Bryony Page

Bryony Kate Frances Page (born 10 December 1990) is a British individual trampoline gymnast. She became the first British trampolinist to win an Olympic medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won the silver medal.

Bryony Page at the 2016 Summer Olypics In Rio De Janeiro
Bryony Page
Full nameBryony Kate Frances Page
Born (1990-12-10) 10 December 1990
Crewe
ResidenceSheffield
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1]
Weight136 lb (62 kg)[1]
DisciplineTrampoline gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team7
ClubSheffield Trampolining Academy
Head coach(es)Paul Greaves
World ranking13[2]
Medal record
Women's trampoline gymnastics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio Individual
World Championships
2013 Sofia Team
2014 Daytona Beach Team
Last updated on: 14 August 2016.

Early life and education

Page was born in Crewe[3] and brought up in Wrenbury, near Nantwich.[4][5] She attended Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College.[4][5] She took up trampolining at the age of nine.[3][5]

Page studied biology at the University of Sheffield, where she received a sports scholarship.[6] She graduated in 2015[7] with a first-class honours degree, with her dissertation being a study of sounds made by dinosaurs.[5][8] After graduating she concentrated full-time on trampolining.[8]

Career

Early in her career Page struggled with the yips (a loss of fine motor skills in athletes) for two years which affected her confidence and performance, but she overcame it in 2010 with the help of a confidence coach.[9] She competed in her first World Championships in 2010,[10] where she finished fourth in the individual event.[11] At the 2011 World Championships she was part of the team that won the silver medal in the team event.[11] She missed the 2012 Olympic Games in London due to illness and injury problems,[6] but won the individual gold medal at the 2012 World Cup in Sofia.[11]

She won three successive British Championship titles between 2013 and 2015, and was a member of the British teams that won gold at the 2013 World Championships,[3] and the 2014[12] and 2016 European Championships.[13][11] She finished fifth in the individual event at the 2015 World Championships.[3][14]

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Page and her British teammate Kat Driscoll became Great Britain's first ever finalists in trampolining,[15] with Page qualifying in seventh position. During the final she posted a score of 56.040 which put her in the lead, until defending champion Rosie MacLennan scored 56.465 dropping Page into the second place. Page won the silver medal, the first time that any British trampolinist had won an Olympic medal.[16][17]

References
  1. "Bryony Page". NBCOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. "TRA World Ranking". www.fig-gymnastics.com. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  3. "Bryony Page FIG Profile". fig-gymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  4. "Nantwich trampoline star Bryony Page wins silver at Rio Olympics". Nantwich News. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  5. Briggs, Simon (12 August 2016). "Bryony Page and her lucky charm leads to most surprising medal of the Olympics". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  6. "Gold medal-winning gymnast honoured for outstanding academic and sporting success". University of Sheffield. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  7. "Olympic medal-winning alumni". University of Sheffield. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  8. "Bryony Page elated after springing surprise trampolining silver for Britain". News and Star. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  9. Blewett, Sam (13 August 2016). "How Britain's first ever Olympic trampolining medalist Bryony Page suffered from the yips". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
  10. "Bryony Page ESPS Individual Profile". University of Sheffield. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  11. "Bryony Page". British Gymnastics. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  12. "Gymnastics – 2014 European Trampoline Championships – Results Women". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  13. "Gymnastics – 2016 European Trampoline Championships – Results Women". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  14. "Rio Olympics 2016: Bryony Page wins trampoline silver for Great Britain". BBC. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  15. Roberts, Genevieve (12 August 2016). "Rio Olympics: Bryony Page cries with joy after winning Britain's first trampolining medal". i. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  16. "Trampoline Gymnastics". www.rio2016.com. 12 August 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  17. Prior, Ian (12 August 2016). "Bryony Page wins silver and first British medal in Olympic trampolining". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
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