Kate Sayer

Kate Sayer
File:2018-10-15 Floor (Apparatus Final Girls' Artistic Gymnastics) at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics by Sandro Halank–320.jpg Sayer at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Personal information
Nickname(s)	KitKat
Born	(2003-03-08) 8 March 2003 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Australia (2017–present (AUS))
Club	Queensland High Performance Centre
Head coach(es)	Mikhail Barabach
Assistant coach(es)	Tao Xiaomin
Medal record Artistic gymnastics Representing Australia Oceania Championships Silver medal – second place 2024 Auckland All-around Pacific Rim Championships (Junior) Bronze medal – third place 2018 Medellín Team Bronze medal – third place 2018 Medellín Balance Beam

Kate Sayer (born 8 March 2003) is an Australian artistic gymnast and the 2018 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships junior bronze medallist on balance beam. She represented Australia at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

Early life

Sayer was born in South Brisbane, Queensland. She began gymnastics when she was four years old.

Gymnastics career

2017–18

Sayer competed at the 2017 Australian National Championships. She placed fifth in the Junior 14 All-Around Final and placed second on vault and uneven bars and fourth on balance beam.

In April 2018 Sayer was selected to compete at the Pacific Rim Championships. While there she helped Australia finish third in the team final behind the United States and Canada. She finished 14th in the all-around During event finals she won bronze on the balance beam behind Zoé Allaire-Bourgie of Canada and American Sunisa Lee. Additionally she placed seventh on vault and eighth on floor exercise. The following month Sayer competed at the Australian National Championships where she won the junior all-around competition.

In August Sayer was selected to represent Australia at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. In September she competed at the Australian Classic where she once again won the junior division title.

At the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires Sayer qualified to the all-around, vault, and floor exercise finals. In the all-around final she placed eighth. During event finals she placed seventh and eighth respectively.

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All-Around Final

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Vault Final

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Floor Exercise Final

Sayer at the 2018 Youth Olympics

2019

In 2019, Sayer turned senior. She made her debut at the Melbourne World Cup where she only competed on floor exercise. She finished 9th in qualifications and was the first reserve for the final. In March she competed at the 2019 L'International Gymnix. She helped Australia win the bronze medal. Individually Sayer placed 17th in the all-around. In May she competed at the Australian National Championships where she finished 11th in the all-around. In September she competed at the Australian Classic where she finished 8th. Sayer was selected as the alternate to the team who would compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart.

Eponymous skill

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty	Added to the Code of Points
Uneven bars	Sayer	Clear pike circle backward on high bar with flight to clear support on low bar	C	2024 Oceania Championships

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
Junior
2017	National Championships		5	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	2nd place, silver medalist(s)	4
2018	Pacific Rim Championships	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	14	7		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	8
	Australian Championships		1st place, gold medalist(s)
	Australian Classic		1st place, gold medalist(s)
	Youth Olympic Games		8	7	R2		8
Senior
2019	Melbourne World Cup						R1
	International Gymnix	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	17
	Australian Championships		11
	Australian Classic		8
2021	Australian Championships		5
2022	DTB Pokal Team Challenge	3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

External links

• Kate Sayer at the International Gymnastics Federation