West Lothian gymnast seals Team Scotland's first-ever Commonwealth Games women's artistic gymnastics medal

Uphall gymnast Shannon Archer has created historical past by changing into the primary Scottish lady to safe a creative gymnastics medal on the Commonwealth Video games.

The 24-year-old held her nerves to bag a bronze medal within the girls’s vault remaining.

Shannon, who completed eighth within the all-around remaining yesterday, was the ultimate gymnast. A -0.3 penalty on her first vault meant she needed to produce a near-perfect second vault to climb into the highest three which she duly did.

Her second vault rating of 12.900 was the very best within the remaining and was sufficient to propel her above Canada’s Emma Spence and into third place with an total rating of 13.083.

Shannon Archer of Workforce Scotland competes through the Girls's Vault Last (Photograph by Matthew Lewis/Getty Pictures)

Australia’s Georgia Goodwin and Canada’s Lauren Denommee took silver and bronze.

Shannon was additionally a part of the Workforce Scotland squad that completed sixth within the crew occasion on Saturday.

And she or he may not be completed on the medal entrance, both, as she is because of compete within the uneven bars remaining later right now.

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