What's "old"

Here are the news previouly published on sportsacrobatics.com

December 1997 :

9th : Official launching of the "A Sports Acrobatics Page" website.

The news published between December 1997 and October 2001 on ASAP are still available there .

March 2002 :

25th
Official launching of the sportsacrobatics.info website.
Some page from ASAP are transfered here, the rest should come in the coming days/weeks.

26th
A link to the PSAT club website is added.

April 2002 :

2nd
The results are transfered from ASAP, the results of the walloon championships are added.
Links are added in the sections 5 (gym) and 6 (others).

19th
Some photos of the IACP are available, other ones will com later.
The links to the UEG is now pointing to its new website.

Official information about the new code of point : Please read the lasts acro-TC newsletter on the FIG website. They contain important information about the new code of points and the SAWAGG.

23th
The International Acro Cup Puurs was organised from April 12th to April 14th in Puurs Belgium.
The results are on the Flemish federation website.
More photos of the IACP are now online.

A new website for the U.E.G. The U.E.G. opened last week its new webite. It contains some interesting information including a mini-code.

27th
The U.E.G. Training Camp & Coaches course are added to the calendar page.

May 2002 :

6th
Two clubs websites have been added on the links page.

16th
The schedule and links to official websites of the Europeans championships are on the calendar page.

The European Juniors Championships : I'll be present during the European Juniors Championships. I'll be working on computers for the scoring system.
This means I won't have the occasion to take many pictures but I should be able to get all the results online quickly. It will depend on the internet connection possiblilties I'll have there in Deinze.

25th
The first results of the European Juniors Championships are online.

27th
The first photos of the European Juniors Championships are online.

30th
All the pictures of the European Juniors Championships training sessions are now online. Those of the competitions will come later.
A links is added in the "others sports acrobatics websites" section.

June 2002 :

16th
Information and subscrbtion forms for the U.E.G. Training Camp & Coaches course in Ghent (BEL) and the youth and touristic camp in Riesa (GER) are added on the calendar page.

The European Juniors Championships : The competition was a success
Reports are available on the UEG website. You should look at the reports in both languages, even if you don't understand french, this will gave you a chance to see other photos.

21st
The pictures of the first competitionsday of the European Juniors Championships are now online.
A links is added in the "others sports acrobatics websites" section.

The FIG sports acrobatics technical committee held a meeting on June 7th-9th in Moutier (Switzerland). An interesting report of this meeting is available on the USAG website.

July 2002 :

22nd
There was a little mistake on the calendar page, it is now corrected.
Some photos are added.

September 2002 :

4th
Some obsolete links are suppressed.

Videotapes of the Juniors European Championships for sale The following message is published on the gymfed.be website :

Are you interested with the complete edition of the juniors EC, you can subscribe ONE TIME to buy the following videotapes :

1. opening ceremony (5/23/2002)
2. Preliminaries 1 (5/23/2002)
3. Preliminaries 2 (5/24/2002)
4. Finals 1 (5/23/2002)
5. Finals 2 (5/24/2002)
6. Combined (5/25/2002)

duration per tape : +- 2:30 hours (opening: 1 hour)
price per tape : 15 EUR
Order at the GymnastiekFederatie Vlaanderen secretary (p/a VTL) before September 30th, 2002 (date of getting de payment counts) with as communication your name, number / name of the cassette.
Payment on the account : 442-8021711-35

For shipping abroad, international payment or to know if NTSC tapes are available, please contact the VTL

15th
The last photos of the European Juniors Championships are added. Those of Ghent (1999) and Faro (2001) are transfered.
The archive section is transfered on this site.
The calendar page, is updated.
Some obsolete links are suppressed.

