Rosannagh MacLennan

Rosannagh (Rosie) MacLennan (born August 28, 1988) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she won the Canadian National Women's champion in 2005, 2009 and 2011. She has competed internationally at various levels since 1999. In the 2007 World Championships in Quebec City, MacLennan earned a Women's Trampoline place for Canada in the 2008 Olympic Games^[1] and came in third in the Individual trampoline event.^[2]

MacLennan trains at Skyrider's Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill, Ontario with coach David Ross who has coached all of Canada's Olympic trampolinists. In 2006 she paired with her training partner, the double Olympian Karen Cockburn, in synchronized trampoline and since then the pair have dominated the event internationally winning eight consecutive World Cup events including the World Cup Finals in Birmingham in 2006. In the 2007 World Championships in Quebec City they again won the event^[3] The pair hold the current female synchronized trampoline routine world record for difficulty with a DD of 14.20^[4] which they scored in April 2007 at the Lake Placid Trampoline World Cup.

Following the 2007 World Championships, MacLennan came in second place in the Good Luck Beijing International Invitational Tournament, a competition held to test the facilities and organization for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In June 2008, she was selected to join Karen Cockburn and Jason Burnett as one of Canada's three trampoline gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the trampoline preliminary competition, she qualified in 3rd place for the Finals but eventually finished in 7th place.^[5]

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