* fig-press--: Hubert Barthod, former member of the French Trampoline Team and scout for the Cirque du Soleil, died tragically on August 24, 2010 in Montreal (CAN), where he resided.
Barthod was in his 46th year!
Junior World Champion in Trampoline, Hubert Barthod spent 10 years at the top of the Trampoline hierarchy in France, taking the All-around national title on two occasions.
He performed with World Vice-Champion Lionel Pioline (FRA) as Trampoline Synchro’s famous tricolour pair in 1986, at the world championships in Paris (FRA).  .. full story >>

 
The world leader in Trampoline manufacturing, the German co. Eurotramp Trampoline - Kurt Hack GmbH in Weilheim (GER), celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding on July 17, 2010.
It was the summer of 1960 when founder Kurt Hack, who died last year,  finalised his project to manufacture high-quality trampoline equipment.
His success was out of this world, and Eurotramp is now the leading market supplier of equipment for world championship and Olympic Games events, i.e. Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
Official partner of the FIG, Eurotramp is chaired by Dennis Hack, who took up the presidency after the death of his grandfather and founder in the fall of 2009.  .. full story >>

 
The third World Cup of the 2010 Circuit
After the first Trampoline World Cup event this year in April, the 7th Flanders Cup in Ghent (BEL), the traditional  46th Nissen Cup in Davos (SUI) and after the cancelled event in Lavallois (FRA) some of the world top stars started at the first weekend of July in the Polish city of Wroclaw, host city of the 2010Acrobatic Worlds (July 13 - 19) and the next year's European Trampoline Championships (2011, April 10 - 16).
Winner of the Olympic men's individual in the Orbita Hall of Wroclaw was Russia's Dimitri Ushakov (RUS) and on women's side the Uzbekian Anna Savkina (UZB).
Gregoire Pennes / Sebastien Martiny (FRA) and Carina Baumgaertner / Anna Dogonadze (GER) captured the gold medals in men's and women's synchronized trampoline.  .. full story >>

 
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1st Youth Olympic Games Singapore (SIN),
   - August 14 – 26, 2010 -
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* f i g --:  While the countdown is on for the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the qualification phase for the FIG’s Olympic disciplines is now closed.
The official drawing of lots for Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics competitions took place parallel to the FIG Council meeting in Chiba (JPN) on May 13, 2010.
  .. full story >>

 
Thursday, one day later than planned, the 22nd European Championships of Trampoline 2010 started with the double minitramp and tumbling events of women and finished at Saturday, April 24 in Varna, Bulgaria.
In the program were the Olympic disciplins Trampoline Individual, the Synchro, Tumbling and Double minitramp for women and men (elite), but also for juniors (20th Juniors' Europeans).
The schedule also included the qualification for the three best European male and femal juniors for the "1. Youth Olympic Games" in August this year.
* The wellknown label and producer of top trampolines, the German co.  "Eurotramp", supports the online coverages of GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL on a special >> GYMmedia ECh Website 

 
The Germans were happy about their successes at the first trampoline World Cup of the season 2010: After the trampoline winner Grègoire Pennes from France, Henrik Stehlik got a strong second place. In the womens, Jekaterina Chilko from Usbekistan beat the Russian top star Irina Karawajewa.
Both synchronised competitions were won by German couples:
In the womens Jessicca Simon / Anna Dogonadze pushed the Russian couple  Woronina/Karawajewa onto rank 2; in the mens Dennis Luxon Dennis / Henrik Stehlik  pushed ahead of the Canadians Burnett /Thibault ...  .. full story >>

 
+ George NISSEN, the originator of the modern trampoline, died 2010, April 7 at the age of 96 in San Diego, USA, from complications of pneumonia at UC San Diego Thornton Hospital in La Jolla.
Nissen also helped grow worldwide interest in the trampoline discipline through his exhibitions and travels. His dream of having trampoline in the Olympic Games became a reality at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
“George Nissen was a true sports pioneer,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. “He was loved and respected for his many accomplishments and contributions. His vision, innovations and passion sowed the seeds for trampoline’s worldwide popularity today ..."  .. full story >>

 
From March 13 to 16 the 11th Asian Junior Championships 2010 of Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics took place in Chiba, Japan.
Altogether 12 female and male gymnasts representing 16 nations took part at these events, which were also the official qualifications for the upcoming I. Olympic Youth Games, which will be held in August in Singapore.
At the Trampoline competition 13 male and 10 female gymnasts started at the preliminaries.
The top favourites were the Chinese and the Japanese gymnasts....  .. full story >>

 
Apparatus developments and technical know-how in gymnastics are tightly connected to the total development of the sports form.
In a permanent exchange game the single disciplines place high requirements from competition and training apparati, like the apparatus manufacturers are in tight contact with the training and competition practices, as they can extremely  influence achievement factors. 

