What's "old"

Here are the news previouly published on sportsacrobatics.info

December 1997 :

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

The news published between December 1997 and November 2001 on ASAP are available here.

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2002

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 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.

2003

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 , POL , ITA , SWE , POR , NED , 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.

2004

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.

2005

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.

TC-Acro meeting
The FIG TC-ACRO held a meeting in Moutier at the end of April. During this meeting Rosy Taeymans was unanimously elected as the TC-ACRO secretary. We present her our congratulations.
The result of this meeting is a revised code of points dated 05/05 and to be published on the F.I.G website. The clarifications and revisions decided during this meeting are summarized in the acro newsletter N° 29. A revised version of this newsletter is now available on the F.I.G website.

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.

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 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.

2006

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.

2007

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.

2008

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

14th
The 2008 World Championships and World age group competitions are added on the calendar page.

28th
The 2007 European Championships and 2008 World Cup Series results are now available.
The archive page has been updated.
Some links pages have been cleaned up and updated.

July 2008 :

13th
The federations page and some links pages have been updated.
The 2013 World Games are added on the calendar page.

FIG news
The FIG moved from Moutier to Lausanne, Switzerland.
A new website which should make its debut in July 08.
The council decision directly affecting acro are :
- the elimination of World Cup Finals as of January, 2009;
- in the future, gymnasts refusing anthropometric measurements will be sanctionned;
- as of January 1, 2009, any senior or junior gymnast wishing to participate in an international competition will need a license to do so.

Back to Duisburg
The Annual General Assembly (AGM) of the International World Games Association (IWGA) held on 3 June in Athens, Greece, ratified the Executive Committee's decision to award The World Games 2013 to Duisburg and Düsseldorf by acclamation.

26th

The 2009-12 code of points
The 2009-2012 code of points and tables of difficulty are online on the FIG website.

The new code doesn't contain any radical changes compaired to the current one. The biggest modifications are related to the individual elements.
- The choreographic elements have no difficulty value.
- The number of individual elements evaluated for difficulty is now limited to 6 maximum.
- In the dynamic and combined exercises, a minimum of one salto from category 2 must be performed.
Also, the attire related penalties are taken out of the artistic score and given by the CJP.

August 2008 :

8th
The calendar page has been updated.

UEG : New competition format
For the period 2009-2012, the UEG will test a new competition format at the European Championships.
- Federations may enter 2 pairs/groups in each category; only one from each country in each category (the one with the highest score) may proceed to the final.
- There will be individual finals for Balance and Dynanic. Gymnasts may enter may enter one, two or all three events :
  > Individual Balance [qualification and final]
  > Individual Dynamic [qualification and final]
  > Overall [Balance + Dynamic + Combined]
- The overall title will be decided by the total scores from Balance + Dynamic + Combined.

October 2008 :

2nd
The calendar page has been updated.

14th
The 2008 World Championships results are now available.

2009 European Championships
According to a UEG calendar, the 2009 European Championships could be organised in Vila do Conde, Portugal. This information still needs to be confirmed the calendar mentions.

19th
The 2008 World Championships results have been corrected.

2009 - 2012 Acro TC elections
The elections for the 2009-2012 technical committee were help during the FIG congress in Helsinki (FIN).
The next acro TC will be composed as follow :

 - Tonya Case (USA)               President
 - Irina Nikitina (RUS)           Member
 - Dr. Yanling LI (CHN)           Member
 - Rosy Taeymans (BEL)            Member
 - Raul Correira (POR)            Member
 - Karl Wharton (GBR)             Member
 - Wieslawa MILEWSKA (POL)        Member

November 2008 :

12th
The calendar page has been updated.

December 2008 :

12th
More competitions are added on the calendar page.
The link to the Bulgarian federation website is added on the federations and the links pages.

17th
Several links pages have been updated.

2009

January 2009 :

4th
The FIG Committee pages are updated in the inf ormation section.

Duisburg and Düsseldorf renounce to organise the 2013 World Games.
Event though the IWGA gave them the organization of the 2013 World Games, serious financial problems forced the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf to renounce.
The IWGA is working to find a new host for these games.

March 2009 :

6th
The french cup is added on the calendar page.
The 18th Stars above the Boug river tournament results are now available. Thank you to the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation for sending them.
Problems with the 2001 European Championships photos have been fixed.

May 2009 :

6th
The Acro Newsletter Nr 1 is available on the FIG website.

31th

The 2009-12 code of points
The revised code published after the intercontinental judges course contains some modifications for the groups, mainly for the women's group balance exercise.
- Transitions have no difficulty value.
- One pyramid may be performed with two base positions. Difficulty credit will be given for both base positions even if they are from the same category.

FIG Executive Committee and Council meetings.
The FIG Executive Committee and Council meet in Lillestroem (NOR), May 21 -24, 2009. Here below are some of the decisions made official during these meetings :

In parallel to these meetings, the FIG also held the drawing of lots for the 4 disciplines participating in the 8th edition of the World Games.
Click here to download it from the FIG website.

July 2009 :

14th
2010 World Championships to be held in Poland next July
During the World Cup Series in St Paul, MN, USA, Ms Tonya Case announced that the next World Championships will be held in Poland next July.
Today (July 14, 2009), the information has been officially published on the FIG website. The host city will be Wroclaw and the competition dates are set for July 10-12 (age groups) and July 16-18 (World Chanpionships).

19th
More results (recent and older) have been added.

23rd
2013 World Games organiser announced
The IWGA has decided to grant the hosting of the 9th World Games to Cali, Colombia.
A letter of Intent has been signed during the World Games in Kaohsiung and the official contract between Cali and the IWGA should be signed in September 2009.
The 2013 World Games information is updated on the calendar page.

31st
The 2010 Flanders International Acro Cup is added on the calendar page.

September 2009 :

19th
The 2009 Veliky Novgorod World Cup results are available on the results page.
I found more detailed results of the 2006 World Championships finals and updated my page accordingly.
More 2004 results have been added and some broken links to external websites removed.

29th
Quadruple saltos are banned.
During its ordinary meeting from September 23-25, the F.I.G. Executive Committee has ruled to banned the quadruple saltos in acrobatic gymnastics, effective immediately.

October 2009 :

3rd
The European age group games results are available via the results and the archive pages.
Some national championships are added on the calendar page.

November 2009 :

15th
Several 2010 meets are added on the calendar page.

Congratulations to all of them.

2010

March 2010 :

15th
More 2010 meets are added on the calendar page and the 2009 ones are removed from it.
The 2010 World Championships website is added on the links page.

23rd
2010 World Championships.
The official website of the 2010 World Championships and World age Groups is now online at
www.worldchampionships2010.pl

May 2010 :

8th
The first 2011 meet is added on the calendar page and the 2009 ones are removed from it.
The SC Riesa website is added on the links page.
Several 2010 meet results are added on the results page.

24th
2010 World Championships.
The draw for the 2010 World Championships and World age Groups is available on the FIG website
World Championships
World Age Groups

More 2010 and 2011 meets are added on the c alendar page and the 2009 ones are removed from it.
The website akrobatisch.de is added on the links page.
The 2010 Volkov Cup and Sachsenpokal results are added on the results page.

September 2010 :

17th
More 2010 and 2011 meets are added on the calendar page. I also started a new format starting with the 2011 meets. This was inspired by the calendar on akrobastisch.de and my archives page. I hope you like it!
I may try a similar format for my results page later.
More 2010 and older results are added on the results page.

October 2010 :

17th
European Team Championships.
Clik here to access the European Team Championships website.

November 2010 :

11th
The results of the 2009 and 2010 European competitions are added on the results and archives pages.
The calendar page has been updated.

22nd
In Memoriam Dr. Patricia Wade.
It is with great sadness that I learned from the FIG website that Dr Patricia Wade passed away today November 22, 2010.
I had the honor to meet and talk with Dr Wade during the 2001 European Championships in Faro, Portugal. Later I exchanged a few emails with her. Even though, we met only once, she never failed to answer with nice and encouraging words. The courage with which she faced her illness can only force admiration for this truly remarkable Lady. I will miss her.
To her family and friends, I extend my sincere condolences.

2011

January 2011 :

17th
AGU General Assembly.
During its ordinary general assembly held on December 19-20, 2010 in Doha (QAT), the Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU) elected Mrs Aigul Biyekenova (KAZ) president of its ACRO technical committee.
Congratulations Mrs Biyekenova!

World Cup in Portugal cancelled.
Due to delays in the merger of the Portuguese Trampoline and Sports Acrobatics Federation (FPTDA) and the Portuguese Gymnastics Federation (FGP), the latter decided to cancel the Acro World Cup in Maia.
The Maia Cup is not affected by this decision and will go ahead as normal.

25th
The 7th International Tournament Winobranie is added on the calendar page.

April 2011 :

5th
The World Cup Series in Forli is added on the calendar page.

May 2011 :

18th
Acro Newsletter Nr 4
The Acro Newsletter Nr 4 is available on the FIG website.

The calendar page has been updated with a.o. the UEG Training Camp, the code of Points symposium and the 2012 and 2014 World Championships.
The website akrobatisch.de added actually is akrobastisch.de . This typo has been fixed on the links page.
Pictures from the FIAC are published on the photos page.
Results from 10 different 2011 meets have been added on the results page.

28th
More meets have been added on the calendar page.
3 more pictures from the FIAC are published on the photos page.

June 2011 :

15th
More pictures from the FIAC are published on the photos page. The NDP Finals and the Austrain Championships 2011 have been added on the results page.
5 events have been added on the calendar page.

July 2011 :

14th
Acro World Age Group Rules 2012.
As announced in the Acro Newsletter Nr 4, the Acro TC worked on a new version of the World Age Group Rules. The new document is now available on the FIG website.
This new version will take effect January 1st, 2012.

Li Yanling resigned.
Mr. Li Yanling (CHN) resigned from the FIG Acro TC. No official announcement has been made on the FIG website but the new World Age Group Rules mention him as "Resigned Member" and his name has been removed from the FIG Directory.
Mr Li Yanling was elected member of the FIG Acro TC in 2004 and re-elected in 2008.

25th
The last pictures from the FIAC are now on the photos page.
Old (2008) and new results (US Acro Cup, Dutch and German national Championships) have been added on the results page.
The calendar page has been updated.
Several links pages have been updated and cleaned up.
Following their merger earlier this year, the fptda is replaced with the Portuguese gymnastics federation on the federations and the links pages.

26th
2012 World Cup & provisional calendar.
The F.I.G. published today on its website the rules for the World Cup 2012 and a provisional calendar.
According to this calendar, there will be only one World Cup Acro in 2012 and the World Championships is set for April 16-18 next year. The World Age Group Competitions will follow on April 20-22. Beware these dates are provisional and will have to be confirmed.

2011 European Championships.
The definitive registration for the European Championships are available on the U.E.G. website.

The 2012 World Cup and the provisional dates for the 2012 World Championships and World Age Groups are on the calendar page.

29th
The results of the US national Championships have been added on the results page.

August 2011 :

30th
2012 World Championships at Disney World, Orlando, Florida.
Today, the F.I.G. and the USA Gymnastics federation published a press release announcing that the World Championships will be held on April 16-18, 2012 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at the Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida.
The World Age Group Competition is scheduled for April 20-22, 2012.
The press release is available on the federations websites.
FIG
USAG

September 2011 :

1st
2011 European Championships.
The European Championships starting order is available on the U.E.G. website.

4th
The results from Zielona Góra (World Cup and Winobranie) have been added on the results page.

6th
2011 Zwingerpokal and 2012 MIAC invitations.
Per the organizers requests, here are the invitations for 2 international meets, the Zwingerpokal held in Dresdeni, Germany December 2nd-4th, 2011 and the Maia International Acro Cup scheduled for February 29th - March 4th, 2012 in Maia, Portugal.
Zwingerpokal : english - Deutsch
Maia International Acro Cu p

14th
European Championships - Spectator travel info.
The Varna airport will be closed from October 15 for runway rehabilitation. During the works flights from and to Varna will be serviced by Burgas airport and for the passengers will be offered free bus transportation between both airports (approximately 150Km).
If you are travelling on your own (not with a national team) to the European Championships, you should contact your airline for further information.
Sources :
Varna airport
British Gymnastics - Acro news

20th
Blogs seems to ne trendy so, I added a section for them on the links page. I also added links to some wikipedia pages as I began to contribute there as wel l.
The results from the World Cup in Vityazevo, Russia are available on the results page.

October 2011 :

10th
European Championships.
There is now an official website and facebook page for the coming european Championships.
The nominative entries for the age group and the seniors are available on the UEG website.

22nd
The calendar page has been updated.

24th
The results from the European Age Group Competition are available on the results page.

November 2011 :

5th
2012 World Cup Series.
In addition to the MIAC, Maia will also host a FIG World Cup Series Category B.
Check out the competition official website for more information.

9th
More events were added on the calendar page.
Irish Gymnastics is now Gymnastics Ireland and has a new website. The federations page and the links page are updated to reflect the change.

11th
2012 World Cup Series.
During its November 06-08, 2011 meeting, the FIG Executive committee approved a World Cup event in Veliky Novgorod, Russia on September 9, 2012.
This is good news for acro because there must be at least 3 World Cup competitions in a given year to have a World Cup Series. With Maia and Aalen already on the calendar, acro has now reached this minimum for 2012.

18th
The results from the World Cup in Forli, Italy are available on the results page.

28th
The final 2011 World rankings are available on the results page.
More 2012 events are added on the calendar page.

December 2011 :

2012

January 2012 :

4th
2011 events have been removed and more 2012 meets are added on the calendar page.
The results from the Zwingerpokal, the British Open and the Grand Prix Polski are available on the results page.

7th
2012 World Championships and World Age Group Competition.
Information about these competitions is available at the following url : http://usagym.org/pages/acro/events/2012/worlds.html

13th
World Games 2017
This January 12, 2012, the executive committee of the International World Games Association attributed the organization of World Games 2017 to the city of Wroclaw, Poland.
Please consult the International World Games Association website for more information.

February 2012 :

1st
More 2012 meets are added on the calendar page.
The Asian Gymnastics Union is added on the x links page.

18th
The U.S. Acro Cup also served as the USA World team selection meet. It's results are available on the results page.
The Mayor's Cup is added on the calendar page.
The European Gymnastics Union has a new website. The links page is updated accordingly.

20th
2012 World Championships and World Age Group Competition.
The definitive registration and drawing of lots are available on the FIG website.
- World Championships page
- World Age Group page

27th
FIG ACRO Newsletter #5
The ACRO Technical Newsletter #5 was posted today on the FIG website, in the newsletters section.

March 2012 :

10th
The results of the World Cup in Maia, the MIAC anf the GIAC are available on the results page

16th
2012 World Championships and World Age Group Competition.
The nominative registration are available on the FIG website.
- World Championships page
- World Age Group page

22th
The Acrobatic Celtic Cup results have been added on the results page

April 2012 :

12th
World Championships : some statistics.
The coming World Championships will the 5th World event help in the United States and the second World Championships outside of Europe, the first one being the 1994 edition in Beijing, China. Previous world events held in the USA were the 1983 World Cup in Cedar Rapids, the 1987 World Cup in Baton Rouge, the 1997 Junior World Championships in Hawai and the 2009 World Cup Series in St Paul.
With the participation of countries from South America, namely Brazil and Columbia, it is the first time that all continents will be represented at an Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. The other country participating for the first time (at least in recent history) is Tajikistan. These 3 new countries however didn't help increasing the overall participation as delegations from the Czech Republic, Spain, Georgia, Lithuania and Moldova will be missed.

Errata (2011-04-22) :
- The 2009 World Cup series was missing in the previous version of this post.
- Tajikistan registered a men's pair but they did not compete.

Source of information :
- FIG : World Championships and World Cup Finals
- 2012 World Championships microsite
- sportsacrobatics.info : Archive page

22nd
The World Championships results and a first set of pictures are available on the corresponding pages.

29th
Sabrina Hegele re-elected as athlete representative.
During the World Championships, the gymnasts had a change to elect their representative in the athlete commission for the next olympic cycle.
According to akrobastisch.de, Sabrina Hegele from Germany was the only candidate and was re-elected. Congratulations Sabrina!

May 2012 :

8th
The Belgian Championships results are available on the results page.

11th
No Men's Pair at the World Cup in Aalen.
The nominative entries for the World Cup in Aalen are available on the FIG website and they are once again disappointing.
Only 7 countries are sending gymnasts to Aalen and not a single Men's pair is to be found on the nominative list. Without the Mixed pair from Portugal, this category barely reaches the limit of 4 participating countries. Just like at the first stage, in Maia, the Women's pairs and Men's group events don't reach that limit.

21st
Pictures from the World Championships, sessions 6 & 9 (MP) have been added on th e photos page.

June 2012 :

3rd
The results from Swidnica and Aalen have been uploaded.

7th
Pictures from the World Championships, Mixed pairs combined exercise, have been added on the photos page.

