Jennifer Pinches

She placed 21st all-around in qualifications.

In July, Pinches competed at the British Championships in Liverpool, placing third in the all-around competition with a score of 52.850.

She finished 32nd in the all-around competition with a score of 53.898.

In February, Pinches competed at the English Championships in Stoke-on-Trent.

She placed second in the all-around competition with a score of 56.05.

She placed 37th in qualifications for the all-around competition with a score of 53.766.

In the team final, she helped the British team place fifth with a balance beam score of 13.833.

In March, Pinches won the all-around competition at the English Championships.

Jennifer McIlveen (née Pinches) (born 25 May 1994) is a retired artistic gymnast who competed for Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and subsequently for the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team in the NCAA.

Pinches was born in Tunbridge Wells on 25 May 1994.

She started gymnastics at six years old, attending Fromeside Gymnastics Club on the outskirts of Bristol.

Pinches began training at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre at the age of nine, and by the age of ten was ranked first in Britain in her age group.

In 2005 Pinches was the subject of an episode of the Channel 5 documentary series 'A Different Life'.

"My ultimate aim is to just be in the Olympics," she said in the film.

Pinches started training at the City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club in 2006 after her family moved to the North-West of England.

She received guidance there from Amanda Reddin and trained alongside Beth Tweddle and Hannah Whelan.

Pinches was a member of the British national squad throughout her elite career, competing in the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2010 and 2011 and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Following the Olympics, Pinches announced her retirement from elite gymnastics and completed her A level examinations at the King's School, Macclesfield.

In October, Pinches competed for Great Britain at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

At the beginning of April, Pinches competed at the 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Berlin, Germany.

In October, Pinches competed at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

In May, Pinches competed at the 2012 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Brussels, Belgium.

She contributed a balance beam score of 13.000 and a floor score of 13.600 to the British team's fourth-place finish.

At the end of May, Pinches participated in the British Team Championships, which counted as the first trial for the Great Britain Olympic team.

She helped her club, City of Liverpool, take first place with an all-around score of 52.850.

At the beginning of June, Pinches competed alongside other British gymnasts in an international friendly against Finland and Spain in Ipswich, which counted as the second British Olympic team trial.

She placed seventh in the all-around with a score of 53.650.

At the end of June, Pinches competed at the British Championships in Liverpool.

This was the third and final trial to decide which gymnasts would represent Great Britain at the Olympics.

In September 2013, after a 13-month break from training, she began attending the University of California, Los Angeles and competed for the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team in the NCAA.

In 2020, Pinches emerged as a prominent figure in the campaign against abusive coaching practices in gymnastics.

becoming a co-founder of the charity Gymnasts for Change with athlete rights advocate, Claire Heafford.

In 2020, Pinches began to speak out publicly against what she described as the "culture of abuse and fear" in gymnastics.

In June, she drafted the first statement issued under the social media hashtag #gymnastalliance, subsequently used by many gymnasts around the world to make public statements about their own experiences of abuse in gymnastics.

In December she co-founded Gymnasts for Change, a campaign to end abusive coaching and encourage the development of an 'athlete-centred' culture in gymnastics.

In July, Pinches competed at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere, Finland.

She placed tenth in the all-around final with a score of 53.100.

In December, Pinches competed at the Doha Gymnasiade in Qatar, placing ninth in the all-around with a score of 52.300

In August, Pinches competed for Great Britain against gymnasts from Switzerland in an international friendly meet in Gateshead.

She placed third in the all-around competition with a score of 55.300.