia, Ben McAvoy, Peter Terek, Jonathan Pepper, Michael Pepper
Under 10: Alex Yardley, Matt Thornton, Ronan McCrory, Kylan McAteer, Nathan Carroll, Owen Mulholland, Ben Harron, Micheal Buckley, Darren Freeburn, Anthony Hanrahan
Under 12: Niall Mulholland, Jack Martelli, Peter McCreery, Matthew Devlin
Also Many Thanks to MTC, Coaches, Judges, parents and volunteers for the smooth running of the competition
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Congratulations to all the Salto girls that competed in the Northern Ireland Championships on Sunday 5th June 2011.
Total Medals won 28 Gold, 16 Silver, 13 Bronze
Top Results: 10 ALL-AROUND TITLES WON
INTRO LEVEL 7-8 YEARS: 1ST ALL-AROUND ZOE RAFFERTY/ 2ND ALL-AROUND COURTNEY REYNOLDS
INTRO LEVEL 9-11 YEARS: 1ST ALL-AROUND LAUREN SLEITH
LEVEL 4 INAGE: SAMANTHA REYNOLDS GOLD ALL-AROUND
LEVEL 4 OUT OF AGE: RACHEL ROONEY 3RD ALL-AROUND
LEVEL 3 OUT OF AGE: MAIRE HANRAHAN 1ST ALL-AROUND
LEVEL 2 IN AGE: ELLEN MCCARTNEY 1ST ALL-AROUND
LEVEL 2 OUT OF AGE: KIRSTEN EATOCK 1ST ALL-AROUND
FIG MINOR: CASEY BELL 1ST ALL-AROUND, HANNAH LECKEY 2ND ALL-AROUND, NICHOLA LONG 3RD ALL-AROUND
FIG JUNIOR: GOLD ON BEAM NICOLE MAWHINNEY (WITHDREW ON 3 PIECES AFTER INJURY)
FIG SENIOR: CHARLOTTE MCKENNA GOLD BARS (2 PIECE)
Big Congratulations to all Salto gymnasts that competed and for those who won medals on individual pieces:
Tyla Eley: bronze medallist beam
Katie Hilland: Bronze medallist on floor
Kerry McDowell: silver medallist on vault.
Well Done to Amy Roberts, Louise Barlow, Cara Burke who competed for the first time on four pieces. Intro level 9-11 and 12+
WE ARE NOW TAKING BOOKING'S SUMMER SCHEME 2011
we are now taking bookings for salto summer scheme- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR APPLICANT-please print applicable form (two forms available 1-kindergym form 3-5 years + 2- Recreation form 5-12years) and bring to salto office with full payment - to ensure there are available spaces in the session. We prefer no postal applications to make sure their is a place in the session for your child and to avoid disappointment.
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Press Release
NORTHERN IRELAND WELCOMES OLYMPIANS
27TH May 2011- United Kingdom Olympic gymnasts have arrived in Northern Ireland to train in the Salto Gymnastics Club in Lisburn. The visit by five gymnasts includes two Beijing Olympians and leading British Gymnastics Coach Paul Hall who will also run a coaching clinic for Northern Ireland coaches during the weekend.
Louis Smith is the 2008 Olympic Pommel horse bronze medallist, 2009 European Silver medallist and the 2010 world and European silver medallist. Also training in Northern Ireland are Luke Folwell (the most successful british gymnast in Commonwealth games history with 5 medals in Delhi 2010) and Daniel Keatings (2009 world and European all-around silver medallist, 2010 European pommel horse champion). British Junior gymnasts Cameron Mackenzie and Thomas Gibbs will also be training alongside Northern Ireland’s own Luke Carson who is funded by Sport Northern Ireland’s Athlete Investment Programme.
Watching the first days training and meeting the gymnasts, Dr Olive Brown, Board member of Sport Northern Ireland said, “It’s very significant to have Olympic gymnasts training here in Salto. We’re proud of the facilities and expertise on site, including accommodation and ice baths! It is also a good example of Olympic legacy, that local athlete Luke Carson is training alongside them and under the expert coaching of Paul Hall.
“Salto also boasts many international gymnastic coaches and working with Sport Northern Ireland and Lisburn City council , we are utilising their world-wide relationships to encourage Olympic Squads to consider Northern Ireland as a base for their Olympic pre-games training”.
Olive Brown added, “We’ve already attracted several pre-Olympic events including the Boccia World Cup which takes place this August and there will be further pre-olympic qualifying events announced in the coming months. Overall we expect to welcome Olympic or Paralympic teams to the province with many international athletes choosing to train or qualify for their sport in facilities across Northern Ireland. That will be achieved working with our partners in sports venues and local councils just as we have with Lisburn City Council here in Salto.
Catherine McKeown Sport NI.
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Congratulations to the salto boys that competed in the MAG Levels 2-4 National Championships in Phoenix Gym Club Dublin on 15th May 2011.
Special Mention to the following boys who medalled:
Level 4 under 12: Aidan Macdonald Gold, David Martelli Silver, Anthony Hanrahan bronze
Level 4 under 10: Sam Smyth bronze
WELL DONE BOYS AND GOOD LUCK AT THE NORTHERN IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS 12TH MAY AT SALTO
Lianne can you add the following information to latest events: Sunday 5th June WAG N.Ireland Championships Salto NGC
Sunday 12th June MAG N.Ireland Championships Salto NGC
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UPDATE ON TOP VISIT FROM TOP BRITISH GYMNASTS
PAUL HALL’S COACHING CLINIC
City of Lisburn Salto NGC
28th May 2011
3.30pm to 5pm
Cost £10 per coach
To allow best use of time in the coaching clinic Paul is willing to cover topics that are most in demand in NI. As such, applicants can forward things they would like Covered to Aidan O’Reilly at aidan1617@hotmail.com and the most common topics shall be passed to Paul. Also, anyone wanting media activities or meetings with Paul, please contact the above address so this can be Worked out with Paul and the boys.
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TOP BRITISH GYMNASTS VISIT SALTO NGC.
Salto NGC are pleased to announce a visit from 27TH TO 30TH MAY from TOP BRITISH MEN,
LOUIS SMITH
Olympic, World, European, Commonweath medallist,
DANIEL KEATING
all-around silver world medallist and European Gold medallist,
LUKE FOLWELL
Medallist at 2010 Commonwealth.
NORTHERN IRELANDS SENIOR GYMNAST, LUKE CARSON
Northern European medallist, all-around finalist at Commonwealth 2010.
CAMERON MACKENZIE
Part of Junior European team 2010.
THOMAS GIBBS- Top British Junior SQUAD.
The gymnasts will be visiting with top British Coach Paul Hall.
Salto Ngc are very excited to have such high-profile gymnasts visit the national centre in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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