Tweet Australia’s Women’s National Coach Peggy Liddick was granted her Australian citizenship yesterday during the countries national day celebrations. Reports say that Liddick, originally from the United States was accompanied by the whole national team to celebrate her citizenship. Liddick said:
“When the position of national coach for women’s gymnastics became available in Australia in 1996, I saw it as a sign that I was destined to become an Australian.”
“I feel a sense of pride and patriotism when the Australian flag is raised and Advance Australia Fair plays over the speakers when one …

Tweet The Australians announced their MAG Worlds Training Squad some time ago. Finally the team has been confirmed:

Josh Jefferis
Sam Offord
Tom Pichler
Prashanth Sellathurai
Luke Wadsworth
Luke Wiwatowski

Reserves: Simpson, Bull, Merceica
These names have been added to Full Twists “A Nation Decided” post which is keeping track of all teams who have been confirmed for the 2011 World Championships.

Tweet According to Kyodo News Naoya Tsukahara, the son of five time gold Olympic medalist Mitsou Tsukahara, is to apply for Australian citizenship as a prerequisite to taking part in next year’s London 2012 Olympics.
Tsukuhara, 34, has been training in Australia since 2009, following the Japanese team’s capturing of gold for the first time in 28 years at the Athens Games in 2004.
Currently, Tsukuhara has not satisfied all of the requirements to claim Australian citizenship, but taking permanent residency should clear the way for him to do so.
“If I can represent the Australian national team, …

Tweet Here are some videos from the 2011 Australian Nationals from the event finals:
Lauren Mitchell
Floor (I love the split jump out of the second pass, the wolf turn looks more secure)

Vault
Beam
Larissa Miller
Vault
Chloe Sims
Bars
Vault
Ashleigh Brennan
Beam
Vault
Many thanks to YouTube user Gemeanie who has been uploading great videos from the competitions.
 
 

Tweet Lauren Mitchell has reclaimed the title that she last won in 2009 and has once again been crowned Australian National Champion. Lauren took the lead on the first day, winning top marks on every apparatus. She held a four point lead over Georgia- Rose Brown going into the second day of competition and looked like a sure thing to win the Championships.

Georgia Rose Brown maintained her second place lead with Mary Anne Monkton  finishing in third place. Results are due to be posted on the Gymnastics Australia website soon. …

Tweet Lauren Mitchell is currently in contention to win the 2011 Australian Championships title in Perth. Lauren leads with a current score of 57.375 while Georgia Rose Brown is in second place with 53.700 and Chloe Sims in third with 53.200
View full results from day one here.
Lauren debuted her new floor routine on home turf, unfortunately she had a fall on a 2 1/2 punch front pass but the routine seems to have improved, some nice choreography changes.Check out Lauren’s new floor routine below:
 

Other videos can be seen  here on …

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Tweet Yesterday saw Australia clinch the gold medal in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Team Final in the Commonwealth Games.

Gold: Australia 235.735
Silver: Canada 224.325
Bronze: England 220.475
Danielle Prince, Naazmi Johnston & Janine Murray (Australia)

Francesca Fox, Rachel Ennis and Lynne Hutchison (England)

Tweet Heem Wei Lim

Lauren Mitchell

Imogen Cairns

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Tweet Results from the Women’s Individual Apparatus Finals today in Dehli via Commonwealth Games website. The women competed on beam and floor. Lauren Mitchell from Australia played an absolute blinder, equaling the gymnastics golden Games record held by former Canadian gymnast Lori Strong since 1990. Lauren scooped the gold on beam to equal the four gold medals record held since the year before she was born.
Beam

Floor

Tweet Results from the Men’s Individual Apparatus Finals today in Dehli via Commonwealth Games website. The men competed on Vault, P Bars and High Bar.
Vault

P Bars
High Bar

Tweet Some photos of the women’s Artistic Individual Final in Dehli yesterday. Click here for more pictures.
Lauren Mitchell (Australia)

Imogen Cairns (England)

Kristin Klarenbach (Canada)

Tweet Some photos of the Men’s Artistic Individual Final in Dehli yesterday. Click here for more pictures.
Australia’s Samuel Offord

Ashish Kumar winning India’s first CWG gymnastics medal

Irodotos Georgallas of Cyprus

Tweet Results from the Men’s Individual Apparatus Finals today in Dehli via Commonwealth Games website. The Men competed on Floor, Pommel and Rings.

Floor

Pommel

Rings

Tweet Results from the Women’s Individual Apparatus Finals today in Dehli via Commonwealth Games website. The Women competed on Bars and Vault today.
Bars

Vault