CHESHIRE Gymnastics are celebrating success on the global stage.
Tumbler Alisha Evanson, 23, has returned from her first senior world championships in Pamplona, Spain, with a team silver medal.
She produced two international personal best performances in helping Team GB, also featuring fellow Worlds debutant Jaeda-Lei Jeffers, Naana Oppon and tumbling superstar Megan Kealy, to qualify for the team finals in first place.
“It was amazing, the whole experience, walking around the arena, competing as a senior and competing with some incredible gymnasts,” said Alisha, who was supported in Spain by her personal coach Mark Hudson along with his Cheshire Gymnastics co-owner and wife, Laura.
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The Team GB coaching team told Mark how impressed they were with Alisha’s training, her build-up to this lifelong dream event and her professional positive approach.
It was also a huge full-circle achievement for Mark as Alisha’s coach because he was a senior world athlete himself in the 1980s and says he could not feel more proud of his gymnast stepping into the senior world arena and performing so well.
Alisha, a level three women’s artistic coach at her club, will now prepare for the European trials in February.