The Cooroy Gymnastics club has yet again proved their worth after coming away with numerous titles at the Gymnastics National Championships.
Cooroy athletes have somersaulted over expectations to come away with numerous titles at the Gymnastics Championships.
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Cooroy-based gymnasts have triumphed over athletes from much larger clubs to come away with five individual medals from the Gymnastics Championships on the Gold Coast.
Their haul at the weekend included three national championships and a team silver.
Cooroy Gymnastics Club members Finlay Jones and brothers Dean and Lyam Chandler were selected to a Level 9 squad.
It was Lyam’s first selection at that level, but not for Finlay or Dean, who had previously won championship medals.
Cooroy senior men’s coach Greg Smyth brought 40 years of nationals experience as competitor, coach and judge to the event.
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The first day of competition was the team event with scores also added to the final all around awards.
Due to the added pressure of high level competition and the absence of events last year the Queensland team struggled to post their usual score.
Queensland finished with a silver medal just 1.5 behind a deserving NSW outfit.
Going into day two Finlay was the highest ranked Queenslander running third in the all around event just behind the two competitors from NSW.
Finlay was not able to get back all of the points from the two NSW competitors but did manage to hold on for a third place all around.
The Queensland team was able to win four out of the six apparatuses finals.
It was a tight competition on day two but Finlay fought hard to win gold on pommel, rings and parallel bars.
Brothers Dean and Lyam finished 3rd and 4th on vault with Dean winning his first individual medal at the championships.
Their results were made more amazing by the fact the club did not have a full vault area or competition rings canopy, which made preparations for the event challenging.
All athletes and coaches are looking forward to an even better nationals next year.
Originally published as The Cooroy Gymnastics club has yet again proved their worth after coming away with numerous titles at the Gymnastics National Championships.
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