Silver jubilee jump

Local gymnasts brought home plenty of hardware to show off from competitions both in town and away in the past month.

Part of the haul came from the April 26-27 Ontario Trampoline Championships in Whitby, while others were from a May 2-4 local meet where almost 300 athletes took part in the 25th anniversary edition of Les Sittelles’ Envol gymnastics competition at their Shefford Rd. facility.

Seven athletes from the host club earned division titles at the Envol event – Fiona Leclerc-Robertson (Level 9, Age 12), Julina Benjamin (L8 11+), Fredéricke Beaulne-Séguin (L7 13+), Jessica Reddin (L7 11-12), Vanessa Laporte (L6 12-13), Hannah Ashford (L6 10-11), Valérie Guilbault (L5 13).

Other local Envol category all-around champions included Olympia’s Emily Urbisci (L6 14+) and Courtney Bowditch (L3 A9), Corona’s Cathy Wang (L4 A13), Sophia Scanlon (L4 A11), Robin Tarnocai (L4 A9), Sarah Demarinis (L4 15+), Kathryn Jee (L4 14), Alexa Vecchio (L3 11), Maddison Brayman (L3 10B), Natasha Sandhu (L2 10), Katherine Hale (L2 9) and Annabelle Woolverton (L1 9-12), and Tumblers’ Emily Fauchon (L3 13+) and Meghan Renaud (L3 10A).

At the trampoline provincials, medalists included Spring Action’s Kelsey Ducharme (gold, L2 15+ trampoline & silver double mini trampoline), Hugo Lalumière (bronze, L3 TRA & bronze, L3 mixed synchro), Emma Boswell &  Rosalind Ward (silver, L2 MS), Amelia Palidwor (silver, L2 12-14 & bronze, L3 MS), Alyssa Greenwell (bronze, L2 15+ DMT), Ryan Massey-Smith (silver, L1 DMT), Bobby Osborne (bronze, L1 DMT) and Avery Wheat (gold, L2 DMT), Les Sittelles’ Maxine MacKinnon (bronze, L3 15+ TRA), Alexandre D’Aoust (bronze, L4 MS & silver L4 DMT), Mélodie Dubuc (bronze, L4 MS), Marianne Bourque (gold, L4 DMT), Nicolas Dessureault (silver, L3 DMT) and Gabriel Carrier (gold, L4 DMT), and OGC’s Gabriel Riendeau (bronze, L2 TRA).

Many local athletes are in their final stages of preparation for the May 10-13 Eastern Canadian Gymnastics Championships, to be held in Oshawa.