Gymnastics teams produce medal displays at the 2025 BUCS championships

With gymnasts competing across both men's and women's disciplines at the two day event in Leicester, the performances of our University of Nottingham representatives brought home medals in not only a number of individual events, but also hardware in both of the team categories. 

Our women’s grades 1 and 2 team placed second overall to win team silver, with Louise Akers, Chloe Porter, Jasmine Thomas, and Izzy Whittaker also combining for three individual medals. Izzy Whittaker finished in first place on beam grade 2 to claim gold, whilst Chloe Porter won floor grade 2 silver, and Louise Akers took bronze in floor grade 1. 

In the men's categories, our gymnasts continued to raise the bar as Luke Marsh, Musa Siddiqi, Karthik Apapa, and Zach Armstrong - the University of Nottingham men’s grades 1 and 2 team - would win six medals in an outstanding showing that would crown them BUCS team champions! Finishing with 106 points, five more than nearest rivals Loughborough, the team were lead by Luke Marsh. Marsh would win gold in the all round grade 1, high bar grade 1, and on floor, adding silver in the parallel bars and pommel grade 1 in a hugely dominant display. 

Meanwhile Marsh's team mate Zach Armstrong would win the vault grade 2 competition, as well as finishing in second place on pommel grade 2. To round off the weekend, Nottingham's Rory Tann claimed silver for his performances in the vault grade 1 tournament, making it eleven individual medals for the green and gold, to go with two incredible team medals. 

Reflecting on the championships, club President Hannah Chambers told us "the club are all buzzing after the success of our BUCS weekend! The hard work is paying off and we’re so proud of all our competitors. We're now looking forward to moving up in the UGC (University Gymnastics Cup) league with our upcoming competitions."

Everyone at University of Nottingham Sport would like to congratulate our gymnastics athletes on their success in BUCS competition and look forward to seeing all that they go on to achieve during the rest of their season. The clubs next University Gymnastics Cup competition will be taking place in Leeds on 16^th February, followed by the Notts Open on 9^th March where Nottingham will be hosting the last UGC North competition before finals weekend.

You can find out more about the 2025 BUCS Gymnastics Championships by visiting the official website of the championships here.

You can also keep up to date with the University of Nottingham Gymnastics Club by following them on social media here.

Notes for editors

University of Nottingham are the top UK University for team sport, placing 2nd in the overall British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings in the 2023/24 season. For more information on our performance sport offer, including scholarships and support for student athletes, please click here.