The two senior titles have been won tonight by New Zealand and Australia at the 2016 Indo Pacific Championships in Napier. Olympian Dylan Schmidt took a clear gold in the menâs competition with Lauren Sampson from Australia claiming the womenâs title. Dylan (167.680) shared the podium with Australians Jarrod Spear (155.115) and Ryan Hatfield (150.260). Â His second medal this weekend, … Read More
Oceania Gains Three New Gymnastics Federations
Some exciting results at the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) 81st Congress in Tokyo yesterday as three new Oceania federations were announced and a new President of the FIG was elected. American Samoa, Cook Islands and Fiji were all officially recognised and ratified as full member federations of the FIG, bringing the total number of Oceania Federations to five. The … Read More
Media release: International Championships Kick Off in Napier
The 2016 Indo Pacific Championships officially kicked off this morning with a powhiri lead by local tangata whenua Ngati Kahunguru. New Zealand Olympian Dylan Schmidt led 186 athletes from South Africa, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand into Pettigrew Green Arena, where they will compete over the next five days. Athletes will bounce it out in individual and synchronised trampoline, double-mini trampoline … Read More
Rhythmic Adds to NZ Medal Haul in Namibia
The NZ junior rhythmic gymnastics team join their artistic counterparts, racking up more medals at the Junior Commonwealth Championships in Namibia last night. The team, consisting of Stella Ebert and Havana Hopman from Xtreme Rhythmix in Auckland, Grace Schroder from Counties Manukau and Anna Taylor from Diva Rhythmic in Christchurch, took bronze (141.2) in the team event after South Africa … Read More
Media Release: National Gymnastics Titles Awarded
Media release: Sunday 2 October 2016 Five days of competition saw 16 provinces battle it out at the 2016 New Zealand Gymsports Championships, where Auckland and Canterbury dominated the National titles. Both Trampoline titles go home to the same household in Auckland, with Rachel Schmidt taking out the Senior Womenâs trampoline and brother Dylan Schmidt the Senior Menâs. Dylan also … Read More
Media Release: Gymnastics Battle Officially Begins
Media release: Wednesday 28 September 2016 The 2016 NZ Gymsports Championships was officially opened by Mayor Tim Shadbolt, at ILT Stadium Southland tonight. Almost a thousand athletes from 16 provinces were welcomed to their national championships, with locals Southland marching in last to a massive home town cheer. Athletes from all five gymnastics sports will battle it out for the … Read More
Northland Sports Awards Nominations
Please be aware of the following closing dates for award nominations. Â Refer to relevant websites for full nomination criteria. CSG Konica Minolta Northland Sports Awards Friday 2 December 2016, ASB Stadium, Whangarei Acknowledging Sporting Excellence in Northland (Nominations for the Northland Sports Awards can only be made by affiliated Regional Sports Organisations or the National Sports Organisation.) Â Nominations for the … Read More
Janet Receives Citizen Award
Janet McLea from Kerikeri Gymnastics Club was one of eight recipients to be awarded a Far North District Council Citizen Award. Janet received the award for her dedicated and ongoing service to gymnastics in the Kerikeri community, the results of which provide children with the building blocks to pursue other sports and activities. It is with this in mind and … Read More
Rio Appeal Upheld for NZ Gymnast
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games Womenâs Artistic Gymnastics Jury of Appeal, has upheld a protest lodged by GymSports NZ on behalf of itâs athlete, Courtney McGregor. The protest concerned McGregorâs score on the vault apparatus, specifically her second vault. After Courtney completed her second vault, the score for this vault, and then her average of the two vault scores was … Read More
Trio do us proud in Rio
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games peaked extra interest for us this year, with our biggest gymnastics team since 1964.  Courtney McGregor (Christchurch School of Gymnastics) and Misha Koudinov (North Harbour Gymnastics, Tri Star Gymnastics) represented us on the artistic gymnastics stage, whilst Dylan Schmidt (Extreme Trampoline) was New Zealand’s first ever trampoline athlete at an Olympic Games. Misha competed first up … Read More