Highlights from the 2009 Canadian championships

Kevin Lytwyn: Gold Medal Senior Men’s High Bar Final

Nathan Gafuik: Gold Medal Senior Men’s Floor Final

Adam Wong: Silver Medal Senior Men’s Floor Final

Brandon O’Neill: Silver Medal Senior Men’s Parallel Bars Final

Miranda Meyer: Silver Medal Senior Women’s Floor Final

Brandon O’Neill eases back into competition on a positive note

It’s been a long eight months for Brandon O’Neill since returning home from the Olympics with a badly damaged ankle that derailed his high hopes for a medal in Beijing.
Brandon injured the ankle during a training session in Beijing and although he competed, it was more a battle of survival instead of showing the world [...]

Casey’s homecoming is a dandy

Hot on the heels on winning what is considered the Heisman Trophy in U.S. college gymnastics, Casey Sandy returned to his gymnastics roots on Friday with a flourish, winning the men’s senior all around title at the Canadian gymnastics championships in Hamilton.
With an enthusiastic cheering session of family members from nearby Brampton where he began [...]

Charlotte Mackie puts the emphasis on quality not quantity

Ever since she won the all around novice title at the 2005 Canadian championships, Charlotte Mackie has been making steady strides towards her ultimate goal of competing a the Olympics.
Charlotte has followed in the footsteps of older sister Gael, who competed for Canada at the 2004 Olympics, several world championships and is now on the [...]

Opportunity knocks on Canadian men’s gymnastics team

With the retirements of several longtime members of the senior men’s national artistic gymnastics squad, including the incomparable Kyle Shewfelt, the door is wide open for many of the younger gymnasts to move up and grab a spot on the team headed to London this fall for the 2009 world championships.
Kevin Lytwyn of Burlington, Ont., [...]

More in store for Rosannagh MacLennan

With Karen Cockburn just getting back into the “bounce” of things, her longtime teammate at the Skyriders Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill, Ont., moved into the top spot at the just finished Canadian trampoline championships held in Hamilton.
Rosie won the senior title with essentially the same optional routine that carried her to a 7th-place finish [...]

Jason wows the crowd and chalks up his fourth Canadian title

Jason Burnett came to this year’s Canadian championships expecting to win his fourth straight men’s trampoline title and the high flying Olympic medal winner from Beijing didn’t disappoint.
Jason jumped to an early lead in the prelims and threw three triples into his final routine on Monday to take the gold.
Here’s his final routine followed by [...]

Alexandra Martincek puts on a show

Alexandra Martincek loves competing in the ribbon competition and it showed with her gold-medal winning performance at the Canadian championships on Monday in Hamilton.
Alexandra also won an individual gold in the ball competiton and silver medals in the hoop and rope finals to go along with the all around title she won the day [...]