The Oceania Artistic Gymnastics Championship is an annual artistic gymnastics competition. It is governed by the Oceania Gymnastics Union.
Year | Host City | Host Country | Date | Men's Team Champion | Women's Team Champion | Men's All-Around Champion | Women's All-Around Champion |
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2020 [1] | Tauranga | New Zealand | April 16–18, 2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
2021 [2] | Gold Coast | Australia | May 21, 2021 | — | Mikhail Koudinov | Emily Whitehead | |
2022 [3] | Carrara | Australia | May 22–25, 2022 | Australia | Australia | Jesse Moore | Emily Whitehead |
2023 [4] | Carrara | Australia | May 6, 2023 | Australia | Australia | Mikhail Koudinov | Ruby Pass |
2024 [5] | Auckland | New Zealand | May 25–26, 2024 | — | Jesse Moore | Emma Nedov |
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the Code of Points used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition. Within individual countries, gymnastics is regulated by national federations such as British Gymnastics and USA Gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics is a popular spectator sport at many competitions, including the Summer Olympic Games.
Lauren Stephanie Mitchell is an Australian former artistic gymnast. She is the 2010 World champion on the floor exercise and the 2009 World Championships silver medalist on the balance beam and floor exercise. Mitchell is only the second Australian female gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships, and she is the first to win a gold medal. She is the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam, and with the Australian team, and she is the 2008 World Cup Final balance beam champion. She also represented Australia at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
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