London Gymnastics

Online Entry

London Gymnastics is pleased to announce that it has made an important step forward in the BG/LG roll out of the new Regional Online Entry system, which is taking place across the English regions in 2015.

London Gymnastics is pleased to have worked with British Gymnastics as a pilot Region and today we opened up the new system for two live competitions (click on the links):

• London Open Championships
• Tony Johnson Regional Qualifers

BG and London Gymnastics have worked hard over the last 12 months to adapt the National entry system, to one which will cater for all of our Regional Competitions. I extend my thanks to Catherine Bates who has helped lead the project together with Ben Willcox and the team from BG. Also to Lorna Goddard, MTC Chair & London Open Championship Director – who has been busy in the last few weeks to get the event entry details ready for receiving data.

A pdf New Online Entry System User Guide (1.45 MB) has already been created to help clubs.

Clubs will be the first to experience BG’s upgraded online entry system via the GymNet platform, which some will have already have experienced with entry to National Competitions.

What else do you need to know

• It is currently our intention that all London Gymnastics events will move to online entry from January 2015
• We estimate that the new system will save our competition organisers over 50% of their time relating to event entries and organisation
• All Memberships and Qualifications will be checked at the point of entry
• A simple ‘drag and drop’ of members to the relevant competitions
• Saving the clubs from mountains of handwritten or typed entry forms!
• Training manuals for clubs are being developed, and we hope to be able to share more ‘practical’ demos at the AGM in September. We intend to add some additional training sessions for clubs prior to roll out.
• We recently arranged a training session for all TC Chairs on how to create new online events, and we will add further training in the coming months

Over the next couple of months we will let you know of how the changeover will effect clubs and ensure you have plenty of time to prepare for it. You can keep up to date via news items, but also the dedicated page we have created.

Kind regards


Ben Murphy
London Gymnastics Chairman