Coquitlam's Tamara O'Brien struck silver at the world trampoline and tumbling championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
O'Brien joined Corissa Boychuk of Airdrie, Alta and Calgary's Lexi Giesbrecht to combine for a score of 102.200 in the women's double mini team finals. The United States won gold with 104.400 points and Russia took the bronze with a score of 101.600.
"My warmup wasn't that great and I was really nervous," said Boychuk, the lone member of the team with previous experience at a senior world championship.
"I was there to lead off for our team and I feel like I did that pretty well."
Boychuk, the 2010 women's individual world champion in double mini has played an instrumental role in helping her younger teammates in their world championship debut.
This is the first senior world championship for the 17-year-old O'Brien, who placed 11th in the individual event for double mini.
"We've got to watch the worlds when we compete at WAGs so I kind of know what I'm in for but it's going to be totally crazy competing and really exciting," O'Brien said before leaving for Bulgaria earlier this month.
O'Brien will remain in Bulgaria this week to compete in the World Age Group championships, being joined by her teammates at the TAG Sports Centre in Coquitlam Kyle Carragher and Jared Khalifa.
O'Brien and Khalifa will both be competing in tumbling at the World Age Group championships, while Carragher will perform in all three events: tumbling, trampoline and double mini.
Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan of Toronto solidified her status as the world's best female trampolinist at the 2013 world championships on Sunday, winning gold with a well-executed routine bolstered by the highest degree of difficulty in the eight-woman final.
It was MacLennan's first gold at the world championships, giving her a complete set after winning a pair of bronze medals and a silver at previous competitions.
"It's been a challenging week mentally and physically but I came into the final knowing it was my last routine," said MacLennan, who competed all week with a pair of sore knees caused by a crash landing just over a week ago in training.
"After the fall I had back home I just focussed here on taking one day at a time, focussing on each routine and giving everything I had. I figured if I had anything left in me after the final routine, then I didn't try hard enough."
MacLennan also picked up a silver at the 2013 world trampoline and tumbling championships in the women's team trampoline event with Samantha Sendel and Samantha Smith. The Canadian men also snared silver in the double mini event.
