Canada wins double mini-trampoline gold at world championships
Women's team tops Great Britain in Denmark competition
Canada won the gold medal in the women's double mini- trampoline team event on Saturday at the 2015 trampoline gymnastics world championships in Odense, Denmark.
Canada claimed the top spot on the podium with 103.900 points, ahead of Great Britain, 103.400 and the United States with 103.00 points for bronze.
Danielle Gruber of Kelowna, B.C., led the way with the highest score among all competitors in the five-team final. Her teammates were Arden Oh of Calgary, Tamara O'Brien, Coquitlam, B.C., and Karine Dufour of Laval, Que.
"I was having trouble landing my pass on my feet in the warm up, but it ended up working out," said Gruber, who will be going for another medal in the women's individual double mini trampoline final on Sunday.
"I just have to stay focused and not be overconfident because anything can happen."
Competing for the last time on the international stage, retiring national men's team veteran Denis Vachon of Hamilton, placed sixth in the men's double mini-trampoline final with teammate Douglas Armstrong of Surrey, B.C., seventh.
Austin White of the United States finished well ahead of runner-up Mikhail Zalomin of Russia to claim the gold medal.
"A lot of the reasons I've continued to train and compete is that I've never felt like I had the best world championship, but after today I feel satisfied," said Vachon, who intends to shift his focus now on coaching at the Burlington BGs club where he heads up the trampoline and tumbling program.