10th
The invitation for the 1st International Breda Open Acrobatics Cup is online. It can be downloaded via the calendar page.

27th
The 2013-2016 Acro TC Candidates.
The next congress to be help in Cancun (MEX) on October 25 - 27, 2012 will elect the FIG leaders for the 2013-2016 Olympic cycle. Last week, the FIG published the list of candidates for these elections. The FIG received 135 valid candidatures from 55 member federations for a total of 90 open positions.
Here below are the candidates for the next Acro technical committee.

TC President
- Ms. Rosy Tayemans          BEL    New
TC Members
- Ms. Rosy Tayemans          BEL    Former member
- Ms. Tonya Case             USA    Former President
- Ms. Irina Nikitina         RUS    Former member
- Mr. Karl Wharton           GBR    Former member
- Ms. Nikolina Hristova      BUL    New
- Mr. Valiantsin Hubenok     BLR    New
- Mr. Frank Böhm             GER    New
- Mr. Iurii Golyak           UKR    New

July 2012 :

5th
Pictures from the World Championships, women's pairs and women's groups combined exercise, have been added on the photos page.

17th
Three events have been added on the calendar page.

August 2012 :

3rd
The Kristin Allen Acrobatic Gymnastics Foundation.
Cirque du Soleil performer and former Mixed Pair World Champion Kristin Allen created a foundation to help acrobatic gymnasts. The foundation now raised over $25,000, the minimum required in the USA to obtain the non-profit organization status.
More information about the foundation and its activities can be found on its website and its facebook page.

25th
The 2013 World Cup Series competitions have been added on the calendar page.

26th
The 2012 Winti Cup results have been added on the results page.

September 2012 :

9th
The next TC meeting and some more 2013 competitions have been added on the calendar page.
The Spanish Gymnastics Federation moved its website, the federations and the links pages are updated accordingly.

23rd
The results from the World Cup in Veliki Novgorod, the Winobranie and a few national championships have been added on the results page.
New on the calendar page : the 2013 Dutch national championships.

October 2012 :

8th
Two competitions have been added on the calendar page, one for next month and one for next year.
On the links page, 4 team websites have been included.

17th
The Acro-Cup (with invitation and forms) has been added on the calendar page.
New on the results page : the 2012 World Ranking and the Gutenberg Pokal.

27th
2013-2016 Acro TC : Election results
The elections for the 2013-2016 FIG officials were held this Friday October 26, 2012 at the 79^th FIG Congress in Cancun, MEX.
Here below are the results for the Acro TC committee.

TC President
- Ms. Rosy Tayemans          BEL
TC Members
- Ms. Tonya Case             USA
- Ms. Irina Nikitina         RUS
- Mr. Karl Wharton           GBR
- Ms. Nikolina Hristova      BUL
- Mr. Frank Böhm             GER
- Mr. Iurii Golyak           UKR

Congratulations to all of them.

30th
The King Edmund International Competition (with invitation) has been added to the calendar page.
The archives page has been updated.

November 2012 :

2nd
The Brazilian National Championship has been added to the calendar page.

12th
2013-2016 Rules
The Code of Points, Tables of Difficulty and Age Group Rules for the 2013-2016 cycle are available on the F.I.G. website.

15th
The invitation for the GIAC is on the calendar page. This update also includes the 2013 Asian Championships and several national and international meets in Germany.
The results of the Grand Prix Polski, the German National and National team championships have been added on the results page.

22nd
The Sofia International Acro Cup has been added on the calendar page.
The results of the International Czeck Championships and the Sachsenpokal have been added on the results page.

December 2012 :

9th
The results of the British Open and the Breda Open Acro Cup have been added on the results page.
The calendar page has 3 more meets. For the international judges courses, please consult the FIG calendar.
Some British and Dutch websites have been added on the links page. Some failing links have been removed.

2013

January 2013 :

6th
The FIG Technical Committee pages have been updated in the information section.
The Erzgebirgscup results have been added.

12th
The international meet "Ciudad de Granada" is on the calendar page and its organizing club is on the links page.

25th
Updated the calendar page with the dates and location of the Asian Championships and added the invitation for the international meet "Ciudad de Granada".

28th

A great surprise
This week-end, I received the results from the 2 first World Championships and made them available on the archives page. I should receive more over the coming days and will keep updating that page as I receive them.
My eternal gratitude goes to Mrs Gizela Zielinska who is sending me these precious documents.

The 1974 and 1976 World Championships results are available on the archives page.

February 2013 :

1st
A new section is being added on the links page : Acrobatics videos.

9th
The 2013-2016 Rules
The Tables of Difficulty, updated after the intercontinental judges course, are available on the F.I.G. website.
The updated Code of Points should be published there soon.

The 1975 and 1977 World Cup results are available on the archives page.

16th
The invitation for two international meets are available via the calendar page : The 1st Turin Cup and the 2013 Gutenberg Cup.
Links to the Russian and Ukranian Sports Acrobatics federations websites have been added on the corresponding links page.

More results are available on the archives page.

19th

More results are available on the archives page.

26th
The first 2013 results are those from the Klokan Cup.
The Open Baltic Kinder and Irtyshskiye Zory have added on the calendar page.
Results from 1993 are now available on the archives page.

March 2013 :

2nd
The invitation for the Winobranie tournament has been added on the calendar page.
More IFSA results have been added on the archives page.

9th
Acro Newsletter
The first Acro Newsletter for this olympic cycle is available on the F.I.G. website.

19th
The results from the Maia World Cup, the Maia International Acro Cup, the US Acro Cup and the 2012 French Championships have been added.

24th
The invitation for the Waldviertel-Cup has been added on the calendar page.

April 2013 :

5th
The archives page now has results for every IFSA competition ever organized! Some of them are partial results, if you have results that are missing on this page please consider sendding them to me.

13th
Four new meets are added on the results page: the Stars above the Bough River, the Traditionsturnier, the Acro Cup in Albershausen and the Flanders International Acro Cup.

19th
2013-2016 Rules
The ACRO Code of Points, updated after the Intercontinental Judges' Course, is now available on the F. I.G. website.

25th
The international Competition in Tallinn, EST has been added on the calendar page.
The results of the International Tournament in Warsau, POL are available on the results page.
I am still working on the archives page. The missing results from the 1986 World Championships have bee added, many thanks to Sandrine Bouvet for finding them. The 1989 World Cup/European Championships are now in the latin alphabet.

May 2013 :

7th
The results of the Asian Championships and the 2012 Polish National Championships are available on this website.

12th
New Athletes' Commission delegate
The Athletes' delegates are now voting members of the FIG Technical Committee for their respective discipline. Since there can only be one member per country in each Technical Committee, Sabrina Hegele had to resign from her position when Frank Böhm was elected member of the ACRO TC.
The elections to replace Sabrina were held at the FIG World Cup in Sofia (BUL) and Alya Ahmadova from Azerbaidjan has been elected as the FIG Athletes' Commission ACRO delegate. We wish her success in her new position.

22th
The Sharlene Slater International Cup (with invitation) has been added on the calendar page.
New results : The World Cup in Sofia and World ranking; the Sofia International Cup; the German and Portuguese Championsips.

25th
The Australian National Club Championships has been added on the calendar page. This competition is also open to international athletes and includes open age group competitions.

27th
The results of the International Spring Tournament to commemorate Henryk Chmielewski are available on the results page.

June 2013 :

5th
The results of the International Waldviertel Cup and the Geneva International Acro Cup are available on the results page.
The 2014 Geneva International Acro Cup has been added on the calendar page.

12th
The results of the Polish Seniors National Championships are available on the results page.
The UEG training Camp has been cancelled. The calendar page is updated accordingly.

July 2013 :

6th
The Dutch National Championships has been added on the results page.
The Breda Open Acrobatics Cup is the latest addition on the calendar page.

17th
The first European Games.
At the 41st EOC General Assembly in Rome (ITA) on 7-8 December of 2012, the 49 National Olympic Committees of Europe voted in favor of creating the European Games. The first edition will be help in June 2015 in Baku (AZE).
In an interview published by the UEG, Laurie Colton mentions the inclusion of the Acrobatic Gymnastics in the European Games as "the most important and fullfilling event during my career with Acrobatics".
This is indeed great news for our sport. Rendez-vous in Baku in June 2015!

30th
The British Tournament is now the Pat Wade Classic and the invitation is on the FIG calendar. My own calendar page is updated accordingly.

August 2013 :

4th
The World Games have been added on the results page and the archive pages.
The 2014 Winti Cup has been added on the calendar page.

September 2013 :

1st
The European Championships.
The European Championships are fast approaching. The definive entries are on the UEG website and the nominative entries are due September 25. The Championships official website is also online.

6th
The first Thermi Acro Cup has been added on the calendar page.

12th
The Winobranie Tournament and the US National Championships have been added on the results page.
The Zeestern Trials have been added on the calendar page.
The Kristin Allen Foundation is now the Acrobatic Gymnastics Foundation. The links page has been updated accordingly.

13th
The 3 World Cup events for 2014 have been added on the calendar page.

22nd
The 2014-2017 UEG Acro TC candidates
It is in the frame of the 25th Assembly which will be held in Portorož (SLO), December 6 to 7, that the UEG will renew its authorities for a new 4-year cycle, 2014 - 2017. The UEG published the lists of candidates for these elections.
Here below are the candidates for the next UEG technical committee for Acrobatic Gymnastics.

TC President
- Ms. Carine Charlier        FRA    New
TC Members
- Ms. Carine Charlier        FRA    Former
- Mr. Bernardo Graca Tomas   POR    Former
- Ms. Kerstin Hoffman        GER    Former
- Ms. Halyna Kovalchuk       UKR    Former
- Mr. Dmitrii Vinnikov       RUS    Former
- Ms. Urszula Wojtkowiak     POL    Former
- Mr. Nikolay Ivanov         BUL    New
- Ms. Melanie Sanders        GBR    New
- Ms. Zhanna Yushko          BLR    New

24th
Partial results of the Volkov Cup have been added on the results page.
The 2nd Turin Acro Cup has been added on the calendar page.

October 2013 :

5th
The 2014 World Championships
The website akrobastisch.de just announced that the 2014 World Championships and World Age Group Competitions will be organised during the first 2 weeks of Juli in Paris, France.
Let's hope the FIG and the French Gymnastique Federation will soon make an official announcement with the exact dates.

12th
The European Championships.
The nominative entries for the European Championships and the European Age Group Games are availale are on the UEG website.

23rd
The results of the EAGC have been added on the results page.

November 2013 :

5th
The European Championships have been added on the results and the archives pages.
The Winobranie Tournament has been added on the calendar page.

8th
The 2014 Grand Prix of Poland and Stars Above the Boug River have been added on the calendar page.

14th
The 1973 IFSA Congress minutes have been added on the archives page.
The 2014 World Championships dates, as published on ffgym.com, have been added o n the calendar page.

23rd
40 years!
This November marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the International Sports Acrobatics Federation. The Constituent Congress was held on November 22-23, 1973 in Moscow with participants from Bulgaria, Cuba, Eastern and Western Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, the USA, the USSR an one observer from Yugoslavia.
Mr Stoil Sotirov was then elected President of the IFSA and he kept this position until, 25 years later, the 1998 Congress approved the federation merger within the FIG.
During its 25 years of existence, the federation organised World Championships, World Cups and European Championships in both Acrobatic Gymnastics (then known as Sports Acrobatics) and Tumbling. It received the olympic recognition in 1985 but never managed to have its disciplines included in the Olympic Games program. Sports Acrobatics was first included in the World Games program in its 3rd edition in 1993 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Other notable milestones include the 60th anniversary of the Polish Sports Acrobatics Federation celebrated last year, and 65 years of Acrobatic Gymnastics in Rzeszów, Poland which will be celebrated during the Grand Prix of Poland, November 22-24, 2013.

More past and future events can be found on the results and the calendar pages.

29th
FIG News
Some of the decisions made by the FIG Executive Committee during its meeting November 21-22, 2013 affect the Acrobatic Gymnastics :
 - The 24^th Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships 2014 will be held in Levallois (FRA), July 10 - 12.
 - Following the World Games in Cali, the Acrobatic Gymnastics Technical Committee proposed modifications to its Code of Points. The Executive Committee approved them and they will come into force as of May 1, 2014.

30th
A video from the 1^st World Championships is available on youtube. A link to this movie has been added on the arch ives page.
The Grand Prix and the Pat Wade Classic are available on the results page.

December 2013 :

4th
Several meets have been added on the calendar page.
The results from the Breda Open Acro Cup can be found on the results page.
Some new links have been added or updated on the links and the federations pag es.

9th
The 2014-2017 UEG Acro TC

The UEG authorities elections for the 2014-2017 cycle were held during its 25th Congress in Portorož (SLO), December 6 to 7, 2013.

- Mr. Bernardo Graca Tomas   POR    Former
- Ms. Kerstin Hoffmann       GER    Former
- Ms. Halyna Kovalchuk       UKR    Former
- Ms. Melanie Sanders        GBR    New
- Mr. Dmitrii Vinnikov       RUS    Former
- Ms. Urszula Wojtkowiak     POL    Former

The invitation to the 2014 International Gutenberg Cup can be found on the calendar page. The 2013 events have been removed from this page.
The Zwinger Acro Cup results have been added on the results page.

13th
The 3rd Acro Newsletter

The third Acro Newsletter for this olympic cycle is available on the F.I.G. website.
It includes, among other things, the changes to the Code of Points approved by the FIG Executive Committee during its November meeting. These affect the additional value for difficulty above 10, and some execution and artistry deductions. They will be effective June 1st, 2014.
2014-01-03 : new link on the FIG temporary website.

18th
The May 4th week-end will be a busy one. Check it out on the calendar page.

2014

January 2014 :

3rd
The 2014 World Championships
As confirmed in the latest FIG Acro newsletter and on the FIG website, the 2014 World Championships will be held in Levallois-Perret which is in the north-western suburbs of Paris. The World Age Group Competitions are scheduled for June 29th - July 6th with the competition held on July 2nd - 5th and the World Championships will follow July 6th - 13th with competition days set for July 10th - 12th.

5th
A new website for the FIG
The FIG is working on a new design for its website and, in the meantime, shows temporary webpages.
Unfortunately, this means that several links here above are not working anymore. Sorry about that.

22nd
The first European Games
The UEG announced it is proposing an original format for the gymnastics competitions during the first European Games. All six disciplines will share the podium and alternate during the same session.
A test event will be organized beginning 2015 to allow everyone involved to become familiar with this new concept.
source.

February 2014 :

2nd
The Klokan Cup and some national competitions are added on the calendar page.
The 1st European Games website is added on the links page.

21st
Some news from the FIG
A Q and A with Rosy Taeymans, FIG Acrobatic Technical Committee President was published on February 12.
The FIG announced that Konrad Zielinski turned 80 on February 19th. Happy birthday Konrad!
The "Stars above the Boug River" competition has been cancelled due to the current unrest in Ukraine. www.fedintgym.com/site/node/45.

25th
Updated Code Of Points
The third Acro newsletter announced modification to the Code of Points effective June 1st, 2014. The updated version of the Code of Points is available on the FIG website, in the rules section.
Surf to the rules section and click on "Acrobatic Gymnastics.
In the ACRO CoP 2013-2016 raw, do not believe the "Updated 17 APR 2013" mention, click on the "EN" and you'll receive the January 2014 version.

28th
Acro Newsletter Nr 4
The Acrobatics Gymnastics Newsletter Nr 4 is available on the FIG website.
It announces that Acrobatic Gymnastics will be part of the opening ceremony of the 2014 FIFA football (soccer) World Cup, on June 12 in Sao Polo (BRA).
It also includes a report of the level 1 FIG academy in South Africa and a call from the FIG media team to promote Acro whenever we can.

March 2014 :

8th
The 2014 World Championships
The provisional registrations for the World Championships and the World Age Group Competitions are available on the FIG website. They can be accessed via the calendar.
23 countries sent registrations for the World Championships and 33 for the WAGC.
For the World Championships, if all the registrations are confirmed, there will be 10 womens' pairs, 12 men's pairs, 21 mixed pairs, 25 womens' groups and 15 mens' groups.

10th
The Maia International Acro Cup results have been added.

April 2014 :

5th
The first European Games
Mixed pairs and women's groups only
The UEG is publishing on its website a page dedicated to the 1st European Games.
This page contains UEG news, a newsletter from the games organising committee and the qualification criteria.
These documents show that only the women's group and the mixed pairs will compete at the games.

8th
The Acro Newsletter Nr 5
The Acrobatic Gymnastics Newsletter Nr 5 is available on the FIG website.
The Technical Committee discussed the issue of stylistic variations. Its decision is included in this newsletter. You'll also find other clarifications and an article about the 40 years anniversary of Acrobatic Gymnastics and World Championships.

22nd
The 2014 World Championships
The definitive registrations for the World Championships and the World Age Group Competitions are available on the Championships official website.
For the World Championships, 3 countries, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Porto Rico, regrettably didn't confirm their provisional registration. The 20 other countries confirmed.
32 countries will take part in the World Age Group Competitions. Only Porto Rico didn't confirm its provisional registration.

