Axl Osborne is an acrobatic gymnast who currently competes as the base in a Level 9 mixed pair with his partner, acrobatic gymnast Lydia Webb.

The pair train together at World Olympic Gymnastics Academy

World Olympic Gymnastics Academy

The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy is a three-facility gymnastics club located in Plano, Frisco, and Dallas, Texas.The head coaches at WOGA are Valeri Liukin, gold and silver medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games representing the former Soviet Union, and Yevgeny Marchenko, a five-time World...

 (WOGA) in north Texas

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, which produced 2008 Beijing Olympics women’s all-around gymnastics

Gymnastics

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 champion Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin

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 and 2004 Athens Olympics champion Carly Patterson

Carly Patterson

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Before Osborne’s current partnership with Webb, he and male acrobatic gymnast Dylan Inserra

Dylan Inserra

Dylan Inserra is a retired acrobatic gymnast who competed as a senior elite men’s pair with his partner, top Axl Osborne. Inserra, the older of the two, was the base of the pair....

 trained together at WOGA and competed as an elite men’s pair for several years.

In November

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 2008, Inserra and Osborne qualified for elite status during a competition at the Karolyi Ranch in New Waverly, Texas.

Osborne and Inserra won the men’s pair senior national title at both the 2009 Acrobatic Gymnastics

Acrobatic gymnastics

Acrobatic gymnastics is a competitive partner sport combining the strength, flexibility and technical precision of gymnastics with the grace and musicality of dance as well as the trust and camaraderie of a dedicated partnership...

 Championships in Dallas, Texas and at the 2010 championships in Kissimmee

Kissimmee

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, Florida

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, where the pair won both the dynamic and the balance events.

They were two-time members of the U.S. senior national team.

Internationally, the pair competed at the 2010 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships

Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships

The Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships are the World Championships for acrobatic gymnastics. Before 2006 they were known as the World Sports Acrobatics Championships...

 in Wroclaw

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, Poland

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, where they placed seventh. and at the 2010 Volkov Cup in Novgorod, Russia

Russia

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, where they placed fourth.

Osborne and Inserra disbanded after the 2010 season, and Osborne began training in a mixed pair with WOGA acrobatic gymnast Webb.

At the 2011 Acro Cup in Huntsville

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, Texas, Osborne and Webb placed second all-around in the age group 11-16.

In June 2011, the pair qualified to the 2011 National Championships in San Jose, California

San Jose, California

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, on July 22–27, where they won the gold

Gold

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medal for mixed pair 16 and under. Osborne and Webb were also named to the Acrobatic Gymnastics Development Team "B" by USA Gymnastics.