Spoils go to N.Z. gymnasts
The New Zealand rhythmic gymnastic team left the Australians few of the spoils after a recent contest between teams representing the two countries. Anne Evans, the executive director of the New Zealand Gymnastic Association, is pictured with three trophies which the team won in the Australasian competition in Sydney last week. The New Zealand women allowed the Australians only one trophy — for the senior group performance — but that very nearly crossed the Tasman too. The Australian team won by three hundredths of a point — 33.70 to 33.67. New Zealand won the senior team trophy (front); the junior team trophy (right); and the junior group trophy (left). Six gymnasts from each country contributed to the team scores. New
Zealand won the senior team event by 176.25 points to 172.5. The juniors scored 172.65 to 171.40. The leading individuals in each team were New Zealanders. Angela Walker, of Auckland, was a comfortable winner of the senior competition with 37.5 points. Walker competed last month in Paris where she improved her world ranking from sixtieth to forty-seventh. At the prestigious Brother Cup in Japan a week later she was seventeenth in a strong invitation field of 20, which included the best rhythmic gymnasts in the world. The benefit from those competitions
showed in her performances in Sydney where she scored two 9.3 s and two 9.455. Tanya Moss, of Auckland, who represented New Zealand.at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, in 1984 was third in the individual placlngs of the senior team. Raewyn Jack, of Auckland, had the highest mark in the junior team competition with a total of 35.2. The group contest involved eight gymnasts performing in synchronisation. The juniors won their event by 33.97 points to 33.30. Until the latest competition, the senior team trophy was known as the Trans Tasman Cup but has been renamed the Oceania Cup to allow other countries in Oceania to enter future competitions.
New Zealand will host the next Oceania rhythmic gymnastic competition in 1988.
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Press, 18 June 1986, Page 8
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