The newest example in trampoline gymnastics  - the introduction"Time of flight" as the newest and third assessment criteria - also goes back to the constant improvement of the world best trampoline apparatus, as we found out from the President of the technical committee Horst Kunze and from the manager of the marketing leader "Eurotramp", Mr. Dennis Hack ...:  .. full story >>

 
"Time of flight" voted new criteria
* fig-press--: After two years of research, the FIG Trampoline Gymnastics Technical Committee introduced time of flight as an additional objective criteria in Individual Trampoline judging.

Time of flight research was first presented at a Symposium held parallel to the 2009 World Championships in St Petersburg (RUS), where a clear majority vote by the federations present gave the go-ahead to implement the new criteria into the Code of Points (CoP).  .. full story >>

 
The German top lables SPIETH Gymnastic and EUROTRAMP - worldwide known as the producer of top gym apparatuses - awarded title of Exclusive Equipment Supplier and Partner of the Brazilian Gymnastics Federation!

<< Mr. Juergen Garziella, Sales Manager of SPIETH Gymnastic, this time also representing the German trampoline producer EUROTRAMP, signed a contract with the Brazilian Gymnastics Federation (CBG) represented by the President Mrs. Maria Luciene Cacho Resende for a long-term and exclusive partnership. For the years ahead all the international and national gymnastic events taking place in Brazil will be exclusively supplied by SPIETH & EUROTRAMP ...  .. full story >>

 
The 26th WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of TRAMPOLINE, TUMBLING and DOUBLE-MINITRAMP took place in St. Petersburg, Russia from 11th until 14th November.
The youngest of the Olympic disciplines, trampolining individual is in the spotlight, but also the non-Olympic disciplines like synchro, tumbling and the dynamic double-minitramp assured absolute top sports!
Nearly 270 participants representing 32 nations took part in St. Petersburg. The host country Russia had not only been the top nation in all the disciplines for a long time, but started with the biggest delegation of 23 athletes in all disciplines. Winning 7 gold medals at the last worlds 2007 in Quebec, Russia is on target for the same success at home...
*FINAL DAY: ... but China was most successfull nation in front of Russia now
*... all information on our
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The big international trampoline family greatly saddened to announce the death of Kurt HACK, founder of the family-owned enterprise Eurotramp Trampoline – Kurt Hack GmbH, a long-term partner of the FIG. Kurt Hack passed away after a long illness Thursday, November 5, at the age of 79.
Kurt HACK – friend, supporter and manufacturer of the trampoline
Though Kurt Hack handed over the management of Eurotramp, the enterprise he founded in 1960 to his grandson a couple of years ago, he remained actively involved in the business until his death.  .. full story >>

 
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Trampoline World Calendar 2010
The World Cup in trampoline and tumbling originally scheduled to take place 2010,June 18-19,, in Levallois, France, will not take place. The cancelation of the event is due to disagreements between the local Organizing Committee and the French Gymnastics Federation.
The decision was made public yesterday ...  .. full story >>

 
British Gymnastics is delighted to announce the Trampoline Team for the 2009 World Championships in St Petersburg, Russia, 11-14th November.

The games are the first in the new Olympic cycle, and the first of many important competitions for the elite British Trampoline gymnasts ahead of London 2012.  .. full story >>

 
The fifth and last Trampoline event of the 2008/09 F.I.G. circuit took place at the hometown of the German Olympian Henrik Stehlik, in Salzgitter, but the Olympic Bronze medallist (2004, Athens) missed this competition because professional reasons.
The strongChinese, HUANG Shanshan (photo, left) and DONG Dong and  won in the men's and women's trampoline finals.

