Belarusian trampoline players showed the top class at the World Cup

Belarusian trampoline players performed well at the World Championships in Nanjing, China. They won six medals, three of which are of the highest rank. The first gold was brought to the team by Ekaterina Ershova and Stanislav Yaskevich, who defended the world title in mixed synchronous jumps. Following the highest step of the pedestal, our men's team rose, which included Stanislav Yaskevich, Ivan Litvinovich, Andrei Builov and Ivan Melnikov. Another medal of the highest standard special attention. Firstly, because it is won in individual jumps - the Olympic form of the program. And secondly, it was taken by two-time Olympic champion Ivan Litvinovich. Before that, the leader of our team five times became world champion in team competitions and synchronized jumps, but personal gold in Ivan’s career was not – in Nanjing, he corrected it. Bravo, team!

Ivan Litvinovich confidently passed the qualification, and in the final he performed last. The main rivals - Chinese Lanyu Yang and Wang Zisai, who won the World Cup this year - received impressive scores from the judges: 65,830 and 66,160 points, respectively. But Litvinovich performed even better - earning 66,300 points, he became the winner.

- To be honest, I didn't look at Wang's grade because I knew I was going to get nervous. I just decided to ignore it. But when he finished his speech, he saw that he had 66 points and realized that the fight would be difficult. I was hoping for a maximum of second place, and in the end was a little higher! – said Ivan Litvinovich. There are other tournaments that I want to win, and I have to. The World Cup was one of them. That's my goal.

Litvinovich, in addition to gold in personal competitions and the team, became the owner of the bronze award of the World Championship - he won it in the "synchronous" with Ivan Melnikov. In women’s individual competitions, Violetta Bordilovskaya performed better than other Belarusians – the silver medalist of the Olympic Games took second place, second only to Chinese Zhu Xueing. Our women’s team, which, in addition to Violetta, included Yana Lebedev, Ekaterina Ershova and Zlata Miniahmetova, in team competitions took third place – only Chinese and Russian women are higher.

With a brilliant performance, our team was congratulated by the President of the NOC of Belarus Viktor Lukashenko. He stressed that the six awards of the World Championship in trampoline jumping are a natural result of the long and consistent work of our talented athletes and coaching staff headed by Olga Vlasova, whose professionalism and discipline deserve special admiration.

In the overall team standings, Belarusian athletes took second place. Only Russians were able to bypass them, who, in addition to actually jumping on a trampoline, competed on an acrobatic track and a double mini-trump. The top three winners of the tournament were the Chinese.

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