Gymnastics and trampolining

Gymnastics and trampolining participation overview

Around 34,500 women take part in gymnastics at least once a week.

Gymnastics is an ethnically diverse sport. Almost one in five participants are from a BME community. Only six sports have a higher BME female profile. It is predominately a young persons sport: 46% of female gymnasts are aged 16-19.

The number of female participants has considerably declined over the past few years. Weekly participation has remained stable in the last year, but monthly participation continues to drop.

Key links:

British Gymnastics

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About WSFF

The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) is the UK charity that campaigns to make physical activity an everyday part of life for women and girls. Our aim is to create a nation of active women.

To make being active more attractive for women and girls we do three things:

Help - we help sport and fitness organisations understand what women want.
Inspire - we inspire women to take part.
Persuade - we campaign to persuade policy makers that having more active women will benefit all of us.