The four South African gymnasts at the 29th Summer Universiade wrapped up their competition in Taiwan on Monday as they combined for a score of 136.550 in the team competition.

That placed the team (pictured above) 11th of 12 teams in Taipei as Russia recorded a total of 163.000 and Canada were second in 161.000.

Best individual score for SA came from Bianca Mann with 45.850 which placed her 28th overall and a confidence-boosting performance as she comes back from injury.

Other SA scores were Angela Maguire (45.000), Claudia Cummins (44.650) and Tylah Lotter, Tuks (22.350). Lotter was injured and wasn’t able to do the vault and bar exercises.

Cummins was looking in particularly fine form in training but then an unfortunate disaster on her bar routine set her back. Still, her vault score puts her in the top eight in the Commonwealth rankings, good news for Team South Africa ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The gymnasts are now done with their competition in Taipei and focus switches to nationals in September.
After nationals, Cummins and Maguire will be in action in Canada as part of the World Championships team.