Career
She represented her nation at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the first time the event was recognised by the competition. After a twenty-year career, Moore retired from gymnastics in January 2010 to focus on coaching. She was spotted by Tracy Whittaker-Smith, the coach of Northamptonshire Trampoline Gymnastics Academy.
Moore joined the Academy, and Whittaker-Smith went on to be her coach for her entire career.
Moore came to prominence in 1994, aged 14, by winning the synchronised competition at the World Age Games and finishing second at the European Youth Championships. In Australia, she finished twelfth.
Injuries prevented her from appearing at the 2004 Games in Athens. The Olympics is the most amazing experience an athlete can have.
To be part of it, especially in your home country, has got to be just incredible."
In 2006, she missed out on obtaining the British senior title by just a tenth of a point to compatriot Claire Wright.
She did, however, break her own record for difficulty, with a 13.1 total. Also in 2006, Moore attended the eighth FIG Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup final, which was held in Birmingham. After winning Britain"s place at the Beijing Olympics, Moore finished below Claire Wright in the European Championships and travelled to China as the reserve.
Moore continued to partake in top-level competitions, including finals at the British and European Championships, until 2008.
Her final competition was the 2009 World Championships in Russia. Retirement
Two years before the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a 30-year-old Moore announced her retirement from gymnastics in order to concentrate on coaching.
Media work
In the early 1990s, Moore appeared in an episode of the British game show You Bet! in which the celebrity contestants had to predict whether or not the gymnast could perform a certain number of somersaults in an allotted timeframe.
