Australian gymnast Kate Sayer has achieved some of the important distinctions within the sport by having a talent named in her honour.
The talent, to be referred to as “The Sayer”, has been added to the Worldwide Federation of Gymnastics’ (FIG) ladies’s creative code of factors.
FIG makes use of the code of factors to attain workout routines in any respect ranges of gymnastics.
Sayer and her coach labored on the talent that pertains to the transition from the excessive to low bar on the uneven bars.
Sayer is one in every of solely six Australian ladies to obtain the honour.
“I feel it is wonderful to have a gymnastics talent named after me,” Sayer stated in an announcement.
“Gymnastics is a sport that enables for flexibility in how issues are performed, and it is an unimaginable feeling to have the ability to contribute one thing new.
“Should you’d instructed me once I began gymnastics 17 years in the past that I might have this honour, I’d by no means have believed it.”
The Brisbane-based Sayer added: “Loads of laborious work went into perfecting this talent, and I am grateful to my coaches, for his or her assist and encouragement all through the method.
“With out them, this might not have been attainable.”
Sayer launched the talent in competitors in 2021 and it has since been carried out on the nationwide and worldwide stage.
Georgia Godwin, Trudy Macintosh, Jacqui Dunn, Lauren Mitchell and Mary-Ann Monckton are the opposite Australians to have a talented after them by FIG.
