GSNZ National Championships 2009

  North Harbour Junior Levels Invitational 2009

  Schools Competitions 2009 - Primary, Intermediate, Tumbling & Hip Hop

  Junior Competition Success in 2009

  Rhythmic Competition Success in 2009

 Misha Koudinov - success past, present & hope for the future

  GymSports National Championships 2009

Congratulations to the North Harbour women’s, men’s and rhythmic gymnasts who competed at the 2009 National Championships in Hamilton. 

WAG Level 4
Team 2nd
Individual - Lucy Chambers 4th
 
WAG 5
All girls qualified for top 32 (Yulia, Natasha, Sasha and Alicia)
 
WAG 6
Individual - Alexis Capon 4th
 
WAG 7
Individual - Paige Taniora 7th
Vault and Bars apparatus finals - 2nd bars, 5th vault
 
WAG 8
Brittany Roberston - 1st overall by over 4 whole marks
 
WAG 9
Briar Turner - 5th Overall
 
Senior International
Briana Mitchell - 1st Overall scoring over 50.

MAG 4
Team 1st (Ethan, Caleb, Andrew, Blake)
 
Individual 1st Ethan Dick, 5th Caleb Hogan, Andrew Clark-Howard 8th
 
MAG 5
Team 3rd
 
Individual 2nd Daniel Salazar Eyre, Cameron McTaggart 5th
 
MAG 6
Matthew Morrisey 8th
 
MAG 7
6th Kieran Jolly
 
Individual app: Kieran 5th rings, 6th p-bar, 1st high bar
Max - 8th pommel
 
MAG 8
2nd team
Elias Brown - 2nd pommel, 5th vault, 6th p-bar,
Tristan Kerry - 4th floor, 3rd pommel
Thomas North - 6th rings, 4th high bar
 
Junior International under 18
Individual 3rd Cameron Beeton
4th Justin Hwang
 
Senior International
James Hennin 3rd

Rhythmic Gymnastics - Level 4
All-Around - 3rd Victoria Gancheva
8th Madison Fotti-Knowles

Clubs - 3rd Victoria Gancheva
 

Link to Results                                                                                       (29 Sept  09)

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Parents arrived on the Friday night to help reorganize the gym for our annual Junior levels competition.  The volunteers helped to move beams, shift springboards and take on the never-ending task of hovering so that when the first gymnasts arrived at 7.30 the Saturday morning the gym had been turned into a competition venue.  Over the weekend more than 200 girls and boys from clubs in and around Auckland competed their apparatus routines and were rewarded with ribbons, medals and certificates.

 For full results, please see below:

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  Primary Schools Competition 2009 Results

Results

Thursday was the turn of years 5 and 6 to perform their routines for the judges.

RESULTS
 

2009 Top School Trophy Winner - Campbells Bay Primary
(21 Oct)

The schools programme and competition are managed by Sarita Wood. She can be contacted at sarita@nhgym.co.nz

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  Intermediate Schools Compete - 2009

  School Tumbling Competition

9 schools from the North Shore participated in the Schools Tumbling competition.  128 girls and boys from years 3 to 10 showed 4 tumbles of varying difficulty to get scores for their team.  This competition is a great chance for the children to participate in gymnastics and only need some mats.  Some of the participants had learnt their skills in a couple of weeks and were able to show the judges 4 different tumble runs. 

 For full results, please see below:

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  Junior Competition Success in 2009

Mid Island Championships, Rotorua

The girls competed in levels 1, 2 and 3 and came home with medals, ribbons and certificates for their tremendous effort.
 

WAG Level 3 - 1st & 2nd Team

71 North Harbour gymnasts and their families traveled to Counties Manukau this weekend for the first competition of 2009.  For most of the boys and girls, this was the first chance to compete at a new level and show their parents what their months of hard work have achieved.   Alexis Capon received a special award for achieving the highest overall score from level 4, 5 and 6.  This is a great achievement so early in the season.

