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NORTH SHORE Flicka team number one finish-
ed first overall in the 13th annual North Shore
Invitational gymnastics meet held Saturday at the

British Columbian

(BCIT).

Two members of the team
also finished in the top five

of the competition’s

The North Shore
taken from North

indi-
vidual all-round points total.
team,
Van-

couver’s Flicka Gym Club,
edged out Japan’s
Shinagawa Gym Club with a
107.35 total. The Japanese
team managed 107.30

points.

Top individual placing
went to Orlando Florida’s
12-
year-old member of Brown’s
Gymnastics Club racked up
36.40 points. Sandra
Botnen, 15; and Tracy
Wilson, 17, both of West
Vancouver and both of the
North Shore’s team number
one finished fourth and fifth

Brandy Johnson. The

Institute of Technology

respectively with 35.95 and
35.75 totals. Botnen, the
meet’s defending all-round
champion, is currently rank-
ed fifth in Canada.

The other two members of
the North Shore team,
Miriam Michel and Kristen
Wingfield, also finished in
the top 20. All top eight in-
dividual finishers were
within -a single point of
Johnson.

The North Shore’s team
number two finished eighth
overall with 101.95 points
and were led by 14th-place
finisher Lisa Onno. The 14-
year-old ran up a 34.25 point
total.

Botnen and Wilson tied
for the gold medal in the
uneven bar event and finish-

GRACE, balance and strength were the rules of the
day at the 13th Annual North Shore Invitational pym-
nastics meet last Saturday. Sixteen gymnastic teams
from Canada, Japan and the United States met at
BCIT to battle for top positions. The Nerth Shore
team finished first in the overall competition.

PHOTOS BY
STUART DAVIS

ts to top f

ed first and second on the
balance beam.

Olynipic gold = medalist,
Ayumi Yukimori of the
Japanese club was expected
to challenge fo; medals in all
her competitions but was in-
jured during training eartier
in the week. The 16-year-old
did manage, however, to
finish second on the uneven
bars.

Saturday's competition
featured 53 gymnasts from
14 gymnastic teams from the
United States, Japan, and
Canada.

Next competition for the
North Shore senior women
will be in Calgary at the end
of February at ‘the Canadian
Elite meet.

Celebrity
photos —
exposed
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