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Gorman wins the FIG World Series and ANAC title

Kieran came from behind to win the final with the help of a very vocal support group cheering him on from the sidelines.

His dedication and commitment to the sport can not be questioned and his achievements at this event are a just reward, proving he is a world class athlete.

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2010 Pac Rim DVD Rhythmic Gymnastics footage on sale now!

The 2010 Pacific Rim Championships Rhythmic Gymnastics technical footage is now available in a DVD Three Pack (GymShop Item# GAMC3704) and supplements the GA release of the Women's competition as screened on One HD and also available in high quality from GymShop..

Welcome to the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships - Rhythmic Gymnastics competition.  This three disc pack contains the technical footage utilised by the competition officials and was captured on the field of play. This footage is produced for the use of technical members and other interested viewers, is not intended as a fully produced program and may not contain every routine from the event.

Each disc contains approximately two hours of high level international rhythmic action, including Australian Olympian Naazmi Johnston. 

The Three Pack contains the:

• Team and All Around;
• Apparatus Finals; &
• Group competition.

2010 Pac Rim DVD Trampoline footage on sale now!

The 2010 Pacific Rim Championships Trampoline technical footage is now available in a DVD Twin Pack (GymShop Item# GAMC3705) and supplements the GA release of the Women's competition as screened on One HD and also available in high quality from GymShop.

Welcome to the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships - Trampoline competition.  This two disc pack contains the technical footage utilised by the competition officials and was captured on the field of play. This footage is produced for the use of technical members and other interested viewers, is not intended as a fully produced program and may not contain every routine from the event.

Each disc contains approximately one hour of high level international trampoline action, including reigning world champions Canadians Jason Burnett and Karen Cockburn, and the Junior and Senior Men's and Women's Australian representatives. 

The Twin Pack contains the:

• Men's Trampoline competition; &
• Women's Trampoline competition.

World championship medallists spearhead gymnastics team for Delhi

World championship medallists Lauren Mitchell, Prashanth Sellathurai and Phil Rizzo headline the 13-member Australian gymnastics team set to compete at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi this October.

The Australian women’s gymnastics team will be chasing their fourth straight team gold medal when they take to the floor at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium.

Mitchell, 19, was the toast of Australian gymnastics last year when she became the first Australian woman to medal in an individual apparatus final at a world championships, winning silver on the beam and floor.

Mitchell will be joined in the women’s team by fellow Beijing Olympians Georgia Bonora and Ashleigh Brennan from Victoria.

Bonora, 20, who was crowned Australian all-around champion two weeks ago, was the highest placed Australian at the Beijing Olympics finishing 13th in the all-around final.

After taking a year off to complete her Year 12 VCE studies after Beijing, Brennan has returned to the top and brings valuable Commonwealth Games experience to the team, the 19-year-old collecting team gold and a silver medal on floor at the Melbourne 2006 Games.

The women’s team will also have an injection of youth, with rising star Maryanne Monckton (15 from Newcastle) and Emily Little (16 from Western Australia) making their major championships debut.

The Australian men will be chasing their first team gold medal in Delhi, but will need to break the stronghold of England and Canada.

Four of the five team members from Melbourne 2006 return with 24-year-old Thomas Pichler from Queensland making his debut.

2006 world high bar champion Phillipe Rizzo will become the first Australian gymnast to compete at four Commonwealth Games. The 29-year-old commenced his international career at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Games, and over the last three editions has added three gold, four silver and three bronze medals to his ever growing collection.
 
The experienced men’s team also includes 2006 Commonwealth Games all-around and rings gold medallist Joshua Jefferis, dual world championships pommel horse medallist Prashanth Sellathurai and recently crowned Australian all-around champion Sam Offord.

In rhythmic gymnastics Australia are yet to claim a team gold medal, Canada winning in 1994 and 2006 and Malaysia in 1998.

