Girls from, Kinetic Gymnastics, a small Wantage- based club, filled three of the first four positions when competing in the Oxfordshire grades competition at Milton Keynes.

Lily Gatenby, Megan Goodey and Molly Jacob were all entered at grade 12, and finished first second and fourth respectively.

Gatenby gained a distinction with an excellent score of 46.55.

Other members, Courteney Taylor, Lucy Wasbourne-Calcut and Theresa Demmel, all entered and passed grade 11.

Emma Critchley, 13, was the youngest entry at grade ten0 but still gained third place.

Five of the Kinetic girls scored highly enough to be invited to the South of England grades finals at the end of this month.