May 2014 :

7th
The 2014 World Championships
The Draw of Lots are available on the FIG website and it reveals a couple surprises.
First, Porto Rico should be present with a senior men's pair and 11 gymnasts in the WAGC after all. The biggest surprise however is the sudden appearance of North Korea with a women's pair and a women's group. Looking at the 2013 Asian Championships results, no one should be shocked to see them earn a spot in the finals.

10th
Another rule change
Ahead of the Council, the FIG Executive Committee held a meeting on May 07-08 in Kuwait City (KUW). It was decided during this meeting to linit the number of elements in Acrobatic Gymnastics starting January 1, 2015.
Only 8 elements will count for difficulty in the Balance and Dynamic exercises, 10 in the Combined exercises.
The number of individual elements will be limited to 3 for the Balance and Dynamic exercises and 4 for the Combined ones.

Source.

June 2014 :

10th
The 2014 World Championships
WAGC Nominative Entries and updated documents :
The Nominative Entries for the World Age Group Competition as well as updated Workplan Appendices are available via the FIG Calendar page. The latter include the training and competition schedules.
The nominative entries include 703 gymnasts representing 33 counties which is 40 competitors less than announced in the revised definitive entries.

17th
The 2014 World Championships
WCh Nominative entries and statistics :
The Nominative Entries for the World Championships are available the FIG website.
A total of 188 gymnasts representing 21 countries are registered. However, the current version has no women's pair or mixed pair for Great Britain and the rumor is that these are incomplete and a corrected version should be published later.

WAGC : No more tickets for the finals :
According to the official webiste for the World Championships, all the tickets for the World Age Group finals have been sold.
While this can be seen as a good thing for the sport in general, it can also be a bad news for the gymnasts families who didn't buy their ticket yet.

July 2014 :

1st
The 2014 World Championships
As for every major FIG competition, the international federation has developped a "mini site" for the World Age Group Competitions and one for the World Championships.
Surf there and to the organizers website for the latest news about these events.

9th
The World Age Group Competitions have been added on the results page.

19th
The 2015 European Games Qualifications
Following the World Championships in Levallois-Perret (FRA), the UEG published the counties who qualified for the first European Games. You can find them on their European Games page.
EDITED TO ADD (7/30): In the Mixed Pairs category, only 9 European countries competed at the Senior World Championships. However, rules were established to ensure the qualification of 11 countries. Azerbaijan, as the host country, benefits from these rules. Bulgaria didn't have a senior mixed pair in Levallois but their 13-19 pair competing at the WAGC gives this country the last qualifying spot.
In the Women's Groups category, Poland ended the World Championships qualifications as the 11th European country. Because Azerbaijan was part of the top 10 and was guaranteed a spot as the host country, Poland also gets to send a trio to the European Games.
The next step is for the National Olympic Committees to confirm the use of the allocated spots. They have until August 3rd, 2014 to do so.

The level 2 Academy in Panama has been added on the calendar page.
The World Championships have been added on the results and the archives pages.
The results page also includes the results from the 2nd Turin Acro Cup.

30th
The US National Championships is the newest addition on the results page.
The invitation for Breda and a new meet in Finland have been added on the calendar page.

August 2014 :

1st
3 World Cups in 2015
According to the official FIG calendar, 3 category B World Cups Acro will be organised in 2015. The first one can be called a classic as the World Cup is returning for the 4th year in a row to Maia (POR) on March 6-8. The two others will be held back to back on May 7-9 and 14-16 in Varna (BUL) and Geneva (SUI) respectively.

3rd
Judge sanctionned
On July 7th, 2014 the FIG published the following information :

The FIG Disciplinary Commission suspended Acrobatic Gymnastics Category I Judge Mr. Joao Carvalho (POR) for one year for grave faults in his function as Chair of Judges Panel occurred during the 2014 FIG Acro World Cup held in Maia, Portugal, between March 7 and 9, 2014.
The judge was found guilty to have intentionally or with gross negligence overseen two grave errors of his compatriots, thus showing twice a very significant bias behaviour in favour of his competitors. Mr. Carvalho is also accused not to have intervened in the case of an impossible score.
Mr. Carvalho is excluded, pursuant to Article 43.2(e) of the FIG Statutes, from participating in any FIG activities and other international events for a period of 12 months commencing on 8 July 2014.
Mr. Carvalho has the right to appeal the decision rendered by the FIG Disciplinary Commission to the FIG Appeal Tribunal within 21 days.

19th
2016 World Championships allocated to Putian, China
The next Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships will be held in March or April 2016 in the city of Putian, China.
The FIG President, the Chinese Gymnastics Association President and the Vice Mayor of Putian signed the corresponding contract this Monday August 18th, 2014.

Source : FIG news.

19th
Towards a Youth Olympic festival including Acro and Aerobic?
At the end of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, FIG President Prof. Bruno Grandi pleaded in favor of a Youth Olympic Festival that would include all the FIG disciplines i.e. Acro and Aerobic as well as the Olympic disciplines.
Prof. Grandi has recently been nominated to the Youth Olympic Games Commission and he will be able to push his ideas there but it remains to be seen whether they will be adopted by the IOC.

Source : FIG news.

Septembre 2014 :

6th
Acro gymnasts compete at America's Got Talent
Acro Army, a group of acro gymnasts including World bronze medalist mixed pair Kiley Boynton and Ryan Ward, are competing at America's Got Talent season 9.
The troupe directed by 2002 and 2004 Mixed Pair World Champion Arthur Davis qualified for the Top 12 Finals. The last two rounds of competition are scheduled for Tuesdays September 9 and 16.

Videos of their performances are available on youtube and on their own website : www.acroarmy.com.
2014-09-11: Acro Army is advancing to the top 6 final. They will compete on Tuesday September 16 for a chance to win $1 million and a professionally produced show in Las Vegas.
A video of their Top 12 performance is available here.

13th
Results from Riesa and Zielona Gora are now available on this website.

19th
US Acro gymnasts rock it on TV
Last Saturday, British actor Bobby Lockwood won Tumble, a BBC show where celebrities have to learn gymnastics with the help of a coach and a "pro-partner". Lockwood's pro-partner was 2009 World Games and 2010 World Championships mixed pair champion Kristin Allen (USA).
Here is a video of their final performance. More information about this show can be found here.

Just a few days later Acro Army finished at the third place in the TV show America's Got Talent. Even though they didn't win the group made a huge promotion for our sport in the US. Let's hope this translates into more kids saying "I want to do that" and more gyms giving them that opportunity by adding Acro to their offering.
Videos of their performances during the final and the results show can be found here, here and here.

25th
The World Cup in Great Britain is cancelled.
The last World Cup of 2014, scheduled for November 15 & 16 in Stoke-on-Trent (GBR) has been cancelled. The Age Group competition will still go ahead as planned.

Octobre 2014 :

2nd
The Varna International Acro Cup has been added on the calendar page.
The World Cup in Great Britain has been cancelled, the current 2014 World Ranking is therefore final and is published on the results page.

21st
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 6
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 6 is available on the FIG website.
It contains important information about the limitation in the number of elements, a reminder about the competition attire and much more.
The results of the German National Championships for juniors 1 and seniors have been added.
The dates of the 2016 World Championships are mentionned in the Acro Newsletter 6. The calendar page has been updated accordingly.

22nd
The 2015 calendar is taking shape. More meets will be added in the future as I learn about them.

Novembre 2014 :

2nd
More detailed dates for the 2016 World Championships and World Age Group Competitions are available on the FIG calendar. The calendar page has been updated accordingly.

14th
The 2015 Gutenbergpokal has been added on the calendar page.
The Rheinland-Pfalz federation has been added on the links page.

2nd
More detailed dates for the 2016 World Championships and World Age Group Competitions are available on the FIG calendar. The calendar page has been updated accordingly.

Decembre 2014 :

11th
Clarification about the individual elements
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 6 contains important information on how to apply the limitation of elements that was approved by the FIG Executive Committee on May 7-8, 2014.
Regarding the individual elements in the combined exercise, it mentions : "All individual elements in a series must be declared on the tarif sheet and will receive difficulty. If an individual element is repeated, or not declared, the element(s) that follow are also given no difficulty."
Here below is an example to clarify this rule :
- Cat 2: Round off, Flic, back tuck (everthing is ok)
- Cat 1: Round off, straight salto to split (because the round off is a repetition, the salto to split will not count for difficulty).

Hoping some of you will find this example useful.

Acro on "The Hard Way To Success"
The Hard Way To Success is a Dutch website and a Youtube Channel posting video interviews of gymnasts.
For their latest episode, they interviewed the Acrobatic Gymnastics trio from Belgium Julie Van Gelder, Ineke Van Schoor and Kaat Dumarey. Enjoy!

16th
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 7
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 7 is available on the FIG website.
It contains technical deduction tables, clarifications on difficulty and technical deductions as well as answers to questions asked to the ACRO-TC.

21th
The first AGU Acro-TC
During it's 12^th congress, the Asian Gymnastics Union held elections to renew their authorities. These elections created the first AGU Acrobatic Technical Committee.
The elected members are Mr. Masaaki ISOMAE (JPN) for the East Asian Zone and Mr. Abdullah JAN (PAK) for the Central South Asian Zone. No member were elected for the South East Asian and West Asian Zones.
Mrs. Aigul BIYEKENOVA (KAZ) was re-elected as the TC President. She was already working as the ACRO President during the previous cycle but had no committee to lead.

In the name of the ACRO community, we wish the newly elected committee a fruitful tenure. Let's hope it will help grow the Acrobatic Gymnastics in Asia and increase the number of countries participating in international competitions.

24th
Federation merger in Poland
On January 1st, 2015, the Polish Sports Acrobatics Federation will merge within the Polish Gymnastics Federation.
After almost two years of negociation with the Gymnastics federation, an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Polish Sports Acrobatics Association, convened on December 14, 2014, and its Delegates voted to dissolve on December 31,2014. The same day, the Polish Gymnastics Association voted a modification of its statute to add the Acrobatic Gymnastics, Trampoline and other disciplines.

We wish all involved in Acro, Tumbling and Trampoline in Poland a successful merger.
Thank you to Gizela Zielinska who sent me the information.
Sources (in polish) : PZAS - PSG

2015

January 2015 :

4th
Following the announced merger in Poland, the links and the federations pages have been updated to point to the Polish Gymnastics Federation website.
Other national and international meets have been added on the calendar page.

8th
The calendar page now includes the Galicia Open Cup.

21st
The 2015 World Cup
The definitive registrations for the World Cup stage in Maia (POR) and the provisional entries for those in Varna (BUL) and Geneva (SUI) are available on the FIG website.
The provisional entries promise a strong attendance for the last 2 stages with 11 WP, 22 MxP, 17 MP, 19 WG and 9 MG coming from 16 countries for the stage in Bulgaria and 11 WP, 15 MxP, 16 MP, 19 WG and 10 MG representing 14 countries for the one in Switzerland.
The provisional entries for Maia were also promising but, unfortunately, the definitive entries show a steep decline in the number of participants with "only" 9 countries sending a total of 2 WP, 10 MxP, 7 MP, 7 WG and 2 MG. For the women's pairs and the men's groups, this means that no World Cup Points will be given at the Portuguese stage.
The definitive entries for the two other stages are due 2 months prior to the event, let's hope we won't see a similar decline in the number of participants.

22nd
The 2021 World Games : Birmingham, USA
The Executive Board of the International World Games Association (IWGA) decided to attribute the organisation of the 2021 World Games to Birmingham, USA.
The decision is subject to successful negotiation of contractual conditions, and subsequent confirmation by the IWGA's Annual General Meeting in April 2015.

Source : Official Announcement.

31st
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 8
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 8 is available on the FIG website.
It contains some clarifications and additional values for the 720° diamidov.

Athlete Representative resignation
Alya Ahmadova (AZE) resigned of her function as athletes' representative for Acrobatic Gymnastics. Consequently, the FIG EC decided that her successor will be elected by the athletes during the 2016 World Championships.
Source : EC Official News.

February 2015 :

18th
The invitations for the meets in Turin (ITA), Bristol (GBR) and Tyne&Wear (GBR) can be found on the calendar page.

March 2015 :

3rd
Four international meets were organised in early 2015. It is time to publish their results.
The Ciudad de Granada meet and the UEG Training Camp have been added on the calendar page.

31st
The level 1 Academy in Ecuador has been added on the calendar page.
The results from the 1st World Cup, the MIAC and the European Games Test Event are available on this website.

April 2015 :

14th
The ArtGym Company wins Got Talent Portugal
Acro coach Lourenco Franca from the Acro Clube da Maia created the ArtGym Company with his high level gymnasts and the troupe went on to compete in the "Got Talent Portugal" show on the Portuguese TV channel RPT1.
They competed all the way to the finals broadcasted on April 12 and ended up the winners of the 2015 season. All our congratulations to the troupe and their coaches for this terrific achievement!

References :
Their finals routine
Their facebook page

18th
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 9
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 9 is available on the FIG website.
It contains clarifications and corrections as well as another reminder about the size of the skirts. It also reports a decision made by the FIG that the 0.3 tolerance between the scores is no longer required.

May 2015 :

2nd
2 Acro troupes in Belgium's Got Talent finals
Two different Acro troupes made it to this year Belgium's Got Talent finals.
This May 1st, "Art Acrobatics", the trio of Kaat Dumarey, Ineke Van Schoor and Julie Van Gelder impressed the judges with their routine inspired by the Avatar movie. 2 weeks prior, a group of 10 gymnasts from the club TK Werchter did exactly the same with their Hercules themed routine. This is the first time that 2 Acro troupes make it to a "Got Talent" final.
They will both compete for this year title on May 15.

Links to videos of their performances in the semi-finals :
TK Werchter
Art Acrobatics

7th
How to follow the Varna World Cup
The Acro World Cup in Varna together with a WAG/MAG Challenger Cup starts today.
The Bulgarian television will broadcast parts of the competitions with no internet video stream for those sessions. The only session with Worldwide livestreaming will be the Men's Pairs and Women's Groups finals on May 9th between 14:45 and 17:15 local time. The livestream will be available on http://tv.bnt.bg/bntworld/. You can check the local time in Varna here.
The workplan is available here and more information can be found on the World Cup website.

16th
2 Acro troupes in Belgium's Got Talent finals
The 2 acro troupes competed in the final on Friday May 15 but neither got the chance to win.
Here are the links to their routines :
TK Werchter
Art Acrobatics

23rd
The European Games
Following the registration process between the organising committee and the national olympic committees, the athletes participating in the 1st European Games are known. The nominative entries for Acro are available here, those for the other gymnastics disciplines are on the UEG website.

During its Extraordinary General Assembly in Belek (TUR) on May 16th, the European Olympic Committee (EOC) approved in principle the Netherlands as hosts of the second European Games in 2019.
The Dutch Olympic Committee plans a nation-wide event, making the most of existing infrastructure. The EOC Executive Committee and the Dutch NOC will continue negotiations to finalise the plan for the Games.

June 2015 :

10th
The European Games

2015
Acro is in the spotlight on the UEG website with an interview of the Belgian Women's Group ahead of the European Games.
The Acro competitions are scheduled for June 17, 19 and 21.
More information is available on the event page on the UEG website, as well as on the official website of the European Games and on the European Olympic Committees website.

2019
The Dutch government has decided not to proceed with its interest in hosting the 2019 European Games. The EOC will now look for another host.
source : EOC website.

17th
The UEG has an interview of Marina Chernova.

After the qualifications Russia and Belgium are leading in both the Mixed Pairs and the Women's Groups. Complete results are available here and in the results section

22nd
The European, Asian and World Championships Directives
The directives for the 2015 European Championships and Age group Competitions in Riesa, Germany have been published on the UEG website.

The directives for the 2016 World Championships and Age Group Competitions can be downloaded from the FIG website.
The 11-16 will arrive on March 20th to compete on March 23rd, 24th and the other age groups will arrive on March 24th and compete on March 27th-29th. The seniors competitions are scheduled for April 1st-3rd.

The complete results from the European Games are now available.

July 2015 :

16th
The first Pan-American Championships.
This last June, the Pan American Gymnastics Union (PAGU) authorized the Puertorican Gymnastics Federation to organize the 1st ACRO Pan-American Championships. The competition is set for October 6-12, 2015.

This is an important step towards universality as ACRO can now claim having three different continental Championships. We thank the Puertorican Federation and PAGU for this initiative.

2015-07-18 Edited to add:
The Puerto Rico Acro Cup (PRAC) is organized at the same time. This competition is open to any team worldwide with an authorization letter from their respective federation.

18th
The 1st Pan-American Championships and Puerto Rico Acro Cup Directives and forms are available via the calendar page.

