Kelly Simm

Kelly Simm
— Gymnast —
Full name	Kelly Jay Simm
Nickname(s)	Kel, Jelly[1]
Country represented	Great Britain  England
Born	(1995-04-23) 23 April 1995 Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Hometown	Whiteley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Height	157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Club	Dynamo School of Gymnastics
Head coach(es)	Keith Richardson and Debbie Richardson
Assistant coach(es)	Kerri Upton
Medal record Representing  Great Britain World Championships 2015 Glasgow Team Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju All-Around 2015 Gwangju Vault 2015 Gwangju Floor Exercise Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Team
Alma mater	Henry Cort Community College, Fareham

Kelly Jay Simm (born 23 April 1995) is a British artistic gymnast.^[2] She is the 2015 Summer Universiade all-around champion, vault silver medalist, and floor bronze medalist. She represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won a gold medal in the team final. She competed at the 2015 World Championships and she won the bronze medal with the team.

Senior career

2014

Commonwealth Games

In July 2014, Simm competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland and was part of the England team that won the Women's artistic team all-around.^[3]

2015

Simm competed at the English Gymnastics Championships in Loughborough, England on March 14, 2015. She finished in third place at the all-around competition with a score of 54.550, she scored 14.100 on the vault, 13.750 on the uneven bars, 12.700 on the balance beam and 14.000 on the floor exercise.^[4]

Later that Month, Simm also competed at the British Championships in Liverpool. In the all-around competition she scored 14.200 on the vault, 12.800 on the uneven bars, 12.200 on the balance beam and 13.900 on the floor which gave her a final total of 53.100, almost half a point lower than her English Championships score, for joint fourth place with Angel Romaeo.^[5] Simm qualified for two event finals, in the vault final she tied for second place with Ellie Downie with an averaged score of 14.175^[6] and in the floor final she again tied for fourth place with Romaeo with a score of 13.550.^[7]

On April 23, it was announced by the British Olympic Association that Simm was to represent Great Britain at the first ever European Games. Simm was originally selected to compete alongside 2012 Olympian Rebecca Tunney and senior newcomer Tyesha Mattis, but both withdrew due to injuries. On June 2 it was released by British Gymnastics that Simm was to now compete with double 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Georgina Hockenhull and 2014 World Championships reserve athlete Charlie Fellows (gymnast).^[8] As a team of three they will represent Team GB at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan in June.^[9]

1st European Games

The first day of competition started on June 14, which was the first half of the team final and individual qualifications. Great Britain started on the vault first, Simm was nominated to compete two vaults to be eligible to qualify for the vault final. Her first vault, which also contributed to the team score was 14.233, her second vault scored 13.533 for an average score of 13.883 qualifying her in fifth place^[10] and on the uneven bars she scored 12.933.^[11] These scores also contributed to the first half of the all-around qualification where she currently stood at joint eighteenth place with French gymnast Marine Brevet with a score 27.166.^[12] On the next day of competition Simm competed on the balance beam and floor, this was also the last day for the team final and individual qualifications. Simm scored 12.533 on the balance beam^[13] and 13.600 on the floor exercise^[14] where she scored the same as four other girls but because her difficulty score was the highest making her execution score of her routine the lowest out of the five, Simm didn't qualify for the floor final.^[15] Overall Simm helped team GB finish in 8th place^[16] with a score of 107.964 and qualified for the all-around final in thirteenth place with a score of 53.299.^[17] In the all-around final, Simm placed 11th with a score of 51.932.^[18] Unfortunately in the vault final, Simm landed her second vault on her knees, earning a score of zero for that vault and an average score of 7.166 for the two vaults, placing 6th out of six finalists.^[19]

2015 Summer Universiade

Simm represented Great Britain at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea. Simm qualified for the all-around in third place with a score of 54.800.^[20] She also qualified for the vault final in second place behind Maria Paseka of Russia,^[21] for the uneven bars final in seventh place,^[22] and for the floor exercise final in second place.^[23] In the individual all-around final, Simm won the gold medal with a score of 56.332.^[24] She won the silver medal on vault with a score of 14.233,^[25] placed fourth on uneven bars with a score of 13.566,^[26] and won the bronze medal on floor exercise with a score of 13.966.^[27]

Competitive History

References

External links

• at British Gymnastics