Australian gymnast Kate Sayer has achieved one of the vital distinctions within the sport by having a talent named in her honour.
The talent, to be often called “The Sayer”, has been added to the Worldwide Federation of Gymnastics’ (FIG) girls’s creative code of factors.
FIG makes use of the code of factors to attain workouts 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 all solely six Australian girls to obtain the honour.
“I believe it is wonderful to have a gymnastics talent named after me,” Sayer stated in an announcement.
“Gymnastics is a sport that permits for flexibility in how issues are executed, and it is an unbelievable feeling to have the ability to contribute one thing new.
“For those who’d instructed me after 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: “A number 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 could not have been attainable.”
Sayer launched the talent in competitors in 2021 and it has since been carried out on the nationwide and worldwide degree.
Georgia Godwin, Trudy Macintosh, Jacqui Dunn, Lauren Mitchell and Mary-Ann Monckton are the opposite Australians to have a talented after them by FIG.