28th
The 18th World Championships began yesterday and the gymnasts are offering us a great show. The FIG received requests for evaluation for more than 100 new elements and we discovered them the whole day long.
As I only got the results on paper, I don't have enough time enough to encode them. They should be available on the FIG and/or the Gymmedia websites.
The most exiting competition up to now is the mixed pairs one where after the balance and tempo exercises the difference between the first (USA) and the second (RUS) place is only 0.07.
The bad surprise comes from China. They presented the most difficult exercises but their choreographies are so poor that they loose in artistry what they earn with their difficulty.
The good ones comes from the Belgian men's pair and from the Australian trio. Since they won an international meet in Ukraine, Philippe and Kenny prooved us how good they are, their second place remains however a good surprise.
Even though I knew Yuri Stepchenkov in working in Australia for one and a half year, their women's trio completely surprised me with an exellent and original balance exercise. With 17.44, only Russia could get a higher score. Unfortunately for them, there are no balance and tempo finals anymore.

October 2002 :

4th
The calendar page, is updated with the information I got in Riesa.
A link to the Winterthur acro club is added.

March 2003 :

10th
The calendar page, is updated.
Two links are added.
The archive is updated.

30th
Information about the sports acrobatics, trampoline and tumbling Belgium championships 2003 is added
It include between others a call for volunteers, the competition schedule and information about the sleepover possibility.
A link to this information is added on the calendar page.

April 2003 :

13th
The 1st World Cup Final took place in Krasnodar Russia. Some of the best world gymnasts selected on base of the world ranking lists took part to this meeting.
Unortunately, the lack of participants in the women's pair event (only 2 pairs) forced them to present their exercise only in demonstration and no results were published for this category.
The other results are available here.
More information can also be found on the F.I.G. website.

The International Acro Cup was held in Puurs, Belgium on April 11th and 12th. Many gymnasts coming from 12 different countries took part to the competition with as consequence a very long competition day on saturday. It started at 9 am to finish only at 11:40pm.
The results will be soon available on the gymfed website .
On the sunday morning was organised a national competition for lower level gymnasts, and a winnars' gala was scheduled in the afternoon.

The results of the 1st World Cup Final are added to the results section.
The archive is updated.
Links to 3 portuguese sites added.

15th
Some errors are corrected on the Belgium championships 2003 pages.
The results of the International Acro Cup Puurs are added to the results section.

May 2003 :

18th
The complete results of the Belgium championships 2003 in all disciplines are availabe on the "A Sports Acrobatics Page" site. The acro results are integrated in the results section and the other files are removed.
Obsolete links are suppressed in the links and federations pages.
The acro results of the 2003 Belgium championships are added to the results section.

June 2003 :

28th
From the FIG Flash n°49 : The FIG is looking into the possibility of combining Trampoline, Tumbling and Sports Acrobatics competitions into a single event. This would allow for a decrease in participation costs for federations and would add a new dimension to the event.

During its meeting on May 23-24, 2003 in San Juan (PUR), the FIG Council has assigned the 2004 Sports acrobatics World championships to France, City of Strasbourg, May 22 and 23.
Some links are added.
The calendar page is updated.

July 2003 :

5th
Some pictures of the 2002 Worlds are added in the photos section.
The link to acro update is modified.

9th
The australian nationals are added on the calendar page (thanks Jill).
A link is added.

August 2003 :

1st
Some pictures of the 2002 Worlds are added in the photos section.

9th
The UEG Training Camp
40 gymnasts and 12 coaches representing 7 member federations (GER &endash; POL &endash; ITA &endash; SWE &endash; POR NED &endash; ESP) participated in the 2003 training camp held in Zielona Gora(POL) from July 13th till July 20th. This is more than twice as many as last year.
Italy, Spain and Sweden were participating for the first time in a UEG Acrobatic event.
The participants, with a range of technical ability from basic level gymnast, through to members of the Polish National Squad, attented the practical sessions conducted by four expert coaches under the leadership of Konrad Zielinski.
Wieslawa Milewska, ACRO TC member responsible for Judging was in attendance for the whole period of the camp and was able to provided some welcomed advice on the structure of the Code of Points and the Tables of Difficulty .
The success of the event and the enthusiasm generated was soon converted into questions about the next camp. The ACRO TC will be considering the provision of the 2004 event at the first opportunity.