August 2015 :

16th
On a personal note.
30 years ago this month, my dear friend Philippe asked me the one question that would change my life forever.
He was the acro teacher at the circus school of Brussels and told me about a coaches course his boss wanted him to attend. He then asked "Can you come with me?". Little did we know that I was up to discover the Acrobatic Gymnastics and fall in love with it.
This may sound inconsequential to you but this website wouldn't exist hadn't he ask me this simple question. So, thank you Philippe!

The Youth Olympic Games
Earlier this year, The FIG EC included the Acrobatic Mixed Pairs into their YOG program with an age limit of 15-19. This program has to be approved by the International Olympic Committee to become effective. The next Youth Olympic Games are scheduled for 2018 in Buenos Aires (ARG)
Source : FIG Bulletin 233

29th
The European Championships
The European Age Group Competitions and the European Championships will be organised from September 25 to October 4 in Riesa, Germany.
The work plans and drawing of lots for these competitions are available on the UEG website. According to the latter, acro-gymnasts from 27 countries will take part in the Age Group Competitions while 19 countries will be represented at the European Championships. The distribution per age group and event, which is detailed in the here below table, is based on the definitive entries The nominative entries for both competitions are due by September 3rd.
The competitions have their event site where you can find information about tickets, livestream and more.

	WP / DF	MxP / DMx	MP / DM	WG / GF	MG / GM
11-16	25	17	9	32	-
12-18	20	17	15	32	10
Juniors	11	12	-	20	5
Seniors	7	12	11	13	7

Septembre 2015 :

12th
The first Pan-American Championships.
The definitive entries for the 1^st Pan-American Championships are available on the Fig Website.
Five counties will participate, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA and the host Puerto Rico. The biggest competitions will be in the Women's Pairs 11-16 with 7 pairs from 4 countries, the Women's Groups 12-18 with 6 trios representing 3 countries and the Women's Groups 11-16 with 4 groups, also from 3 countries.

17th
The Asian Championships
The Asian Championships will be held September 17-19, 2015 in Hangzhou, China. This competition will also serve as a preparation for the next World Championships which will also be organized in China next year.
The Definitive Registrations are available on the AGU website. Gymnasts from 6 countries, namely China, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are registered in this competition for Seniors and the 11-16 age group.
Although they took part in the 2013 Asian Championships, Iran and Kyrgyzstan sadly didn't send registrations this year. With a member in the AGU Acro Technical Committee, one could have expected a first participation from Pakistan but this won't be the case. Let's hope these 3 countries and others will be present for the next edition.
With the home advantage, China is the main favorite and has the biggest delegation with one or 2 pairs/groups in every event except the seniors mixed pairs. After an impressive performance at the 2014 World Championships, North Korea comes back strong with one pair/group in each senior event as well as a Women's Pair and a Women's Group in the 11-16. Kazakhstan has a full team in the 11-16 age group and 2 Men's Pairs and a Mixed Pair in the Senior category. 17 year after their last appearance at a World Championships, Japan makes a timid come back into Acro with one 11-16 Women's Pair.

18th
The Continental Championships
This week marked the start of a busy month for the Acrobatic Gymnastics with 3 Continental Championships in jut 4 weeks.
The Asian Championships started this Thursday. The AGU is posting pictures on its Facebook page and reports on its website. It seems (not sure since I cannot read chinese) that there will be a live streaming on Saturday 9/19 at 15:00 local time on http://gymnastics.sport.org.cn/live/index.html.
The Europeans will be next with the Age Group Competitions starting on Septembre 25. The UEG has published the nominative entries and an interview with Tim Sebastian from Germany on their website. They also created a event page on facebook.
The organizers will provide a live streaming, go to this page for a link to it.
As the European teams and officials go back home, those from the Americas wil l be travelling to Puerto Rico for their Continental Championships. The organizers created an event site with, among other information, the training and competition schedule.

Sportsacrobatics.info will be present at the Pan-American Championships and will publish reports and pictures of the competitions.

23rd
The Asian Championships are done and the results are in. Thank you to the FIG for publishing them.

Octobre 2015 :

1st
The Acro Newsletter Nr. 10
Following their meeting in Las Vegas (USA) on August 30 - September 3,2015, The FIG Acro TC published the 10^th Acro Newsletter of this cycle.
You can find it here.

9th

The first Pan-American Championships - Day 1. The Pan-American Championships began this Friday October 9, 2015 in Caguas (PUR) with the first routines in all 3 age groups and the seniors followed by the opening ceremony. Gymnasts from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA and the host country Puerto Rico are battling for the first ever Pan-American Champions titles in Acrobatic Gymnastics. During the opening ceremony, Tonya Case, vice-president of the FIG Technical Committee emphasised how important this competition is not only for the participating countries and for the Pan-American Union but also for the Acrobatic Gymnastics worldwide mentioning "The olympics look for sports with continental championships in every continent". She then thanked all the people present and especially the organizers who made the competition possible. In the events with several countries competing, the USA took the lead after the first routine. The gymnasts will perform their second routine on Saturday October 10, 2015 with the finals scheduled the next day. The live streaming is provided by AcrogymTV and the live scores by ScoreExpress.

10th

The first Pan-American Championships - Day 2. During the second day of competitions, most of the gymnasts confirmed their rankings acquired yesterday. Some of the performances showed during the qualifications were of a high level, for many gymnasts these championships also serve as a preparation for the next World Championships to be help in China in late March and early April next year. Tomorrow, only 2 pairs/groups per country per event will advance to the finals. In the 11-16 Women's pair, Canada is in the best position to join the USA on the podium but Mexico is not far behind and could jump ahead. In other events, the USA are followed by Brazil and Puerto Rico. Tomorrow will tell if this order will be maintained on the podiums and the medals tally.

11th

The Puerto Rico Acro Cup. A competition for beginners and gymnasts who were out of age to compete in the Championships was organised in the mornings. Some of the gymnasts who competed there hope to be present at the next World Championships. The Puertorican gymnastics federation plans on organizing the Puerto Rico Acro Cup again next year and every other year after that. The second edition will be added on the calendar on this website as soon as the dates are confirmed. Consider yourself invited!

The first Pan-American Championships - The Finals.
The Pan-American Championships were honored with the presence of the president of the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee today.
The finals were of a high level and the USA confirmed they were the team to beat. In the 11-16 Women's pairs, Canada perform a very well done exercise to claim the silver medal with the USA taking the first and third places. Starting in 4th position before the finals, the 11-16 women's group from Puerto Rico scored higher than one of the groups from Brazil to claim the bronze medal. The other trio from Brazil got silver and the USA gold.

The medal tally is the following :

Country/pays	Gold/or	Silver/argent	Bronze	Total
USA	10	3	1	14
Brazil	2	2	1	5
Puerto Rico	1		1	2
Canada		1		1

15th
The Pan-American Championships results are available via the results and the archives pages.
The 2017 European Championships and a FIG Academy in Australia are the latest additions on the calendar page.

Novembre 2015 :

12th
More photos from the 1st Pan-American Championships have been added.

26th
Thanksgiving update :
Thank you to Gizela Zielinska for sending me the results of the Grand Prix and the Wars & Sawa competitions.
Thank you to Martin Graw who sent me information about 2016 competitions for my calendar page.

Decembre 2015 :

4th
The 2016 registrations
The definitive registration for the World Cup in Puurs, BEL and the provisional registration for the World Cup in Maia, POR, the World Age Group Competitions and the World Championships are available on the FIG website.

The definitive entries for both the World Age Group Competitions and the World Championships are due January 6, 2016.

9th
The 2018 World Championships
Nineteen years after the first FIG World Championships in Acrobatic Gymnastics (It was still called Sports Acrobatics then), the competition is returning to Belgium.
The FIG Executive Committee decided during its meeting held december 6-8,2015 to award the 2018 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships to the Belgian Gymnastics Federation and the city of Antwerp. According to the Flemish Federation website, the Championships and the World Age Group Competitions will be held at the beginning of April, during the Easter school holidays.

The calendar page has been updated with the 2018 World Championships and several 2016 National Championships.

2016

January 2016 :

9th
The 2016 registrations
The definitive registration for the World Cup in Maia, POR, the World Age Group Competitions and the World Championships are available on the FIG website.
For all three competitions, the number of entries is substantially reduced compared to the provisional entries.

The number of gymnasts registered for the World Age Group Competitions is reduced from 832 to, what some might call a more manageable, 559. The number of federations however increase from 31 to 34. Compared to the Provisional entries, Hungary is missing but small delegations from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hong Kong, and Mexico were added.
The first week, 30 Women's Pairs, 17 Mixed Pairs, 7 Men's Pairs, 25 Women's Groups and 5 Men's Groups will compete in the 11-16 Age Group. A few days later, 19 Women's Pairs, 24 Mixed Pairs, 10 Men's Pairs, 27 Women's Groups and 7 Men's Groups in the 12-18 Age Group and 10 Women's Pairs, 12 Mixed Pairs, 7 Men's Pairs, 21 Women's Groups and 5 Men's Groups in the 13-19 Age Group will fight for the medals.

Some broken links have been removed.

17th
The 2016 registrations
The nominative registration for the World Cup in Puurs, BEL are available on the FIG website.

The invitation in english for the competitions in Swidnica is on the calendar page.

February 2016 :

11th
How to follow the FIAC and the World Cup in Puurs
The competitions for the first World Cup of the year start this Thursday February 11th,2016. The information for the World Cup can be found on the FIG website.
The information for the FIAC which is organized with the World Cup can be found on the organizers' website and a live streaming is also available on that website.

The Level 2 Academy in Ecuador is added on the calendar page.

18th
The first results of the year include the World Cup in Puurs, the FIAC and the Klokan Cup.
The UEG Training Camp and the "Ciudad de Granada" have been added on the calendar page.

26th
Worlds
World Age Group Competitions : The Workplan and the Nominative Entries are available.
World Championships : The workplan is available.

March 2016 :

4th
Worlds
The nominative registrations for the World Championships are available on the F.I.G. website.
12 Women's Pairs, 13 Mixed Pairs, 11 Men's Pairs, 13 Women's groups and 9 Men's groups will compete for the World titles as well as the qualifications for the 2017 World Games.

11th
The Maia International Acro Cup
The Maia International Acro Cup is considered one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Acro Trounament.
For its 10th edition, the competition broke new records, welcoming more than 1,000 participants (counting the gymnasts, coaches and judges) representing more than 60 delegations from 21 countries and 3 continents. For two countries, Chile and Mozambique, it was their first time ever in an Acrobatic Gymnastics competition, both thanks to the amazing work done in FIG Academies all around the World.

Thank you to Lourenço França for sending me the information in this report.

16th
How to follow the 2016 World Championships
The FIG has published a who's who and a mini site for the World Championships.
The World Age Group Competitions also has its mini site.

The World Championships finals will be live streamed on the FIG Youtube Chanel.
For those who can read German, Sebastian Schipfel is traveling to Putian and will report on akrobastisch.de
03-18-2016 EDITED TO ADD the youtube link.
03-21-2016 EDITED TO ADD the WAGC mini site.

The results from Maia and Swidnica have been posted.
The invitation for the Gutenberg-Cup is available via the calendar page.

29th
The WAGC lacking coverage
I usually don't post commentaries or opinions on this website but a word has to be said about the FIG coverage of the current World Age Group Competitions or actually the total lack thereof. No start list, no pictures, no reports, nothing; even if they publish the results, it is only after massive delays. As I write this the 12-18 are warming up for the finals but the FIG still hasn't publish all their results from the qualifications. It is even worse for the 13-19 Men's Pairs as their results from 2 days ago are still missing.
People who didn't make the trip have to rely on pictures of the score sheets some have published on social media. If you want to know more than the cold numbers, you'll have to rely on a report from the UEG which has nothing to do with this competition.

With 7 months to go until the electoral congress, let's hope the next FIG President will push the federation into valuing more the non-senior events in general and the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Age Group Competitions in particular.

30th
The World Age Group Competitions results books for all 3 age groups are available on the results and the archives pages.

April 2016 :

2nd
The WAGC Medal Statistics
Considering all 3 Age Groups together, 11 countries shared the available medals, with five of them receiving the gold ones.
After keeping all the gold medals for themselves in 2012 and 2014, Russia and Great Britain had to share them with 3 countries which never won gold at a World Age Group before : Belgium, Portugal and the USA. It is the first time since this type of competition began in 2001 that we got to hear 5 different national anthems.
Another first are the 2 medals won by the Netherlands, making it the 19th country to win at least one medal in at least one World Age Group Competition.

	Country/pays	Gold/or	Silver/argent	Bronze	Total
1	Russia / Russie	7	3	1	11	2
2	Great Britain / Grande Bretagne	5	5	4	14	1
3	Belgium / Belgique	2		1	3	5
4	USA	1	1	2	4	3
5	Portugal	1		3	4	4
6	Azerbaijan / Azerbaidjan		2		2	6
7	Israel		1	1	2	7
7	The Netherlands / Les Pays-Bas		1	1	2	7
9	Kazakhstan		1		1	9
10	Ukraine			1	1	10
10	Germany / Allemagne			1	1	10

5th
The World Championships verdict
The 2016 World Championships ended with a victory for China in the Mens' Group category while Russia took the other 4 gold medals. All the results are available on this website and more information can be found on the FIG website.

These championships were also the qualifying event for the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw (POL). The top five countries after the qualification round are automatically qualified and the FIG Executive Committee determines the 6th country. To ensure the participation from the host country and as many continents as possible, the FIG selected a mixed pair from Poland and the mens' group from Australia.
The list of the qualified countries is available here.

17th
A new section is being added to this website.
This statistics section contains some historical information about Acrobatic Gymnastics Competitions. So if, for example, you ever wondered which World Championships had the most participating countries or how many countries earned a medal at the European Age Group Competitions, you should find this new section useful.

May 2016 :

20th
The FIG Electoral Congress
Being an olympic year, 2016 is also an election year for the FIG. Its authorities will be renewed during its Congress October 18-20 in Tokyo (JPN).
Two persons are candidates to succede the outgoing FIG President, Bruno Grandi (ITA).

 - Mr Georges GUELZEC (FRA)
 - Mr Morinari WATANABE (JPN)

 - Mr Karl WHARTON
 - Ms Irina NIKITINA
 - Mr Yurii GOLIAK
 - Ms Wieslawa MILEWSKA

June 2016 :

1st
The FIG 2017-2020 Rules : World Cup Series
With the Olympic Games fast approaching, the FIG has been working on new rules and codes for the next four years. While waiting for the new Code of Points and Tables of Difficulty, let's focus on the Rules for the FIG World Cup Competitions and Series which where published in March.

8th
The FIG 2017-2020 Rules : The Code of Points
The new Code of Points and the WAG Rules available on the FIG website.

6/16/16 : The Tables of Difficulty are now also availble.

During the World Championships, The ACRO TC gave an introduction to the new Code of Points and Sebastian Schipfel wrote this report (in german) about it. Here below is a translation of this report which will be updated after I get a chance to read the published documents.

The goal of the TC when making the new rules was triple:
1. Growth, especially more nations in seniors,
2. Simplify the Rules
3. Rebalance the weight of the Difficulty, Technical and Artistic notes

Difficulty (not for the 11-16 Age Group)
There are no more conversion tables. The difficulty note is the difficulty value divied by 100
80 value = 0.8 points
230 value = 2.3 points

Technical note
From 10 with deductions for the errors as usual; the note is then doubled.
The goal of the TC is absolute perfection just like in diving.

Artistic note
Same requirements for the exercise but a new evaluation system: no more deductions but a positive evaluation instead.
Still the same five categories for which the judges give each between 1.0 (for inacceptable performance) and 2.0 (for excellent performance).
So the total note will be between 5.0 minimum and 10.0 maximum.

The total score is therefore:
Value/100 + Technical note x 2 + Artistic note - Penalties

Others

• The maximum number of Elements is reduced further: maximum eight Elements (also in Combined) plus maximum three Individual Elements. Elements with a lower difficulty value (f.ex. entries) do not have to be counted and described on the tariff sheet. This is explicitely also the case for the 11-16 Age Group.
• Many elements - not wanted or never shown - are removed from the Tables of Difficulty.
• The end position of a mount must be held for 3 seconds. The value of the hold is included in the value of the mount.
• A handstand is mandatory in all categories and all Age Groups.
• Singing (text) is allowed in one exercise.
• Size difference : All gymnasts are measured from the top of their head, lying down with their feet against a wall.
  Size difference is up to 30.9 centimeter : no deduction
  Between 31 and 34.9 centimeter : smaller deduction
  from 35 centimeter : larger deduction
• The special rules for the Men's groups are cancelled, in the future the same rules as the women's groups, with very few exceptions, will apply. This also relates to the elements representation in the Tables of Difficulty.
• Technical scoring : the 0.2 deductions are back. All falls will in the future uniformly receive a 1.0 deduction. All "non-falls" have maximum a 0.5 deduction.
• The tie-breaks (removed in 2012) are reintroduced.
• 10 Pairs/Groups will go to Finals when 30 or more are participating.
• For the official World Cup awards (medals, World Cup points and prize money), minimum 4 participants will be necessary (so far it was 4 countries).

