Charlie Fellows (gymnast)

[5] In September Fellows competed for England at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Isle of Man.

She helped the junior team finish in fourth place contributing scores on 3 apparatuses.

She placed third in the all-around final, she scored 13.650 on the vault, 12.850 on the uneven bars, 11.700 on the balance beam and 13.550 on the floor exercise for a combined total of 51.750.

[21] In the final for the all-around competition she placed 18th scoring 13.633 on the vault, 13.200 on the uneven bars, 12.100 on the balance beam and 12.266 on the floor exercise.

[22] Fellows only qualified for the uneven bars final where she tied for 4th place with Raer Theaker with 13.900.

[34] She was less than tenth of a point away from qualifying from the final making her first reserve, Andreea Iridon of Romania scored 13.733 just nudging Fellows from the final, likewise Tea Ugrin of Italy only scored 13.766 thus exemplifying the closeness of the uneven bars qualification.

It is worth noting that rather than the usual 8 finalists qualifying for each event final, in this competition there will only be 6 and only 1 gymnast per country.

Fellow team mate Claudia Fragapane was injured and replaced by Lucy Stanhope a first year senior then Olympic bronze medalist and British floor champion Amy Tinkler also tore ankle ligaments competing at the World Cup in Birmingham a week before she was due to leave for Australia.

It was hoped that fellows would take Amy’s place on the team but this wasn’t the case when it was announced she had been replaced by Taeja James also a first year senior.