Vivian Helps Australia to Seventh Place World Champs Finish

WAIS athlete Olivia Vivian has helped the Australian women’s artistic gymnastics team to a seventh place finish in the Team final at the 2014 Gymnastics World Championships in China.

Having qualified for the Team final in eighth place, Australia was paired with Romania in the cut throat competition where three gymnasts compete per apparatus with all three scores counting towards the team total.

The Australian team started their competition on Floor with WAIS athlete Olivia Vivian leading the team off. Vivian performed a clean routine to improve on her qualification result, scoring 12.791. Georgia-Rose Brown from Victoria put on an elegant display with a score of 12.900. Victorian Larrissa Miller performed a near perfect routine however put her hands down on her dismount to record 13.300.

In the second rotation the team displayed consistent vaulting with all three gymnasts improving on their qualification scores. Victorian’s Mary-Anne Monckton and Kiara Munteanu scored 13.933 and 13.966 respectively with All Around competitor Georgia-Rose Brown (VIC) top scoring for the team with 14.233.

Afterthe first two rotations Australia was in eighth place, just 0.009 behind Japan in seventh with two of their strongest apparatus to come.

The team shone on Uneven Bars with Commonwealth Games silver medallist Larrissa Miller displaying near perfect execution to score 14.700 followed by Vivian with a career high 14.100 and Brown on 13.900.

Buoyed by their Uneven Bars performance, the team once again excelled on Beam. Mary-Anne Monckton anchored the team, scoring an outstanding 14.333 ahead of World Championships debutant Emma Nedov (NSW) with 14.066 and Brown on 13.766.

Thanks to their stellar performances on Uneven Bars and Beam, the Australian team leap frogged Japan to improve on their qualification result and finish in seventh place with a total score of 165.988.

– GymnasticsAus