The WA State Team attended the 2016 Australian Championships at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena from 23rd May – 4th June. We had High Flyers’ gymnasts and coaches in the MAG and TRP teams this year and 2 judges. All of them did an awesome job bringing some great results back to WA:
MAG Level 7 Under Results:
Level 7 Under team (Ludi, Matthew, Sam and Oliver) came 3rd.
Ludi – 1st Vault
Matthew – 3rd Floor
Here is Elliot’s recap for the Trampoline Team:
“From Monday 30th May to Sunday 5th June, 31 Athletes, 3 Coaches and 1 Judge from High Flyers attended the 2016 Australian Gymnastics Championships as part of the WA Trampoline Sports Team. This was the largest number of High Flyers athletes to make a State Team in our clubs history!
All athletes competed fantastically over the week in the 4 disciplines involved in our sport:
– Individual Trampoline (TRP)
– Double Mini Trampoline (DMT)
– Synchronised Trampoline (SYNC)
– Tumbling (TMB)
From our 31 Athletes we achieved 31 finals (spread over 22 athletes), which resulted in 1 Bronze, 9 Silver and 2 Gold medals (spread over 15 athletes, team medals included).
One of the most exciting results for High Flyers and WA was that we made 3 International Team Finals (Women’s Trampoline, Men’s DMT and Women’s DMT). In all 3 team finals the WA teams finished in Silver Medal position, each time just behind New South Wales. This is a fantastic result that well and truly concretes WA as one of the top states in the country for our sport!
A special congratulations must also go to the three National Champions from High Flyers; Meg Langridge and Alannah Boseley (Under 11 Female Syncro) and Roman Kirby (Under 15 Male Tumbling).
We want to thank all of the athletes for such a great effort at this years’ event and hope that they are inspired and motivated to train hard and return to next years national championships! Below is a list of all medal winners:
High Flyers Medal Winners at the 2016 Australian Championships Trampoline Sports
Trampoline:
- Elise Rechichi – Silver Medal – Under 15 Women’s Trampoline
- Avi Margolis – Silver Medal – Youth International Men’s Trampoline
- Sarah Jones – Silver Medal – International Team Women’s Trampoline
Double Mini Trampoline:
- Roman Kirby – Silver Medal – Under 15 Men’s DMT
- Liam Jeans – Silver Medal – Youth International Men’s DMT
- Cleo Thornett – Silver Medal – Junior International Women’s DMT
- Cleo Thornett – Silver Medal – International Team Women’s DMT
- Kayla Nel – Silver Medal – International Team Women’s DMT
- Keara Nel – Silver Medal – International Team Women’s DMT
- Connor Dique – Silver Medal – International Team Men’s DMT
- Jack Petrie – Silver Medal – International Team Men’s DMT
- Curtis Booth – Silver Medal – International Team Men’s DMT
Synchronised Trampoline:
- Alannah Boseley & Meg Langridge – Gold Medal – Under 11 Women’s Syncro
- Andrew Sumner & (W.A team partner) – Silver Medal – 17+ Men’s Syncro
- Curtis Booth & Jack Petrie – Silver Medal – Senior International Men’s Syncro
Tumbling:
- Roman Kirby – Gold Medal – Under 15 Men’s Tumbling
- TK Trappit – Bronze Medal – 17+ Women’s Tumbling
Other Athletes who competed in a final:
- Alyssa Gowrea + Laila Peacock – 4th – Under 13 Women’s Syncro
- Sally Bennie + (South Australian partner) – 6th – Under 15 Women’s Syncro
- Josh Goodwin + Travis Kikalis – 4th – Under 15 Men’s Syncro
- Travis Kikalis – 7th – Under 15 Men’s Trampoline
- Lachlan Robertson & Liam Jeans – 4th – Youth International Men’s Syncro
- Timothy DiNucci – 4th – U17 Men’s Tumbling
