A total of 1050 athletes, 103 coaches, 77 team managers, 108 judges, 191 volunteers and 16 event staff from Northland to Southland will convene in Tauranga this week for the 2018 NZ Gymnastics Championships.

Five months of competitions have qualified athletes to perform through until October 6, and battle it out for the top national titles in artistic, rhythmic, trampoline and aerobic gymnastics.

Returning to the NZ Championships for the first time in 10 years is Olympian Misha Koudinov from Auckland.

A college scholarship took him to the States 10 years ago and he has only just returned at the end of last year, right in time for his fourth consecutive Commonwealth Games.

There are questions as to whether he will perform his founded skill, the Koudinov.

The rhythmic gymnastics floor will see an international group based in Auckland and 2017 NZ Champion Stella Ebert (Auckland) perform, having just returned from World Cups in Kazan and Minsk and the World Championships in Bulgaria.

No stranger to the World stage or the National podium is Laura Furse who represents Gymsports Manukau. She will perform for the final time at the Championships, before retiring her aerobics shoes.

Laura has attended multiple World Championships and most recently won silver at ANAC this year.

Auckland's Bronwyn Dibb and Alexa Kennedy will also be ones to watch on double-mini trampoline this week.

Bronwyn placed fourth at the World Games last year and Alexa eighth at the 2017 World Championships.

Trampoline Olympian Dylan Schmidt will take a front seat, so to speak, this year. Still progressing strong with rehab from knee surgery, Dylan will be judging trampoline this year instead of jumping.

'Gymnastics is one of the most popular sports watched at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games and to be able to sit just metres from the action here in Tauranga is spectacular,” says Gymnastics NZ events manager Ayla Huber.

'Likewise for the athletes competing. To be able to compete alongside their idols, whom they would normally just see on the international screen, is really special and inspiring for them.”

All five gymnastics sports (artistic, rhythmic, trampoline and aerobics) will be running concurrently at ASB Baypark Arena through to Saturday, where it will conclude with the Super Session from 1pm.

The Super Session is all NZ senior international finals across all sports.

A live stream will also be running for the duration of the event at gymnasticsnz.tv