Gymnastics World Championships 2022: GB women win silver in team event

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Venue: M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool Dates: 29 October-6 November
Coverage: Live sum from 1-6 November connected BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app

Great Britain's women won metallic successful the squad last astatine the Gymnastics World Championships successful Liverpool.

It is the champion ever effect by a British women's creator squad astatine a World Championships.

Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Jessica Gadirova, Jennifer Gadirova and Ondine Achampong finished 2nd to the USA with Canada taking bronze.

"It's truthful surreal, we're perfectly speechless, I couldn't beryllium much arrogant of this team," said Kinsella.

The squad finished with 163.363 points down the USA connected 166.564 with the medal besides securing GB a spot astatine the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The champion and lone erstwhile podium effect a GB women's squad person achieved anterior to this was bronze successful 2015.

Having qualified successful second spot connected Sunday, GB worked their mode into 2nd spot aft the archetypal apparatus, the vault, and firmly held connected to their presumption throughout.

Achampong produced stellar performances connected the vault and beam portion Kinsella showed her people connected uneven bars but was penalised for a autumn connected the beam.

Less than 4 points separated the apical 3 teams going into the last rotation wherever Jennifer Gadirova, having sat retired the archetypal 3 apparatus, enactment successful a sublime show connected the level earlier her duplicate Jessica stunned the location assemblage with a 14.266 connected the apparatus, the highest people of the day.

Kinsella, Achampong and Fenton were besides portion of the squad that won golden for England astatine the Commonwealth Games with Kinsella and Achampong besides picking up golden and metallic connected floor, respectively.

The men vie successful the squad last time portion Jessica and Jennifer Gadirova person secured places successful the level final.

Jessica has besides qualified for the vault last and volition beryllium successful the idiosyncratic all-around last with Kinsella.

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