GymSports NZ is pleased to announce the following teams to represent New Zealand at the 2017 Rhythmic Gymnastics International Tournaments: 16th Irina Deleanu Cup, Bucharest, Romania – 31 March – 2 April 2017 Ashleigh Pont (Senior) – Olympia Gymnastic Sports Paris Chin (Junior) – Olympia Gymnastic Sports Elena Mesheryakova – Coach and Team Manager Luxembourg Trophy 2017, Luxembourg – … Read More
MAG 2017 International Junior Cup Team
GymSports New Zealand is pleased to announce the Junior Men’s Artistic Gymnastics team to represent New Zealand at the 2017 International Junior Team Cup in Berlin, 7 – 8 April 2017. The athletes selected are: Ethan Dick – Tri Star Gymnastics Sam Dick – Tri Star Gymnastics Harvey Humber – Counties Manukau Gymnastics Daniel Stoddart – North Harbour Gymnastics Batu … Read More
2017 NZ Artistic Gymnastics Championships Announced
We are pleased to announce that the 2017 New Zealand Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held at the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson, from 4-8 October 2017. We are excited to be working alongside Gymnastics Nelson and the wider Top of the South community in delivering the Championships. The recently renovated and centrally located Trafalgar Centre, home to the 2017 Top … Read More
Mackenzie Off On US Scholarship
New Zealand Senior National Champion Mackenzie Slee flew out this month to start her four-year full ride scholarship with the Southeast Missouri (SEMO) women’s gymnastics team. Formally of Wellington, Mackenzie has been living in Christchurch and competing for Christchurch School of Gymnastics for the past three and a half years. In 2013 she competed in her first international competition in … Read More
WAG Performance Development Clinic
Women’s artistic gymnasts from STEP 8 through to Senior International were invited to attend a four-day Performance Development training clinic, held at Tri Star Gymnastics 9-12 January. The Clinic was led by WAG SDC Performance Coordinator Mary Wright. Day one involved strength and flexibility testing which proved a challenge for some who’d indulged in an early holiday and out of … Read More
Dylan Schmidt Halberg Finalist
A big congratulations goes out to Olympian Dylan Schmidt who has been announced as a finalist for the SKY NEXT Emerging Talent Halberg Award for the second year running. Dylan has demonstrated a clear upward trajectory since his gold-winning performance at the Youth Olympic Games in 2014. He went on to finish 15th at the 2015 World Championships in his first … Read More
Gymnasts Named in High Performance Investment Announcement
GymSports New Zealand is pleased to announce another sport record, to what has been a year of ‘firsts’ for the national sports organisation. High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) announced this morning their Campaign Investment decisions for 2017 and on the list is women’s artistic gymnast Courtney McGregor. Courtney was the baby of the New Zealand Olympic Team in Rio, … Read More
WAG 2017 World Cup Melbourne Team
GymSports New Zealand are pleased to announce the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics team to represent New Zealand at the 2017 Individual Apparatus World Cup in Melbourne, 22 – 25 February. The athletes selected are: Isabella Brett – Tri Star Gymnastics Caitlin Todd – Tri Star Gymnastics Estella Matthewson – Eastern Suburbs Gymnastics Club Tour coach: Josiah Geange – Tri Star … Read More
CSG Team Off to Texas
12 young gymnasts from Christchurch School of Gymnastics, with coaches Terry Walker and Amanda Johanson, will head off to Texas in February 2017 to compete in two competitions. First is the WOGA Classic on 17-19 February in Frisco. The World Olympic Gymnastic Academy (WOGA) is home to back-to-back Olympic Champions Nastia Liukin (2008) and Carly Patterson (2004). One of the … Read More
From World Champions Centre to GymSchool 2017
A gymnastics coach of 33 years, Terry Walker moved to New Zealand with his wife and four children in July to coach at Christchurch School of Gymnastics. For the past two years he has worked as Head Team Coach at the World Champions Centre in Texas, home of Simone Biles, where he assisted the gymnastics phenomenon on vault, bars … Read More