WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
POWER, FLEXIBILITY, AGILITY AND COURAGE
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is the most popular and well known to the public of the seven gymnastics disciplines.
The popularity of the sport of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics as it is known today, is largely due to the performances of Olga Korbut of the USSR at the 1972 Olympics, and of Nadia Comaneci, of Romania at the 1976 Olympics, in Montreal. Both Olga and Nadia captured the attention and imagination of girls all over the world, resulting in the most rapid growth of any sport in recent history. The reason for this popularity can most likely be chalked up to the ability of the sport to build upon the lively movements and grace of youth.
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is an incredibly challenging sport, demanding strength, power, flexibility, agility, courage, and a combination of technical precision and artistic creativity. When these elements are mastered, the performances appear almost effortless and are riveting to watch.
Women’s artistic gymnastics consists of four events:
Vault
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise
Gym Sask will continue to use the modified Inter-Club program for the 2023-2024 season. This program will be called the Saskatchewan Inter-Club Program and will use a combination of the USAG Development Program Compulsory Exercises (formally known as the JO Program) and Xcel levels. The following levels will be included in the Saskatchewan Inter-Club Program: Developmental Levels 1-4 (formally known as JO 1-4) and Xcel Bronze and Silver. In Saskatchewan these levels will be called “Inter-Club Level 1, Inter-Club Level 2, Inter-Club Xcel Bronze, etc. We will follow the USAG Developmental Program Compulsory rules but use a different name. Gym Sask has adjusted the minimum age for athletes to enter these Inter-Club levels, for the 2023-2024 season athletes must be born in 2017 and older, there is no age maximum on Inter-Club levels although this program is designed for developmental and younger athletes.
Athletes in the Saskatchewan Inter-Club program will be able to attend in province invitationals only. Athletes in Inter-Club Level 1-4 & Xcel Bronze and Silver athletes born in 2017 & 2016 will NOT be ranked against each other, will NOT have scores flashed and will be given ribbons based on a range of scores. They will be called up in a random order during the awards ceremony.
Athletes born in 2015 and older in the Inter-Club Xcel Bronze and Inter-Club Xcel Silver will be able to be ranked against each other, will have scores flashed, and will be eligible to receive medals as per the Xcel code of points. Athletes in the Saskatchewan Inter-Club Program will not be eligible to attend provincials.
Clubs who wish to only participate in the Saskatchewan Inter-Club Program must be registered with an Inter-Club Membership in Amilia.
Program Documents
INTERCLUB
WE HOST PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND SUCCESSFUL MAJOR EVENTS IN COOPERATION WITH OUR CLUBS
Gymnastics Saskatchewan hosts 4 levels of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics competition encompassing several different age groups.
Canadian Provincial Program – CPP (Formally the JO Program)
Gymnastics Canada has adopted the JO Program to provide direction and foster competition for different age groups of girls and young women of various levels of ability and commitment. The CPP Program consists of 10 levels – Gymnastics Saskatchewan uses this tool as a guide to provide programming for female gymnasts in Saskatchewan and allows gymnasts at Level 3 and higher to compete and try to qualify for Provincial Championships annually.
XCEL Program
XCEL is an alternative competitive program offering individual flexibility to coaches and gymnasts. The goal of XCEL is to provide gymnasts of varying abilities and commitment levels with the opportunity for a rewarding competitive gymnastics experience. Athletes will compete Optional routines fulfilling 4 Special Requirements on each apparatus. This program will give gymnasts the opportunity to train and compete skills and routines that suit their strengths rather than competing compulsory content as is in the JO program. The XCEL Program offers five different levels; Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.
Provincial Team Sask Program
Aspire Program
Canadian High Performance
The High Performance athletes aspire to compete at inter-provincial and national levels or are already national high performance gymnasts. Athletes compete national and international rules, based on the FIG Code of Points. Provincial, inter-provincial, and national competition is provided in two age groups for national stream, and three for high performance.
