MacLennan and Sendel strike synchro silver in Saint Petersburg
At the first Trampoline World Cup competition of the season, Canada took a silver medal in the women’s synchronised event at Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Canadian duo of Rosie MacLennan and Samantha Sendel achieved the same feat at the 2014 world championships last year in Daytona Beach. Russia’s Nadezhda Glebova and Susana Kochesok (46.000) narrowly beat MacLennan and Sendel’s score of 45.600. United States’ Nicole Ahsinger and Clare Johnson were third with 43.200.
Samantha Sendel and Rosie MacLennan in synchro trampoline (Photo: Gymnastics Canada).
In the individual women’s event, MacLennan – reigning Olympic champion – was fifth. She had “the most difficult routine” of the field as per Gymnastics Canada, and was just shy of the podium with a score of 53.030 (third place total was 53.485).
The next World Cup event doesn’t take place until September, which will be in Valladolid, Spain. The following month Mouilleron-le-Captif in France and Portuguese city of Loulé will host the third and fourth of four World Cup stops. The World Championships this year will head to Odense, Denmark in late November.
Before all of that, Canada’s trampoline athletes will compete at home where a star-studded team will look to defend the men’s and women’s individual titles won in 2011. The synchro events are not in the Pan Am or Olympic calendars.
