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2026 Senior Victorian Championships (AUS)
Good news, Ruby Pass is scheduled to compete at the Victorian Championships this weekend along with Kate McDonald, Emily Whitehead and Breanna Scott.
u/Trippy-Tarka — 1 day ago
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Larissa Miller AUS comeback
Larissa Miller (now Larissa Haven), 2012 and 2026 Olympian has been back in the gym for a few years now and made her competitive return this year aged 33. She competed in the Senior International division at the NSW State Championships this weekend, winning the AA and 3 events. She had not competed AA for 15 years. She's still an excellent tumbler and bars worker, including an arabian double front plus a front layout - double front on floor and has learned new skills on bars. I'm not sure what her gymnastics ambitions are, but she has been through a lot including managing an eating disorder and publicly speaking out against childhood SA so this is pretty impressive!
u/Trippy-Tarka — 5 days ago
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Interview with Ajara Fomekong from Cameroon
Interview on YouTube here (in French)
- She's a journalist by profession working in sports radio. She became a journalist because her father used to have a newspaper stand and would also make her listen to the radio so she got interested in the media.
- She's the captain of the national team and got interested in gymnastics after seeing some girls dancing in the park. She started when she was 11. She first turned down being captain as she is a shy person and didn't know what they saw in her but she is grateful people believed in her when she didn't believe in herself.
- The recent African Championships were her 5th international competition.
- She had a break in 2025 to give birth to her son.
- She always wanted to come back to gymnastics after her maternity leave as she wanted to show you can still have your own life after motherhood and pursue your dreams.
- It wasn't easy to get back into it again but her family was by her side telling her not to give up if it is something she loves.
- She had her son with her during the African Championships and was breast feeding him during training sessions and competition.
- She was proud she didn't fall off beam at the African Championships. Before she says she always fell off 3-5 times. She knows it wasn't a high score but it was still an achievement for her.
- She is Cameroonian and Chinese and can speak some Mandarin.
u/Trippy-Tarka — 13 days ago
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Oceania Championships
Oceania Championships are on this weekend. I'm not aware of any streaming, but the competition does seem to be on Elevien so perhaps we will get videos?
Competitors:
MAG Senior
Heath Thorpe AUS
Ben Foster AUS
James Hardy AUS
Jesse Moore AUS
Ritam Malik AUS
Alexander Istock NZL
Keegan Greene NZL
Daniel Stoddart NZL
William-Fu Allen NZL
Mikhail Koudinov NZL
MAG Junior
Oscar Scott AUS
Harry Makridakis AUS
Josef Nuemann AUS
Elijah Wu AUS
Erasmus Viljoen NZL
William Davies NZL
WAG Senior
Audrey Hawkins AUS
Emily Whitehead AUS
Georgia Godwin AUS
Asher Bayles AUS
Lucy Stewart AUS
Freya Reid NZL
Jun McDonald NZL
Sienna Shields NZL
Courtney McGregor NZL
Reece Cobb NZL
WAG Junior
Alice Johnson AUS
Shaydon Atkinson AUS
Madelyn Fazio AUS
Olivia Meaney AUS
Zara Andrews AUS
Georgia Harvey NZL
Savanna Campen NZL
Ella Thomas NZL
I wish this event would be combined with Asian Championships or something for some more excitement and vibe.
u/Trippy-Tarka — 14 days ago
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On this weekend. List of competing gymnasts below. There may be others eligible for selections too, not sure. It's wild there are more MAG than WAG in contention. AUS seems to have a big problem with the WAG elite pipeline...
Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
Jose Caballero (NSW High Performance Centre)
Heath Thorpe (NSW High Performance Centre)
Lachlan Smith (NSW High Performance Centre)
Tru Hagens (NSW High Performance Centre)
Benjamin Foster (NSW High Performance Centre)
Joseph D’Souza-Bullman (NSW High Performance)
Clay Mason Stephens (NSW High Performance Centre)
James Hardy (Brisbane Grammar School)
Daniel Chalabov (Sydney Hills Gymnastics)
Ritam Malik (Sydney Hills Gymnastics)
Aiden Frick (Brisbane Grammar School)
Matthew Davies (Brisbane Grammar School)
Jesse Moore (National Training Centre)
Conor McGillvray (Victorian High Performance Centre)
Marcus Casamento (Victorian High Performance Centre)
Nicholas Howard (National Training Centre)
James Bacueti (National Training Centre)
Logan Owen (NSW High Performance Centre)
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics:
Emily Whitehead (Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
Romi Brown (Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
Meilla Brown (Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
India Columbi (Delta Gymnastics Centre)
Oliva Spallek-Caballero (Delta Gymnastics)
Megan Kohler (Cheltenham Youth Club)
Kate McDonald (Cheltenham Youth Club)
Lucy Stewart (Manly Warringah Gymnastics Club)
Breanna Scott (Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
Audrey Hawkins (Waverley Gymnastics Centre)
Emma Morris (Tea Tree Gully Gymsports)
Georgia Godwin (All the Way Up Gymnastics Club)
Asher Bayles (Geelong YMCA)
u/Trippy-Tarka — 20 days ago