By Michelle Herbison
YEARS of gruelling training have paid off for Grovedale’s Cameron Brown with two sport aerobics world championships titles.
The 20-year-old won the sport’s men’s singles and mixed categories on the Gold Coast last week.
“I wasn’t expecting it,” he said.
“In the singles the past two years I came third, so I was hoping to get up there.”
Brown spent the year flying back and forth to Newcastle for training with partner Allira Bull while juggling 16 hours a week of training with coaching duties and studying education at Deakin University.
He said sport aerobics’ two-minute routines required strength, flexibility and co-ordination.
“There’s music playing and you’re on stage with hundreds of people watching and cheering you.”
Geelong Aerosport Allstars coach Justine Bratanavicius, of Jan Juc, said the club had its most successful year at the Federation of Sport Aerobics and Fitness Worlds.
Torquay’s Emily Daniels, 18, finished second in mixed pairs and Bratanavicius’s 12-year-old daughter, Tahnee, was runner-up in a juniors category.
“They all did the most amazing routines in the finals and blew me away,” Bratanavicius said.
