Kate Sayer

Kate Sayer
Sayer at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Personal information
Nickname(s)	KitKat [1]
Born	(2003-03-08) 8 March 2003 (age 22) South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Australia
Years on national team	2017–present (AUS)
Club	Queensland High Performance Centre
Head coach(es)	Mikhail Barabach
Assistant coach(es)	Tao Xiaomin
Medal record Artistic gymnastics Representing   Australia Oceania Championships 2024 Auckland All-around Pacific Rim Championships (Junior) 2018 Medellín Team 2018 Medellín Balance Beam

Kate Sayer (born 8 March 2003) is an Australian artistic gymnast and the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships junior bronze medallist on balance beam. She represented Australia at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

Early life

Sayer was born in South Brisbane, Queensland. She began gymnastics when she was four years old. ^[1]

Gymnastics career

2017–18

Sayer competed at the 2017 Australian National Championships. She placed fifth in the Junior 14 All-Around Final and placed second on vault and uneven bars and fourth on balance beam. ^[2]

In April 2018 Sayer was selected to compete at the Pacific Rim Championships. ^[3] While there she helped Australia finish third in the team final behind the United States and Canada. She finished 14th in the all-around ^[4] During event finals she won bronze on the balance beam behind Zoé Allaire-Bourgie of Canada and American Sunisa Lee. Additionally she placed seventh on vault and eighth on floor exercise. The following month Sayer competed at the Australian National Championships where she won the junior all-around competition. ^[5]

In August Sayer was selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. ^[6] In September she competed at the Australian Classic where she once again won the junior division title. ^[7]

At the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires Sayer qualified to the all-around, vault, and floor exercise finals. In the all-around final she placed eighth. During event finals she placed seventh and eighth respectively. ^[8]

All-Around Final

Vault Final

Floor Exercise Final

Sayer at the 2018 Youth Olympics

2019

In 2019, Sayer turned senior. She made her debut at the Melbourne World Cup where she only competed on floor exercise. She finished 9th in qualifications and was the first reserve for the final. ^[9] In March she competed at the 2019 L'International Gymnix. She helped Australia win the bronze medal. Individually Sayer placed 17th in the all-around. ^[10] In May she competed at the Australian National Championships where she finished 11th in the all-around. ^[11] In September she competed at the Australian Classic where she finished 8th. ^[12] Sayer was selected as the alternate to the team who would compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart. ^[13]

Eponymous skill

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty [a]	Added to the Code of Points
Uneven bars	Sayer	Clear pike circle backward on high bar with flight to clear support on low bar	C	2024 Oceania Championships [14]

1. Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
Junior
2017	National Championships		5			4
2018	Pacific Rim Championships		14	7			8
	Australian Championships
	Australian Classic
	Youth Olympic Games		8	7	R2		8
Senior
2019	Melbourne World Cup						R1
	International Gymnix		17
	Australian Championships		11
	Australian Classic		8
2021	Australian Championships		5
2022	DTB Pokal Team Challenge

References

1. "Kate Sayer" (PDF). Gymnastics Australia . Retrieved 23 July 2023.
2. "2017 Australian Championships Results". The Gymternet. 24 May 2017.
3. "2018 Pacific Rim Championships". Gymnastics Australia . 4 April 2018.
4. "U.S. women, McCallum, Bowers take gold at Pac Rim Championships". USA Gymnastics . 28 April 2018. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
5. "2018 Australian Championships Results". The Gymternet. 30 May 2018.
6. "Kate Sayer cartwheeling her way to Buenos Aires". Australian Olympic Committee . 2 August 2018.
7. "2018 Australian Classic Results". The Gymternet. 20 September 2018.
8. "2018 Youth Olympic Games Recaps, Results and Photos". USA Gymnastics . 16 October 2018. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
9. "2019 Melbourne World Cup Results". The Gymternet. 24 February 2019.
10. "2019 International Gymnix Live Blog – Senior Cup". The Gymternet. 8 March 2019.
11. "2019 Australian Championships Results". The Gymternet. 27 May 2019.
12. "2019 Australian Classic Results". The Gymternet. 19 September 2019.
13. "Kate Sayer Headed To Stuttgart For World Championships". Gymnastics Australia . 9 September 2019.
14. "New in the women's Code of Points: meet the Adalsteinsdottir, Heron, Petrova, and Sayer elements". International Gymnastics Federation . 20 September 2024.

External links

• Kate Sayer at the International Gymnastics Federation