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WORLD CUP FINALS IN TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING COMES TO GREAT BRITAIN!
Olympic and World Champions are set to compete in Birmingham on Satursay 25th November for the 8th FIG Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup Finals who will perform in front of a sell out crowd!
Only the creme de la creme of trampolining and tumbing will be there as the invitations are based on world rankings with the top eight in each discipline inited to takr part. The gymnasts will compete in six diferant events, mens individual trampoline, womens individual trampoline, men’s synchronised trampoline, women’s synchronised trampoline, plus men and women’s tumbling!
The most decorated female trampolinist in history will be taking part on the event. Rusisa’s Irina Karavaeva is a four time World Champion, a four time European Champion, and also is also an Olympic Champion after wining the gold medal in Sydney 2000! She will be joined in the women’s individual trampoline event by Canadian Karen Cockburn who is also a former World Champion and won medals at both the Sydney and Athens Olympics, and Anna Dogonadze from Germany who is the reigning Olympic Champion!
In the men’s event, the line up is just as impressive with the reigning Olympic Champion Yuri Nikitin from the Ukraine set to compete against Yashurio Ueyama from Japan who was the first ever male trampolinist in history to win four World Cup events in a row. The current World Champion Alexander Rusakov from Russia will also make an appearance!
In women’s tumbling the reigning World Cup Final Champion, Russia’s Anna Korebeynikova, will be hard to beat. The men’s Tumbling event is expected to be dominated by Andrei Kabishev from Belarus, who is the reigning World Cup Final Champion and Wang Jiexu from China who is the current World Champion.
A total of fifteen different countries will be represented at the World Cup Finals including China, Japan , the USA, Canada and the host nation Great Britain who will be represented by no less than seven gymnasts - our own Magnificent Seven!
Leading the challenge will be Claire Wright who will be competing in both the women’s individual and synchronised trampoline events. Claire is a former World Cup Final Champion after winning the gold medal in Hanover in 2002. Clare will compete with Jamie Moore in the syncronised trampoline. Jamie competed in the Olympic Games in 2000 where trampolining made it’s debut appearance, and helped the GB Team win bronze at the European Championships in Metz earlier this year.
Mark Alexander and Simon Milnes complete the GB trampolining line up and they will compete in the men’s synchronised trampoline event. Mark is a former World Cup silver medallist and this will be his fourth appearance in the World Cup Final. The pair recently placed fourth at the World Cup qualifying event in Salzgitter.
Great Britain has three representatives competing in the Tumbling Finals. Samantha Palmer is Britain’s youngest competitor at 19. She won the bronze medal at the World Championships last year and was crowned European Champion earlier this year. Zoe McLean is currently ranked fifth in the world for women’s tumbling, and has won two silver medals at World Cup qualifying events. over the last two years and is in good form.
The GB line up is completed by Damien Walters who had a very successful year in 2005 when he won gold at the World Cup qualifier in Ostend before going on to place 5th at the World Championships in Eindhoven.
The Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup Finals are being jointly organised by Birmingham City Council and British Gymnastics and has been part funded by the National Lottery through UK Sport’s World Class Events Programme.
Tickets for the Event are completel sold out so there will be over 3,000 spectators to see the gymnasts perform their spectacular routines.
This article is a Press Release from the FIG dated 23rd November.
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