Joanna Sime (born 31 May 1962) is a junior and senior international gymnast who represented Great Britain in the late 1970s.
Major championships competed in:
World School Games, Orleans, France, 1976. Gold medalist team event, bronze medal on balance beam.
Commonwealth Games, Edmonton, Canada. England team silver medalist. 1978 1978 Commonwealth Games
World Championships, Strasbourg, France, 1978
World Championships, Fort Worth, Texas, US 1979
European Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1979
Invitational competitions:
Golden Sands Tournament, Varna, Bulgaria 1976,
Golden Sands Tournament, Varna, Bulgaria 1978 (bronze medal balance beam)
National High School All Around Invitational, Chicago, US, 1978
Hungarian Invitational, Pecs, Hungary, 1979
Romanian Invitational, Bucharest, Romania, 1980.
Moscow News Tournament, Russia, 1981 Riga Tournament, Latvia, 1981
National championships:
British National Junior Champion 1976
British National Apparatus Champion 1978
British Uneven Bar Champion 1978
British Floor Champion 1978
International meets:
GB vs Romania
GB vs Bulgaria
GB vs Germany
GB vs France
GB vs Sweden
GB vs Denmark
GB vs Holland
GB vs Canada
GB vs Hungary
GB vs USSR
GB vs Poland
GB vs Finland
GB vs Penn State University
Honors: The first unanimous decision in the history of the Tournament; Joanna was voted "Miss Moskovski Novosti" by 250 International journalists as the most charming and beautiful gymnast at the Moscow News Tournament, Russia, 1981.
Awarded the Honor of Master Gymnast by the British Amateur Gymnastics Association for participation in three world-level events.
Sime participated as celebrity sportswomen in children's TV show We are the Champions with Ron Pickering in 1978. We Are the Champions (TV series).
NCAA: Received a full athletic scholarship to the Pennsylvania State University from 1981 to 1985. Received the NCAA Team bronze medal in 1982, coached by Judy Markell Avener. NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship
Professional gymnastics: Took part in the Kurt Thomas's Professional Gymnastics show in Orlando, Florida, 1985.