Acrobatic mourns Russian gymnast
On July 28, Grigory Shinkarev member of the Russian Men's Group in Sports Acrobatics died. He suffered severe injuries during a training camp in Varna (BUL) - a spine fracture and a cerebral haemorrhage. During the past two weeks he was at the reanimation department of a Bulgarian hospital, but the doctors could not save his life.
World Champion of 2002 among the men's group, living in Krasnodar (RUS), he was on top of his sportive career and just at the beginning of life. He was only 22.
We present our condolences to all who knew Grisha and we mourn together with his family and friends.
Source and more info: www.acro.ru

The results of the freedom cup are online.
Links to the german and polish federations' websites are added in the links and federations pages.
Other links are added on the other acro links (www.acro.ru) and the miscellaneous links (the Franco Dragone group).
The Volkov Cup in added on the calendar page.

September 2003 :

27th
Two links are added on the other acro links.

9th
The results of the Volkov cup are online.

October 2003 :

28th
Acro Update and Sportsacrobatics.info have the pleasure to announce to you that their webmasters are joining not only their websites, but also their lives.

29th
The 21st European Championship for seniors and the 5th European Championship for juniors in acrobatic gymnastics will be held in Zielona Gora / POL from November 3rd to 9th 2003.
It will be the first time that both Championships will be organised together.
12 (seniors) respectively 18 (juniors) nations with a total of 250 gymnasts will participate in these European Championships in acrobatic gymnastics.

November 2003 :

5th
The European Championships nominative entry lists are available on the U.E.G. website.
Looking at them we can see that 211 gymnasts (122 juniors, 89 seniors) coming from 17 countries (16 for the juniors, 11 for the seniors) are announced.
Unfortunately, the senior men's pair from Belgium, Philippe Van Vynckt and Kenny Dewulf, won't compete at the european championships. They are healing from injury and couldn't reach a satifying level to participate.

December 2003 :

14th
The calendar page is updated.

The European Championships results are available on the U.E.G. website.

29th
The next International Age Group Competition - Acro
For this year 2004, there will be 2 age groups, 11-16 and 12-19. This means it will be possible for gymnasts to compete one more year in the age group competition but an extra rule stipulates that the age difference between the partners may not exceed 6 years.
There is a new list of forbidden elements and the difficulty limits are the same as before except for the women's group. In this category, the limits for the balance and combined exercise are raised from 100-120 to 110-130.
The directives for these championships are available on the F.I.G. website. For the complete rules, please contact your federation.

January 2004 :

3rd
The calendar page is updated.

The city where the next World championships will take place changed, it will be in Liévin, a city in the north of France.
Some rules changed too. For the first time, countries are allowed to send two pairs/groups in each category. With the 8 best going to the finals, it will be possible to have, for example, two russian pairs/groups in the finals, and on the podium!
The directives for these championships are available on the F.I.G. website.

27th
The links page is updated. The Alamo Flyers website is added.
Some old picture pages are transfered from "asap" and "acro update" to this site.
The webmasters page is updated.

February 2004 :

23rd
The next World Championships
26 countries sent provisional registration, 24 for the World Championships, and 24 for the age group competition. China and Russia will be the only ones sending a full team of 10 pairs and groups to the world championships.. The third biggest teams will be those from Great Britain and Portugal with 8 pairs or groups each. Venezuela will be the first country from South America to participate at the world championships.
22 nations will send gymnasts in the 12-19 age group , 20 in the 11-16 age group.
The complete list of the participating nations and other information can be found the world championships website at the address http://worldga2004.ffgym.com/default_en.html.

March 2004 :

4th
The 2004 Vassily Machuga memorial is added on the calendar page.
The webmasters page is updated.

In memoriam Yuri Zolotov
Yuri Zolotov, the President of Russian Sports Acrobatics Federation passed away on March 3, 2004.
We express our sincere condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and all the Russian Sports Acrobatics Federation members. We also express condolences to the whole sports acrobatics community.

Source and more information : ACRO.RU

9th
The next World Championships
The draws for the world championships and the agre group competition are available on the F.I.G. website.
From this draw it appears that Venezuela will finally not participate and that Russia will be the only nations sending a full team to the worlds. For the age group competition, Belarus, Bulgaria and china didn't confirm their provisional registration.

The belgian men's pair, Philippe Van Vynkt and Kenny Dewulf, vice world champions in 2002 and second at the last world cup final in 2003, won't be present in Liévin. Kenny stopped his career as acrobat and Belgium will therefore not send any men's pair to the coming world championships.

