The third World Cup of the 2010 World Cup Series will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, on July 3-4, 2010. This Wroclaw World Cup will follow the World Cups held in Ghent, Belgium, on April 9-10, and Davos, Switzerland, on June 11-12. The four other World Cups of the 2010 World Cup Series will take place in Albacete, Spain, on September 3-4, Astrakhan, Russia, on September 17-18, Loule, Portugal, on September 24-25, and Salzgitter, Germany, on October 8-9.
This 2010 Wroclaw World Cup will take place at the Hala Orbita arena. Training sessions will take place on July 1-2. The preliminaries in individual trampoline and synchronized trampoline will take place on July 3. On July 4th, the finals will be held. No tumbling event will take place at this World Cup.
Overall, 56 athletes from 13 countries will compete in trampoline at this 2010 Wroclaw World Cup. These countries include Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Uzbekistan. Some of the most high profile gymnasts include 2004 Olympic Champion and 2001 World Champion Anna Dogonadze (GER), 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Ekaterina Khilko (UZB), 2010 European Champion Gregoire Pennes (FRA), 2010 European silver medalist and 2-time European Junior Champion Mikhail Melnik (RUS), 1997 World Games Champion and 3-time World medalist Nikolai Kazak (BLR), 2010 European medalist Viacheslav Model (BLR), and 2-time European medalist Tatiana Petrenia (BLR).
This Wroclaw World Cup will be the second World Cup ever held in the Lower Silesia city. The 2008 edition of the event, held in connection with the Wroclaw Cup, was won by Dimitri Ushakov (RUS) and Irina Karavaeva (RUS). Overall, it will be the fifth 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). The 2007 Zielona Gora World Cup saw the victories of Lu Chunlong (CHN) and Irina Karavaeva (RUS). The 2009 Zielona Gora World Cup saw Lu Chunlong (CHN) and Huang Shanshan (CHN) emerge as the winners. A tumbling only World Cup also took place in Poland in November 1996 in Swidnica.
The city of Wroclaw will also host the next European Championships in trampoline, tumbling, and double mini-trampoline on April 10-16, 2012.
You will find the nominative entries below, as well as the program of the World Cup.
AcrobaticSports.com will cover the event with a two-person crew featuring Damien Dorna and Michel Bontemps.
Link to the official website
AcrobaticSports.com would like to thank Konrad Bojakowski and the whole Wroclaw Cup team for their assistance and support.