Beijing Olympian Naazmi Johnston will spearhead the three-member 2010 rhythmic team, which also includes Queensland’s Danielle Prince, and Janine Murray who immigrated from Zimbabwe to Western Australia in 2002.

Johnston produced Australia’s best ever performance at a rhythmic gymnastics world championships last year, finishing 38th in the all-around competition and was the highest-placed Commonwealth athlete.

The 21-year-old was a member of Australia’s bronze medal rhythmic team at the Melbourne 2006 Games, and will be hopeful of improving on her fourth place in the all-around.

ACGA Chief Executive Officer Perry Crosswhite said that Australia will field a very experienced gymnastics team in Delhi.

“Traditionally our gymnastics teams have been quite young, however nearly half of the selected team competed in Melbourne in 2006 and will greatly benefit from that knowledge and experience when it comes to the 2010 Games,” Crosswhite said.

“Our strength lies with our talented individual apparatus gymnasts who have all excelled on the world stage namely Phil Rizzo, Prashanth Sellathurai and Lauren Mitchell.

“As defending champions, the women will start as favourites for the team gold medal, and although the men will encounter strong opposition from England and Canada they are also expected to be in the medal mix.

“In the rhythmic competition, Naazmi Johnston will be one of our best chances for a medal.”

Men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics was first introduced at the Commonwealth Games at the 1978 Edmonton Games, reintroduced in 1990 and has been on the program ever since. Rhythmic gymnastics was added to the schedule at the Auckland 1990 Commonwealth Games.

Australian women have won two all-around gold medals courtesy of Zeena McLaughlin (1998) and Chloe Sims (2006), and eight individual apparatus gold medals.

The Australian men have won 13 individual apparatus gold medals over time and two all-around titles – Jefferis in 2006 and Andrei Kravtsov in 1998.

Kasumi Takahashi has been Australia’s sole gold medallist in the rhythmic competition, netting a superb personal total of five gold and one silver medal in 1994.

Eight gold medals in the men’s competition and six gold medals in the women’s competition will be up for grabs from October 4 to 8 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The rhythmic competition will feature six events from October 12 to 14.

2010 Australian Commonwealth Games gymnastics team

Women’s Gymnastics

Georgia Bonora,  20,  VIC
Ashleigh Brennan,  19,  VIC
Emily Little,  16,  WA
Lauren Mitchell,  19,  WA
Maryanne Monckton,  15,  NSW
 
Men’s Gymnastics
 
Joshua Jefferis,  24,  QLD
Sam Offord,  24,  SA
Thomas Pichler,  23,  QLD
Philippe Rizzo,  29,  NSW
Prashanth Sellathurai,  23,  NSW
 
Rhythmic Gymnastics
 
Naazmi Johnston,  21,  NSW
Janine Murray,  20,  WA
Danielle Prince,  18,  QLD
 

Men's Gymnastics - Commonwealth Games Team Selection

Interview on One HD

Channel 10 - One HD, Thursday Night Live
 

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Prashanth Sellathurai Interview on One HD

It is anticipated the Prashanth will be accompanied by 2009 AYOF Silver medallist Michael Mercieca, upcoming MG stars Chris Martin and Mitchell Morgans.

The Details:-

When: This Thursday night, 22nd July, 7:30 - 9:30pm (Interview rumoured to be around 9:00pm)

What station: Channel 10 - One HD, Thursday Night Live

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Men's Gymnastics - World Championships Team Selection

Men's Gymnastics - Open Levels Tour Team Selections

Congratulations to the following athletes and officials selected to the Australian Team to compete at the Peter Vidmar International Invitational in Los Angeles, USA in March 2011. The selections were based on an expression of interest and results from the 2010 Australian Championships.

Men's Gymnastics - Austrian Future Stars Competition Team Selections

Congratulations to the following athletes and officials selected to the Australian Team to compete at the 7th Austrian TGW Future Cup in Austria, to be held from 29th November to 7th December. The selections were based on an expression of interest and results from the 2010 Australian Championships.

