Miller leads Vic crew to gymnastics gold

Larrissa Miller has led a strong Victorian crew to the team gold medal in the senior women's artistic competition on the fifth night of the 2016 Australian Gymnastics Championships, a key Olympic qualification event.

The 23-year-old put together the competition's strongest floor and bars routines to put her in a good position for the weekend's apparatus finals.

"We went out there and did the job as a team," she said after Friday night's performances.

"I feel good about finals, it's onwards and upwards from here. I am starting to get through more and more routines and that's buoying my confidence." T

The team from Western Australia took silver with Lauren Mitchell and Emily Little the strongest performers.

With just one women's place on the Rio Olympics team up for grabs, the athletes are working hard to impress in this qualification event that runs through to Sunday.

Dual Olympian Mitchell struck a good beam routine for an improved score of 13.625 and was consistent on floor for 13.450.

With both beam and floor apparatus finals on Sunday, Mitchell will have a day off to prepare to put everything on the line for a final shot at Olympic nomination.

Little showed she is still in the mix for the Rio spot after taking bronze in the individual All-Around, driven by her scoring the two best vault scores in both qualifying and finals as well as strong floor routines.

The individual All-Around title was taken out by Queensland's Rianna Mizzen with a combined total of 111.000. Mizzen was consistent across all four apparatus in both preliminaries and finals, with her strongest results being on bars and vault.

In the senior mens individual All-Around, Luke Wadsworth was the crowned champion after winning on 167.295 points.

His fellow Victorian Luke Wiwatowski was second on 166.430 whilst Queenslands Scott Costin was third on 159.730.