Saturday 8 July 2023 Tauranga hosted the gymnastics competitive community this week as more than 900 gymnasts put up their best performances in the quest for national titles at the 2023 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships. After months of training and qualification, the championships are a celebration of hard work and achievement, and an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills … Read More
Media release: New Zealandâs best gymnasts flock to Tauranga.
Tuesday 4 July 2023 More than 900 gymnasts from around country will compete for national titles in aerobics, menâs and womenâs artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline gymnastics at the 2023 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships, at Mercury Baypark, Tauranga this week (5-8 July). “The championships are the highlight on the calendar for so many gymnasts, and a chance to support each other … Read More
2023 National Service Award – Dylan Schmidt
From the annual general meeting held virtually Wednesday 14 June, we congratulate Dylan Schmidt on being awarded a national service award, for his services to Gymnastics New Zealand as outlined in the citation below. Dylan has been a successful competitive trampolinist since 2007, winning his first World Age Group Trampoline Championship in 2009. He has won multiple, uncountable medals since … Read More
2023 Meritorious Award – Keita McComb
We offer our congratulations to Keita McComb whose services to Gymnastics NZ were recognised with a meritorious award (see the below citation), at the annual general meeting held virtually Wednesday 14 June. Keita commenced her career in rhythmic gymnastics as a gymnast. She commenced her judging career in 1999; judged at her first national championships in 2001 and since this … Read More
2023 Meritorious Award – Misha Koudinov
Congratulations to Mikhail (Misha) Koudinov who was awarded a meritorious award at the annual general meeting on Wednesday 14 June, for his many services to Gymnastics NZ as outlined in the citation below. For eighteen years Misha has represented Gymnastics NZ internationally at the highest level and has provided memorable moments above and beyond the competition results sheets. In the … Read More
2023 Life Membership Award – Gareth Brettell
The last, but by no means least, award announced at the annual general meeting on Wednesday 14 June was a life membership award to Gareth Brettell. We congratulate Gareth on his second significant award, which he has received for his services outlined in the below citation. In 2017 Gareth was also awarded a Gymnastics NZ meritorious award. He has been … Read More
Watch Live and On-demand: 2023 NZ Gymnastics Championships
Buy your pass. We are delighted to share that we will once again be bringing the NZ Gymnastics Championships to you via livestream and on-demand. We learn a lot each year from broadcasting the event, largely thanks to those who take the time to feedback to us, and weâve used learnings from last year to step up our game and … Read More
Media release: Gymnastics sees a perfect score and national champions crowned in Invercargill.
Four days of non-stop gymnastics have ended in Invercargill today. In aerobics, rhythmic, mensâ and womenâs artistic, and trampoline gymnastics, forty-three prize givings have seen more than 1,500 medals awarded across 230-odd events within the championships. Though amongst all those medals, was only one perfect score. Menâs artistic level 4 athlete Sean Dawson representing Whanganui/Manawatu earned a perfect score of … Read More
Gymnasts of the Year 2021-22 AwardedÂ
This morning at the opening ceremony of the 2022 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships, four athletes were recognised for their outstanding achievements in their respective gymnastics sports with the Gymnasts of the Year awards. Men’s Artistic Gymnastics: Misha Koudinov – Tri Star Gymnastics During the 2021-22 time period Misha has represented New Zealand at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, World Cups … Read More
New 2022 Livestream
We are excited to bring you a whole new livestream experience for the 2022 New Zealand Gymnastics Championships. This new experience has been created in response to feedback from previous years, which had a strong theme around being able to get a good close view of athletes, particularly those on artistic apparatus with the inability to âzoom-inâ on any one … Read More