Tyson Bull (VIC)

Kent Pieterse (VIC)

Kristian Wan (QLD)

Aden Messori (QLD)

Leon Radchenko (VIC), Coach

John Curtin (QLD), Team Manager & Judge

Reserves for this event are;

Domonic Bedggood (QLD)

Mitchell Morgans (NSW)

Gabriel O’Sullivan (WA)

Men's Gymnastics - Australian Championships Wrap-Up

Congratulations to the following States and athletes on their success at these Championships:

Men's Gymnastics - National Awards

Congratulations to the following recipients:

Offord claims back-to-back national titles in thriller

With only five positions available on the Australian team for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, this was the final opportunity for Australia’s top male gymnasts to make an impression in front of selectors.

The 2010 Australian Men’s Gymnastics Championships also doubled as the first selection trials for the 2010 world championships – the first qualifying event for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Pichler headed into tonight’s all-around final with a slight lead over Offord, the pre-event favourite, after Wednesday night’s preliminary round.

The lead exchanged hands on a number of occasions throughout the competition and with just one apparatus remaining, Pichler hit the front by just one point.

Heading into the last rotation, the two gymnasts encountered their favourite apparatus. Offord managed to stick his pet event, the rings, and Pichler executed a quality pommel routine, but it wasn’t good enough, Offord stealing the gold medal and the national title 172.400 to 171.350.

“I’m really happy to win,” Offord said. “I take a lot of pride competing for my state, and the national championships are something that I really compete well in.”

“Today was really good. I went over to Tom and the end of his pommel routine and said that was probably one of the best competitions I have been involved in.

“To know that we were neck and neck the whole way is really pleasing ahead of Commonwealth Games.”

Victorian Luke Wadsworth collected the bronze medal with 168.450.

Japanese guest and three-time Olympian Naoya Tsukahara proved why he is one of the world’s best, taking out the competition overall with 175.00 points, but given his residential status was not eligible for the Australian title.

Dual world championships medallist Prashanth Sellathurai lived up to his reputation as the ‘prince of the pommel’ with a world-class routine of 16.150 to take the pommel horse national title.

In other apparatus finals, Pichler was too strong on floor (14.550) and parallel bars (14.500), Offord reigned on rings (15.300), Wadsworth was too good on vault (15.175) and Luke Wiwatowski from New South Wales nailed his high bar routine with a 14.750 to secure gold.

Recovering from an elbow injury, reigning Commonwealth Games all-around champion Josh Jefferis only competed on parallel bars tonight, notching up a score of 13.950.

In the men’s junior all-around, Victoria’s Tyson Bull (156.900) defeated Youth Olympic Games-bound Queenslander Brody-Jai Hennessy (153.800) and fellow Victorian Kevin James (152.500).

Men’s senior all-around

1. Naoya Tsukahara JPN 175.000

1. Sam Offord SA 172.400

2. Thomas Pichler QLD 171.350

3. Luke Wadsworth QLD 168.450

4. Luke Wiwatowski NSW 139.150

Men’s junior all-around

1. Tyson Bull VIC 156.900

2. Brody-Jai Hennessy QLD 153.800

3. Kevin James VIC 152.500

4. Mitchell Jones QLD 124.400

5. Scott Costin QLD 122.200

Individual apparatus gold medallists (senior)

Floor – Thomas Pichler QLD 14.550

Pommel – Prashanth Sellathurai NSW 16.150

Rings – Sam Offord SA 15.300

Vault – Luke Wadsworth VIC 15.175

Parallel bars – Thomas Pichler QLD 14.500

High bar – Luke Wiwatowski NSW 14.750

Individual apparatus gold medallists (junior)

Floor – Tyson Bull VIC 13.450

Pommel – Mitchell Nylander WA 13.950

Rings – Brody-Jai Hennessy QLD 13.750

Vault – Declan Stacey NSW 14.950

Parallel bars – Tyson Bull VIC 13.800

High bar – Tyson Bull VIC 13.650

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