Masaki ITO (JPN) and Elena MOVCHAN (UKR) were the winners of the World Cup Series in individual trampoline at the end of this FIG serie.  .. full story >>

 
* fig: --Taking home both Gold and Silver medals, Chinese gymnasts triumphed in Men’s and Women’s Individual Trampoline at the fourth and second to last FIG World Cup of the season held in Zielona Gora (POL) from September 4 – 5, 2009.
2007 title holder and 2008 Olympic Champion Lu Chunlong (CHN) won the Men’s Individual Trampoline Gold medal with a score of 42.400, placing just ahead of his compatriot Tu Xiao, and his satisfying 41.900 points. FIG World Ranking leader and winner of the World Cup in Sofia (BUL) Masaki Ito (JPN) settled for Bronze with 41.700 points.
2007 World Championships runner-up and winner of the 2008 World Cup Final Huang Shanshan (CHN) prevailed with a score of 39.600 in the Women’s Individual. Her team mate Zhong Xingping took home Silver with 38.900 while 2008 Olympic finalist from Canada Rosannagh MacLennan settled for Bronze (38.800).  .. full story >>

 
The 3rd FIG World Cup of Trampoline / Tumbling of the topical circuit was held this weekend within the traditional Flanders Fliffis Cup at the Sports Center of the Belgian city of Ostend.
To the first time in their careers the British Katherine Driscoll (GBR) and the us-gymnast Logan Dooley won a world cup gold medal ...  .. full story >>

 
The 2009 Chinese National Championship Competition of Trampolining and Tumbling where held in Jinzhong (prov. Shanxi) from August 20 t o 22.
The winners of the Olympic individual trampoline competition were the Olympic Champion (2009 Beijing) Lu Chunlong, beating the World cup winner DONG Dong and the 2007 world champion YE Shuai.
On women's side, Zhong Xingping get gold, in front of Olympic bronze medallist (2004) HUANG Shanshan and WANG Yun.
Winners of the sunchronized competitions were Liu Yang / Wang Long and in women's category  Guo Ran / Zhang Yuanyuan.
The new Chinese tumbling champions are Zhang Lingfeng and Jia Fangfang ....  .. full story >>

 
The famous Canadian "Cirque du Soleil" - online partner of the European Gymnastic Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL - informed in his topical and last NEWSLETTER 07-2009 about its manifold activities to the international gymnastics scene and also about the forthcoming dates and the next auditions in September (Las Vegas) and October (Portugal and Australia)...
* ... read more on >> Casting Newsletter 07/2009 

 
The men's synchron disciplin was the first decision of the of trampoline gymnastics was the of the 2009 WORLD GAMES in Kaohsiung, Taipeh.
The 2007 world champions JAPAN won, but with the new duo Masaki ITO / Shunsuke NAKASAKI in front of the French Vice European Champion from 2008 Odense DEN) Sebastian MARTIGNY / Gregoire PENNES (50,00), followed by the Germain pair Martin GROMOWSKI / Dennis LUXON-PITKAMIN (49,500), who jumped from position 7 after the qualification on bronze rank.
On Wednesday the UKRAINE pair won the synchronized gold on women's side and RUSSIA two golden medals at double minitramp ...  .. full story >>

 
The 2009 Chinese Championships of Trampoline took place at the capital of the province Fujian, the city of Fuzhou from May 21 - 23.
Altogether 290 gymnasts representing 18 Chinese provincial teams took part at the Fuzhou Sports Center! The two local heroes, He Wenna and Ye Shuai (both from Fujian) won the titles of the both individual trampoline disciplines.
The team events were won by the teams of Fujian in the women's and Jiangsu in the men's.  .. full story >>

 
The first World Cup of 2009 will take place at the Winter Palace of Sports in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 24-25.
The Bulgarian capital will host such a world cup to the fifth time in history.
This event is also the second one of the topical circuit: The first world cup of this serie took place 2008 September, in Lule (POR), already.
This weekend about 140 athletes representing 20 nations will took part at this event. The preliminaries was held on Friday, the finals on Saturday ...  .. full story >>

 
18th FLOWERS CUP 2009
Once biennially since 1975, Aalsmeer, otherwise known as The Netherlands’ “Flower Capital of the World”, turns into a hub for elite international Trampoline gymnasts.
The small town just outside Amsterdam hosted the 18th edition of the prestigious “Flower Cup” on March 21, 2009 in the De Bloemhof Sports Hall.
A large number of 330 actually participamts competed in the event, representing 13 different nations.
Fernando Götschin (NED) and Kat Driscoll (GBR) were the winners at the eilite category ...  .. full story >>

 
With two seats unoccupied on the Athletes’ Commission, the F.I.G. Executive has decided to name trampoline delegate Dimitri Polyarush (BLR) as acting President of said Commission.

Delegates for Men’s and Women’s Artistic will be elected parallel to the London World Championships, at which time a President will be designated in keeping with current protocol.
** ... read more about the FIG Executive decisions at
>> GYMmedia News, March 06