About Milano

The Milano story began in 1991 when Paul and Lesley Pendergest were launching a range of Aerobic and swim wear and were asked if they could make Gymnastic Leotards. The rest, as they say, is history. With Lesley’s experience as a designer with companies such as Speedo, allied to Paul’s business skills, Milano Pro Sport was born, bringing a completely new, fashionable design flair to the sport that gave unequaled fit and performance.

An audacious bid for the contract to supply all the kit for British Gymnastics in 1996 announced Milano’s arrival on the world stage, and over 18 years on, the company is still supplying BG, having kitted them out for 3 Olympic Games and numerous World, European and other Championships. Milano was worn on the podium for the first ever World Championship Gold medal won by a British gy
mnast when Beth Tweddle triumphed in bars in 2006, and the first Olympic medal for 100 years when Lewis Smith took Bronze on Pommel in Beijing. Milano has been proud to be a part of the emergence of British Gymnastics as a world power in the sport, with spectacular leotards that performed as good as they looked.

From Strength to Strength

Other countries followed and during the last 16 years Milano have kitted out another 16 International gymnastic teams, including the Russian team at the Beijing Olympics. And today we are still supplying British Gymnastics, Russia and Romania, three of the world’s top gymnastic nations.

Further afield, Milano has taken on special commissions which has included athletics kit for Linford Christie at the Commonwealth Games, the beautiful range of costumes used by Britain’s Got Talent winners, Spellbound highlighted by the stunning outfits worn at the Help for Heroes Concert performance with Katherine Jenkins, Beth Tweddle’s remarkable Tuxedo leotard for the Sports Personality of the Year Awards and commissions for a host of television special events and celebrities.