23rd
New statistics about the World Games are added.

July 2016 :

2nd
The FIG 2017-2020 Rules : What's new
The new Code of Points, Tables of Difficulty and the WAG Rules available on the FIG website.

A description of the main modifications compared to the current rules is available in english, in german and in dutch in the information section.

August 2016 :

20th
FIG Executive Committee Decisions
During its meeting help August 10-12, 2016 in Rio (BRA), the FIG Executive Committee took several decisions. Those concerning ACRO are :
- The Presidential Commission and a working group are empowered to assign World Cups.
- The EC has unanimously decided to upgrade the judges brevet category of the ACRO Technical Commitee members Frank Böhm (GER) and Nikolina Histova (BUL) from category 3 to category 2.

With this decision Frank and Nikolina are now eligible to become members of the next TC. They probably will be allowed to file a late candidacy which would grant a full TC for the next cycle. My comments regarding the need for more eligible persons however remain valid.
EDITED 8/26/16 : Frank and Nikolina have indeed been added to the list of candidates for the next FIG ACRO TC.

28th
The 2017 FIG ACRO World Cups
Eight days after the Executive Committee meeting, 4 ACRO World Cup are confirmed on the FIG calendar for 2017.

The exact dates are available on the calendars on this and the FIG website.

30th
ACRO at the YOG!
Acrobatic Gymnastics Women's Groups will compete at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games!

During its meeting in Rio, Brazil, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board accepted Acro as a new discipline for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ten or 11 Women's Groups, ages 15 to 18, will be members of as many multinational and multidiscipline teams. They will compete in a multidiscipline event which will also serve as qualification for Finals in each discipline.
Many details like, for example, the competition programme and the qualification procedures still have to be decided and/or published so stay tuned for more information as it become available.
Source : FIG announcement.

Septembre 2016 :

29th
UEG Newsletter
The UEG published recently the 5th Acrobatic Gymnastics Newsletter for this cycle

It includes among other subjects, a report of the training camp held last month in Kamchia(BUL).

Octobre 2016 :

1st
A judges course in India
An international judges course in Acrobatic Gymnastics will be organised in Mumbai, India on April 3-8, 2017. This is the first time such a course is held in this country
If this means that India will soon participate in international competitions, this course is very good news for the Acrobatic Gymnastics.

How to follow the World Cup in Poland
The last ACRO World Cup of 2016 will be held in Rzeszów, Poland on Octobre 7-9 together with the Rzeszów International Acro Cup.
Just one week before the competition begins, the organisers published the World Cup Workplan, the starting order and the training and competition schedules. They also announced there will be a live-steaming of the competitions.
To get this information and follow the competition, browse to
- The organisers' website
- The FIG event page

5th
Multilingual 2017 Code of Points
The 2017 Code of Points is now also available in French, Spanish and Russian on the FIG website.

19th
The FIG elections
The elections to renew the FIG authorities for the 2017-2020 olympic cycle were held this October 19th, 2016 during the FIG congress in Tokyo, Japan.

 - Ms Rosy TAEYMANS (BEL)      President
 - Ms Irina NIKITINA (RUS)     Member
 - Ms Nikolina HRISTOVA (BUL)  Member
 - Ms Wieslawa MILEWSKA (POL)  Member
 - Mr Karl WHARTON (GBR)       Member
 - Mr Frank BÖHM (GER)         Member
 - Mr Yurii GOLIAK (UKR)       Member

The complete elections results are available on the FIG website.

24th
The ACRO Newsletter 11
The ACRO Newsletter Nr 11 has been published on the FIG website.
It contains different activity reports and clarifications to the new Code of Points and Tables of Difficulty.

The Youth Olympic Games : Mixed Pairs
As announced in the ACRO Newsletter nr 11, the 2018 Youth Olympic Games will be for Mixed Pairs instead of Women's groups as previously announced.
The age of the competitors will be 15-18 and they will use the junior rules.

Decembre 2016 :

6th
The Intercontinental Judges Course
The Acro Intercontinental Judges Course will be held on January 10-13, 2017 in Warsaw (POL).
According to the nominative entries published on the FIG Website, 39 judges from 17 countries will attend the course. Twenty one (21) of them, representing 13 countries, currently hold a level 1 or 2 brevet and have a chance to be a level 1 judge during the next cycle. Provided they all succeed, this would double the number of level 1 judges outside the Acro Technical Committee.

In the name of the Acro community, we wish all the candidates a successful co urse.

10th
10 russian acrobats and 2 coaches dead in Bus crash
On December 4, a group of young acrobatic gymnasts and their coaches were returning from a competition when their bus collided with a truck. Ten children and 2 coaches died in the accident and 19 others were hospitalized, 12 of them in intensive care.

Sources :
Global News
The Moscow Times
FIG Website

22nd
The FIG 2017-2020 Rules : A measuring tool
An example of a D.I.Y. measuring tool is available in the information section (only in english and french, sorry).

If you built your own measuring tool, please send me a picture and I'll add it on that page. Thank you.

The FIG 2017-2020 Rules
A section about the individual elements is added on the change descriptions available in english, in german and in dutch in the information section.

2017

January 2017 :

31st
The 2nd Pan-American Championships will be held in Daytona Beach, Florida. The calendar page is updated accordingly.

February 2017 :

21st
Karl Wharton receives MBE from Prince Charles
Karl Wharton has been honoured with a MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by his Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
M. Wharton, who is a british coach, judge and administrator as well as, since 2009, a member of the FIG ACRO TC, was honoured for his outstanding services to Gymnastics. More information and reactions can be found here and here.
I here offer M. Wharton my congratulations for this prestigious award and my thanks for his dedication to the Acrobatic Gymnastics.

March 2017 :

17th
FIG Honorary Member
Last month, during the transfer of power ceremony, outgoing member of the Acrobatic Gymnastics committee Ms Tonya Case (USA) was awarded the FIG Honorary member distinction.
Ms Case has been a member of the Acrobatic Gymnastics committee since the discipline joined the FIG in 1999. She served as its acting President in 2007 and 2008 and as its President during the 2009-2012 cycle.
Congratulations Ms Case, and thank you for your work and dedication to the Acrobatic Gymnastics!
Source

Intercontinental Judges Course results
It took a little over 2 months for the FIG to publish the results of the ACRO Intercontinental Judges Course but they finally are available.
Just like during the last cycle, there are only 7 level one judges from 6 different countries outside the current Technical Committee. This is a very small pool from which to choose CJPs.

29th
The information about the 2017-2020 FIG ACRO Technical Committee is available.

31st
The first results of 2017 are in.

April 2017 :

13th
The dates of the Spring Tournament in Swidnica have changed. The calendar is updated accordingly.

17th
Scientific research
A few days ago, my daily web crawling in search of anything Acro related led me to a scientific paper titled I was an acrobat, am I in pain?
This research authored by Dr Ana Úrsula Martins is based on a survey of 590 retired acrobatic gymnasts that included questions about injuries during practice years and their present impact in daily life.
This article was presented at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Conference, last March in Monaco.
Dr Martins is a doctor in medicine and an acro coach and choreographer. Lourenço França, Portugal national coach, also contributed to this study.

If you are interested in other scientific research related to Acro (or other subjects), PubMed, published by the US National Library of Medecine, can be a good starting point. This link will give the results of a search with the terms acrobatic gymnastics.

19th
FIG Newsletter 1 cycle 14
The first FIG Acro newsletter of the new cycle is available on the FIG website.

May 2017 :

31st
Updated FIG codes and tables
On May 30^th, 2017, the FIG published updated versions of the Code of Points, the World Age Group Rules and the Tables of Difficulty with all the corrections from the March 2017 Newsletter.
An updated version of the World Cup Rules was published the day before.
The updated documents can be found here.

June 2017 :

9th
The UEG President's Note 6 2017
In his Note N° 6 2017, Georges Guelzec, UEG President, renewed his commitment to the development of the acrobatic gymnastics and the other non-olympic disciplines. Writing about the integration of a new discipline discussed during the FIG Council in Baku, he notes that while he can understand the desire to expand gymnastics, he is "of the opinion that in terms of developments and the Olympic future, it is necessary to focus on the existing disciplines" adding "I'm sure the gymnasts of Aerobics, Acrobatics and Tumbling share the same vision. ... In Baku, other sirens seduced the ears of FIG.".
These comments come after M. Guelzec has been instrumental in including the acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics to the program of the 1^st European Games two years ago in, somewhat ironically, the same city. Being back in Baku probably reminded him some good memories which, in turn, might have inspired him to voice publicly his continued support for the non-olympic gymnastics disciplines.

Thank you for your commitment M. President! Please know that it is truly appreciated.

28th
New statistics about the IFSA World Championships are added.
The 2018 Flanders International Acro Cup is added on the calendar page.
The 1996 European Championships were held during the World Championships in Riesa. Their results are added with the World Championships results which can be consulted via the archives page.

July 2017 :

4th
The 2019 European Championships
The allocation of the 2019 European Championships in Acrobatic Gymnastics was at the agenda of the UEG Executive Committee meeting held in Lausanne (SUI) on June 30th and July 1st, 2017. According the the UEG Calendar they have been given to the federation of Israel and the city of Holon.
Source: UEG News and the UEG calendar.

5th
ACRO at the 2019 European Games
During its June 30 - July 1 meeting, the UEG Executive Committee members voted in favor of participation at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, with the same disciplines as in Baku in 2015.
This means that the Acrobatic Gymnastics will again be present at 2nd European Games.
Source.

16th
The World Games participants
The lists of participants at the World Games are available on the FIG and the World Games 2017 websites.

24th
The new FIG Athletes Commission ACRO Representative
May Miller from Israel has been elected representative for Acrobatic Gymnastics to the FIG Atheltes Commission by representatives from 10 countries just ahead of the World Games ACRO Competitions in Wroclaw, Poland.
More information and a small interview are available on the FIG website.

AGU Training Camp for coaches
A training Camp for Acrobatic Gymnastics coaches was help on July 11-15 in Almaty, Kazakhstan for the Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU).
The courses were though by FIG ACRO TC member, Yuriy Golyak from Ukraine. According to the published pictures, 10 coaches participated to the camp. Unfortunately, their names and/or countries of origin were not published.
Source.

European Championships and EAGC: definitive registrations
700+ gymnasts coming from 27 countries registered for the 28th European Championships, the 12th Junior European Championships and 9th European Age Group Competitions.
Detailed information and the registration lists are available on the UEG website.

ACRO day 1 at the World Games
July 24 was competition day for the Women's Pairs and the Mixed Pairs. Both competed their 2 qualifications routines and 4 of them in each category advanced to the finals and performed their combined routine.
The Women's Pairs began with their Balance exercise. Russia and Belgium showed they were the main contenders for the 2 highest places on the podium. The USA came in 3rd and Ukraine in 4th. The ranking remained unchanched after the Dynamic exercise even though Ukraine received a slightly higher score the the US pair for this exercise, preluding an interesting fight for the last available medal. China and the Netherlands ended the qualifications in 5th and 6th place respectively and didn't qualify for the finals.
In the finals, Daria Guryeva and Daria Kalinina (RUS) confirmed their ranking from the qualifications and took the gold medal. The silver medal went to Lore Vanden Berghe and Noémie Lammertyn (BEL) and the bronze medal to Veronika Hazelbok and Iryna Nazimova (UKR).

Visit the FIG World Games mini site for the detailed results and more information.

25th
ACRO day 2 at the World Games
The Women's Groups and Men's Pairs competed at the World Games this July 25. The ladies went first with their balance exercise, followed by the men's dynamic exercise.

26th
The World Games: Men's Groups
The third and last day of ACRO competition at the Wroclaw World Games is showcasing the Men's Groups.
Ukraine and Russia both had mistakes in their Balance routines and are 5th and 6th in the temporary ranking. China performed an exercise with impressive difficulty (348) to take the lead. Great Britain, Israel showed they are medal contenders while Australia is in 4th place but far behind the top 3.
During the dynamic exercise, it was the Chineses's turn to make a mistake and they dropped to the 3rd place. The British group took advantage of this to take the lead and the one from Israel, the second place. The Russians and Ukrainians redeemed themsleves to moved ahead of Australia which finishes last. For the Ukrainian team, however, that was still not enough to qualify for the finals.

Conor Sawenko, Charlie Tate, Adam Upcott and Lewis Watts (GBR) performed the best combined exercise and won the gold medal with a score of 29.780. Zheng Li, Liuming Rui, Teng Zhang and Jaihuai Zhou (CHN) received a score of 29.500 and the silver medal. The bronze goes to Lidar Dana, Yannay Kalfa, Efi Efraim Sach and Daniel Uralevitch (ISR) with 29.080.

31st
The World Games statistics are updated with the 2017 World Games results and the 1993 & 1997 Balance and Tempo medals

August 2017 :

31st
World Games Judges interview
The International World Games Association published an interview with some Acrobatic Gymnastics judges.
you can find it here

Other source:
- FIG EC Decisions

13th
The World Cup in Lisbon
The nominative entries for the World Cup in Lisbon are available on the FIG website.
2017-08-25: The draw of lots is also available on the same page.

29th
Vladimir Gurgenidze passed away
Vladimir Gurgenidze, the head coach of the Russian national team since 2006, passed away this August 24th. He was 61.
My sincere condolences go to his family, friends and to all afflicted by his loss.
Source: FIG, UEG.

30th
Hurricane Harvey
At least one Acrobatics Gymnastics Team, the Texas Academy of Acrobatics and Gymnastics (TAAG) is affected by the Huricane Harvey.
Gym owner Anna Smirnova, winner of several World Championships medals in the Women's Pair category in 1996 and 1997, confirmed on Sunday that there was some water in the facility and posted some pictures on the Academy facebook page.
With the heavy rain continuing non stop for at least two more days after that, the flooding at the time of this writing may only have worsened.

Our thoughts go to Anna, her family, staff, gymnasts and their families.
Many other teams offering other gymnastics disciplines are likely affected as well.
09/05/2017: TAAG re-opened today and is back in business.

Septembre 2017 :

5th
The Pan-American Championships
The USA Gymnastics federation is organizing next month the Pan American Championships for the Acrobatic and Rhythmic Gymnastics as a combined event. The competitions will take place on October 13-15, 2017 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida.
For the Acrobatic Gymnastics, this will be the second edition and the same 5 countries which participated in the inaugural Championships have sent registrations. These countries are:

• Brazil
• Canada
• Mexico
• Puerto Rico
• USA

8th
2018 World Championships: website and ticket sale
On Wednesday Septembre 6th, the flemish Gymnastics federation revealed the website dedicated to the 2018 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships as well as the competitions logos. This website is available in english and in dutch.
The organisers are also present on social media and you can follow them on facebook, instagram and twitter.

The tickets sale will begin on Monday Septembre 11th on their website.

12th
Candidates for the UEG elections
The UEG authorities for the 2018-2021 period will be elected on Decembre 2nd during the 27th Congress of the union.

As the current President, Goerges Guelzec (FRA), announced he would not seek a new mandate, two candidates, Farid GAYIBOV (AZE) and Edvard KOLAR (SLO), will try to succeed him.
The Acrobatic Gymnastics Technical Committee President, Carine Charlier (FRA) will face Bernardo TOMAS (POR) for that position. Both are candidates to be member of the TC as well as all the other current members and 2 new candidates. The full list is here below.

Acro TC President / Président CT Acro
- Carine CHARLIER (FRA) - Bernardo TOMAS (POR)	former / ancien new / nouveau
Acro TC members / membres CT Acro
- Kerstin HOFFMANN (GER) - Galyna KOVALCHUK (UKR) - Melanie SANDERS (GBR) - Bernardo TOMAS (POR) - Dmitrii VINNIKOV (RUS) - Urszula WOJTKOWIAK (POL) - Carine CHARLIER (FRA) - Nikolay IVANOV (BUL) - Juan Anotion LEON-PRADOS (ESP)	former / ancien former / ancien former / ancien former / ancien former / ancien former / ancien new / nouveau new / nouveau new / nouveau

13th
The Pan-American Championships: No pre-sale
The USA Gymnastics federation published the US teams for the Pan American Championships for the Acrobatic and Rhythmic Gymnastics
This post also mentions that the tickets will be available on site at $25 for a day pass and $40 for an all sessions pass.
Source

21st
The 2017 Asian Championships
The 2017 Asian Championships were held on Septembre 17-19 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Eight countries, China, DPR Korea, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan and the host country Kazakhstan, participated which is the same number than in 2013 and 2 more than 2 years ago.
This was the first time that India sent gymnasts to a continental acrobatic gymnastics competition. Three other countries made a come back, Iran and Hong-Kong after missing the 2015 edition and Tajikstan which hadn't participated since 2010. After sending acrobats 2 years ago, Japan and Turkmenistan unfortunately weren't present this time.
Source

27th
The 2017 European Championships: nominative entries
The UEG published the nominative entries for the coming European Championships and Age Group Competitions. You can find them here.

