* f i g - -: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and USA Gymnastics have signed an agreement for the United States to play host to the 30th FIG Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships and the 23rd World Age Group Competitions in November 2014. The 2014 Worlds will be the first Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships held in the United States under the auspices of the FIG and USA Gymnastics. However, this will be the fifth time that the USA,...
The 22nd World Age-Group Competitions (WAGC) of Trampoline, Tumbling and DMT from Thursday, Nov 14 to Sunday Nov 17 finished today in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Fourty-six nations from five continents sent their best youth and junior athletes to the Armeec Arena of the Bulgarian capital, to compete against their peers for World titles in four age-groups:
- AG 11-12 year olds; AG 13-14 year olds; AG 15-16 year olds and the juniors
- AG 17-18 year-olds.
These...
Horst Kunze (GER) has held the position of President of the Trampoline Gymnastics Technical Committee ever since 1988, when the discipline was governed by the International Trampoline Federation (FIT).
He retained the same position in the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) after the FIT was dissolved and Trampoline became a discipline of the FIG on January 1, 1999.
Kunze and former FIT President Ron Froehlich were both present on September 22, 2000 for the awarding of the first-ever Olympic...
The first decision of these 29thTrampolin World Championships in Sofia fell on Friday evening already :
The first title went to the men's trampoline team of China, which succeeded against Russia. This dominant leadership trio put between himself and the bronze medallist (Australia ) the difference of 44 (!) points. And at last on Sunday Canada's Olympic Champion Rosannagh MACLENNAN triumphed again over the Chinese duo ZHONG, Xingping and LI, Dan, winning silver and Bronze.
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At the 29th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS 2013, which took place from Nov 07 - 10 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, participated athletes from 36 different nations. A young, ambitious generation met in the new Olympic cyclus on the top stars of all the different disciplines: The individual Olympic Trampoline events are naturally the focus of interest, but also in the non-Olympic disciplines synchronized, the double mini tramp and the dynamic tumbling are expected to excellence, with also...