birth_place height discipline birth_date article_title hometown name
saltney 156 cm ftin wag 13 may 1988 melanie roberts
 saltney melanie roberts
melanie roberts

melanie roberts is a british gymnast , born on may 13 , 1988 in saltney , flintshire , wales .
at the age of five , roberts started gymnastics at the northgate arena leisure centre in chester .
when she had reached as far as she could go here , she was advised to go to the city of liverpool gym club .
in 2002 , roberts joined the british junior europeans team even though her earlier rankings -lrb- 20th and 18th -rrb- at the espoir british championship had not been strong .
roberts performance on beam was one of the few performances by a junior to be broadcast on greek television , which brought roberts considerable popularity .
roberts performed strongly at a number of competitions in 2002 before an elbow injury in 2003 caused a temporary withdrawal from competition .
following a quick recovery , she has resumed successful competition , including taking gold on the balance beam competition in the northern european gymnastics championship in lisburn in 2005 .