Octobre 2017 :

2nd
The Continental Championships: organizers websites
The organizers of the 2 coming Continental Championships have a website with useful information about these competitions

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, The Pan-American Championships is organized by the USA Gymnastics Federation which recently published the https://usagym.org/pages/events/2017/panamchamps page with some information including the competition schedule.
Empty tabs for the webcast, the start lists and the results show what's to expect in the coming days.

10th
The European Championships: Livestream
The European Championships and Age Group Competitions will be broadcast live on http://gymtv.online/user/.
The organizers also have a facebook page.

12th
The Pan-American Championships
The detailed start lists with the participants names are published on the page https://usagym.org/pages/events/2017/panamchamps.
In the 11-16 age group, 5 Women's Groups, 2 Mixed Pairs, 1 Men's Pair and 9 Women's Pairs will be competing. This last category is the only one with all 5 countries having participants.
Four Women's Pairs, 3 Mixed Pairs, 6 Women's Groups and 1 Men's Group compose the 12-18 age group. The juniors is the smallest age group with a pair and a trio on the women's side and one pair on the men's side.
The seniors have 2 Women's Pairs, 1 Mixed Pairs and 1 Women's Group to share the medals.

10/13/17 Day 1: In the 11-16 Women's Pair category, the USA leads followed by Mexico and Canada while in the Women's Group, the USA is in the first 2 places followed by Canada, Brazil and Puerto Rico, in that order. In the Mixed Pairs category, Canada is first and Brazil second.
In the 12-18 age group, the USA holds the first 2 places in both the Mixed Pairs and the Women's Pairs categories. The Women's Group category is lead by Canada followed by 2 trios from the USA.
There is only 1 team per category in the juniors age group and the only senior category with more than one participant is the Women's Pairs where the USA leads Brazil.

13th
Tim Sebastian and Michail Kraft awarded Silver Laurel Leaf by German President
On October 13, the Men's Pair Tim Sebastian and Michail Kraft received the Silver Laurel Leaf from the the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for their victory at the 2017 World Games.
More information can be found on the FIG Website and on Tim Sebastian's facebook page.
Congratulations Tim and Michail!

The European Age Group Competition
After the first day, Great Britain and Russia dominate the competition, sharing all but one first places and the majority of the top 3 places.
The partial results are available on the same website as the Live Stream: http://gymtv.online/user/.

10/14/17 Day 2: A report of the qualifications is available on the UEG website.

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Did you know?
While all the Continental Championships strictly adhere to the FIG Code of Points, they each have their own Technical Regulations allowing for some variations in the competition format.

The Asian Championships were reserved, two years ago, to the seniors and the 11-16. This year the 12-18 age group was added to the program.
At the Pan-American Championships, three formations per country per category may participate. Two of them maximum may qualify for the finals.
In Europe, the Championships for the Seniors and Juniors (13-19) have, in addition to the All-Around finals, separate finals for the balance exercise and the dynamic one. The 11-16 and 12-18 age groups take part in a separate competition where only one set of medals is awarded.

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The European Age Group Competitions finals
With 8 medals including 4 of gold each, Russia and Great Britain dominated the 2017 EAGC. The only gold medal remaining went to Israel and their 12-18 Women's Group. Israel also won the 11-16 Men's Group but this category was out of competition due to an insufficient number of participants.
The UEG has published 2 articles about the finals, one for the 11-16 and one about the 12-18.
The medal tally is here below and the detailed results are available on the UEG website.

Country/pays	Gold/or	Silver/argent	Bronze	Total
Russia	4	4		8
Great Britain	4	3	1	8
Israel	1		2	3
Portugal		1	3	4
Belarus		1		1
Belgium			1	1
France			1	1
Ukraine			1	1

The Pan-American Championships finals
The USA dominated the Pan-American Championships, winning all the categories in which they entered and taking both gold and silver in all the categories in which they had two formations but one. In the 12-18 age group, a Women's Pair from Canada won the silver medal and the second US pair had to settle with bronze.
Sadly, the PAGU doesn't have a website and didn't publish anything about these Championships on its facebook page. Here are some articles from the participating federations:
- USA Gymnastics
- Gymnastics Canada
- Confederação Brasileira de Ginástica
The medal tally is here below and the detailed results are available on the USA Gymnastics website.

Country/pays	Gold/or	Silver/argent	Bronze	Total
USA	10	4	1	15
Canada	3	1	3	7
Brazil	1	2	1	4

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The European Age Group Competition results are available on the website.

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The Pan-American Championships results are published on the results page.

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The European Championships
The European Championships began today and the first medals were already awarded. There will actually be finals and medal ceremonies during each of the 4 days of competition.
Stay tuned to the UEG website, the organizers' website and the gymtv.online for the results, comments and livestream.

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The European Championships
Russia was again the dominant force in these European Championships, especially in the seniors where they take home 13 medals including 11 gold ones. At the juniors championships, they added 4 gold and 6 silver to their treasure chest. Great Britain received the second highest number of medals with 16. However, only one of them is a gold one. Israel, Belgium and Portugal each earned 3 gold medals and Ukraine 2. Gymnasts from 10 different countries were awarded at least one medal.
The results are available in different formats on the UEG website, the organizers' website and the gymtv.online.
The table here below totals both the Juniors and Seniors medals except for the Junior Men's Groups category which was out of competition for lack of participants. Separate medal counts will soon be available in the statistics section.

Country/pays	Gold/or	Silver/argent	Bronze	Total
Russia	15	7	1	23
Belgium	3	6		9
Israel	3		3	6
Portugal	3		2	5
Ukraine	2	1	4	7
Great Britain	1	9	6	16
Belarus		4	6	10
Azerbaidjan			3	3
Germany			1	1
France			1	1

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A call to the collectors and archivists
This website is missing the results of the Asian Championships prior to 2013. If you have any of them, please email a copy to webmaster at sportsacrobatics.info.
Thank you very much for your help.

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The PAGU ACRO TC
The Pan American Gymnastics Union has an Acrobatics Gymnastics Technical Committee with a member from each of the participating country at first 2 Pan American Championships. The TC is lead by FIG honorary member and former FIG ACRO TC member and President Tonya Case (USA).

Tonya CASE (USA)        President / Présidente
Nancy CARSS (CAN)       member / membre
Deise GARCIA (BRA)      member / membre
Alex RUIZ (MEX)         member / membre
Riguin ZENGOTITA (PUR)  member / membre

An eye towards Buenos Aires
To participate at the next Youth Olympic Games in October 2018 in Buenos Aires (ARG), the Acro gymnasts must be born between 2000 and 2003 and competing in a Mixed Pair at the 13-19 level.
Looking at the participants in the 12-18 and 13-19 Mixed Pair categories at the Continental Championships, 14 of them meet these age requirements. Five of them would have to upgrade from the 12-18 age group to the 13-19 one either by the World Championships or have another pair qualify their country there while they prepare for the YOG themselves.
Australia might have some age eligible pairs but that information is not available at this time. It is of course also possible that other pairs will enter the race next year.
Already having 14 age eligible pairs for 12 places available is certainly encouraging.

13 - 19	12 - 18
Europe Viktoryia AKHOTNIKAVA & Ilya FAMENKOU (BLR) Mariela KOSTADINOVA & Panayot DIMITROV (BUL) Kirsten OWEN & Finlay COCHRANE (GBR) Xenia Denise MEHLHAFF & Daniel BLINTSOV (GER) Antonina SAPCOVA & Dmitrii BARGAN (MDA) Kamila DYTKO & Filip BUCKI (POL) Kapitolina KHUSNULLINA & Anatolii SLIVKOV (RUS) Daryna PLOKHOTNIUK & Oleksandr MADEI (UKR) Anastasiya SHYRSHOVA & Daniil BONDARENKO (UKR)	Europe Leena REBOUL & Mathéo NERGEL (FRA) Asia Yiqiann LIU & Zhanpeng XIE (CHN) Anastassiya ARKHIPOVA & Dmitriy NEMERENKO (KAZ) Khursana MAGZUMOVA & Nikita EVDOKIMOV (UZB) Americas Jordan GRUENDLER & Timothy Jacob MASSA (USA)

Novembre 2017 :

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The 2018 Academies
The 2018 schedule for the FIG Academies is published on its website.
Four Academies in Acrobatic Gymnastics are planned, including a level 1 in Talinn, Estonia and a level 3 in June or July in Camberra, Australia. The other 2 are of the level 2, the first one will be held in June in Toronto, Canada and the second one in Germany in August or Septembre.
They will be added to the calendar once the exact dates are known.

14th
One international competition in Texas and two in Canada are on the calendar page.

19th
Several international and national competitions are added on the calendar page.

21st
The UEG summer camp and the invitation to the WOGA Classic are on the calendar page.

Decembre 2017 :

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The provisionnal entries for 2018
The provisional entries for the 2018 FIG competitions are available on its website:
- World Cup in Puurs (BEL)
- World Cup in Maia (POR)
- World Age Group Competitions
- World Championships

15 national federations have sent registrations for the World Cup in Puurs, 14 for the one in Maia, 34 for the WAGC and 23 for the World Championships.

The ACRO Age Group Programme
The Age Group Programme Working Group for the Acrobatic Gymnastics had their first meeting Novembre 25-27, 2017. Their aim is to develop a Programme including a development section and competitions for ages and levels below the World Age Group Competitions as well as for those who don't have high performance goals.
A short meeting report is on the FIG website.
The Age Group Programme should be introduced in early 2018 during three seminars and camps which will be added to the calendar on this website when the information about them is avilable.

The 2018-2021 UEG ACRO TC
The European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) renewed its authorities during its 27th Congress in Split (CRO) on Decembre 1-3, 2017.
Farid Gayibov (AZE) was elected the new UEG President and Carine Charlier (FRA) was re-elected as the UEG ACRO TC President. Kerstin Hoffmann (GER) and Galyna Kovalchuk (UKR) were not re-elected, they will be replaced in the new TC by Nikolay Ivanov (BUL) and Juan Leon-Prados (ESP).
More election results can be found on the UEG website.

Carine CHARLIER (FRA)    President / Présidente
Bernardo TOMAS (POR)        member / membre
Dmitrii VINNIKOV (RUS)      member / membre
Nikolay IVANOV (BUL)        member / membre
Melanie SANDERS (GBR)       member / membre
Juan LEON-PRADOS (ESP)      member / membre
Urszula WOJTKOWIAK (POL)    member / membre

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AcrogymTV is also on youtube, you can find via the links page.
Several national championships amd the IAG event are added on the calendar page.

17th
Sportfolio is on the links page.

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The ACRO TC meeting
During its Decembre meeting, The FIG Acrobatic Gymnastics Technical Committee focussed on the development plan and various projects to help national federations develop Acro. From the meeting report published on the FIG website, the new Age Group Programmme was one of those projects.
The Technical Committee will meet again in February to prepare the coming World Championships.

2018

January 2018 :

12th
The first ACRO Age Group Camp will be organized in South Africa. Find it on the calendar page.
The gymnastics federation in Denmark has a new name and website. The links and federations pages are updated accordingly.

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The definitive entries

World Cup in Puurs:
See below. The deadline for the nominative entries is 2 days away (2017/01/17), they should be published within the next few days.
World Cup in Maia:
12 National Federations have registered participants including 4 Women's Pairs, 11 mixed Pairs, 8 Men's Pairs, 8 Women's Groups and 3 Men's Groups.
World Age Groups: A new record
37 countries have sent definitive registrations. If they all actually participate, that will be a new record number of participating countries. The current record was set at 34 during the 2016 WAGC in Putian (CHN).
As in the previous editions, the 11-16 Women's Pairs and Groups categories will have the highest numbers of participants with 40 Pairs and 39 Groups respectively.
World Championships: a sad first
No record in sight for these World Championships. While Hong-Kong and the People's Republic of Korea were added, 5 other countries have not confirmed their provisional entries bringing the total number of National Federations to 20. This includes Bulgaria which up to now has sent gymnasts to every Acro World Championships. Their absence will be a sad first and they will be missed.

20th
The Acro Newsletter Nr 3
The third acro newsletter for this cycle is available on the FIG website.
It contains several clarifications and some corrections to the Tables of Difficulty.
One will find that 5 countries took part in the camp organised last summer in Almaty (KAZ). These countries are Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan. As far as I know, this is the first time Sri Lanka took part in an international acrobatic gymnastics event.
The newsletter also mentions the introduction of the acrobatic gymnastics in 4 countries from Oceania, namely Cook Islands, Fiji, New Zealand and Samoa. This developemnt is due to the inclusion of the acrobatic gymnastics at the Youth Olympic Games.

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Worlds
The draw of lots for the World Championships and the World Age Group Competitions are available on the FIG website.

February 2018 :

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An introductory course in Mexico
The Pan American Gymnastics Union held an Acrobatic Gymnastics introductory course at the Olympic Training Center in Mexico on January 26-28, 2018. A short report of the course is available on the FIG website.

6th
The Klokan Cup, the LIAG and the 2019 Asian Championships are added on the calendar page.

10th
The 1992 World Championships team results are added in the statistics and results sections.

13th
The level 2 Academy in Germany is added on the calendar page.

17th
The results from the FIAC and the first World Cup of the year are published on the results page.
An AGU training Camp and PAGU Introductory courses are the latest additions on the calendar page.

28th
The second Vegas Acro Cup is added on the results page.
The second Age Group Camp and the Sachsenpokal are added on the calendar page.

March 2018 :

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Additional World Cups
During its meeting on February 28 and March 1st, the FIG Executive Committee assigned 2 additional World Cups in Acrobatic Gymnastics:
Lisbon (POR), 29 June - 1 July 2018
Baku (AZE), 17 - 18 November 2018

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Age Group Camps
The second Age Group Camp in Acrobatic Gymnastics is scheduled for April 17-19, 2018 in Singapore (SGP) and the third one will be held in Mexico City (MEX) on May 4 - 6, 2018. More information about these camps can be found on the FIG course calendar.
Last Decembre, the FIG had announced 3 seminars, the first one was held last week (February 20-22) in Johannesbourg (RSA). Thirty-one coaches from five southern African countries - Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe attended this camp led by Hardy Fink (CAN) and Sergey Tretyakov (BEL). Further information can be found here.

8th
The Flanders International Acro Cup is added on the calendar page.

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Two competitions in Poland are the latest additions on the calendar page.

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The Youth Olympic Games
19 Mixed Pairs, eligible for the Youth Olympic Games, will try during the WAGC to qualify and become the first Acrobatic Gymnastics representatives to participate in these prestigious competitions.
Per the FIG YOG Rules, quotas per continent are applied to the qualification places. Consequently, three pairs are certain to give a place to their respective National Olympic Committee (NOC). South Africa having the only participating pair from Africa, will receive the place reserved for this continent. Because the organizing country, Argentina, doesn't have any delegation at the WAGC, the USA and Puerto Rico will receive the 2 places allocated to America. For Asia, 4 duos representing 3 NOCs will try to obtain one of the 2 places available to them. Finaly, 12 pairs from 11 countries will have to share the 6 places devoted to Europe and the one for Oceania which is made available by the lack of 13-19 mixed pair from that part of the world.

15th
The Acro Newsletter Nr 4
The Acro Newsletter Nr 4 is available on the FIG website.
It contains some clarifications as well as 2 corrections which will be implemented immediately after the World Championships.

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The World Competitions
The World Championships:
The workplan is available on the FIG website.
Hong-Kong didn't confirm their definitive registrations, the nominative entries from the remaining 19 countries are available on the FIG website.
For more informations about the participants, read this article from the FIG.
These World Championships will also be the qualifying event for the second European Games, to be held in June 2019 in Minsk (BLR). 14 Mixed Pairs and 16 Women's Groups representing 11 and 13 NF respectively, will try to grasp, in addition to the World titles and medals, a qualificative place for their NOC.

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The UEG Acro Newsletter Nr 8
The UEG Acro Newsletter Nr 8 is available on the UEG website.
It contains, among others, information about the UEG training Camp coming this summer.

April 2018 :

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The World Age Group Competitions

11-16

With 3 gold and 2 bronze medals, Great Britain is the clear winner of the 11-16 age group since no other country could collect 5 medals of any kind. The 2 remaining gold medals went to Russia aand Israel.
The full results, reports and photos are available at www.acrobatics2018.com.

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The European Games : qualification procedure
The UEG published the qualification procedure for the 2019 European Games.
For the Acrobatic Gymnastics, the 8 best ranked in the Women's Groups and Mixed Pairs categories during the coming World Championships will earn non-nominative places for their NOC. This represents a significant reduction compared to the 11 trios and duos who qualified 4 years ago for the first edition of these Games.

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The Youth Olympic Games qualifications
According to the YOG procedures and the 13-19 mixed pairs qualifications results, the following National Olympic Committees should be awarded Acrobatic Gymnastics tickets to Buenos Aires:
Africa: RSA
America: PUR, USA
Asia: CHN, KAZ
Europe: BLR, BUL, GBR, POR, RUS, UKR
Additionally, Israel should receive the place normally attributed to Oceania due to the absence of mixed pairs from that continent.

