The new look National Gymsports Championships is underway at Mystery Creek, Hamilton. Early signs are that Canterbury will dominate the junior Artistic Gymnastics events and they have already taken the Level 4 in both Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. Tumbling as proved a spectator hit with New Zealand Indo Pacific athletes, Campbell Main (Counties Manuaku) and Kieran Growcott (Canterbury) thrilling the audience with speed and power.
Hawkes Bay/Poverty Bay had an excellent first day in the synchronsized Trampoline events with pairs Scott Tallot/Sam Tallott and Anastasia Smith/Chivaun Broderick taking titles in the 13/14 years.
Rhythmic Gymnastics Level 8, 9 and 10 has started with stiff opposition from the visiting Australian athletes. Otago gymnasts Brooke Hastie and Gabriella Garcia put on an excellent performance in the Ribbon apparatus with 1st and 2nd place.
Monday 29th is the start of the Aerobic event with World Number 3, Angela McMillan performing for the first time this year in New Zealand. …
Canterburys Analise Borkus
some results are linked from the GymSports New Zealand home page.
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This year was by far the best Nationals that i have been to. It was very well organized and it was awesome to be able to watch the tramp,DM, and power tumbling as well. Very cool.
Canterbury totally dominated in virtually everything (I don’t know about rhythmic or Aerobics). Since the arrival of head coach Jozsef (Jozsi) Ferencz at CSG things have really improved over there and they have really raised the bar for the rest of NZ.
The most impressive thing was how much the standard of the boys had risen since the last time i was at Nationals. That was very cool.
Along with Nationals i had the pleasure of listening to the GymSports CEO (Cath Clark) talk about the future of GymSports NZ and it sounds all very promising.
There is a good chance that there will be a NZ gymnast going to the 2012 Olympics.
Bad photo, but that girl is Level 4, she totally dominated the Level 4 section. with an AA score of about 61
Valentin Uzunov
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Why did they structure their scoring so that level 4′s can get 61? They could have made it so that a great score for a level 4 is around 30 with an awesome score being 35 or so.
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