NANTWICH’S Bryony Page has spoken of her delight after she won Great Britain’s first ever Olympic trampolining medal.

The 25-year-old from Wrenbury produced a stunning routine to shock the world and secure the silver medal in Rio on Friday.

Her score of 56.040 was just beaten by gold medallist Rosannagh Maclennan of Canada, while Chinese world champion Dan Li took the bronze medal.

The former Brine Lea School pupil’s previous best finish at a major event was fifth at the 2015 World Championships in Denmark and she was in disbelief at her performance.

“Just getting into the Olympic final, going out the back and doing our warm-up, I was like, ‘I’m an Olympic finalist!”, she said.

“My target was to go out there and do my best and that’s what I did in the final. I’m just so happy about that.

“After my performance I was just so happy because that was the best I could have done on that day, and then finding out I’d got a medal, I couldn’t hold my legs up. I collapsed and I was crying my eyes out.

“Then when I found out I got the silver I was just so shell-shocked, it’s just absolutely incredible.”

A three-time British champion, Page forms part of the successful Team GB gymnastics squad that will bring home seven medals from the Rio Games.

She says her success may not sink in until after she retires from the sport.

“I didn’t expect to medal and to get a silver, I couldn’t have asked for more,” she said.

“I put so much effort in, I’ve put everything into training and to improving myself as a person and an athlete and it’s paid off in the most amazing way I can think of.

“I think once I’ve retired from the sport and watching the Olympics, not as an athlete, is when it will sink in. It’s been an incredible journey so far and hopefully more to come.”

A British woman had never before reached the final of the event, which made its Olympic debut in 2000, but Page qualified in seventh, with the top-eight progressing, while compatriot Kat Driscoll finished two places higher.

This meant she endured an agonising wait to see if her routine would be good enough to win a medal.

Page has been training full time for a year after finishing her degree in biology at Sheffield University and outlined the sort of things involved in trampolining.

“You have to be a bit courageous or crazy to go up 10 metres in the air,” she said.

“The forces that you go through, you get the same G-forces as a Formula One driver or an astronaut.

“When you hit the trampoline you hit it with 10 times your bodyweight so you have to go through the conditioning and everything.”

Bryony, a former pupil of Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College, had missed out on London 2012 due to illness.