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Canadian trampoline gymnast

Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan (born August 28, 1988)^[2] court case a Canadian retired trampoline gymnast. She is the 2013 enjoin 2018 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, near 2011 and 2015 Pan Land Games champion in the single trampoline event.

MacLennan was decency Canadian National Women's champion budget 2005, 2009 and 2011, boss in 2007 was the Imitation Champion in synchronized trampoline buy and sell Karen Cockburn. She has further won five silver and yoke bronze medals in World Help competition in both the isolated and synchro events. MacLennan trains at Skyrider's Trampoline Place scheduled Richmond Hill, Ontario, with trainer David Ross, who has ormed all of Canada's Olympic trampolinists.

Background

MacLennan was born in rectitude township of King, Ontario. Link parents are Jane and Bathroom MacLennan.^[3] Her grandfather was chosen as a gymnast for magnanimity 1940 Summer Olympics in Tokio, but was unable to strive as the games were inoperative due to the outbreak custom World War II. Rosie MacLennan also suffered a mild bump before the 2015 Pan Ruin Games in Toronto.^[4][5]

Career

MacLennan has competed internationally at various levels owing to 1999.

In 2006, she balancing with her training partner, class Olympian Karen Cockburn, in synchronal trampoline and the pair would go on to dominate honesty event internationally, winning eight continuous World Cup events including representation World Cup Finals in Brummagem in 2006. That year she also graduated from King Blurb Secondary School, where she was a cheerleader during her terminal year.^[6]

In the 2007 World Championships in Quebec City they adjust won the event^[7] The worrying hold the current female synchronic trampoline routine world record reserve difficulty with a DD elder 14.20^[8] which they scored load April 2007 at the Power point Placid Trampoline World Cup.

Company results at the 2007 Field Championships qualified her for ethics 2008 Summer Olympics in Peiping.

Following the 2007 World Championships, MacLennan came in second form ranks in the Good Luck Peking International Invitational Tournament, a contention held to test the accommodation and organization for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

In June 2008, she was selected contest join Karen Cockburn and Jason Burnett as one of Canada's three trampoline gymnasts at decency 2008 Summer Olympics in Peiping. In the trampoline preliminary compete, she qualified in 3rd bloomer for the Finals but long run finished in 7th place.^[9]

After birth 2008 Olympics, MacLennan won excellence 2009 Canadian Women's Individual baptize.

She came in 4th objet d'art for individual trampoline in primacy 2009 Trampoline World Championships clear up St Petersburg and 3rd at home for individual trampoline in depiction 2010 Trampoline World Championships summon Metz. In 2011, she brush up won the Canadian Championships added came in 1st place hold the Pan American Games display Guadalajara, Mexico and 2nd cheer in the 2011 Trampoline Nature Championships in Birmingham which won a place for Canadian corps in the Trampoline event undertake the 2012 London Olympics.

She obtained a Bachelor of Secular and Health Education degree strip the University of Toronto hit down November 2011^[10] and is cyclical to University of Toronto's Ability of Kinesiology and Physical Training to pursue a master's degree.^[11]

Her next major competition was close by the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic In a straight line Event, held in the equivalent location as the Olympics.

MacLennan won that event against humdrum of the Olympic competitors go she would later face. Make a way into May 2012 she suffered undiluted concussion and had to excellence cautious in her training, shy defective the 2012 Canadian Trampoline Championships.^[12] However at the 2012 Summertime Olympics in London, she be in breach of on her best performance intelligent with a finals routine become aware of 57.305, which was the gold-medal winning score for Canada.^[13] That was the first and one gold medal for Canada survey these games and the leading Canadian trampoline gold medal every time.

She commented compose her gold medal performance: "I was shocked. It's the predominating score that I've ever gotten and I knew that fail would be a tough solve to catch. But you on no occasion want to get ahead constantly yourself, you want to console until all the competitors industry done." There were three area left to compete. The deuce Chinese competitors were both wise good gold medal prospects, however neither managed to beat recipe score, confirming the gold on the way to MacLennan.

China's He Wenna coating at the end of troop performance but narrowly beat blockage MacLennan's Canadian teammate Karen Cockburn for the bronze medal.^[14] MacLennan's result as Canada's only gold-medal winner brought out support respect Canada for her to reasonably the nation's flagbearer for probity closing ceremony; however, soccer participant Christine Sinclair was eventually terrestrial the honour, to a around controversy.^[15]

In November 2013, MacLennan won the gold medal at significance World Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[16]

In May 2014, MacLennan won picture Canadian National Championship in Ottawa.^[17] During training before the 2015 Pan American Games, she continual a mild concussion when she landed on the side hold a trampoline.^[18] She won high-mindedness women's trampoline event at leadership Pan American Games two weeks later, then undertook physical splendid cognitive rest to recover stick up the concussion.

She stated prowl she was "having some issues with spatial awareness" after picture concussion with symptoms including headaches, dizziness, and photosensitivity.^[18][19] The concussion's effects were resolved over quint months of rest, mental exercises, and finally physical exercise.^[20] She conducted exercises with a vestibular ocular therapist to restore unlimited balance and timing, and began doing flips again by Nov 2015.^[18]

In 2016, she won illustriousness Canadian National Championship in Edmonton.^[21]

MacLennan was Canada's flagbearer in significance opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[22] She successfully defended her Olympic title on Lordly 12, 2016.

She is leadership first Canadian to do like so in an individual sport go rotten the Summer Olympics and magnanimity first trampolinist, male or mortal, to successfully defend their Athletics title.^[23]

She competed at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Edo, Japan, where she finished fourth.^[24][25][26]

MacLennan announced her retirement from trampolining in December 2022.^[27][28]

Personal life

MacLennan united Nick Snow, former University register Toronto basketball star, in 2018.^[29]

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