This is just my guess and these qualificatives places will have to be confirmed by the FIG.

Nine different countries shared the available medals, four of them the gold ones: Israel, Kazakhstan, Portugal and Russia (2). The other countries with at least one silver or bronze medal are Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Ukraine and the USA.

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The World Championships - day 1

The 26th Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships are open!

After the opening ceremony, the Women's Group and Men's Pairs presented their first exercise. The general level of the competition is very high with some dealing with their nerves better than others. Of particuliar notice, one of the favorites, the Belgian Men's pair had 2 major issues and are currently only in 11th position.
Germany, North Korea and Great Britain 1 scored the highest with their balance routine.
The top of the US trio seems to have hurt herself during their performance, we wish her well and hope they can perform their other exercises. The trio from Great Britain scared the audience twice and this is reflected in their scores as they are currently in last position.
The leaders after the first exercise are Russia, Belarus and China.

The second sessions began with the Women's Pairs. In this category, the favorites from Russia also experience a problem and are currently in 6th place. Israel is leading followed by Ukraine and North Korea.
In the Men's Group category, the first 3 quatuors to perform all had problems during a pyramid transition. When China performed the first clean routine in this category, they received big applauses from the spectators. They took the lead to give it away to only their compatriotes. Israel performed also a strong routine but had to settle with the 3rd place in the temporary ranking.
The mixed pairs performed in alternance with the Women's Pairs and the Men's Groups. There was no surprise there, Russia performed an extremely difficult routine to take the lead with more than 2 full points over Azerbaijan 1, second, and Belarus 1 in third place.

The Women's Groups and Men's pairs performed their second routine in the evening. Sadly, the top of the US trio is indeed hurt and didn't perform their second exercise.
Russia confirmed their dominance in the Women's Group category. Belarus keep their second place while Israel took the third one. The Men's pair from Belgium got the highest score for their dynamic routine which takes them up to the 8th place after 2 exercises. Germany could hold to its first place, they are followed by Russia and Great Britain 1.

The live scoring is available here.

I want here to thank the FIG for allowing me to cover the event as a photographer and use the media internet access to post this report. Here is a first picture of the leaders in each category after day 1.

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The World Championships - day 2
The day begins with the combined exercise for the women's group and the men's pairs, followed by the the women's pairs, mixed pairs and men's groups second exercise.
Igor Minchev and Nikolay Suprunov (RUS) received the highest score this morning an jump ahead of Germany in the qualifications ranking while North Korea jumps from 6th to the 3rd place. The belgian pair of Robin Casse and Kilian Goffaux remain in 8th place but with the second highest score for their combined exercise and the finals starting from zero, they remain a medal contender.
Daria Chebulanka, Polina Plastinina and Ksenia Zagoskina (RUS) continue to dominate the women's group category, followed by Belarus. The trio from Israel struggled in a motion from planche to ring and this allowed Belgium to take the 3rd place of the qualifications away from them.

The World Championships - The first finals
2 sets of medals were distributed today.
In the Men's pairs category, both medal contenders, Belgium and Germany didn't perform as well as this morning and are out of luck this time. The pairs from Russia, North Korea and Great Britain performed the strongest routines giving them access to the podium and the medals. Mr Morinari Watanabe, President of the FIG distributed the gold medals to Igor Minchev and Nikolay Suprunov.
After their mistake this morning, the women's group from Israel opted for a straight handstand instead of a ring. They performed a clean routine, ending just one step away from the podium. Russia and Belarus confirmed their ranking from the qualifications to take gold and silver while China took the bronze. In addition to winning this competition, Daria Chebulanka, Polina Plastinina and Ksenia Zagoskina also had the honor to receive the medals from Mr Jacques Rogge, honorary President of the International Olympic Committee.

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The World Championships - The team results
The qualifications came to an end this morning with the combined exercise for the women's pairs, the mixed pairs and the men's groups.
After this, the teams awards ceremony place. As a reminder, national federations enter teams of 3 units with at least 1 pair and 1 group and the ranking of these units after the qualifications are converted into points based on the nmber of countries participating in any category at the World Championships. Russia wins the gold medal with 57 points followed by Israel and Belarus, both with 49 points. Per the tie breaking rules, Israel, having a men's group in its team, wins the silver medal and Belarus the bronze one.
The medals were awarded by Rosy Taeymans - FIG TC President, Wieslawa Milewska - FIG TC Member and May Miller - FIG Acro Athletes Representative.

The World Championships - The last finals
These World Championships ended with the finals in the Women's Pairs, Mixed Pairs and Men's groups categories.
The women's pairs went first and "the Daria's" renewed their title from 2 years ago with a score of 29.830. The silver medal went to North Korea and the bronze to Israel.
The mixed pairs finals gave Marina Chernova her 3rd World title in a row and his partner Georgii Pataria his second. While her 3rd title is a record in the mixed pairs category, Marina is still one title shy of the women's pair Yulia Lopatkina and Anna Mokhova who won in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004. The silver went to Belarus and the bronze to Belgium.
In the men's group, Israel received the highest score, China finished second and Russia third.

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The World Championships: A recap.

A good organisation
From what I saw, the organisation of these championships was very good thanks, among other things, to 400+ volunteers. The competition hall configuration, with the floor placed diagonally and the light show, was interesting and the multilingual announcement by Niels Daniel was impeccable.
The competitions ran smoothly and having a full house for the finals was heartwarming.

The first photos are published. Please be patient while I'm preparing more of them. Thank you.

20th
The first photos of the 26th World Championships are available, other ones will come later.
The Sport is Art website is added on the links page.
The invitation for the second Budapest Acro Cup is available via the calendar page.

21st
The results, the archives and the the statistics sections are updated with the World Championships and World Age Group Competitions.

24th
ACRO at the 2019 European Games: the qualified countries.
Folllowing the Acro World Chamionships, the UEG published the list of the qualified countries for the 2^nd European Games. After the qualifications round, the mixed pairs and women's groups from European countries with the 8 highest rankings gave their national federation a spot for the European Games. These places are not nominative and these federations may choose which gymnasts they'll send.
Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands and Russia got a qualificative place in both categories. Azerbaijan, France, Poland and Spain earn a place in the mixed pairs category while Great Britain, Israel, Portugal and Ukraine complete the Women's group roster.
Source.

25th
The ACRO Champions League
In addition to being home of the biggest Acro Competition, Maia will host a brand new tournament for clubs named the Acro Champions league.
Clubs will enter gymnasts in the 12-18, 13-19 and seniors age groups to compete for the title of club of the year and prize money up to 10,000 euros. A separate competition for the 11-16 named the Youth Acro Champions league will take place at the same time.
More information and the registration forms are available on https://www.acrochampionsleague.com.

29th
The Zolotov Cup is added on the calendar page. More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

May 2018 :

6th
The directives for the World Cup in Baku are on the FIG calendar. You can find a link to them on this calendar. More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

11th
The World Cup in Lisbon is canceled
After the Women's Group from Portugal withdrew, the revised definitive entries show there are less then the minimum required (4 entries) in all 5 categories.
The World Cup in Lisbon (POR) is therefore canceled which means the current World Cup rankings are the final ones for the 2017-18 World Cup. The next World Cup, schedule for Novembre 17-18, 2018 in Baku (AZE) will be part of the 2018-19 Series.

25th
Several competitions are added on the results page.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

31st
The ACRO TC meeting report
In a recent post, the FIG offers a glimpse into what the ACRO TC is working on. A report well worth reading!
Please note that the mentioned proposals are for the next cycle (2021-24).

June 2018 :

6th
Several competitions are added on the results page.
The 2019 Calgary International Acro Cup is added on the calendar page.

14th
World Championships photos: I'm done with the trios, the men's pairs will be next.

15th
Various news
Former Women's Pair gymnast Natasha Van Es and her partner Ian Lodens are the winners of Belgium Got Talent. Here is their performance during the finals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NAiSD7RPN4.
Congratulations Tasha and Ian!

While in Baku (AZE) last month, Morinari Watanabe, the FIG President, told reporters that the FIG is working on including all gymnastics in the Olympics.
Source: gymnovosti.com.

July 2018 :

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The Acro Newsletter Nr 5
The Acro Newsletter Nr 5 is available on the FIG website which, by the way, has a new look starting today.
It contains several clarifications and a few ToD corrections to be effective from January 1st, 2019.

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Some news
The Pan-American Gymnastics Union hosted an Acrobatics Gymnastics introductory course in Guatemala City on June 18 - 12, 2018. The course was attended by 34 coaches from three countries, Guatemala, Honduras, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Source : The PAGU facebook page: See its post from June 21 with pictures.
The FIG news post.

A new Level 2 Academy has been added on the FIG calendar. It will be organized in Maia (POR) on September 9 - 16, 2018.

21st
Several competitions are added on the results page.
The Academy in Maia, the 2019 LIAG and the 2019 International Acro Cup for clubs are added on the calendar page.
The new FIG website address is added on the links and the federations pages.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

26th
The 2020 World Championships
The FIG Announced today it has awarded the 2020 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships to the Swiss Gymnastics Federation.
The Competitions will place at the Vernets Sports Complex in Geneva starting with the 11th World Age Group Competitions on May 20 - 26, followed by the 27th World Championships on May 29 - 31.
Source: the FIG Press release.

27th
The 2019 World Cup Series
During its meeting in Pacific Harbour (FIJ) on July 25-26, 2018, The FIG Executive Committee assigned the following Acro World Cups for 2019:

Maia (POR)	8-10 Mar. 2019
Las Vegas (USA)	22-24 Mar. 2019
Puurs (BEL)	12-14 April/Avril 2019
Lisbon (POR)	13-15 Sept. 2019

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The 2019 World Cups and 2018 competitions in Minsk, Breda and Blaenau Ffestiniog are now on the calendar page.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

August 2018 :

4th
acro-companion.com, a new website to create tariff sheets is added on the links page.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

11th
The acro-companion website: TS made easy!
Sportsacrobatics.info was kinda feeling lonely on the web so I'm very pleased to present you https://www.acro-companion.com/.

I wish the acro-companion and its developers a successful future.

13th
The Academies in Maia are cancelled
Academies in several FIG disciplines were scheduled for Septembre 9 - 16, 2018 in Maia (POR). They all have been cancelled.

17th
The World Cup in Baku - Definitive registration
The definitive registrations for the World Cup in Baku are available on the FIG website.
Seven countries are set to take part in this competition, including India. This will be there first participation at a World Cup event since the 2004 World Cup qualifier in Coimbra (POR). Last year, they competed at the 2017 Asian Championships. The other countries are Azerbaijan, Belarus, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
Edited 2018-09-18: A previous version didn't mention India's participation at the World Cup qualifier in 2004. My thanks go to Isabel Silva for pointing this out.

19th
The 2019 Tigers Acro Cup is added on the calendar page.
The Tigers Gymnastics Centre is the latest addition on the links page.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

25th
The World Age Group Rules - now with videos
The 2017-2020 Age Group Rules are now available on the FIG website in a new version.
The rules have not changed and the compulsory elements in its appendix 3 are also the same. What is new in this version is that you can click on each of them to watch a video of that element.

31st
The 1st Moelwyn International Acrobatic Gymnastics Tournament is postponed to June 2019 and the 2019 Acro-Cup documents are available. The calendar page has been updated accordingly.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

Septembre 2018 :

9th
The Czech Republic Championships are added on the calendar page.
More photos of the 26th World Championships are available.

16th
The Winobranie Tournament results are uploaded on this website.
The 1st Moelwyn International Acrobatic Gymnastics Tournament is postponed to July 2019. The calendar page has been updated accordingly.
World Championships photos: Done with the Mixed Pairs and started the Men's Groups.

Octobre 2018 :

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The Youth Olympic Games
The 2018 Youth Olympic Games began yesterday with the Opening Ceremony and the Acrobatic Gymnastic will make its Olympic Debut today at 2:49PM local time with the Dynamic exercise.
The 12 Mixed Pairs present will then perform their Balance Exercise from 7:03PM and their Combined Exercise from 9:11PM.
These exercises are part of a multi-event competition where gymnasts from different disciplines and countries are grouped together in teams named after legends of the sport including Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB), Rosie MACLENNAN (CAN) and Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN). Two of these teams were assigned to the ACRO TC which decided to name them after Marina CHERNOVA (RUS) and Yevgeny MARCHENKO (URS). See this article to know why these names were chosen.

Other sources:
The YOG Official website
The YOG on the Olympic Channel

8th
The Youth Olympic Games qualifications results are uploaded on this website.
World Championships photos: All done! Thank you for your patience.

9th
The Youth Olympic Games - Multi-discipline event
According to the FIG rules for the YOG (page 9), The results for the multi-discipline team event are calculated by adding "ranks" obtained by athletes on each apparatus in GA and GR (counting only the top two ranks for each apparatus), and on each exercise in GT and GACRO. The group with the lowest total of "ranks" wins.
Here below is each pair's "contribution" to its team. This team event is running though October 10 and you can follow its live results here.

11th
The Youth Olympic Games - Multi-discipline even
The team Simone Biles with the Acrobatic Gymnasts Mariela KOSTADINOVA and Panayot DIMITROV (BUL), won the Multidisciple Team event followed by team Max Whitlock and team Oksana Chusovitina.
The detailed scores are in the results section.

16th
The Youth Olympic Games - The ACRO finals
The Acrobatic Gymnasts performed their final in between Artistic Gymnastics finals, giving them a full audience and an appearence on the Olympic Channel.

All the exercises were of high quallity but in the end it is Mariela KOSTADINOVA and Panayot DIMITROV from Bulgaria who won, taking their second gold medal after also winning the multi-discipline team event. Noa KAZADO-YAKAR and Yonatan FRIDMAN from Israel win the silver medal while Daryna PLOKHOTNIK and Oleksandr MADEI from Ukraine took the bronze.
Yesterday's finals are available on youtube. The Acro begins at 49:16 on that video.
The complete results are in the results section.

18th
The 5th Zwinger Acro Cup is added on the December 2019 calendar.

27th
The World Cup in Baku (AZE)
The nominative registrations and Draw of Lots for the World Cup in Baku are available on the FIG website, confirming almost exactly the definitive entries. The only difference being India sending 1 Women's Group instead of 2, this is however taking this category, together with the Women's Pairs, out of the prize money, medals and World Ranking points.

Novembre 2018 :

11th
The Acro Champions League
Here below is a competition report from Lourenço França.

Counting with you next year for the 2nd edition of Acro Champions League and Youth Acro Champions League (this one just for 11-16) on 14-17 November 2019 - just 2 weeks after the Europeans!

27th
The World Cup in Baku (AZE)
A report of the World Cup in Baku is available on the FIG website.
This report mentions this competitions is the first one of the 2018-19 World Cup Series and the FIG 2018 World Ranking does not mention Baku anymore. All my speculations published earlier were therefore all for nothing! Or just for the fun of it if you prefer.
On the other hand, this means that this Series will be the first one with five events and, with only the 3 best results counting, it will be interesting to see how countries will choose which ones to attend. Since no points were awarded in the Women's Pairs and Groups categories, they both remain wide open. In the Men's and Mixed categories, Russian gymnasts took the lead in Baku and it might be hard to catch up with them. Only the future will tell.

Decembre 2018 :

1st
The Acrobatic Gymnastics "KevadAkro" Competition is added to the May 2019 calendar.
The Grand Prix Polski is added on the results page.

5th
The ACRO newsletter Nr 6
The Acro Newsletter Nr 6 is available on the FIG website.
In addition to the usual sections, it also include a call to lobby federations to organise World Championships during the next cycle. The goal is to have organisers lined up before lobbying the FIG to have World Championships every year.

9th
The 2019 Asian Championships is modifiedi on the calendar page. An old document on the AGU website projected it to be in Septembre in North Korea, The FIG now has it in Octobre in Uzbekistan.

12th
The World Cup in Maia (POR)
14 federations have sent provisional entries for the World Cup in Maia. You can find the detailed list on the FIG event page.

16th
The spring 2019 World Cups
The provisional registrations for the World Cup in Las Vegas (USA) and Puurs (BEL) are also available via the FIG calendar.
11 federations have sent entries for the first one, 17 for the latter.
The table below shows which countries have registrations for each World Cup event(s).

	Baku (AZE)	Maia (POR)	Las Vegas (USA)	Puurs (BEL)
Country	Participants	Provisional registration
AUT	-	Yes	-	Yes
AUS			Yes
AZE	Yes	Yes		Yes
BEL		Yes		Yes
BLR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CHN				Yes
ESP		Yes		Yes
FRA		Yes		Yes
GBR		Yes	Yes	Yes
GER		Yes	Yes	Yes
IND	Yes
ISR	Yes		Yes	Yes
KAZ	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NED		Yes		Yes
POL		Yes	Yes	Yes
POR		Yes	Yes	Yes
RUS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
UKR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
USA		Yes	Yes	Yes

28th
The AGU elections
During the 20^th AGU Congress, new authorities were elected for the 2019-2022 cycle. For the AGU Acrobatic Technical Committee, Mrs Aigul DUKENBAYEVA (KAZ) was re-elected as its president.
No Committee members have been published and the Congress approved the EC proposals to nominate the Technical Committee members by the Executive Committee instead of elections by the Congress.
I assume they have not been nominated yet. The AGU Acrobatic TC members will be published here when I find them.

