Alice Kinsella
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Full name | Alice Nicole Kinsella | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Basildon, Essex | 13 March 2001|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Birmingham, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Park Wrekin School of Gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alice Nicole Kinsella (born 13 March 2001) is an English artistic gymnast. She represented Great Britain at the 2016 European Championships as a junior in Bern, Switzerland, finishing with three silver medals across the competition (TF, BB, FX) and a fifth-place finish in the all-around competition.[1]
Senior career
2017
Her senior debut came in March 2017 where she finished seventh in the 2017 Stuttgart World Cup.[2]
She competed at the 2017 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where she placed tenth in the all-around.[3]
In October 2017, Alice was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She competed in the all-around in qualifications and placed twenty-fourth overall, qualifying her to the all-around final with a score of 51.365.[4]
On 6 October 2017, British Gymnastics announced that Alice had withdrawn from the all-around final after sustaining a minor ankle injury during qualifications.[5]
2018
On 10 February, Alice competed at the English Championships where she placed seventh in the all-around. She also placed fourth on vault and bars and sixth on floor.[6] On 21 February, Alice was named to the English team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.[7]
In March, Alice competed at the British Championships. She competed in the all-around where she placed fifth with a score of 51.650. She then competed in the beam final where she won a silver medal with a score of 13.350 and also in the floor final where she placed fifth with a score of 13.000.[8] Later on that month, Alice was chosen to compete at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Birmingham to replace teammate Claudia Fragapane who had to withdraw due to injury. She won the bronze medal with a total score of 53.099 behind Russia's Angelina Melnikova and American Margzetta Frazier.[9]
In April Kinsella competed at the Commonwealth Games on all four events in the team final/individual qualifications where she won a silver medal with the English team, finishing behind Canada. She had also successfully qualified in third for the all-around final, second for the beam final and sixth for the floor final. In the all-around final, Alice won bronze with a total score of 53.150 behind gold medal winner Ellie Black from Canada and silver medal winner Georgia Godwin from Australia. Alice competed in the beam final where she won gold with a score of 13.700. She told the BBC after her win:
"I'm still quite speechless. I don't really know what to say. I went out quite confident because I came second in qualifications. I thought if I go clean a medal was possible. But when I got the gold I didn't know what to do."[10]
Alice then competed in the floor final where she placed eighth after falling on her final tumble. She scored 11.666.[11]
On 7–8 July Kinsella competed at the Heerenveen Friendly where she placed third in the team final with Great Britain, second on balance beam behind Sanne Wevers, 4th on floor, and 10th in the all-around after a fall on the beam.[12] On 6 July Kinsella was named to the team to compete at the 2018 European Championships alongside Becky Downie, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Kelly Simm, and Lucy Stanhope.[13] Great Britain finished fourth in team finals.[14]
On September 27, Kinsella was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar alongside Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Georgia-Mae Fenton, and Kelly Simm.[15]
Personal life
Alice is the daughter of former Republic of Ireland international footballer Mark Kinsella. Alice's brother Liam is also a footballer and currently plays with Walsall. Liam has represented Ireland at underage level.[16]
Competitive history
Junior
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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2014 | English Championships (Espoir) | ![]() | |||||
2015 | English Championships | ![]() | 5 | ![]() | |||
British Championships | 12 | 7 | |||||
Flanders Team Challenge | 5 | 13 | |||||
British Team Championships | 28 | ||||||
Olympic Hopes Cup | ![]() | ||||||
2016 | International Gymnix | 15 | 8 | ![]() | |||
British Team Championships | ![]() | ||||||
English Championships | ![]() | ||||||
British Championships | 4 | ![]() | 4 | ||||
Italian Junior Friendly | ![]() | ![]() | |||||
European Championships | ![]() | 5 | 4 | ![]() | ![]() | ||
Elite Gym Massilia | 7 | 6 |
Senior
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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2017 | Stuttgart World Cup | 7 | |||||
British Championships | ![]() | 5 | 5 | ||||
English Championships | ![]() | ![]() | |||||
European Championships | 10 | ||||||
Dutch Invitational | ![]() | 4 | 4 | ![]() | |||
British Team Championships | ![]() | ||||||
World Championships | WD[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
2018 | English Championships | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||
British Championships | 5 | ![]() | 5 | ||||
Birmingham World Cup | ![]() | ||||||
Commonwealth Games | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 8 | |||
Heerenveen Friendly | ![]() | 10 | ![]() | 4 | |||
European Championships | 4 |
- ↑ Kinsella qualified to the All-Around final but had to withdraw due to an injury.
References
- ↑ "2016 European Championships Results". 7 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ↑ https://database.fig-gymnastics.com/public/results/display/14918?idAgeCategory=4&idCategory=65
- ↑ http://www.ueg.org/data/result/771/Women's%20all-around.pdf
- ↑ https://mtl2017gymcan.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/C53A_List_Of_Qualifiers_WomSenC2.pdf
- ↑ https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/7295-update-from-montreal-alice-kinsella
- ↑ https://www.british-gymnastics.org/documents/regions-and-home-countries/england/9331-2018-english-championship-final-results/file
- ↑ https://britishgymnewstics.com/2018/02/21/commonwealth-games-team-announcement-team-england/
- ↑ https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/british-championships/mens-and-womens-artistic#results
- ↑ https://thegymter.net/2018/03/23/2018-birmingham-world-cup-results/
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43695473
- ↑ https://thegymter.net/2018/04/06/2018-commonwealth-games-results/
- ↑ "2018 Heerenveen Friendly Results". The Gymnter.net. July 11, 2018.
- ↑ "British teams announced for 2018 European Championships". British Gymnastics. July 6, 2018.
- ↑ "European Championships 2018: GB fourth in women's team gymnastics final". BBC Sports. August 4, 2018.
- ↑ "GBR women's team confirmed for World Championship action". British Gymnastics. September 27, 2018.
- ↑ "Kinsellas fly the flags for Ireland and Great Britain". 7 January 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.