Pictured are Bemur Gymnastics and Dance Club’s gold medal winners. Back row, from left: Hanna Jacobs, Saalihah Jacobs, Zara Anderson, Kiva Jellars, Nqobile Malifika and Kayla Patience. Middle: Meeka Roman, Aluthando Shuqula, Tamia Samuel and Leah Anderson. Front: Aurora Geduldt, Hayden Rhodes and Jamie Noble. Picture: Fuad Esack
Athlone-based Bemur Gymnastics and Dance Club walked away with gold at the Cape District trials in Brackenfell and at the Western Cape Gym for All Challenge, in Grassy Park, earlier this month.
The club entered three teams in the Gym for All Challenge, winning a silver and two gold medals.
Saturday’s inclement weather did not deter the club’s youngsters from turning up for a training session at Athlone community centre, as they are now preparing for the national Gym For Life Challenge in Cape Town in September, leading up to the next year’s International Gym For Life Challenge in Portugal.
Bemur Gymnastics and Dance Club coach Barbara Murphy reflecting on the club’s recent achievements which included winning gold at the Cape Town Gymnastics Association’s Gym For All Challenge, in Grassy Park, a fortnight ago. Picture: Fuad EsackBemur Gymnastics squad members demonstrate a difficult, almost gravity defying, balancing act which they performed as part of their routine at the Gym For All Challenge. Picture: Fuad EsackBemur coach Barbara Murphy assists youngsters Tamia Samuel and Meeka Roman with acrobatic lift during a training session, at Athlone community centre, at the weekend. Picture: Fuad EsackBemur’s young gymnasts constructs a grand pyramid which formed part of a piece entitled “Äfrican Maidens”, performed at Cape Town Gymnastics Association’s Gym for All Challenge, in Grassy Park, and which earned them a gold medal. Picture: Fuad Esack