The international acro cup in Puurs, Belgium
Up to now, 12 countries confirmed their participation at the IACP. The participating nations are USA, Great Britain, Wales, Scotland, Russia, Belarus, Puerto Rico, South Africa, France, Germany, Nederland and Belgium.

April 2004 :

1st
Pictuces from the world team trials are now available on the picture pages.

8th
The results of the U.S. World Team Trials are online. They are uncomplete for the moment and we'll complete them as soon as possible.
The FIG World Cup in Coimbra is added on the calendar page.

18th
Some old results finally are available on the results page. They include the 2002 SAWAGG and world championships and the 2003 european championships (only the finals) More results should be available in a near future.

May 2004 :

17th
Some links are added.

18th
The 2003 europeans and the 2004 U.S. World Team Trials results are now complete. Check them on the results page.

31st
The World Championships and International Age Group Competitions
Those competitions are over. All the results and some pictures are available on the F.I.G. website and on the World championships official website.

June 2004 :

17th
Some links are added.
Several competitions are added on the calendar page.

August 2004 :

2nd
Several competitions are added on the calendar page.

10th
The 2005-2008 code of points.
The final draft of the code is now complete and has been sent to the FIG Executive Committee. It is anticipated the federations will receive the code and tables together before the end of october. For more information about the new code, please read the acro newsletter n°24 / August 2004 available on the F.I.G website.

The World Cup competition in Coimbra, and probably the World Cup Finals and the World Games in 2005, will be judged against the current code. However, some clarifications will be applied from September 1st, 2004. Those are also explained in the newletter n°24.

12th
The Eurasia 2004 changed of date. The new date is October 14-21. Delegations from Uzbekizstan, Kirgizstan,SC Riesa (Germany) and the host country Kazakstan will take part to this meet. The calendar page is modified.

November 2004 :

7th
The 75th FIG congress was held from October 21st to the 23rd, 2004 in Antalya, Turkey. During this congress, elections were held to renew the executive committee, the council, the technical committees, the appeal tribunal and the auditors for the next olympic cycle.
The complete results of these elections can be found on the F.I.G. website.

Our congratulations to Patricia Wade for her reelection as President of this committee and to all the elected members.

The list of membres of the new FIG acro-com can be found on this site in the information section. The members of the present committee are now listed on the page about the previous commissions in the same section.

18th
The Flanders Acro Cup in Puurs will be a world Cup category A next year. The calendar page is updated accordingly.

25th
The 2005-2008 code of points
The new code of points and tables of difficulty are available on the F.I.G website.These codes are provisional upon modifications during the intercontinental judges course.

The results of the 2004 Volkov Cup and of old Russia championships are published on the results page.

January 2005 :

9th

In memoriam Kurt Becker

We express our sincere condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, all the German Sports Acrobatics Federation members and to the whole acrobatic gymnastics community.

Febuary 2005 :

13th
The results of the 2004 World Championship and International Age Group Competition are published on the results page.

March 2005 :

18th
Two links added on the gymnastics links page.

30th
World Cup Series, Puurs, Belgium :

According to the meet official website ( http://www.fiac.be), 71 gymnasts coming from 10 countries will participate to the World Cup and 327 acrobats from 14 countries will compete at the Flanders International Acro Cup.
If no world champions are making the trip to Belgium, several silver and brons medalists will compete to enhance their world cup ranking.
The biggest event will be the juniors women's group with 29 trios.

31st
World Cup Series, Puurs, Belgium :

In both categories where the current vice-world champions are present, they didn't confirmed their status and both the mens four from Ukraine and the Russian mixed pair are currently in third. In the Mixed pair event, Anna Kochalova and Revaz Gurgenidze received a surprising adjusted difficulty score of 8.86 for their balance exercise. With a total of 26.960, they are more than 1.5 behind the current leaders Tiffany Cuyt and Yves Vander Donkt from Belgium.
The men's group performed their dynamic exercise. The men's group from Ukraine received the highst adjusted diffulty score with 9.99 but with a total score of 27.490, they are currently in third position, behind the men's groups from Russia and Great Britain. The Brits Barry Hindson, Stuart McKenzie, Scott Patterson and David Scott are first with a total score of 27.670.
In the other events, the polish women's pair Magdalena Wegrzynowicz and Anna Miadzielec, the Men's pair Serhiy Popov and Mykola Shcherbak from Ukraine and the russian women's group Tatiana Alexeeva, Elena Kirilova and Elena Moiseeva are leading after the first exercise.

