Lori Strong of Whitby won two gold medals and added a bronze to win the overall high performance national championship in women’s gymnastics over the weekend in Hamilton.
Christina McDonald, also of Whitby, was second overall in high performance (senior) with a total of 75.90 points, behind Strong’s 76.80.
Larissa Lowing, a former Canadian Junior champion who recently moved from Whitby to Pickering, won a gold, silver and bronze in individual competitions and was sixth overall.
Strong scored 9.85 in the uneven bars and 9.65 in the beams, her gold medal performances. She added her bronze in the vault competition, usually her best event, after stumbling on her first attempt.
Strong withdrew from the floor finals after aggregating her ankle injury.
She will now rest before resuming training for the Olympic trials.Lowing won the vault competition with a score of 9.725, was second in floor and third in uneven bars.
Lowing was coming back from a severe ankle injury. She had resumed competition at the recent meet in China.
