NARINGAL aerobics exponent Brenton Andreoli is bound for the Netherlands.
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The 19-year-old will represent Australia for the fifth time at the 2012 Federation of International Sport Aerobics and Fitness (FISAF) world championships.
The world titles run from October 15 to 21 in the south-west Netherlands city of Dordrecht.
Andreoli was yesterday upbeat about another international campaign after booking his berth with strong results at Australian titles in Adelaide.
He won silver in the senior individual and teamed with Aerobics All-Stars clubmates Cameron Brown and Emily Daniels to win gold in the senior trios.
"I'm very happy," Andreoli said yesterday while travelling back from Adelaide.
"It was a much better performance in the final for the individual.
" I moved up a place in the final."
Sport aerobics uses seven scoring areas, which include artistic quality, creativity, execution and difficulty, to determine the result of national competitions.
Andreoli ranked first in two areas in the singles and second in five, putting him clear in second behind Brown, who ranked first in five scoring areas.
Andreoli said the dual-medal winning performance was the more impressive because of injuries which had hindered his training at the start of 2012.
"I dislocated the thumb and hurt a knee," he said.
"It wasn't so much performance (that was affected), just training.
"It didn't stop me from training at all, it just limited what I could do at training. I usually push myself."
The Netherlands competition will be the fifth time Andreoli has represented Australia on the world stage, and third at senior level.
He won a bronze in the junior mixed pairs in Russia in 2008, and backed up with gold in the junior singles and junior mixed pairs in 2009 in the Caribbean.
His entry to senior level in the Netherlands in 2010 finished with the then-17-year-old clinching gold in the singles and bronze in the pairs.
But he failed to defend his title on the Gold Coast last year, taking home bronze in the singles and silver in the pairs. Andreoli lives in Geelong, where he studies forensic science at Deakin University.
He trains about 14 hours a week under highly-rated coach Justine Bratanavicius, who runs Aerobics All-Stars.
Bratanavicius said Andreoli's "personality on stage" was a key factor in his success "his presentation really stands out".
She said he and the rest of the club's representatives would need to take their performance to another level at worlds.
"Definitely their fitness and skill level needs to improve," she said. "Just with different techniques for training they'll go through for fitness and strength.
"They'll have two months of different training and techniques."
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