Congratulations on your re-election Mrs Dukenbayeva!

30th
Vote for Marina and Georgii
The World Games Athlete of the Year Elections begin on January 1st, 2019.
Each International Federation participating at the World Games had a chance to nominate a candidate and 25 of them did so. The FIG has put forth the Acro Mixed Pair Marina Chernova and Georgii Pataraia (RUS).
Everone is entitled to one vote per day via the voting site. If you provide your name, surname and email address and agree to receive newsletters from the International World Games Association, you will be able to give two votes at once instead of only one.
On January 15th 21:00 CET only the 10 candidates with the most votes will continue in the race and the voting will finish on January 31st 20:00 CET.

2019

January 2019 :

10th
World Cup in Maia: Definitive Entries
The Definitive entries for the World Cup in Maia are available on the FIG website.
11 countries, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain and the USA, have registered gymnasts. Provided all the registrations are confirmed, there will be points and medals attributed for all the categories. As usual, the Womens' Pairs and Men's Groups have the smallest number of participants and any cancelation could change the category status.

14th
IWGA Athlete of the year 2018: Keep voting!
Jan 14, 2019 21:00 CET: After a somewhat slow start, Marina Chernova and Georgii Pataraia today took the lead in the contest to determine the World Games Athlete of the Year 2018. However, now is not the time to rest. Last year, the winner obtained more than 90,000 votes and we are still far from that.
In 24 hours, the race will stop for the 15 candidates with the least votes and continue until January 31st at 20:00 CET (Central European time) for the 10 others. Keep voting daily to ensure the win for Marina and Georgii as this is the best way to bring the attention to our sport.
If you are on social media, use the links below to encourage your friends to vote with you.
Twitter:
IWGA
FIG
Instagram:
IWGA
FIG
Facebook:
IWGA

29th
World Cup in Las Vegas: Definitive Entries
The definitive entries for the Las Vegas World Cup include 4 Womens' Pairs, 11 Mixed Pairs, 7 Mens' Pairs, 8 Womens' Group and 3 Mens' Group representing 11 different countries: Australia, Belarus, China, Great Britain, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Ukraina and USA.

31st
Athlete Of The Year: voting extended
The IWGA announced that "The World Games Athlete of the Year vote will continue until 1 February 7:30 CET. Due to a human error the voting was offline for several hours and that is why we extend the deadline to cover for the lost time. Our apologies, do keep on voting!"

February 2019 :

1st
Athlete Of The Year: ... and the winner is ...
All together we made it happen! Congratulations to Marina Chernova and Georgii Pataraia (RUS) and thanks to all who voted!
More info on the IWGA website and the FIG website.

11th
The Spring World Cups
The World Cups in Maia (POR), Las Vegas (USA) and Puurs (BEL) are fast approaching.
The definitive entries for Puurs should be published later this week and the nominative ones for Las Vegas next week. Those for Maia are already available and the FIG published commentary about them.
You'll find the entries and other documents by following the link for each World Cup here above.

Some of the biggest Acro competitions are held in conjunction with these World Cups, here are the links to each of them:
Maia International Acro Cup
Vegas Acro Cup
Flanders International Acro Cup

22nd
The ACRO newsletter Nr 7
The Acro Newsletter Nr 7 is available on the FIG website.
It contains 2 clarifications and reports from the World Cup in Baku and the World Games Athlete of the Year contest.

April 2019 :

21st
The 2018-19 World Cup Series
The 2018-19 World Cup Serie is complete and the Cups were distributed in Puurs. The FIG published the main results and the rankings can be consulted on its website. When they post them in the PDF format, a copy will be added on this website.
Congratulations to all who made the podium! I also wish Aubrey Rosilier (WP USA), who got hurt during the finals in Puurs, a full recovery.

The World Cup event in Lisbon on September 18-23, once announced as being part of this series, will in fact be the first leg of the 2019-20 World Cup series.

May 2019 :

13th
FIG council decisions
During its May 2-3 meeting in St. Petersburg (RUS), the FIG Council ratified the suppression of reference judges in Acrobatic and Aerobic Gymnastics.
If new formats for the Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were approved, the FIG report doesn't mention such changes for Acro. So, it seems that the TC Acro modification proposals, approved by the FIG EC in February, were not ratified.
Edited 05/17/2019: The format changes for the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships and WAGC will be submitted to the 2020 Council meeting for inclusion in the 2021 version of the Technical Regulations.

25th
The European Games: preview
The 2nd European Games will take place on June 21 - 30 in Minsk (BLR).
The Acrobatic Gymnastics Mixed Pairs and Women's Groups participate in these competitions and 8 nations qualified in each category during the 2018 World Championships. From the documents available on the UEG website, one can note:

• Marina Chernova and Georgii Pataraia (RUS) will not defend their title from 2015. Instead, the 2018-19 World Cup winners Victoria Aksenova and Kirill Startsev will represent Russia.
• Belgium qualified in both categories but is sending only one trio. This opens the door for a Mixed Pair from Ukraine.
• There will be no qualification round. All 8 pairs/groups will perform in the Balance, Dynamic and All-Around (Combined exercise) Finals.
• The competitions will begin on June 22 at 2:00PM local time with the Balance and Dynamic Finals. The All-Around Finals will start at 3:45PM local time on June 23rd. Just like 4 year ago, the Acrobatic gymnasts will compete in alternance with the Rhythmic gymnasts.

June 2019 :

4th
Acro Technical Committee meeting
The FIG published a short news article about the Acro Technical Committee meeting in Moscow (RUS).
The interesting information mentionned is:
- The draft Code of Points for 2021-24 will be sent to the federations in Septembre for comments and feedback.
- The main change relates to the evaluaton of transitional pyramids, as to make it more understandable and easier.

20th
The ACRO newsletter Nr 8
The Acro Newsletter Nr 8 is available on the FIG website.
Several new elements were approved by the FIG Acro Technical Committee during its meeting in May, they are officially introduced to the Acro community in this Newsletter together with a few clarifications.
The document also contains reports of the 2019 World Cup events and Age Group Camps/Seminars during March and April 2019 as well as a eulogy for Ferenc Pfeifer (HUN) who passed away in February.

23rd
Karkow (POL) to host the 3^rd European Games
An Extraordinary General Assembly of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) on June 22, 2019 unanimously elected the Malopolska region and the city of Krakow, Poland as the Host of the 3rd edition of the European Games in 2023.
Source: eurolympic.org

The favorites being absent, the local Women's Group didn't miss their chance to win the gold medal in the Balance exercise. Belgium got silver and Portugal, bronze. Later in the day, the same three groups shared the dynamic exercise medals but in a different order: 1. Belgium, 2. Portugal, 3. Belarus.
In the Mixed Pair category, three countries share the 6 medals available. Russia won the dynamic exercise ahead of Azerbaijan and Belarus. The latter won the balance exercise, topping Russia and Azerbaijan.
The Acrobatic Gymnastics competition will conclude this June 23 with the Combined exercise.
Source: UEG.

24th
2^nd European Games: Day 2
Belgium and Russia grab the last gold medals; the host country has to settle with the bronze in each category.
click here for the UEG article.
The results are copied on this website.

July 2019 :

7th
The sportsacrobatics.info website is moved to a different hosting provider.

18th
Interview with Rosy Taeymans
Sebastian Schipfel had a chance to interview Rosy Taeymans during the European Games and published it on his www.akrobastisch.de website.
The direct link to the interview (in english) is www.akrobastisch.de/2019/07/12/rosy-taeymans-one-day-we-will-be-in-the-olympics

20th
The World Cup in Lisbon
12 Federations sent definitive registrations for the World Cup in Lisbon. 4 Women's Pairs, 8 Mixed Pairs, 6 Men's Pairs, 8 Women's Groups and 2 Men's groups are set to participate.
The detailed registrations are available on the FIG website.

August 2019 :

15th
The World Cup in Lisbon
The nominative registrations are now available on the FIG website.

26th
The 2022 World Championships and 2020 World Cups
During its August 21-22 meeting 2019, the FIG Executive Commitee awarded future World Championships in several disciplines. In Acrobatic Gymnastics, the 2022 edition is set for March 11-13 in Baku, Azerbaijan. It will be preceded by the 12. World Age Group Competitions on March 2-7.
Durant that meeting three Acrobatic Gymnastics World Cup stages were also assigned for 2020: Maia, Portugal on March 6-8, Burgas, Bulgaria on April 3-5 and Puurs, Belgium on April 10-12.
Source: FIG

Septembre 2019 :

15th
A look towards the next cycle
As the draft Code of Points should be sent to the federations this month and with the congress about 13 months away, let's look at what could be our next Technical Committee.
Based on the FIG Statutes, 10 persons representing 9 countries are eligible to be member or president of the 2021-24 Acrobatics Gymnastics TC, the seven current members, Tonya Case (USA), Valiantsin Hubenok (BLR) and Dmitrii Vinnikov (RUS). However, 2 of them, Irina Nikitina (RUS) and Carl Wharton (GBR) will be hit by the 3 mandates limit. Three options are available to them: seak a different position, retire or request a 4th mandate as a TC member. The latter would require the approval of the Congress before the elections take place.
Others could become eligible if, before the World Championships, they pass the level 3 Academy exam, upgrade their judging brevet or both. If you are one of those and willing to apply for the next TC, let your federation know. While the FIG could organize a judges course in Lausanne, we need National Federations to step up and organize a level 3 Acrobatic Gymnastics Academy, which would be the first one since 2012.

Octobre 2019 :

21st
The Asian Championships
Thank you Mrs Aigul Dukenbayeva for sending me the results of the 11th Asian Championships held in Taskent (UZB) earlier this month!
Seven countries sent delegations and all 7 returned home with at least one medal. To find out more check out the results page and the newly added Asian Championships statistics.

24th
The European Championships and Age Group Competitions
The European Age Group Competitions begin today at 15:00 local time in Holon (ISR).
Check out www.ecacro2019.co.il/, the organizers website, for the schedule, livestream and results.

Novembre 2019 :

10th
The Asian Championships
The AGU published an news article about the Acro Asian Championships.

19th
The Pan-American Championships
Gymnasts from 5 countries, Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rice, the United States and the host, Mexico will compete later this week at the Pan-American Championships.
Clubs from the same 5 countries and Great Britain will compete in the Club Competition organized at the same time. The Workplan available via the calendar page contains the list of the participating gymnasts for both the Championships and the clubs competition.

23th
The Pan-American Championships - livestream
You can find a link for the Pan American Championships livestream here.
... and here.
The cup competition began this morning, the Championships starts at 5:00PM local time.

28th
A Petition to the FIG
A petition requesting the FIG to make the Acrobatic Gymnastics an Olympic Sport is available on change.org.
Read it and share it with friends, including with those outside the acro community. The more signatures it gets, the bigger the impact.

Several reports are available on the USAG and GYMCAN websites. Results and videos can be found on the Mexican Gymnastics Federation facebook page.

Decembre 2019 :

10th
The IOC fails Acro and the female gymnasts!
The IOC recently announced the programme for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games which only includes the Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics.
In its communique, it proudly announce that "the sports of boxing, gymnastics and wresting will also reach gender parity for the first time." However, as shown in the full Programme, this means that 108 young men will compete in MAG but the 108 spots available for the women will be split between WAG, RG individual and RG Groups.
What the IOC hails as a victory should actually be considered a let down for the other Gymnastics disciplines and an insult for the Women in Sport they pretend to support.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely my own.

22nd
World Cups: Provisional entries
17 National Federations have sent provisional entries for the Spring 2020 World Cups, seven of them to all 3 World Cups, 9 others to 2 of them and one, the Netherlands, is planning to only attend the one in Puurs, Belgium.
Here below is a summary table, the detailed provisional entries are available on the FIG website.

	Maia	Burgas	Puurs
AUT	x	x		2
AZE		x	x	2
BEL	x		x	2
BLR	x	x		2
BUL	x	x		2
ESP	x	x	x	3
FRA	x	x	x	3
GBR	x	x	x	3
GER	x	x		2
HUN	x	x	x	3
ISR		x	x	2
KAZ	x	x	x	3
NED			x	1
POL	x	x	x	3
POR	x		x	2
RUS	x	x	x	3
UKR		x	x	2
17	13	14	13

2020

January 2020 :

8th
World Games Athlete of the year
The World Games Athlete of the Year Elections begin today.
Last year, the Acrobatic Gymnastics mixed pair Marina Chernova and Georgii Pataraia (RUS) won the title with 159,348 votes. This year, the FIG selected the Aerobics mixed pair Michela Castoldi and Davide Donati (ITA) as their candidate.
Click here for the voting page.

8th
The ACRO newsletter Nr 9
The FIG has published the Acro Newsletter Nr 9 dated December 2019.

February 2020 :

1st
Coaches courses
The FIG has updated its calendar with several Age Group Camps and a Level 3 Academy.
The Academy will be held in Maia (POR) from March 28 until April 4 and will be the first one in Acrobatic Gymnastics since 2012. Maia will also host an Age Group Camp during the same period, the other ones will be held in Africa and the Americas.

Finally, the judges exams will have no theory section.

6th
Registrations and relocation
The World Cup in Bulgaria will be held in Sofia instead of Burgas.

The FIG has published the nominative registrations for the World Cup in Maia (POR), the definitive registrations for the ones in Sofia (BUL) and Puurs (BEL) and the provisional registrations for the World Age Group Competitions and the World Championships.
For the World Cup in Maia, the definitive registrations were revised on January 9 to add Bulgaria and a second Mens' Group from Russia. This will allow the Mens' Groups to receive medals, prize money and the first World Ranking points of this serie. The other categories already received points in Lisbon (POR) last September. From the nominative entries, the World Ranking leaders in the Mens' and Mixed Pairs categories will be present in Maia but the leaders in the Womens' Pairs and Groups categories will not. This gives for the Pair and Group from Portugal, currently second, a chance to take the lead.

March 2020 :

17th
Covid-19 update
With so many sport events being canceled around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Acrobatic Gymnastics is not spared.
The calendar will be updated with the information I receive or find on the internet.
I wish all the gymnasts, coaches, judges and others, most importantly a good health, and also to stay positive during this difficult period.

3/20/2020 update: The World Championships are postponed.

26th
The ACRO newsletter Nr 10
The ACRO newsletter Nr 10 published here by the FIG is a letter from Rosy Taeymans about the World Championships and World Age Group Competitions.
Please note that no new date has been set yet. It is too soon to speculate anything, not even which year they will happen.

April 2020 :

2nd
The World Games moved to 2022
After the Olympic Games moved to July 2021, the International World Games Association and the Birmingham Organising Committee have agreed to postpone the 11^th edition of The World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, until 7th to 17th July 2022.
Source: The International World Games Association

16th
FIG EC decisions
On April 9, The FIG Executive Committee took several decisions following the Olympic and World Games postponements.
Regarding the Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships, the FIG is in touch with the organising member federation to find new possible dates to hold these events in 2021.
"They have also decided that the 2017-2020 Codes of Points in all Gymnastics disciplines will remain in force until the end of 2021. The 2021-2024 Codes of Points, which will now come into force on 1 January 2022, will be published next year to avoid any confusion. All courses and exams for FIG Judges' brevets will also be postponed by one year, to November 2021."
Source: FIG.

28th
2024 World Championships
The in-person meeting being canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic, The FIG council voted by email to allocate the 29th Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships to the Israel Gymnastics Association. They will be held in May 2024 at the Holon Toto Arena. The Championships will be preceded by the 13th World Age Group Competitions.
Source: FIG Press release

May 2020 :

18th
World Championships - New dates
During its videoconference on May 15, the FIG EC confirmed new dates for the 27th Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. They will be held from June 18th to the 20th, 2021 and the 11th World Age Group Competitions from June 9th to 15th, 2021.

Other decisions include the provisional acceptance of candidates who couldn't attend a level 3 Academy. The federations will have to commit to the candidate's participation to a level 3 Academy by a certain deadline and this EC decision remains subject to approval of the Congress.
The EC also approved the rules for the 2021-24 World Cup Series.
Source: FIG.

June 2020 :

24th
Newsletter Nr 11
The ACRO newsletter Nr 11 is published on the FIG website.

July 2020 :

19th
Newsletter Nr 12
The ACRO newsletter Nr 12 is published on the FIG website.
It announces the FIG EC decision to open the age groups for the 2021 World Age Groups Competitions in order to allow the partnerships who would have qualified in 2020 to compete in the same age group in 2021.

The FIG also published an article explaining how the difficulty score is calculated in Acrobatic Gymnastics.