After release of the International Wheel Gymnastics Association (IRV) there will be a very new type of wheel gymnastics discipline as an official competition discipline at the upcoming tenth Worlds: At the 10th Wheel Gymnastics World Championships in 2013 (Chikago, USA) it will be to the first time from the , the first time held outside Europe and overseas (Chicago, USA) the so-called "Mono-Wheel" is the first time officially admitted to the World Cup program, after it was already listed on the last 2011 Worlds in Arnsberg, Germany as a demonstration battle. Currently the IRV experts working on various technical code.
This unicycle version has been in the show area already well known as so-called "Cyr wheel" a name, at least since the multiple German Wheel World Champion Robert Maaser the TV audience ("Super talent-Show", RTL-TV) to offset in real ecstasy ...
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At this weekend, Saturday, October 22nd will held the German Nationals of WHEEL GYMNASTICS in the city of Rimpar, one of the historical main center in Germany of this interest gymnastics discipline.
It will be the 52. Anniversary because the first event took place already in 1956 in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), in  Görlitz.
Altogether 27 women but only 8 men will fight today for the titles in the disciplines straight, spiral and jump ...

(The upcoming 10th Worlds of Wheel Gymnastics 2013 will held in Chikago, USA)  .. full story >>

 
Wednesdey, June 01, the 9th World Championships of WHEEL GYMNASTICS 2011 were opened in Arnsberg, in the hilly area 'Sauerland' in Germany - one of the German center of these fascinating kind of gymnastics, which is just cupturing the world ...! With a glamorous Gala and an invasion of nations, the President of the Intern. Wheel Gymnastics Federation (IRV), Paul Sieler (GER) opened the three competition days from June 02 to 04.
At the end host Germany won seven of the nine titles - two went to the Netherlands - but all the junior gold medals were won by German athletes ...  .. full story >>

 
To the first time in history a Latin American competitor will take part at World Championships of Wheel Gymnastics. which will held this year in Germany (Ansbach Mai 31 - June 05).
<<  Luisina ROSAS recently made it through the qualifications by reaching the required score at the 2011 USA Open Wheel Gymnastics Championships, on March 12th, 2011.
Luisina placed 2nd all-around in the Women’s category for the second consecutive year.
Her routines, specifically spiral and vault, seem to have very good chances of reaching the finals at the World Championships this June.
Luisina Rosas is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She started training at the age of 6, first as a gymnast, and then later moved to study Circus Arts when she was 15. At 14 she saw her first wheel gymnastics performance, and immediately began to search for classes in the sport classes in Buenos Aires  .. full story >>

 
The Fifth Annual USA Wheel Gymnastics National Open Championship occurred on March 12th, 2011, during the Bi-Annual Chicago Big Wheel Weekend.

The event was very successful and strong abilities were exercised by all competitors. Nations represented were USA, Japan, Canada, Argentina.

Being held as US Open Championship, it served as well as trials for the upcoming Wheel Gymanstic World Championship in Arnsberg, Germany this summer ...  .. full story >>

 
They don't only have good gymwheel gymnasts, the Taunussteiners, they also have Oswald Zimmermann - a gymwheel constructor of the highest class, who always has surprises up his sleeve:
The latest result of his renomated and above all creative idea-pool is now standing on the roof of his gymwheel workshop in Bleidenstadt, the biggest suburb of the city Taunusstein in Hesse (Germany).
<< A stylised globe, in which the gymwheel artist including his gymwheel shows himself, sometimes hidden, sometimes in the foreground, depending on from which side one views the "artwork".

The idea came from a cooperation with Franz Obry, the representative of Germany's "Development Association of Wheel Gymnastics" ...  .. full story >>

 
It is a good tradition, that the International Wheel Gymnastics Federation (IRV) is inviting to an achievement seminar with international participation in the week after the WORLD TEAM CUP.
After the world elite met in the Palatine Wolfstein, one chose Taunusstein this year.
Not without reason, because it is there where the wheel gymnastics club of the TSV Bleidenstadt holds the yearly so-called "Easter seminar".
Why should one not do something in combination then, especially since the "wheel gym guru", the many time  former world champion Wolfgang Bientzle (GER) came all the way from Chicago to give forth his knowledge and experience as a teacher.
But it was not only a seminar for the actives.  .. full story >>

 
The German Wheel gymnastics team dominated the scene at the WORLD-TEAM CUP in the Sauerlandian Finnentrop (GER) - not too surprisingly:

Christoph Clausen (TSB Flensburg) with vault, Julia Pohling (SV Neuhof) in spiral gymnastics, Robert Maaser (KSC Strausberg) in straight gymnastics, Svenja Trepte (TSG Bergedorf) in spiral discipline, again Pohling with a straight choreography and Maaser at the end in the vault discipline each won their rounds and therewith collected the most points in series...
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 .... with the advent calendar-tombola for a new gymwheel
The gymwheel development association thought of something very special for this years advent time: 
  An advent calendar-tombola!

The reason is very simple: 

With the payment of 5,-  Euro onto the account of the development association between the 1st and the 24th December 2009, one can take part in the advent-calendar tombola and could possibly, with a bit of luck, find a brand new gymwheel beneath the christmas tree ...  .. full story >>

 
The 2010 Competition Rules of the "International Wheel Gymnastic Federation" (IRV) were produced by Günter Fischer , the IRV Vice-President and ITC competitions officer, in co-operation with the Board of the IRV and the members of the International Technical Commission (ITC).

This version of the Competition Rules should not be considered a final version, i. e. alterations are permitted at any time (ITC in cooperation with the Board of the IRV).
  >>  2010 IRV Competition Rules