… Burnett is a six-time Canadian champion and earned a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He holds a world record for a degree of difficulty score in a routine.
He had failed in his previous attempt at the spot earlier this month when he needed a top two finish at the season-opening Elite Canada competition, but finished tenth instead that day. …
On May 5 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado, 86 of the country’s top male gymnasts will compete in the last opportunity to qualify for the 2012 Visa Championships.
… A minimum of 14 gymnasts using the Men’s Program Committee 20-point system will advance to the Visa Championships, and additional athletes may be selected as needed to complete the 42-man Visa Championships field. …
The American Classic, which serves as one of two women’s qualifiers in to the 2012 Visa Championships, will be held May 5 at the U.S. Gymnastics National Training Center at the Karolyi Ranch …
We don’t hear enough about the NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs)
Started 1988, it’s open to any American gymnastics club with college-aged participants. Here’s a full list of members in case you want to check if there’s one close to you.
Their annual championships just concluded.
The Texas A&M men & MIT women captured National Championship titles for the second year in a row in Salt Lake City. …
… medals will be up for grabs in Brussels: senior team and individual apparatus, and junior team, all-around and apparatus.
Russia and Romania are expected to battle for the senior team supremacy, with Great Britain, Italy, France and Germany among the teams aiming for a podium finish.
Defending champion Russia is bringing its formidable trio of Aliya Mustafina, Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina, plus newcomer Anastasia Sidorova. …
Competition begins May 9 with junior qualification, followed by senior qualification on May 10. Junior all-around final takes place May 11, followed by the senior team final on May 12 and apparatus finals on May 13.
The 2012 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships ended in a tie.
1. CHN – Jian Tang, Lei Wang, Yi Zhou and Yeqiuyin Wu
1. GBR – Dorian Walker, Jesse Heskett, Matthew Evison and Richard Hurst
3. RUS – Valentin Chetverkin, Maksim Chulkov, Anton Danchenko and Dmitry Bryzgalov
Sabrina Vega … trains at Dynamic Gymnastics in Mohegan Lake, where she is coached by former Romanian Olympic medalist Teodora Ungureanu. She is a United States Senior National Team member and a 2011 World Champion. She is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. …
