07. November 2014  
WCh / WM 2014 Daytona Beach, Fl./USA

DAY 1: Friday - full program of Preliminaries ...

Daytona Beach is well prepared
A total of 45 countries have reported their athletes to the 30th World Championships of Trampoline, Double mini-tramp and Tumbling and the subsequent World Age Group Competitions of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). The competition venue of the Ocean Center of Daytona Beach, the American host city, is well prepared and the first training sessions in Florida are already running, as well as the runners on the beach, enjoying the outer charming with wonderful opportunities, but windy sunny weather ...

GYMmedia partner "E u r o t r a m p" provides technical best conditions in the Ocean Center of Daytona Beach.

First impressions from Daytona Beach ...
- From our correspondents GYMmedia Heinz-Peter Michels (GER)
In addition to the several thousand-seat competition venue (photo, above) are housed both a further warming up zone and also a spacious training hall in the same building complex. Several containers with trampolines and double mini-tramps were supplied by the Swabian company EUROTRAMP from Germany - which was also confirmed a few days ago as the official Supplier of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro from the World Gymnastics Association at its Congress in Tashkent (UZB). The Tumbling Tracks come from Acrosport.
All landing mats and also the landing zones are American products.

The three days of competition were distributed on the upcoming weekend.
♦ The first day (Friday, November 07) belongs exclusively to preliminaries for a strong program:

♦ FRIDAY,  November 07  (TIME: US Eastern time)
  → Trampoline, ind. Qualifications:
      9.00  - 18:40 – Men’s &Women’s Group 1 - 9
  → D M T, ind. Qualifications:
      7.00 - 22.00  –  Men’s Group 1 - 4
  → Tumbling, ind. Qualifications:
      7.00 - 20.50 – Women’s Group 1 - 2

  < For the evening at the legendary Hotel Hilton
     is planned celebrating "50 years of
     Trampoline World Championships" !

    On Saturday and Sunday, include the synchronous qualifications as well as each individual the semi-finals and later on.
 (... look at >>  Zeitplan / Schedule).

* We will publish a summary after the end of competitions / resp. subdomains.

♦ Updates before beginning: Roundtable ...
Before the start of the Trampoline World Championships in Daytona Beach, the coach of the participating sports federations were invited by the FIG Trampoline Technical Committee at a roundtable talk. They discussed three different subject areas:
1- There was spoken among other things on whether the future again the Worlds starting age for women should be reduced by one year: There was a clear 'NO' by the majority of those present.
2- A discuss a separate calculation difficulty in female tumbling. Using experts to advise in the coming months and then develop proposals.

3- Also was debating the "lateral drifting resp. hiking" on the trampoline jumping mat. The question is: Athletes may also in future continue to jump without deductions from "risk zones" ...?
These are possibly measuring plates detect data under the four apparatus feets. These issues were discussed on as well as in the large Ocean Center Lobby.
<< So, among other things Germany's  Bundesliga Chief Heinz-Peter Michels, the FIG- TK-Chairman Horst Kunze and EUROTRAMP representative Rüdiger Mosel (photo, left.) were in intensive discussions on these issues.
Also at the evening meeting of the national active speakers discussed quite exhaustively about these topics. In particular, the "lateral drift" was again in the focus of the talks.

* From Daytona Beach for GYMmedia: H.-P. Michels (GER)

♦ DAY 1 - Friday: Full Program of Qualifications
The 2014 Trampoline, Tumbling & Double-Mini Trampoline World Championships began today in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Today's schedule sees qualifications take place in men's and women's trampoline, men's DMT and women's tumbling.

* Men's Trampoline: 9 Subdivisions
  Olympic and world champion DONG, Dong (CHN) leads after 3rd group:

 > Intermediate Results- after group 4

* H e r e  you will find the ⇒  LIVE-RESULTATE of the following groups!

... and, as expected the dominance of the Chinese athletes was overwhelming:
1. GAO, Lei (113,380)    2. DONG, Dong (111,830)  3. TU, Xiao (111,655).
- than the two Russians 4. Dmitri USCHAKOV (110,745), 5. Sergei ASARJAN (108,565) 6. Masaki ITO (JPN; 107,505).
>> Men's  Qualification


* Women's Trampoline: 8 Subdivisions:
Best gymnast and on the top of the roster after fourth group is Tatsiana Piatrenia (BLR):

   > Intermediate Results- after group 4

* H e r e  you will find the ⇒  LIVE-RESULTS of the following groups!
At the end also on women's side the Chinese gymnasts in leading position:
(1) LI, Dan (103,925) followed by  (2) Rosannagh MACLENNAN (CAN; 103,600) and (3) ZHONG, Xingping (CHN; 102,300) in front of (4) Irina KUNDIUS (RUS; 101,910).
Best British gymnast is Bryony PAGE on 7th place (101,275), teammate Karen DRISCOLL (100,385) came on 9th and best gymnast from USA is Charlotte DRURY(98,985) on 11th place.
>> Women's  Qualification
 

♦ Qualifikation DOUBLE MINI TRAMP
  The preliminaries in Daytona Beach start at 7 pm. local (Eastern) time
Here you will find the
 ⇒ DMT-Live-Results, Men
 ⇒ DMT-Live-Results, Women

... and on Saturday, Nov 08:
♦ Qualification TUMBLING
 ⇒ TUM-Live-Results, Men
 ⇒ TUM-Live-Results, Women

♦ VIDEO on DEMAND  (Friday, Nov 07)
USA Gymnastics offers the complete first with all qulifying sessions: