The New Zealand Olympic Committee has named men’s artist gymnastics athlete Samuel (Sam) Dick (Tri Star Gymnastics, Auckland) to the New Zealand Team for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games. Sam was selected following strong results on the international stage in Germany and Japan last year before winning the Oceania spot at the Youth Olympic Games qualifying event in … Read More
2019 Men’s Artistic Gymnastics National Squad
The athletes who have been selected for the 2019 MAG National Squad are as follows: Misha Koudinov (Tri Star Gymnastics) Devy Dyson (Tri Star Gymnastics) Kyleab Ellis (Tri Star Gymnastics) Jorden O’Connell-Inns (Christchurch School of Gymnastics) Luke Dobney (Tri Star Gymnastics) Harvey Humber (Counties Manukau Gymnastics) Ethan Dick (Tri Star Gymnastics) Batu Yazici (North Harbour Gymnastics) Jack Williamson (Christchurch School of Gymnastics) Dominic … Read More
New Club Management Tool Hit NZ Shores
If you attended the Gymnastics New Zealand 2018 Conference, you would have heard from Frank Sahlein, the director of 3rd Level Consulting. Frank was a gymnastics coach and business owner for 40 years before he put all his knowledge and experience into creating an online business management system, specific for gymnastic club management. This will now benefit New Zealand clubs. … Read More
Health & Safety – June Updates
Gymnastics NZ Health & Safety Guidelines Launched We’re very pleased to be launching the Gymnastics NZ Health & Safety Guidelines for Clubs. This resource has been developed to support those involved in running clubs (committees, centre manager and administrators) to better understand your H&S responsibilities, what you should be doing to meet them and how you can build a culture … Read More
Education Updates – June 2018
Save the date – GFA Symposium October 21-22, 2018 – mark this on your calendar as an awesome weekend of action and fun, all whilst becoming more of an expert in your field. The Gym for All (GFA) Symposium will be held over Labour weekend (Sunday/Monday) in Wellington, hosted at Capital Gymnastics. Official flyers and registration will follow soon, but … Read More
Two Ollerup Scholarships Up For Grabs
We’re excited to announce that we again have two scholarships on offer for Ollerup in 2019. 6-month Ollerup Scholarship (Jan – June 2019) – applications close 27 July 2018 12-month Ollerup Scholarship (August 2019– July 2020) – applications close 26 October 2018 Click on the links above for the relevant handbooks (including the application forms). If you have any questions please … Read More
RG – 2018 World Championships Tour Team
It is with great pleasure that we can announce the New Zealand Rhythmic Team to tour the following events: World Cup Minsk – 17-19 August World Cup Kazan – 24-26 August 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships – 10-16 September The selected athletes are: Stella Ebert (Xtreme Rhythmix) – Individual Xtreme RhythmiX Group Currently made up of Paige Grant-Huggett, Izabella … Read More
Mary Wright in Queen’s Honours List
Today we congratulate Mary Wright who was awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Gymnastics. Mary first began her coaching career in Dunedin in 1965 before moving to Christchurch School of Gymnastics in 1969. Many of her athletes during this time won national titles with three competing in the 1973 World Championships. Hungry … Read More
Project 2020 – Nationals Date Change
Following on from the announcement in February that the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships will be moved to the July school holidays in 2020, a team have been working on the project plan for the change which was released to the community at the end of May. The process has been aptly named ‘Project 2020.’ This plan provides clarity for clubs … Read More
Media release: Junior Gymnasts Bring Home the Medals
This last weekend saw two gold and two silver medals won by New Zealand gymnasts on the world stage – three in trampoline in Italy and one in men’s artistic gymnastics in Colombia Blake Costley from Icon Trampoline Club in Auckland, finished on top of the podium in the 15-16-year-old age group, at the International Cup in Brescia, Italy. More … Read More