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UPDATE: Ruby Cole from Calgary Gymnastics Centre won National Novice. That makes 3 Calgary Canadian Champions.

Thanks Brett!

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How about this?

Two Calgary girls win Canadian Championships. That’s a first.

Sr. Champion – Sydney Sawa – Calgary Gymnastics Centre

Jr. Champion – Anysia Unick – Stampede City Gymnastics

CONGRATULATIONS!

Official results aren’t posted as I write. But I’m seeing this unoffically on Facebook.

And congratulations to Men’s National Champion Casey Sandy. He’s been sadly under appreciated in his own country. Kudos.

Commentary from The All Around:

Casey Sandy and Sydney Sawa became first-time national champions at the men’s and women’s Canadian Championships Wednesday night.

Sandy, the 2008 NCAA Champion, scored 87.400, more than 3.000 ahead of runner-up Ken Ikeda. …

Sawa scored 54.450 to win the women’s title, a great improvement over the 49.600 she scored in Tuesday’s prelims. Prelim leader Cynthia Lemieux-Guillemette finished second with 53.950, and Dominique Pegg was third with 53.650.

The women’s field was as notable for the absences. Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs and Alyssa Brown are now competing in NCAA, while Nansy Damianova (shoulder), Kristina Vaculik (elbow), and Peng Peng Lee (back) were out with injuries. Brittany Rogers, originally in the line-up, suffered a rib injury during warm-ups on Tuesday night and did not compete.

The All Around

Brandon O’Neill finished 2nd on 3 apparatus. Nathan Gafuik 1st on 2 apparatus. Adam Wong won Floor. None of these 3 Olympians competed all around.

Men’s official results (PDF)

Anton considered competing the most difficult vault of all time – a Rudi-in, back-out (1 1/2-twisting handspring double front) in Finals at the recent Moscow World Cup.

Turned out he did not need it.

He won with only barani-in, back-out. And Tsuk double pike.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

Sat. Jun. 6 @ 14:00-15:30 ET Live

2009 CANADIAN GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS ON CBC: Men’s & Women’s Individual Apparatus Finals

NCAA did not have live TV this year. But Gymnastics Canada does on the Government network.

Nice.

This is serious.

From FanGymnastics.com, a translation:

Just yesterday we read in Libertatea an interview with Nicolae Forminte which provided us with some very sad news: the head-coach has cancer. Skin cancer, to be more precise. It is apparently localized on his chest and it can be removed by surgery. We really hope it’s not more than that and wish him lots of health!! …

read more

He plans to stay coaching as best he can until the surgery.

Best wishes from Romanian gymnastics fans abroad.

The 52-year-old says: “I leave it in God’s hands”

The younger girls were much stronger than the Seniors, in prelims. (Many of the top Canadian Senior Women did not compete for one reason or another.)

In the women’s Novice event, Victoria Moors of Cambridge, Ont., placed first in the preliminary round with 59.650 points.

Sabrina Gill of Oakville, Ont., finished second with 58.750 points and Natalie Vaculik of Oshawa was third in a field of 50 competitors at 56.600.

GymCan – Calgary junior Ian Galvan jumps into the lead at Canadian gymnastics championships

The top 3 Junior competitors after Day 1:

Rachelle Hunt, Mississauga
Madeline Gardner, Cambridge
Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Gymnix

official results

Gym Score Depot summary of results

UPDATE – commentary from The C Score

What’s Michele Hawke up to now?

Duffers Saddle, Nevis Valley

Michele is a Kiwi coach and judge.

Flickr is a great way for a club to share gymnastics pics.

sample – Altadore Gymnastics Club photos

These can be set PUBLIC or PRIVATE. Your choice.

It’s free for a reasonable number of photos.

Fabian Hambüchen won over Marcel Nguyen and Joseph Hagerty at the Champions Trophy in Frankfurt.

1. Fabian Hambüchen (GER) – 89.300

2. Marcel Nguyen (GER) – 88.475

3. Joseph Hagerty (USA) – 88.150

more results on GymNiceTic

Nguyen – source – Life

The total prize money for this series of German competitions is 200,000 euros.

more commentary – The All Around – Hambüchen Victorious at Champions Trophy

The year after the Olympics is often a time of rebuilding, Junior gymnasts moving up to Senior for the quadrennial.

But the results in Senior Women’s preliminary competition do not look good:

Lemieux-Guillemette finished with a total score of 53.35 points followed by Kristin Klarenbach of Edmonton with 52.3 points and Ashley Quinton of Calgary at 49.5

Gold medal contender Britanny Rogers of Coquitlam, B.C., sustained a rib injury in the warmup and did not compete.

This year’s line up in the women’s competition does not include 2008 Olympians Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs of Toronto or Nansy Damianova of Montreal and several other top-ranked competitors from last year.

Hopfner-Hibbs and Olympic team alternate Alyssa Brown of Oakville, Ont., left the national team and recently finished their first seasons on athletic scholarships at UCLA and Stanford, respectively.

Damianova remains on the national team but has not competed since the Olympics last August. …

Gymnastics Canada – Lemieux-Guillemette takes the lead in women’s competion at the Canadian gymnastics championships

The highest score is 53.35.

Ouch.

Last night a great new kind of gymnastics coach education started. The first presenter Mary Lee Tracy.

… Project 2012: a Web Event for Coaches highlighting the essential techniques for gymnastics success in the next quadrennium. This 12-week event, brings the best coaches in the United States to your computer screen doing LIVE lectures and demonstrations on the most important cutting-edge information in our sport.

Session One begins Tuesday June 2 at 6pm PST-9pm EST and once a week until July 7th. (US$199)

Session Two runs from July 14 through August 18th.

Sessions normally are 45 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of question and answer, using live lecture, video, power point, and of course your questions, all on your computer. (The first session ran 1hr 26min total.)

homepage – USAproject2012.com

Tracy and her presentation are terrific. I can see why she was chosen to launch. I was happy to get a copy of her Powerpoint presentation as part of the package.

You can participate LIVE as it is streamed. Or watch the archived footage online later, as I did next morning. (My attempt to get to the internet by 6PM Pacific was a comedy of errors.) Click “Float All Panels”. Chat, Participants, Table of Contents and Video.

USA Gymnastics recently took over all the Regional Congress events in the States. Many fear they will all be similar in future. You might well get better value for your coach upgrading dollar through distance learning options like this. And if you don’t live in the USA, no need to fly there to learn from some of their best clinicians.

I could see a club using Project 2012 as part of their professional development strategy.

I’m very positive about this pilot so far. And am looking forward to the next presentation, Week 2 – Tuesday, June 9th at 6PM Pacific.

They had a couple of glitches on the first go. Especially with the audio on the Q&A. But overall it was far better even than I expected. And will only get better each week. Congratulations to the organizers.

Hey, Mary Lee trained only once a day last season. Shawn Johnson seems to have inspired a bit of a trend away from two-a-day workouts.

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The project is associated with GymSmarts. And Alison Arnold’s sport psychology site Head Games.