WITH just over a year to go until the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games kicks-off, Welsh gymnasts, including Barry's Josh Cook, successfully competed at the British Championships in Liverpool.

Josh was invited to compete in the Masters floor competition. The 16-year-old Barry YMCA gymnast was competing in the under-18s age group and so it was a great result for him to be invited to contest the Masters and challenge the senior gymnasts.

During a great performance, Josh managed to secure a bronze medal.

Other Welsh gymnasts included Maisie Methuen who won gold and silver; Latalia Bevan won silver; Holly Jones also won silver and Jac Davies won gold.

Chief executive of Welsh Gymnastics, Rhian Gibson, said: “It was an amazing weekend for our Welsh gymnasts.

"To see so many bring home medals against some of the UK’s best gymnasts was wonderful.

“It was even better as we are nearly a year to go until the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast and so it is a really promising start to our preparations for the games.

“As well as the medal winners we also had a lot of our gymnasts get through to apparatus finals and so it was a great weekend for Welsh Gymnastics and is shows how much our sport has achieved in the last few years.

"We can’t wait until Gold Coast 2018.”