Why is beth tweddle inspirational

Find A Class. Beth Tweddle is inspiring a generation this Christmas! Get your child involved in Gymnastics this Christmas Find a class. Name Email Phone How can we help? After the accident, while skiing in Austria, she immediately had emergency surgery on her back and had some of her vertebrae fused using bone taken from her hip.

She regularly updated fans when she was able to walk again and on her subsequent progress. She had been the National Champion 10 times on the run, Commonwealth Champion, European Champion six times, World Champion three times and bronze medal winner on the uneven bars at the Olympic Games in London. Apart from those medals, Beth won silvers at the and European Championships and at the World Cup. While she has a bronze Olympic medal to her name, the motivational speaker took part in three consecutive Olympic Games in all, the others being Athens in and Beijing in In all, across all competitions, Beth has 28 medals — 14 of them gold, eight silver and six bronze.

She came out of a university course in sports science with a in and was awarded an MBE three years later. Also, at that age the girls are doing GCSEs, so it's pretty tough. They do ever so well.

Reddin plans to use her first year as head coach to assess what needs to be done to secure qualification for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics of , a process that begins next year, with the most crucial. The forthcoming world championships mark the beginning of a fresh Olympic cycle and will reflect new trends for judging, which Reddin believes will help to inform her blueprint for success. Asked how best to sum up Tweddle's legacy, Reddin is definitive in her response.

Just because you've got a British leotard on makes no difference. If the desire's there and you really want it and you work hard then go for it. Beth has since retired from competitive gymnastics but is very much involved with her beloved sport, as a director and ambassador of Total Gymnastics.

Beth and fellow Olympian, Steve Parry, set up the company to provide the opportunity for as many children as possible to take up gymnastics, within schools, leisure centres and gymnastics clubs to help develop the sport around the country. It is also the training ground for Warrington Wolves.

This is the first in a series of public lectures to take place at the Campus with more to be announced in the New Year.