April 2005 :

1st
World Cup Series, Puurs, Belgium : About the difficulty score.

Out of 54 exercises performed in the preliminaries, 8 have a difficulty score of 10.0 or more. Only 2 pairs received such a difficulty score for both of their exercises. Thet are the belgian mixed pair Tiffany Cuyt and Yves Vander Donkt and the men's pair from Ukraine Serhiy Popov and Mykola Shcherbak.
Because of the many restrictions brought by the new code for the women's groups balance exercise, no trio could perform such an exercise with a difficulty score of 10 or more. The russian group Magdalena Wegrzynowicz and Anna Miadzielec, however, was close with a difficulty score of 9.85. Therefore, no one should be surprised to see such exercises performed out of 10.0 either during the next World games or the european championships.

3rd
World Cup Series, Puurs, Belgium : The favorites win the finals.

In the mixed pairs event, Tiffany Cuyt and Yves Vander Donkt were leading after the preliminaries but surprisingly, they didn't perform their combined exercise out of 10.0. Just like one month ago in Vinitsa, they finish second behind the russian Anna Kochalova and Revaz Gurgenidze. The ukrainian Maryna Shevchuk and Sergiy Pelepets take the 3rd place.
Russia also takes the first place in the women's group event while Ukraine wins in the three other events, i.e. women's pairs, men's pairs and men's groups.

5th
One link is added on the acro links page.
The calendar is updated.

25th
One link is added on the acro links page.

June 2005 :

8th
2006 World Championships : organizer wanted

As mentioned on the F.I.G website, the 2005 acrobatic World Cup Final has been cancelled as no bid has been received by the FIG.

Bids for the 2007 world cup final and the 2006 and 2008 World championships were expected at the FIG council held at the end of May. While the british gymnastics federation celebrates its winnig bid for the artistic World Championships of ... 2009, the FIG didn't receive any bid for the hereabove mentioned events.

We really hope the FIG will find a federation willing to organize the next acrobatic World Championships in less than one year from now.

July 2005 :

14th
The results of the 2004 and 2005 World Cup Competitions are published on the results page.
The calendar is updated.

17th
World Games

The acrobatic gymnastics competitions are over at the 2005 World Games in Duisburg.
Russia won 4 gold medals and Ukraine one. The complete are available in the results section.

30th
The results of the World Games are completed and links to national results are added on the results page.
Links are added and updated in the links section.
2006 World Championships

In its executive commission meeting report, the FIG announces that the city of Coimbra, Portugal is candidate to organise the 2006 acrobatic gymnastics world championships.

August 2005 :

8th
New code of points revised

The final version of the code of points dated 07/05 and the revised rules for the age group competitions are now published on the F.I.G website.

November 2005 :

18th
As the 2003 Flanders Acro Cup results are not available on the external site anymore, I added them on the results page.
A link to the Belgian club Zeestern De Panne is added in the links section.

On September 9th qnd 10th, 2005 was held in Birminham (GBR) the 21th UEG congress. On the first day, the member federations approved all the proposals of the UEG executive commettee. One of them increases the number of members in the acrobatic gymnastics from five to seven.

The second day was reserved for the elections of the new commettees. Laurie Colton (GBR) has been reelected as president of the TC-Acro. The members of the new acrobatic gymnastics are :

Mr DRAGANOV, Dragomir (BUL)
Mrs KOVALCHUK, Galina (UKR)
Mrs MILEWSKA, Wieslawa (POL)
Mr MÜLLMANN, Norbert (GER)
Mrs PERIDY, Carine (FRA)
Mr VINIKOV, Dmitry (RUS)

The acrobatic gymnastics european championships were held in Thessaloniki (GRE) from October 10th to 16th, 2005. This year, the competition program also included the first european age group games.

