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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

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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

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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

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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.

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