For the second time as a senior elite, Georgia Godwin has been crowned the Australian National Champion following the country’s National Championship competitions which have taken place last week. She achieved a combined total of 108.760 for the win.
Godwin made her senior debut in 2013, when she placed third in the all-around at Nationals and also became National Champion on floor. She won her first all-around national title the following year, though she did not compete in World Championships that year with the Australian team. Godwin had a lot of success as a junior elite as well, having won the national title twice.
Godwin’s highest scoring events from both prelims and finals were vault and bars. On vault, she performed a well-executed full twisting Yurchenko, scoring a 14.375 in finals. Her bars routine included a weiler kip with half turn into a Maloney connected to a Pak Salto to toe-on, and a double layout dismount. Although Godwin’s beam routine had a lot of difficulty packed in, she suffered two falls in finals on her tumbling series and dismount. She also suffered an unfortunate fall on floor when she had to put her hands down out of her double front opening pass.
Emily Little, a former Olympian, placed second in the all-around, largely thanks to her vault, a double twisting Yurchenko, which scored a 15.025 in finals and a 15.125 in prelims, an improvement over her score at the American Cup in March. Little also won the vault final with an average score of 14.937. Little placed 1.275 behind Godwin with a 107.475 combined total.
Third place went to Madelaine Leydin, who finished just 0.750 behind Little. Leydin placed second in the all-around at last year’s Nationals and first in 2013. Leydin’s strongest event was on the uneven bars, where she performed with the same 5.8 difficulty level as Georgia Godwin.
It’s also worth noting that Lauren Mitchell was back in action, competing only floor and beam at Nationals. She mentioned in an interview that she has only been training for about 4 weeks and so had somewhat watered down routines (she competed only a single back tuck as her beam dismount) but she intends to add back her difficulty over the next few months for the possibility of competing at Worlds and later the Olympics.
In the juniors competition, Emily Whitehead took first place, bolstered by her high difficulty on bars and floor. Talia Folino finished in second place, followed by Charleis Kingston-White in third.
Godwin made her senior debut in 2013, when she placed third in the all-around at Nationals and also became National Champion on floor. She won her first all-around national title the following year, though she did not compete in World Championships that year with the Australian team. Godwin had a lot of success as a junior elite as well, having won the national title twice.
Godwin’s highest scoring events from both prelims and finals were vault and bars. On vault, she performed a well-executed full twisting Yurchenko, scoring a 14.375 in finals. Her bars routine included a weiler kip with half turn into a Maloney connected to a Pak Salto to toe-on, and a double layout dismount. Although Godwin’s beam routine had a lot of difficulty packed in, she suffered two falls in finals on her tumbling series and dismount. She also suffered an unfortunate fall on floor when she had to put her hands down out of her double front opening pass.
Emily Little, a former Olympian, placed second in the all-around, largely thanks to her vault, a double twisting Yurchenko, which scored a 15.025 in finals and a 15.125 in prelims, an improvement over her score at the American Cup in March. Little also won the vault final with an average score of 14.937. Little placed 1.275 behind Godwin with a 107.475 combined total.
Third place went to Madelaine Leydin, who finished just 0.750 behind Little. Leydin placed second in the all-around at last year’s Nationals and first in 2013. Leydin’s strongest event was on the uneven bars, where she performed with the same 5.8 difficulty level as Georgia Godwin.
It’s also worth noting that Lauren Mitchell was back in action, competing only floor and beam at Nationals. She mentioned in an interview that she has only been training for about 4 weeks and so had somewhat watered down routines (she competed only a single back tuck as her beam dismount) but she intends to add back her difficulty over the next few months for the possibility of competing at Worlds and later the Olympics.
In the juniors competition, Emily Whitehead took first place, bolstered by her high difficulty on bars and floor. Talia Folino finished in second place, followed by Charleis Kingston-White in third.