Below are the achievements of the North Harbour junior gymnasts, for the full results please see www.gymsport.co.nz   The photographer at the event has posted the photos on his website for you to purchase: www.petemesley.com

 MAG Level 3

Overall Dylan Padley 1^st, Batu Yazici 2^nd, Sam Dick 3^rd, Max Daneels 4^th Izacc Ross 5^th

Floor    1^st Dominic Bigsby                         Pommel            1^st Dylan Padley

2^nd Batu Yazici                                                       2^nd Batu Yazici

            3^rd Max Daneels                                                     3^rd Dominic Bigsby

Rings    1^st Dylan Padley                            Vault                1^st Dominic Bigsby

            2^nd  Dominic Bigsby                                                2^nd Batu Yazici

            3^rd Izacc Ross

P-Bar   1^st Dylan Padley                            High Bar       1^st Batu Yazici

            2^nd Batu Yazici                                                   2^nd Dylan Padley

            3^rd Sam Dick                                                       3^rd Sam Dick

  MAG Level 4

Overall Ethan Dick 1^st, Caleb Hogan 3^rd & Blake Sunde 5^th

Floor    2^nd Ethan Dick                               Pommel           1^st Ethan Dick

3^rd Caleb Hogan                           

Rings    1^st Ethan Dick                                P-Bars             2^nd Ethan Dick

            3^rd Caleb Hogan                                                   

High Bar            2^nd Caleb Hogan

                        3^rd Ethan Dick  

MAG Level 5

Overall Daniel 1^st, Cameron =6^th

Floor    1^st Daniel Salazar                           Pommel           2^nd Daniel Salazar

Rings    1^st Daniel Salazar                           P-Bars             1^st Cameron McTaggart

            2^nd Cameron McTaggart                                         3^rd Daniel Salazar

High Bar     2^nd Daniel Salazar 

MAG Level 6

Overall Matthew Morrisey 5^th

2^nd Floor, 3^rd Pommel, 3^rd Vault 

WAG Level 1B

Team 2^nd Eloise, Natalie, Alexia Bingley & Abbey Barlow

Overall Eloise Woodley-Phillips 4^th

 Vault    2^nd          Eloise Woodley- Phillips

            3^rd            Natalie Stoddart

Bars     1^st            Natalie Stoddart

Floor    2^nd           Eloise Woodley- Phillips 

WAG Level 2B

Beam   3rd             Sarah Stratton

Floor    2^nd            Sierra Vance 

WAG Level 3B

Team 2^nd Nina, Emily, Ayame & Imogen

Overall Nina Ivanevic 5^th, Emily Liang 6^th

Bars                 1^st Ella Lythe

                        3^rd Zoe Klyn

Beam               3^rd Ayame van Bueskom

Floor                3^rd Emily Liang

WAG Level 4

Team 2^nd Olivia, Hannah, Lucy & Nia

Overall Olivia McTaggart 2^nd, Nia Kenny 3^rd

Vault    3^rd Olivia McTaggart

Bars     2^nd Hannah Lunday

            3^rd Lucy Chambers

Beam   3^rd Rachel Stratton

Floor    3^rd= Nia Kenny & Hannah Lunday

WAG Level 5

Team 2^nd Laurie, Natasha, Alicia & Sasha

Overall Laurie Phillips 6^th

Vault    2^nd Laurie Phillips

Bars     2^nd Natasha Smith

3^rd Laurie Phillips

Floor    2^nd Alicia Rutherford

WAG Level 6

Team 1^st Kirsty, Alexis & Amy

Overall 1^st Alexis Capon, 2^nd Amy Burrows, 5^th Kirsty McRae

Vault    1^st Alexis Capon

Bars     1^st Amy Burrows, 2^nd Alexis Capon

Beam   1^st Alexis Capon

Floor    2^nd Amy Burrows, 3^rd Alexis Capon
 

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Level 1 Overall

Level 2 Overall

Level 4 Overall

The competition was a good opportunity for Misha to perform on an International stage ahead of the upcoming World Championships in London in October.  You can follow the championships at http://www.worldgymnastics2009.com/

Misha and coach Sasha have been supported at these events by SPARC.

(24 Sept 09) 

Auf wiedersehen Beijing 2008 but watch out London 2012.

Misha Koudinov will be 20-years-old when he next tries for a spot in the Olympic Games. But that's still young when the average age of the 280 male start-list at this year's World Championships was 23 and the oldest 39-years-old.  More than a quarter of the contestants were over 25.

Koudinov was the third youngest competitor slightly older than Lugo of Colombia by three months and four months older than Shek from Hong Kong.

