Canadian Championships

Best coverage of Canadian Championships is being posted on the Gymnastics Canada Facebook page.

From Friday:

OTTAWA — Hometown favourite Sam Zakutney’s Olympic dreams got a big boost on Friday at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships.

After charging into the lead on Wednesday in the Tyro class Zakutney kept up the pace on the second day to win the all around gold with a total score of 161.250 points. …

In the men’s junior competition Steven Chaplin of Mission, B.C., took the all around gold with a combined score of 152.250 over two days of competition. …

In other events on Friday, Meixi Semple of Oshawa, Ont., won the all around women’s national novice title and Jade Chrobok of Toronto took the all round gold in the high performance novice event.

In the trampoline preliminaries Lexi Geisbrecht of Calgary and Keevin Madigan of Toronto qualified first in the women’s and men’s junior competition.

The championships conclude on Saturday with finals in artistic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling.

The Gymnastics Canada YouTube channel has random routines and features interviews like this one.

Click PLAY or watch the Kyle Shewfelt interview with 2013 Canadian gymnastics Tyro champion Sam Zakutney.

Here’s Sam’s position in the air on that Vault.

Sam

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