Category: Trampoline

1. Hancharou Uladzislau BLR 59.750
2. Schmidt Dylan NZL 58.550
3. Ganchinho Diogo POR 58.085
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Favourite Gao Lei CHN, who led prelims, was terminated when he landing on the frame pad.

“It’s a surreal feeling to have qualified my spot at the Olympics. And a huge honour to be the first NZ trampoline athlete to do so. I just feel a huge weight off my shoulders now that this part is over and all my hard work has paid off. I can’t wait to get back in the gym and keep training hard to do the best I can in 4 months’ time.” – Dylan Schmidt

1. Lingling Liu CHN 55.485
2. Yana Pavlova RUS 54.160
3. Tatsiana Piatrenia BLR 53.540

LI Dan from China led in the prelims. And I expected her to win the optional Final. But she was all over the tramp on her final set.

Teammate Lingling takes it. China is the team to beat at the Rio Olympics.

Rosie MacLennan was the winner of Test Event 4yrs ago. Went on to win Gold in London.

Click PLAY or watch How Trampoline gymnasts qualify for Olympics 2016 on YouTube.

Charlotte Drury, an American trampoline gymnast, has dreamed of the Olympics for as long as she can remember.

After spending 10 years training as an artistic gymnast (alongside childhood best friends and future Olympic gold medalists Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney), Drury strayed from the conventional path and started paving one of her own. After discovering trampoline gymnastics at the age of 13, Drury made the US National Team within two years and is now, at 19, in position to take her own shot at Olympic glory.

Click PLAY or watch a mini-documentary on YouTube.

(via GymCasstic)

The next Hard Way To Success documentary will feature Rea Lenders’ attempt to make the Olympic Games.

Bo Bet will compete at the Test Event to try to qualify Netherlands for an Olympic qualification spot. Netherlands would then make the selection as to which trampolinist they would send.

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Reigning women’s Olympic trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan of Toronto booked her ticket to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio with her victory on Sunday at the Canada Cup in Kamloops, B.C.

MacLennan placed first in the women’s senior event with a two-day total score of 152.500 points, followed by three-time Olympic medal-winner Karen Cockburn of Toronto, (148.185 ) and Samantha Sendel of Aurora, Ont., (147.420). …

While MacLennan can now shift her focus to ramping up her routines for the Rio Games, nine-time Canadian men’s champion Jason Burnett’s hopes competing at his third straight Olympic Games got a big boost after winning the men’s Canada Cup title with a dominant performance.

Burnett, who competes next month at a last-chance Olympic qualification meet to win a spot for Canada in men’s trampoline, cruised to the gold medal with 161.020 points …

CBC