GYMNASTICS - TRAMPOLINE: 2012 Olympian, Blake Gaudry will lead a team of Australia’s best trampoline athletes as they bounce into Daytona Beach, USA, to compete in the 2014 Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships when they kick off next week.
 
Twenty-two-year-old Gaudry, from South Australia will hope to continue his recent form demonstrated at World Cup events in Portugal and Belarus after being crowned Australian champion in the Synchronised and Trampoline competition earlier this year.
 
Gaudry will be joined by teammates including brothers Ty (26) and Shaun Swadling (22) from NSW, and Jack Penny (24) from Tasmania.
 
The Swadling brothers will team up for the Men’s Synchronised Trampoline event and attempt to claim their second international medal on the event this year after winning bronze at the recent 2014 Minsk World Cup.
 
Both Shaun Swadling and Penny – also 2014 Synchronised Trampoline Australian Champion - have overcome major injury over the last 18 months to be selected to represent Australia in this much-coveted competition.
 
Double mini trampoline athletes including 2013 World Games finalists Matthew Weal (20) from NSW and Emily O’Connor (19) from Victoria are set to take to the apparatus again at the 2014 Daytona Beach competition
 
They will be joined by Christine Hall and Jarrod Spear – both 25 years of age from NSW - who are seasoned World Championships performers.
 
Newcomers to the team, Jayden Cooney (17) from WA, Damien Axelsen (21) from Tasmania and Ryan Hatfield (19) from Victoria will make their World Championships debut at the Daytona Beach event.
 
The team will train at the TAG USA Gymnastics centre in Fort Lauderdale before arriving at Daytona Beach for the start of competition on 7 November.

Gymnastics Australia