club birth_place height birth_date nickname article_title name headcoach
bristol hawks newport , wales 164 cm ftin 16 april 1989 rhi rhian pugh
 rhian pugh helen may
rhian pugh

rhian pugh is a british gymnast .
born on 16 april 1989 in wales , she is also a member of the welsh national squad and part of british gymnastics world class potential programme .
pugh became british junior bar champion for 2003 and was selected for the great britain junior national squad from 2003 to 2004 .
first competing for great britain in canada in march 2003 where she achieved silver on bars & team silver in the jurassic classic plus silver on beam at the bluewater international .
in 2004 , rhian became champion on asymmetric bars and balance beam at the junior british national championships .
she also won gold on the bars at the european junior championships with a routine described as `` uniquely original '' by the judges .
she later joined the senior squad representing wales at the 2006 commonwealth games .
pugh says russian gymnast , svetlana khorkina is her favourite gymnast .
she said '' `` i 'd love , like khorkina has , to develop my own style & progress to the level where i could include some unique elements of my own '' '' .
