The Sports Hall-Olympic Stadium of Wroclaw, Poland, will host the first World Cup of 2008 on March 7-8, 2008.  Training sessions will be held on March 5-6, 2008.  The 3rd Wroclaw Cup, a fast-growing international senior and age group event, will be take place in parallel to the World Cup.

Overall, athletes from 16 countries will compete in trampoline and tumbling at this 2008 Wroclaw World Cup.  These countries include Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, the Ukraine, the United States, and Uzbekistan.  Some of the major countries missing include China, Japan, and Germany.  In addition, Great Britain and the United States will compete only in tumbling.   This moderate turnout can be explained by the fact that this World Cup comes fairly early in a year full of major events such as the Olympic Games in Beijing, China, in August, the World Cup Final in Togliatti, Russia, in September, and the European Championships in Odense, Denmark, in April-May.  

Despite the absence of some countries, the 2008 Wroclaw Cup will feature three of the reigning individual World Champions: Irina Karavaeva (RUS) in individual trampoline, Andrei Krylov (RUS) and Anna Korobeynikova (RUS) in individual tumbling.

The Wroclaw World Cup will be a Category A World Cup in trampoline, and a Category B World Cup in tumbling.  37 men and 20 women will compete in individual trampoline, whereas 21 male tumblers and 12 female tumblers will battle for the medals.  In synchronized trampoline, 14 men's pairs and 8 women's pairs will perform.    

This Wroclaw World Cup is the 8th stage of the 2007-2008 World Cup series.  Previous stages took place in 2007 in Lake Placid in the United States, Quebec City in Canada, Kunshan in China, Sofia in Bulgaria, Ostend in Belgium, St Petersburg in Russia, and Zielona Gora in Poland.  The Wroclaw World Cup will be followed by World Cups in Osaka, Japan, in May, Publier-Amphion, France, in May, Arosa, Switzerland, in June, and Albacete, Spain, in June.  The 9th and last World Cup Final will take place in Togliatti, Russia, on September 19-20, 2008.  The first World Cup of the following series will take place in Loule, Portugal, at the end of September. 

This Wroclaw World Cup will be the 3rd trampoline World Cup ever held in Poland.  The first one took place in 1998 in Poznan, and saw the victories of Evgeni Beliaev (BLR) and Irina Karavaeva (RUS) in trampoline, and Brad Davis (USA) and Wiktoria Weselak (POL) in tumbling.  The 2007 Zielona Gora World Cup, held last September, saw the victories of Lu Chunlong (CHN) and Irina Karavaeva (RUS) in individual trampoline and Li Zhenqiu (CHN) and Samantha Palmer (GBR) in tumbling.  A tumbling only World Cup also took place in Poland in November 1996 in Swidnica.  The winners were Rayshine Harris (USA) and Karine Boucher (FRA). 

The Lower Silesia city of Wroclaw is also a growing and developing city that will be one of the host cities of the 2012 European Championships in football. 

AcrobaticSports.com would like to thank Konrad Bojakowski and the whole Wroclaw Cup team for their top notch assistance and support. 

Link to the official website of the Wroclaw World Cup