3rd place at European Championships

Laura’s celebrating a win of third place in her first European Championships, finishing with an impressive score of  53.940. If that wasn’t enough she also picked up a gold medal in the team event. A massive achievement especially as she has been recovering from a foot injury.

Laura, special guest at the Youth Pride of Somerset Awards

Outstanding achievement of young people were honoured at the Pride of Somerset Youth Awards last Saturday 9 March and Laura Gallagher was a special guest. Laura, who is a former youth awards winner, presented prizes to these inspirational young people. Laura commented: “I don’t really know what to say about it. It was an honour [...]

Watch Laura Gallagher in action

Last weekend was Laura’s first competition of the year in Bath. It was in fact a trial for the European Championships which provided a fab opportunity for Laura to work on aspects of her routine – getting a high score wasn’t her primary goal as she has pre-qualified. Phew. “It was hard because when you’re [...]

Catch Laura Gallagher on BBC iPlayer

If you missed Laura Gallagher in the BBC’s programme ‘Olympic Dreams’ you can still catch it on the BBC iPlayer. Olympic Dreams tracks Olympic hopefuls throughout the UK. It’s an inspirational look at the dedication and hard work that goes into competing at this high level. Laura is tracked through the week leading up to- [...]

Busy start to 2012 for Laura

After a busy training schedule during the Christmas break, Laura Gallagher is starting 2012 no differently. Training six days a week, twice a day is par for the course for a professional trampolinist. We’re looking forward to hearing how last weekend was for Laura with the GB squad in the 02 Arena. Team GB spent [...]

The Christmas holidays for a professional trampolinist

For many of us the Christmas holidays are a time of considerable relaxation and recouperation in preparation for the New Year. That, however, is not the case for professional trampolinist Laura Gallagher who will be in training every day with the exception of Christmasday and Boxing Day. Laura, who has been recovering from a particularly [...]

A frustrating week for Laura

Sadly Laura’s training week with trampolining Team GB wasn’t the exciting group event she had been looking forward to. On arriving at the camp on Monday morning Laura felt ill so decided to rest instead of train. On Tuesday she mustered enough energy for a 4 hour session of screening and fitness tests, but was [...]

Laura spends the week with Team GB

After a much needed week off after the World Championships Laura was back in training last week, getting her legs going again and trying out some new moves. Laura said: “I really needed some time off after the Championships and that followed with an enjoyable light training week where in between training, I had time [...]

A silver for Team GB at the World Championships

Team GB made a fabulous achievement at the recent Trampolining Word Championships held at the NIA in Birmingham by taking home an impressive silver. Team member Laura Gallagher said: “Overall I am pleased with the Championships. It was a brilliant experience and there are so many positives to take away.” The team secured just one [...]

Laura Gallagher supports Mind in Taunton

World-class trampolinist Laura Gallagher has more than trampolining on her mind. Off the trampoline she has just become patron of the charity Mind in Taunton and West Somerset after they heard her story on BBC Somerset radio. The charity is important to her. “I had a lot of problems with confidence and anxiety in 2007 [...]