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Men’s FIG International Division apparatus finals:

Brandon O’Neill is once again one of the best Floor / Vault men in the world. This will bolster Canada’s chances of qualifying as a team for the London Olympics.

In his first international competition in a year and a half, Brandon O’Neill of Edmonton sparked Canada to the men’s team title in the tri-country meet against China and the United States on Friday at the inaugural Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival. …

Gymnastics Canada

Results from all of Saturday’s competitions have been posted in the appropriate COMPETITION in the left hand navigation of the Kyle Shewfelt Gym Fest home page.

Kristal Sergent Boulden:

My favorite gymnast (and floor routine) right now—Russian Anna Dementyeva. She is often overshadowed by Mustafina and Nabieva, her temperamental and dramatic teammates. But, in my opinion, Dementyeva is one of the most artistic and expressive gymnasts competing today. Her floor routine captures both the heart and the imagination. She is a beautiful dancer who can also tumble. …

Double Front

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Mad goodness. How many other routines are this watchable?

@justinmjb calls her demented-yeva

Russia’s team for Europeans: Dementyeva, Nabieva, Mustafina & Belokobylskaya

All are being posted on gymdata.ca. Thanks.

International Gymnast posted results in the Junior FIG competition:

… Kaitlyn Hofland of Futures placed first in the junior all-around, ahead of silver medalist Natalie Vaculik (Team Canada) and Maegan Chant (Team Canada) …

IG – Canada Tops China at Wild Rose International

Two GymDynasty girls are competing Wild rose, by the way. Good luck.

• Natalie Gervais
• Kerensa Mitchell

Apparatus FINALS have been posted.

Vault CHAMPION – Naomi DeLara
Bars CHAMPION – Lissette LaFex
Beam CHAMPION – Naomi DeLara
Floor CHAMPION – Jessica Bolduc

full results

official meet home page

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE THERE.

The Canadian men won at Kyle Shewfelt yesterday.

And today the Canadian women defeat the Olympic Champion nation. Wow.

Senior Team Results:
1. Canada #1
2. China
3. Oakville

AA Results:
Shang Chunsong (China) 55.550
Jessica Savona (Canada – Senior) 54.450
Sabrina Gill (Canada – Senior) 53.750

I’m getting those scores from the Chinese Gymnastics Blog. But here’s the official results page. There seems to be a bit of confusion.

Reports are that China had something like 10 FALLS. Everyone is raving about Shang Chunsong, though.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam (from another meet) on YouTube. (2min 50sec)

Apparatus FINALS go Sunday. Thanks Katrina.

Photographic evidence. CONGRATS to the host teams.

1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)

more photos

Details and results on the official website.

This pogo stick is a Flybar.

Click PLAY or watch Fred Grzybowski on YouTube.

Watch him jump over a 7ft, 6in pole.

Is trampoline a good activity for participants with special needs?

Find out on a new site out of the U.K. dedicated to the topic. It already has a surprisingly number of links.

Rebound Therapy® is the phrase used to describe the practice of using a trampoline to provide therapeutic exercise and recreation for people with a wide range of Special Needs. …

• Special Needs Trampolining classes (£4.50 drop-in)

… a resource for people across the world involved in trampolining and specifically encourage those involved with special needs participants. You might be a special needs teacher, a physiotherapist, a mainstream trampolining coach …

visit the home page – Special Needs Trampolining

(via Rec Gymnastics)

UW-La Crosse are 2011 NCGA Champions.

CONGRATS.

… University of Wisconsin-La Crosse won its fourth consecutive National Collegiate Gymnastics Association title, while La Crosse’s Christa Booman took home the All-Around championship at the 2011 NCGA Team Championships on Friday evening at the McPhee Physical Education Center at UW-Eau Claire. …

official meet home page

full team results

(via USAG)

All around – international MAG:

1. 87.40 Liu Rongbing (China)
2. 86.45 Tyler Mizoguchi (USA)
3. 86.10 Casey Sandy (CAN)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International – All Around full results (PDF)

Oh Canada, what a result for the hosts:

Team:

1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International Full Team results (PDF)

Jenn Isbister:

Canada “Red” and Canada “White” surprised at the inaugural Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival (KSGF), …

Competition tonight used the 4-3-3 format (four members to a team, three athletes up per apparatus, all three scores counting).

Canada “Red” claimed the top team score, and consisted of Olympic veterans Nathan Gafuik and Brandon O’Neill, recent men’s Elite Canada runner-up and 2007 Worlds team member and former NCAA Champion Casey Sandy, and relative newcomer Jason Scott.

One of Canada’s top all-arounders, Gafuik competed only 5 events tonight, skipping floor. Fellow Beijing Olympian O’Neill provided a spectacular return to competition tonight, scoring over 15 on the three events he competed. He also posted the top score of the night on his specialty, floor exercise (16.250).

read more on Gymn.ca

Jennifer Borton has been posting photos