Rosannagh MacLennan
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Rosannagh MacLennan
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 Rosannagh MacLennan (right) with Karen Cockburn in Hamilton, Ontario at the Canada Cup in August 2007 |
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| Nickname(s) | Rosie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Canada |
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| Born | August 28, 1988 Toronto |
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| Discipline | Trampolining | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | David Ross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rosannagh (Rosie) MacLennan (born August 28, 1988) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she won the Canadian National Women's champion in 2005, 2009 and 2011. She has competed internationally at various levels since 1999. In the 2007 World Championships in Quebec City, MacLennan earned a Women's Trampoline place for Canada in the 2008 Olympic Games[1] and came in third in the Individual trampoline event.[2]
MacLennan trains at Skyrider's Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill, Ontario with coach David Ross who has coached all of Canada's Olympic trampolinists. In 2006 she paired with her training partner, the double Olympian Karen Cockburn, in synchronized trampoline and since then the pair have dominated the event internationally winning eight consecutive World Cup events including the World Cup Finals in Birmingham in 2006. In the 2007 World Championships in Quebec City they again won the event[3] The pair hold the current female synchronized trampoline routine world record for difficulty with a DD of 14.20[4] which they scored in April 2007 at the Lake Placid Trampoline World Cup.
Following the 2007 World Championships, MacLennan came in second place in the Good Luck Beijing International Invitational Tournament, a competition held to test the facilities and organization for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In June 2008, she was selected to join Karen Cockburn and Jason Burnett as one of Canada's three trampoline gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the trampoline preliminary competition, she qualified in 3rd place for the Finals but eventually finished in 7th place.[5]
Since the Olympics, MacLennan has won the 2009 Canadian Women's Individual title. She came in 4th place for individual trampoline in the 2009 Trampoline World Championships in St Petersburg and 3rd place for individual trampoline in the 2010 Trampoline World Championships in Metz. In 2011, she won the Canadian Championships and came in 1st place at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico and 2nd place in the 2011 Trampoline World Championships in Birmingham which won a place for Canadian women in the Trampoline event for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
References
- ^ Acrobatic Sports, FIG Press release
- ^ FIG Press release of results
- ^ FIG Press release of results
- ^ Acrobatic Sports Competition report
- ^ "Olympic Heroes". Markham Economist and Sun: p. 14. 2008-08-23.
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