Jaylan Birl has a floor routine that can make heads spin with the great height he gets on his double somersaults, and the power in his tumbling lines. Birl’s floor routine at the 2010 Canadian championships in Kamloops, B.C., was right on the money with an eye-catching “double piked arabian, half-out, that drew high praise [...]

For Jason Burnett, day one at the Canadian trampoline championships was business as usual. One compulsory routine and one optional routine completed with cool efficiency and the expected result.
Jason easily topped the field, scoring 106.010 points, to set himself up nicely for a fifth straight Canadian men’s title.

The International Gymnastics Federation recently shot down a trio of proposals by the U.S. and Italy that if adopted would allow gymnasts to warm up on the podium before competition, allow 15-year-olds to compete in World Championship events and raise the number of teams competing at the Olympics from 12 to [...]

In his four years at Penn State University, Casey Sandy won everything in sight in NCAA gymnastics, capping things off by winning the 2009 Nissen Emery Award as the top college gymnast in the U.S.

Now, following his graduation in December, Sandy is back where he received some of his early training: Gymnastics Mississauga.
“It’s amazing,” he [...]

Not that long ago, Ken Ikeda’s career on the men’s national team seemed to be winding down after nine years, two Olympics, three world championships and many more major international competitions.
These days, however, Ken remains right in the thick of things, gearing up to help Canada qualify a full men’s team for the next Olympics [...]

Nathan Gafuik has one of the world’s most difficult high bar routiines but finding the consistency he wants has been a struggle at times. At Elite Canada he was bang on with the routine, winning both the all around and the individual high bar title at the two day competition in Gatineau, Quebec.
At the Montreal [...]

Kristina Vaculik, who narrowly missed winning a spot on the 2008 Olympic team, is back on track and picking up steam after a successful comeback from elbow surgery over a year ago. After placing second all around and winning two individual titles at Elite Canada earlier this winter, Kristina, easily won the all around title [...]

Kyle Shewfelt may have retired from gymnastics, but who knows, maybe this is just the start of a new career as a Winter Olympian. CBC funny man Rick Mercer featured Kyle on a recent show.

It may have been bitterly cold outside, but the gym inside the Pierre Charbonneau Centre in Montreal radiated warmth every time Evgeniya Kanaeva stepped on the floor over two days of competition at the first rhythmic gymnastics World Cup ever held in North America.
The Russian Olympic champion wasn’t perfect in all her routines, but there [...]

Maria Kitkarska capped a sparkling performance at the rhythmic gymnastic Junior Cup in Montreal on Sunday, with two fourth-place finishes against a top international field includling strong teams from Russia and Belarus.
Maria came very close to winning a bronze medal in the ball competition, her favourite apparatus, but was edged out by Nataliya Leshchyk of [...]