Boondall Figure Ice Skating Club athletes at the prestigious Crystal Challenge
How’s this for high sporting achievers - 33 athletes, 23 medals? That was the performance by Boondall Figure Ice Skating Club athletes at the prestigious Crystal Challenge.
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Boondall Figure Ice Skating Club have dominated the prestigious Ice-Skating Australia benchmark mark event, the Crystal Challenge, bringing home 23 medals.
Five goal medals and 18 podium finishes were secured by the 33 strong squad over the gruelling four day event.
Boondall Figure Ice Skating Club’s gold rush was started by Zofia Forbes who won a tightly contested Freeskate 2 Division, with clubmate Luna Chan finishing in third place.
In the Intermediate Women’s Division, Kathrin Macak nailed a clean program and personal best score on the way to gold, with teammate Nia Doherty claiming the silver in a one-two finish for the club in a field of 18 competitors.
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Other Boondall club winners were Jessica Rotondo in Adult Elite Women, Alex Cooke in Adult Bronze Male, and Nicola Cheyne in Adult Artistic Bronze Division.
In the Junior Women’s Division, the second highest level of competition, Sienna Kaczmarczyk and Simona Bhasin were both on the podium with second and third placings respectively.
For Bhasin, there was a personal best score also as she cracked the 100+ points barrier for the first time.
Rounding out the competition for BFISC at the highest level was Emily-Jean Kelly in Senior Women.
Kelly was within striking distance of a podium place after the Short Program but had to settle for fifth place overall at the completion of the Free Skating Program.
For many within the squad, while they did not place, it was a wonderful learning experience on their first interstate tour.
Full Results of Boondall competitors
Aussie Skate 9:
Rose Dobson 3rd
Freeskate 1:
Heidi Adams 3rd
Annabelle Christison 6th
Freeskate 2:
Claire Brow 2nd
Zali Matthews 3rd
Roselinde Dowideit 6th
Freeskate 3:
Zofia Forbes 1st
Luna Chan 3rd
Caroline Dowideit 7th
Adult Bronze Female:
Nicola Cheyne 3rd
Adult Bronze Male:
Alex Cooke 1st
Adult Elite Women:
Jessica Rotondo 1st
Adult Masters Women:
Emily Phillips 3rd
Adult Silver Women:
Courtney Mackay 3rd
Adult Gold Women:
Mackenzie Moor 4th
Advanced Novice Women:
Hattie Meadows 6th
Shuri Tomihara 11th
Grace Seaton 18th
Dinda Keith 20th
Elementary Girls:
Caitlyn Ryan 5th
Axelle Simons 6th
Intermediate Women:
Kathrin Macak 1st
Nia Doherty 2nd
Intermediate Novice Women:
Abby Smith 8th
Jayla Tarbuck 9th
Junior Women:
Sienna Kaczmarczyk 2nd
Simona Bhasin 3rd
Abbey Dobson 5th
Preliminary Girls:
Meili Wu 3rd
Izabella Thistleton 12th
Sophie Cann 13th
Preliminary Boys:
Dwight Kaptich 4th
Senior Women:
Emily-Jean Kelly 5th
Artistic Adult Bronze/Copper:
Nicola Cheyne 1st
Alex Cooke 2nd
The club is based at Ice World Olympic Ice Rink, 2304 Sandgate Rd. Visit www.bfisc.org.au
Originally published as Boondall Figure Ice Skating Club athletes at the prestigious Crystal Challenge
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