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A giant leap for Emma

Jenny Dixon
30/ 4/2008

WILMSLOW High School teenager Emma Scanlon is making giant leaps in her trampolining career.

Sixteen-year-old Scanlon has been selected to represent Great Britain at the sport’s European Championships in Denmark this month.

She will be competing as an individual and in synchro as part of a four-strong under-18s girls team.

Scanlon is the current national synchro champion, a title she has claimed three times before, and was the highest scoring British trampolinist in her age group at the previous world championships.

Having started as a gymnast before swapping to the trampoline, aged eight, Scanlon has lofty ambitions in the sport.

She said: "I would like to compete as a senior and one day go to the Olympics.

"In trampolining, competitors tend to be a lot older than gymnasts when they reach their peak - the best trampolinists in the world tend to be over 25-years-old.

"So the Olympics in 2012 would probably be too soon for me. I’ll just carry on competing and stick at it."

Scanlon has represented Great Britain at under-13, under-15 and under-17 levels at the World Age Group Championships. Two years ago she was selected as reserve for the under-18 youth team for the European Championships. She has also been placed in the top three at the British Championships in Birmingham twice in the last seven years.

The talented youngster trains at the elite City of Salford Trampoline Club up to four times a week.