Frances Stone
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| Full name | Frances Stone | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Frank | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Wales(2024–present)  Great Britain (2025–present) | ||||||||||||||
Former countries represented |  England(2022–2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Amber Valley Gymnastics Academy | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Frances 'Frank' Stone (born 21 December 2009) is a Welsh artistic gymnast and British national team member. As a senior she was balance beam champion at the 2025 British Gymnastics Championships and represented Great Britain at the 2025 European Championships.[1][2][3]
Stone trains at Amber Valley Gymnastics Academy.[1]
Junior gymnastics career
[edit]Espoir: 2021–2022
[edit]At the 2022 English Championships, Stone placed 5th in the all-around competition.[4]
Junior: 2023–2024
[edit]In her first year as a junior, Stone placed 36th in the all-around at the 2023 English Championships.[5] She was named in the team selected to represent England at the 2023 Northern European Gymnastics Championships in Sweden, she won silver in the team competition and on vault, as well as finishing seventh in the individual all-around.[6]
At the 2024 Welsh Championships Stone won silver on vault and placed seventh in the all-around.[7] Later at English Championships she won silver on floor exercise, bronze on vault and placed sixth in the all-around.[8] At the 2024 British Championships, Stone won silver on balance beam, bronze on vault and placed 5th in the all-around.[9]
Senior gymnastics career
[edit]2025
[edit]Stone competed at the 2025 Welsh Championships as a first year senior, winning silver in the all-around behind Ruby Evans.[10] She also won gold on balance beam, silver on uneven bars and bronze on floor exercise.[10] Later that month at the 2025 English Championships Stone competed in the guest competition, winning silver in the all-around alongside gold on balance beam, silver on floor exercise and bronze on uneven bars.[11] Stone went on to be named balance beam champion at the 2025 British Gymnastics Championships and also won silver in the all-around and on vault.[1][12]
Stone was selected to represent Great Britain alongside Ema Kandalova, Shantae-Eve Amanakwaah, Tilly Wright and Grace Davies at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge in Stuttgart where the team won bronze. [13]
She was selected for her first senior major international championships as part of the British squad for the 2025 European Championships alongside Alia Leat, Emily Roper, Ruby Evans and Ruby Stacey.[2][14] At 15 years, 5 months and 5 days Stone was the youngest competitor in the competition. She competed in the all-around and helped the team place sixth.[3]
2026
[edit]At Welsh Championships Stone competed only on balance beam, winning gold. At British Championships Stone competed in the all-around where she placed 16th.[15] She also qualified for the balance beam and floor exercise finals where she won bronze and placed 7th respectively.[15] Stone was named in the Welsh team for the 2026 Commonwealth Games alongside Ruby Evans, Jemima Taylor, Emily Roper and Abigail Roper.[16] She helped the team finish fourth.
Competitive history
[edit]| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representing England & Great Britain | |||||||
| 2022 | English Championships | 5 | |||||
| 2023 | English Championships | 36 | |||||
| Northern European Championships |  | 7 | | ||||
| Representing Wales & Great Britain | |||||||
| 2024 | Welsh Championships | 7 | | ||||
| English Championships (guest) | 6 |  | | ||||
| British Championships | 5 | | | ||||
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Welsh Championships | | |  | | ||
| English Championships (guest) | | | | | |||
| British Championships | | | | ||||
| DTB Pokal Team Challenge | | ||||||
| European Championships | 6 | ||||||
| 2026 | Welsh Championships | | |||||
| British Championships | 16 | | 7 | ||||
| Commonwealth Games | 4 |
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "British Apparatus Champions decided at the 2025 British". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- 1 2 "Teams announced for the 2025 Artistic European Championships". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- 1 2 "6th place for GB women's team in Leipzig". www.british-gymnastics.org. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ "2022 English Championships Results". The Gymternet. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2023 English Championships Results". The Gymternet. 27 February 2023. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2023 Northern European Championships Results". The Gymternet. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2024 Welsh Championships Results". The Gymternet. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2024 English Championships Results". The Gymternet. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2024 British Championships Results". The Gymternet. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- 1 2 "2025 Welsh Championships Results". The Gymternet. 18 February 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "2025 English Championships Results". The Gymternet. 2 March 2025. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "Alia Leat and Jamie Lewis crowned 2025 All-Around Champions". www.british-gymnastics.org. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
- ↑ "China, Japan, Spain and U.S. dominate EnBW DTB Pokal Team Challenge and Mixed Cup". International Gymnast Magazine Online. 30 March 2025. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ↑ "Welsh trio named in Great Britain squad for European Artistic Gymnastics Championships". BBC Sport. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
- 1 2 "British Gymnastics Championships 2026 – All results and scores – complete list". Olympics.com. 22 March 2026.
- ↑ Godsall, Abigail (19 June 2026). "Team Wales names ten gymnasts for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games". Welsh Gymnastics. Retrieved 30 July 2026.