Bryony Page and Kat Driscoll made history at the Trampoline, Tumbling and DMT World Championships as they secured two female trampoline places for Team GB at an Olympics for the first time.
Page and Driscoll qualified in sixth and seventh respectively for the world final in Odense, Denmark, and in the process booked the maximum two spots available to Team GB for the Rio Olympics next summer.
Driscoll was first up and recorded a score of 54.210 before Page moved ahead of her with 54.565.
Driscoll said: “It is the most emotional I have ever been. I finished my routine and started crying straight away because of the relief of getting a solid routine in.
“Bryony then went and started crying, which made me cry again and then cried when we had one spot I cried and then again when I knew we had two.”
Page added: “I just got off the trampoline and it was relief that I had completed it and then the scores came up and we knew it would be close.
“As soon as the scores came out, we couldn’t keep it in any more.”
“It was just about remembering the training that we had done,” she continued. “You feel the pressure and are really nervous but we had done all the training, the trials and the practice runs.”
Their Great Britain teammate Pamela Clark came 19th following her score of 52.450, in a semi-final which was led by China’s Dan Li who posted 54.890.
In the men’s competition, Nathan Bailey secured Team GB a place at the Rio test event next year following his 19th place finish. Sportsbeat 2015