British Artistic Gymnastics Championships Liverpool 2024: Preview, schedule and how to watch
GB's best artistic gymnasts including Max Whitlock and Alice Kinsella will compete for national titles on 16-17 March, with results contributing toward potential selection for Paris 2024. Find out everything you need to know about the event, from the gymnasts to watch to the full timetable and how you can stream all the action live.
From 14-17 March, the best artistic gymnasts in Great Britain will compete for national titles in the all-around and apparatus finals in Liverpool, England at the British Gymnastics Championships.
Not only will gymnasts be vying for national titles, but the event is also one of British Gymnastics' designated selection events for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, starting in less than five months' time.
Both the women's and men's team secured the maximum five quota spots per gender for the Games in France, courtesy of claiming podium places at the 2022 World Championships.
A history-making silver for the women was secured by Alice Kinsella, Jessica Gadirova, Ondine Achampong, Georgia-Mae Fenton and Jennifer Gadirova, and a last-gasp bronze for the men thanks to Joe Fraser, Giarnni Regini-Moran, Jake Jarman, Courtney Tulloch and James Hall – in front of a home crowd at the Liverpool Arena.
The same venue will again provide the backdrop for more drama as the gymnasts jostle for a precious spot for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad.
Just one more major championship will have an impact on selection and that is the European Championships taking place in Rimini, Italy from 24-28 April for the men and 2-5 May for the women.
But the focus for now is the British championships in just the second outing for most gymnasts after the season-opening home nations championships, which took place in February and March.
Over the course of four days, both junior, senior and disability events will take place with the final two days on Saturday (16 March) and Sunday (17 March) featuring the senior field.
Britain's best all-around female and male gymnasts will be crowned, as well as the best on each apparatus.
For the women, vault, uneven bars, beam, and floor; for the men, floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar.
Find out everything you need to know about the 2024 British Gymnastics Championships below.
- As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.
- Click here to see the official qualification system for each sport.
Gymnasts to watch at the British Gymnastics Championships
Britain's most successful ever gymnast, Max Whitlock, who is eyeing Olympic history in Paris, is one of many star names to watch.
A six-time Olympic medallist, including three gold, if Whitlock claims a medal on his specialist apparatus, the pommel horse, he'll be the first gymnast ever, in the history of the Games, to claim four Olympic medals on the same apparatus.
The 30-year-old has added parallel bars, and high bar to his repertoire in order to offer additional scores to the team should he be selected for his fourth Olympic Games.
British gymnastics' Olympic history-makers
Two of the four-strong women's team who won Olympic bronze at Tokyo 2020, Team GB's first women's artistic gymnastics team medal, will be at the British championships.
Kinsella, the British all-around champion from 2023, will feature, as will Amelie Morgan, who has forgone her successful foray into college gymnastics – at the University of Utah – to return to the Olympic effort to try and qualify for a second Olympic Games.
The other two history-makers from that team, the Gadirova twins, are both currently rehabbing from injury and subsequent operations and are doing their best to be in contention for Paris.
- Jessica Gadirova admits to "tough and long journey ahead" after suffering full ACL tear at World Championships
- Jennifer Gadirova facing ‘longer recovery period than expected’
Achampong and Fenton the second and third-placed athletes in the all-around at the 2023 British Championships, will also be showcasing their form.
The duo, alongside the currently injured Poppy-Grace Stickler, were part of the World silver-medal-winning team in 2022 – alongside the Gadirovas and Kinsella – who secured a five-person team quota berth for Paris 2024.
A resurgent Becky Downie, who was part of the GB women's team that became 2023 European team champions in Antalya, Türkiye while also claiming individual silver in the uneven bars final, is back in the frame, and newcomer Ruby Evans, who contributed scores on vault and floor exercise towards Great Britain's sixth-place finish in the team final at the 2023 Worlds, are also ready to get started.
Jake Jarman and co ready for action
It has been more than 15 months since qualifying a the two teams, and the Brits have been busy upgrading and perfecting increasingly difficult routines in order to challenge for medal-ware at the Bercy Arena in France at the artistic gymnastics' competition starting Saturday 27 July.
Jarman will be keen to showcase his own upgrades in Liverpool, after posting mind-boggling twisting floor tumbles and vaults to social media leading up to the British champs.
The 22-year-old spun his way onto the global scene in 2023, claiming the world vault title, while also entering the hallowed pages of the Code of Points, the official gymnastics rulebook, after a tumble on floor was named after him for being the first gymnast ever to perform it.
The 3.5 twisting double layout, which the Brit competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup in September, is now called, well, the Jarman. Boding well for Paris 2024, Jarman completed the sequence at the venue that will showcase the best gymnasts in the world at the Bercy Arena.
Another stand-out moment in 2023, was Luke Whitehouse performing the triple back somersault on floor, one of few gymnasts in the world to attempt the move, despite it being debuted in the 1980s.
The early 2024 season has seen the likes of Harry Hepworth collecting medals in the FIG Apparatus World Cup series, including beating World and Olympic champion on floor, Artem Dolgopyat of Israel, at the Cottbus edition in Germany in February.
The return of Fraser and Regini-Moran – both part of the men's team that secured bronze at the 2022 World champs, and both individual world title holders, too, Fraser on the parallel bars in 2019, and new dad Regini-Moran on floor in 2022 – after just about the whole season out with injury and rehab, is a boon for the men's team.
Additional gymnasts to watch and vying for a precious place on the British men's team are two-time World bronze medallist Tulloch, Joshua Nathan, and the 2023 British champion in the men's all-around Adam Tobin.
2024 British Gymnastics Championships schedule
(All times GMT)
Thursday 14 March – Day 1
11.15am – 12:45pm: Women’s Aspire Subdivision One
11.15am – 14.00pm: Men’s Disability Masters
16.25pm – 18.00pm: Women’s Aspire Subdivision Two
16:25pm – 18.50pm: Men’s Under 16’s
Friday 15 March – Day 2
14.15pm – 16.20pm: Women’s Junior Subdivision One
14.15pm – 16.40pm: Men’s Under 14’s Subdivision One
18.30pm – 20.35pm: Women’s Junior Subdivision Two
18:30pm – 21.00pm: Men’s Under 14’s Subdivision Two
Saturday 16 March – Day 3
11.00am – 13.35pm: Women’s Senior Subdivision One, Women’s Aspire, Women’s Disability Master and Aspire and Men’s Under 18’s
14.30pm – 17.10pm: Men’s Senior Competition
15:30pm – 17.10pm: Women’s Senior Subdivision Two
Sunday 17 March – Day 4
11.30am – 15.25pm: Men’s Senior and Under 18’s Apparatus Finals
12.45pm – 15.25pm: Women’s Senior and Junior Apparatus Finals
How to watch the 2024 British Gymnastics Championships
You can watch all the action LIVE on British Gymnastics dedicated event page here. No geo-restrictions apply.
Cameras set up around the arena, enable watchers to select which one they want to watch. An all-around highlights programme will be available on the website on Saturday.
Additionally, a dedicated event page will show medal-winning routines, interviews with the stars of the sport, daily reports, photo galleries.
Follow British Gymnastics on social media throughout the weekend, for all the latest updates.
Keep track of the scores
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