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Olympic Wrestling Team Article Mar 2011

Emily Jenkinson, a 15-year-old student from Portsmouth Grammar School, had a very successful performance at the Pentathlon GB Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in Crystal Palace. She won the Under-15 national title as well as the year 10 girls' individual title. She also won the awards for the swim and running portions. This continued her streak of winning national titles for the past 5 years. Her running and swimming times were over half a second faster than the next fastest competitors. She has also won various county and regional titles in swimming and track events. Next month, she will attend her third training camp with Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes.

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Olympic Wrestling Team Article Mar 2011

Emily Jenkinson, a 15-year-old student from Portsmouth Grammar School, had a very successful performance at the Pentathlon GB Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in Crystal Palace. She won the Under-15 national title as well as the year 10 girls' individual title. She also won the awards for the swim and running portions. This continued her streak of winning national titles for the past 5 years. Her running and swimming times were over half a second faster than the next fastest competitors. She has also won various county and regional titles in swimming and track events. Next month, she will attend her third training camp with Olympic gold medalist Dame Kelly Holmes.

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GB crown
for Emily...
n BIATHLON
SOUTHAMPTONS Emily
Jenkinson produced some
of the best performances
of the day at the
Pentathlon GB Schools
Modern Biathlon
Championships finals in
Crystal Palace.
The Year 10 pupil at
Portsmouth Grammar
School became the countrys
Under-15 champion.
She collected the year 10
girls individual title as
well as both the swim and
running awards.
It was the fifth year
running she has won a
national title.
Jenkinsons time of
2:56.20 for the 1000m run
was more than five
seconds quicker than the
second fastest time of her
year.
The Hedge End starlet

EMILY JENKINSON
followed that up with a time
of 1:01.28 the quickest
time in the pool by more
than half a second.
Her Crystal Palace
successes continued some
sparkling 2011 form.
Jenkinson was crowned
the countrys Under-15
800m indoor champion last
month and in January she
won the South of England
title with a championship
best performance.
She is also Hampshires
50m freestyle swimming
champion, achieving a
national standard time.
The Southampton
Athletics Club member is
also Hampshire 800m
champion and the
Hampshire Schools 800m
champion.
Next month she will be off
on her third Aviva Future
Stars training camp with
her heroine, double
Olympic gold medalist
Dame Kelly Holmes, at
Loughborough University.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS COUNTDOWN

FORGET WWE, THIS


Wrestling is one of the fastest growing
sports in the south. SALLY CHURCHWARD visits a new Southampton club
to find out what all the fuss is about.

READY TO WRESTLE: Southampton Olympic members.

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THE TRAINING ROOM would


be silent, if it werent for the
sound of grunts and muffled
squeaks of trainers on the
mats.

The members of the Southampton


Olympic Wrestling Club are more than
an hour into their session and dont
have any spare energy for conversation.
Every drop they have is being spent
attempting to force each other to the
ground.
The training is intense.
Former Romanian international athlete Daniel Vlad, chairman of the
group, says that a two-hour training
session is the equivalent of a month of
going to the gym.
Theres probably some professional
pride
in
the
statement,
and

Everyone thinks that if youre


a wrestler youre dangerous
but its part of your
education for life
weightlifters would probably disagree.
But he has a point.
Its exhausting just watching. They
dont lift weights but train for two
hours solid using each others weight
and strength as resistance.
At one point they are lifting each
other from one side to the other,
like a lumbering, lengthy jive
dance.
Everyone comes in standing
up and they go out doubled up
because theyre so tired,
laughs
coach
Vasile Steffan, a
f e l l o w
Romanian
international
wrestler.
Vasile
and
Daniel
were
invited to open
t
h
e
Southampton club
by the BWA due to a
high demand for clubs, which were
thin on the ground in the south.
Vasile, a former Romanian and
international champion, spent eight
years wrestling and training in
Germany, while Daniel wrestled for
three years in the USA.
Vasile says it is common for coaches
in the UK to come from overseas, particularly Eastern Europe, where the
sport is much more popular for now.

T h e

IN
TRAINING:
Vasile
Steffan.

c l u b,
which
is
held on Sunday
mornings at St Marys
Leisure Centre, opened in
December and has been
growing in popularity ever
since. Vasile has at least two
new members every week and is
about to add an extra class to
accommodate everyone.
He is also set to open a club for juniors and, with the help of the BWA,
expects to be holding competitions in

Southampton by the
end of the year as well
as taking his students
to international contests.
Daniel and Vasile agree
that the rising popularity of Mixed
Martial Arts (MMA) has contributed
greatly to the resurgence in interest in
wrestling in the UK.
A number of students at the class
come from an MMA background.
Paul Mason, a 33-year-old accountant from Southampton, has been taking part in MMA for years and finds

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