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Twin gymnastics titles for Georgia-Rose

Victoria's Georgia-Rose Brown has taken out both the beam and floor titles at the Australian Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne.

Gymnast Rianna Mizzen
Queensland gymnast Rianna Mizzen has won her third successive national title on the uneven bars. (AAP)

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Victoria's Georgia-Rose Brown has claimed twin national titles at the Australian Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne.

With both men's and women's individual apparatus competitions staged at Hitense Arena on Sunday, the 22-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist was a model of consistency with scores of 12.500 on the beam and 12.975 the floor.

Melbourne-based Jade Vella-Wright closely followed Brown with a score of 12.425 on the floor, with a three way tie for bronze between fellow Victorians Elly Bayes and Erin Modaro and Queensland's Rianna Mizzen (12.375).

"My goal was to go out there and be as consistent as possible and hit my routines," Brown said.

"They're not the most difficult at the moment but it's a work in progress."

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Unfortunately, West Australian Emily Little had an uncharacteristic stumble on Beam as well as a heavy fall as a result of her first tumbling pass on the floor, which left her unable to complete her routine.

In men's competition, South Australia's Christopher Remkes took out the vault with a big score of 15.000, from training partner Clay Stephens and Sydney student Gabriel Swan-McLean.

Queenslander Mitchell Morgans won the national parallel bars title with a score of 13.850, while also claiming silver on horizontal bar (3.800), with that title going to Tyson Bull of Victoria (14.500).

"I was much better today ... better than the (competition's) other days ... Tyson's a good competitor and we like to battle it out each year so it's good to have him here," Morgans said.


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