Gymnastics Canada “Celebrating Gymnastics” from February 6 to 14, 2021

Featuring a different gymnastics discipline each day, clubs and individuals are invited to take part in this online celebration by sharing their favourite memories, photos, and/or videos related to their gymnastics discipline(s) of choice. Over the span of nine days, the gymnastics community will come together virtually to showcase the inspiring resilience, commitment, passion, and pride of the Canadian gymnastics community.

Thanks to the generosity of Gymnastics Canada’s National Team sponsors, there will also be daily trivia quizzes with prizes to test the publics knowledge of the various gymnastics disciplines. Below is the list of featured disciplines, along with the daily prizes available.

Gymnastics Canada’s National Equipment Sponsor Spieth America has also generously donated prizes for a Clubs Sweepstakes. Gymnastics clubs in Canada have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, so these prizes focus on helping in this area. The grand prize is an Anti-Viral Protective Mat that offers effective protection against viruses including COVID-19 and other bacteria. It’s manufactured by integrating silver particles that react and can reduce the spread of the virus on the working area by up to 95% after just 15 minutes, and 99.5% within 60 minutes. They are also supplying three bottles of SIO2 Anti-microbrial protective coat which creates a hygiene barrier that stands up to daily cleaning and normal use to give continual protection without the repeated use of harsh and expensive surface disinfectants.

“We’re really excited to be collaborating with our provincial and territorial partners to host this exciting event next week. We hope it energizes our Canadian gymnastics community in these trying COVID-times,” said Ian Moss, CEO of Gymnastics Canada. “Gymnastics is a beautiful, foundational sport with so much variety in its disciplines, and what they each offer to participants. We have a proud history of achievement as well that will be highlighted throughout the daily trivia quizzes which we are so thankful to our National Team partners for sponsoring. This is going to be an exciting week, and we hope the beginning of an exciting year for the sport of gymnastics in Canada.”

For full details on “Celebrating Gymnastics Week”, please visit: http://cdngymweek.ca.

Follow the Gymnastics Canada social media channels @GymCan1 for links to the daily trivia quizzes and the Club Sweepstakes. The action kicks off at 8am ET on Saturday, February 6^th, and will wrap-up at 11:59pm ET on Sunday, February 14^th.

ABOUT GYMNASTICS CANADA

First established in 1969, Gymnastics Canada has been supporting the mastery of movement in Canada for five decades as the national governing body for the sport of gymnastics in Canada. We work closely with the twelve provincial federations and 700 local clubs to provide a broad range of programs and services to meet the needs of all participants. From athlete development, to coach and judge education, Gymnastics Canada sets the operating standards and practices for the sport in Canada. Our mandate is to promote and provide positive and diverse gymnastics experiences through the delivery of quality and safe gymnastics programming. Visitwww.gymcan.org for more information, or follow us @gymcan1. From here, we soar.

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For more information, please contact:

Julie Forget
Director, Communications & Marketing
Gymnastics Canada
jforget@gymcan.org