Well, the 1st day of MAG nationals were held yesterday in Brisbane. As expected, the all-around competition was won by Naoya Tsukahara, although since he was a guest, the official champion was 2nd placed Sam Offord who put up a great score of 86.45. 2008 Olympian Sam Simpson came 3rd with 83.15. Luke Wiwatowski did well to finish 4th considering he had a nasty injury recently.
While training Weiler kips on loop bar earlier in the year, the loops snapped and Wiwatowski was flung off and he strained the medial ligament in his knee as he crashed to the ground. It was initially thought to be a serious injury. Luckily, he didn't require surgery and has since managed to recover quickly enough to be back in the all-around competition for nationals.
Prashanth Sellathurai scored an impressive 15.85 on rings, but it appears that he fell on pommel as his score of 14.75 is well below what he is capable of, but it was still the top score on pommel for the night. Pommel horse specialist Elliott Cook from WA posted a great 14.55 there.
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