This premiere was a success as 125 gymnasts from 15 countries competed in the 11-16 category. Great Britain won three gold medals and Russia, two.

In the juniors category, 19 countries with a total of 119 gymnasts were present. The russians won all the five gold medals available at that level while Belarus, Great Britain and Ukraine share the other medals.

92 athletes comong from 14 countries took part in the seniors competitions. Only one gold medal escaped from the russians, it went to the ukrainian men's pair. Other than Russia and Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Great Britain and Poland also shared the available medals.

The complete results are available on the UEG website.

26th
The FIG published on its website the acro newsletter n°30. This newsletter contains important information regarding the new code of points.

January 2006 :

24th
The results of the european championships and age group games are available on the results page.
3 links are added in the links section.
The calendar is updated with 2006 and 2007 meets.

February 2006 :

13th
2 federation links are updated and the link to the 2006 wolrd championships website is added in the links section.
More 2006 meets are added in the calendar.

28th
The archive page is updated.
The spanish gymnastics federation is added on the federations page and in the links section.
Other 2006 meets are added in the calendar.

March 2006 :

10th
The acro newsletter n°32 is now available on the FIG website. In addition to clarifications regarding the new code of points and calls for historic information and translators, this newsletter contains the first supplements to the tables of difficulties.

April 2007 :

14th
The results of the 2006 world championships and age groups, the 2006 european team championships and age group games, and the 2007 World Cup Finals are available on the results page.

FIG Newsletter

The acro newsletter n°36 is now available on the FIG website. In addition to clarifications regarding the new code of points and calls for the 2009-2012 code of points and tables of difficulty, this newsletter contains the 2007 supplements to the tables of difficulties.

Dr. Patricia Wade

Our thoughts and prayer are with Dr. Patricia Wade, President of the FIG acro technical committee, as she fights to overcome illness and we hope to see her again on the acro scene in a near future.

May 2007 :

28th

FIG Council decisions

During its 2007 meeting in Orlando, USA, the FIG council took the following decisions.
- Acrobatic gymnastics world championships will be organized in March.
- Age group competitions will be entitled World Age Group Competitions
- At official competitions, the following will be displayed and released :
 1) on the score boards : A score (artistic), E score (execution), D score (difficulty), penalties and rank;
 2) to the federations during the competition : the information shown on the boards;
 3) to the federations after the competition : the full information including the judges scores.

August 2007 :

25th
A few pictures from the World Cup Final are added on the photos page.

December 2007 :

29th
The calendar page has been updated.

2008 competitions

As we reach the end of 2007, we still don't have any information about the next world championships. The latest official news is that the russian federation was evaluating its organization in June. Nothing has been confirmed yet.
The 2008 international season will start in March with the 2nd Maia international Acro Cup in Maia, Portugal.

March 2008 :

6th
The calendar page has been updated.
The 2007 World Cup Finals results have been modified to reflect the sanctions given to 2 russian gymnasts after a positive doping control.

June 2008 :

11th

2008 World Championships

After Russia's withdrawal as host for the 2008 world championships, the FIG executive committee gave permission to the British federation to organise the event, along with the World age group competition in Glasgow, Scotland from September 29 to October 13.
Our thanks to the British Federation for their bid and to the FIG EC for allowing this exception to the calendar.

2009 - 2012 Acro TC elections

The list of candidates for the different official functions for the next olympic cycle are posted on the FIG website. For the Acro-TC, two members of the current TC are candidates for its presidency, i.e. Ms Rosy Taeymans from Belgium and Ms Tonya Case from the USA.
Here below are the candidates for a member position within the next committee.
The elections will be held during the next FIG congress in Helsinki (FIN) on October 17-19, 2008.

- Ms Rosy Tayemans          BEL    Former member
- Ms Tonya Case             USA    Former member
- Ms Irina Nikitina         RUS    Former member
- Mr Yangling LI            CHN    Former member
- Mr Raul Correia           POR    Former member
- Ms Wieslawa Milewska      POL    New
- Mr Karl Wharton           GBR    New
- Mr Frank Böhm             GER    New