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Danielle Prince wins senior gym title

Queensland has won team gold at the 2016 Australian Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne where Danielle Prince won the senior all-around title.

Danielle Prince has won the Rhythmic Gymnastics Senior International All-Around title for the fourth consecutive year as well as leading Queensland to team gold at Melbourne's Hisense Arena.

The Queensland team clinched victory over NSW by just 0.3 of a point at the 2016 Australian Gymnastics Championships on Thursday, with Victoria coming in third.

In the All-Around (AA) competition, Prince won her fifth senior title with a score of 62.250.

The 23-year-old from Brisbane topped the dias ahead of NSW youngsters Tara Wilkie (57.450) and Maya Bennett (54.500).

Despite missing the apparatus at the end of the final routine, Prince said she was pleased with her competition and looked forward to rectifying some of her mistakes in Friday night's apparatus finals.

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"Yes, there was a little bit of pressure ... but I managed to pull through and I was happy.

"Finals have always been a bonus ... so I'm really excited to get out there and fix some of those little mistakes that I had today."

There were more Rio hopefuls in action with the qualification competition for the Men's Individual Trampoline event.

With Australia having qualified one male to the trampoline event at the 2016 Olympics, Tasmania's Jack Penny let the selectors know his intentions, by topping the rankings heading into Friday night's final with a combined score of 102.530.

Close behind him was 2012 Olympian, Blake Gaudry (102.245), and NSW's Dominic Clarke (99.105).

In the women's individual trampoline event, Western Australia's Eva Kierath topped the rankings after the qualification round, with a combined score of 97.705.

Competition continues on Friday with the rhythmic gymnastics apparatus finals and the men's trampoline final.


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