The age gap made all the difference when it came to placings and scores at the 40th World Championships for men. Misha finished with 82.60 all-around ahead of Shek on 79.65 and Lugo with 77.10. Translated into placings Koudinov came in at 89, Shek 120 and Lugo 132.

Koudinov is well on track for world-class stardom as he continues to vault New Zealand to the glory fields of elite gymnastics. 

As expected the championships were dominated by Asia with China, Japan and Korea all qualifying teams of six men for Beijing.  The European nations though are still in with a fight with Russia, Romania, Belarus Germany, Spain, Italy and France all making it. Canada and the USA will carry the flag for the Americas.  Australia failed to qualify but will pick up the Oceania spot ahead of New Zealand and  Great Britain, Ukraine and Switzerland will get two men each.

The 40th EnBW World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart 2007 could set a new benchmark in the world of gymnastics. Hong Kong and Singapore will attend for the first time. The Bahamas, El Salvador and Thailand will also be joining the games. Managing Director Robert Baur says "we will get to see a variegated filed of participants."  

And for the first time New Zealand has sent a young man who has already set the benchmark for aspiring kiwi gymnasts. Sixteen-year-old Misha Koudinov is hoping  to build on his historic outing at the China World Cup last month. He is the first NZ gymnast to qualify for an apparatus final at a world event and is hoping Stuttgart can spring-board him to Beijing in 2008.    

Olympic and former world champion Valerie Belenki drew the lots for the order of competition in the first round of qualification for the individual and all-around finals later in the week.  

Misha is in mixed team 4 alongside South Africa (RSA) and will kick start his biggest international competition, on Floor - the same apparatus that spiraled him into the NZ history books in Shanghai.

On Tuesday 9th September at 19:00 Uhr (9.30am Stuttgart time) Misha will get the final men's qualifying round underway. The men's all-around final is scheduled for Friday 7th and apparatus finals on Saturday and Sunday. 

Sasha Koudinov's protégée cemented his place as New Zealand's leading gymnast when he made the cut for the floor apparatus final at the FIG 2007 China World Cup Gymnastics last weekend.

In making the final, the father and son made history.

No New Zealand gymnast has ever performed well enough to break into the top-eight at a category A World Cup event.

After all, Koudinov's protégée is only sixteen-years-old, and the 'ask' big to expect and imagine

him making any apparatus final.  But age and experience may struggle, on the world stage, to match gymnasts trained toward technical perfection by one of the sport’s master practitioners.

Floor: Misha Koudinov 14.225. Daniel Good 11.425.  Parallel Bars: Misha Koudinov 13.500. Mark Holyoake 13.050. Pommel Horse: Mark Holyoake 13.700. Misha Koudinov 13.150 Rings: Daniel Good 14.475 High Bar: Misha Koudinov 12.850   

Sasha Koudinov is a former Russian Federation coach. Amid his plethora of diplomas and degrees he has an 'honour' for training a gymnast in the gold-medal winning Russian team at the 1996 Olympic Games. After the Games his gymnast retired and Koudinov looked for a new challenge.

He arrived in New Zealand in September 1997 with his wife, 6-year-old Misha and a new-born

baby daughter. He came to a country dominated by ball sports and establishing his brand of

east-European gymnastic training collided, at times, with a strong ‘fair play’ participation philosophy.

Although Misha is diminutive in stature, his physical strength and power defies his age but

promotes the benefits of the near thirty training hours he has put in each week for the last five or

six years.  Like swimming, gymnastics is a global sport and we are not likely to see the Westlake Boys High School student grab a medal at a major event until he is in his twenties.

It’s no surprise to see China and Korea take most of the top men’s placings at the China World

Cup. They were not present at the 4^th World Cup in Ghent, Belgium in May. In Shanghai gymnasts

like Ukraine Evgeni Bogonosyuk were demoted to 4^th place on floor from 2^nd in Ghent.  

Netherlands Yuri Van Gelder was 1^st on rings in Ghent and 6^th placed in Shanghai, beaten by

China, Hong Kong, Ukraine and Russia. Misha bettered his qualification round score of 14.225

with 14.325 in the floor final.       

The NZ team remains in China for a week to train at a Chinese club. Misha’s next major event is

the 40^th World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany in November.    

40th World Championships                                   2008 Olympic Games                                    (July 07)