Record competition for Warwick Gymnastic Club at the weekend
GYMNASTICS: Anyone who talks about sport bringing money into a town need look no further than the Warwick Gymnastic Club which hosted a record club competition at the weekend.
While numbers are not available for every competition in the club’s first 51 years, current club officials believe the 293 nominations is a record, at least for the past 15 years.
Club president Coby Walker said 65 members of the Warwick club competed in the tournament at the weekend.
“I put the increase in interest down to the advertising done by Gymnastics Queensland and the club’s exposure in the Daily News,” Walker said.
“We had 65 boys and 228 girls competing in levels one to six.”
There were 10 visiting club at the competition, some travelling to Warwick to compete for the first time.
Walker said the club was preparing to construct a new international arena on its current site in West Warwick, which gives the club a chance to attract a team from overseas to Warwick to train in the run-up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games..
“We are about to put in for development approval,” he said.
Warwick girls Jaz Dromgold, Bella Clegg, Alexandra Carrie, Ariona Laws and Taeyah Wilkie won gold at level 2 with Indigo Cruice a gold medallist at level 1.
Individual apparatus gold medals were won by Warwick gymnasts Seb Doyle, Preston Smith, Cameron Brown, Blake Ryan, Ryan Callow, Annie Cory and Shaye Campbell.
Preston Smith was overall winner at level 2 novice and Blake Ryan best at level 3 novice.
