CALGARY — A trio of Red Deer Exelta Gymnastic Club members captured all-around gold at the Kyle Shewfeld Gymnastics Festival during the weekend.
Mitchell Kalan won the level 3 12-and-under title while Molly Hall-Jarratt won the provincial 2 argo crown and Jared Hoffman was first in the level 1 12-and-under category.
Kalan won the floor exercise, the vault, parallel bars and high bar while taking second on the pommel horse and tying for second on the rings.
Hall-Jarratt edged teammates Mataya Rideout and Sydney Larsen for first place in her division.
She won the vault, uneven bars, beam and was second on the floor.
Rideout won the floor exercise to go with a fourth on the vault. She also tied for sixth on the bars and was seventh on the beam.
Larsen took third on the vault, bars and floor and fourth on the beam.
Hoffman won the floor, pommel horse and rings while placing second on the vault and high bar and third on the parallel bars.
Meanwhile in the national youth division, Alan Ng was second, Findlay McCormick third, Conner Trepanier fourth and Dylan Patsula eighth.
Ng was second on the floor exercise, third on the pommel horse, rings and parallel bars, fourth on the high bar and fifth on the vault.
McCormick placed second on the horse and rings, tied for third on the high bar, was fourth on the parallel bars, tied for fourth on the vault and was sixth on the floor.
Trepanier won the pommel horse and was second on the parallel bars while tying for third on the high bar, tying for fifth on the floor and rings and taking seventh on the vault.
Patsula won the parallel bars while finishing sixth on the horse, rings and vault , eighth on the floor and 10th on the high bar.
Julia Plain finished third in the provincial 4 open 15-17 year-old division with Summer Anderson seventh.
Plain was third on the beam, tied for third on the vault, was fourth on the uneven bars and seventh on the floor.
Anderson won the vault, was third on the floor, fifth on the beam and seventh on the bars.
Erika Pearson was fourth and Kyla Jepson fifth in the national open division for athletes 13-17 years of age.
Pearson took a third on the vault while Jepson was second on the beam.
Kaelan Hayter placed fourth and Hannah Bilsborrow sixth in the provincial 5 novice competition for 13-14 year-olds.
Hayter had a third on the vault while Bilsborrow was third on the bars.
Sydney Rix took 13th in the provincial 2 tyro (11-12 year-old) division and Brayden Lord was 17th in the level 1 10-and-under boys category.
Lord had a seventh on the high bar and eighth on the parallel bars.