The national team of Belarus performed magnificently at the world championship on trampoline jumping

The national team of Belarus performed magnificently at the World Championships in trampoline jumping. From the Chinese Nanjing Belarusians took three gold, one silver and two bronzes. Our trampoline riders have won medals in all types of the program, with the exception of women's synchronized jumps. The world champion in the individual standings was Ivan Litvinovich, Stanislav Yaskevich and Ekaterina Ershova won the mix, and the Belarusian quartet consisting of Ivan Litvinovich, Andrei Builov, Stanislav Yaskevich and Ivan Melnikov won the men's team tournament.

You should be happy for Ivan Litvinovich. It so happened that he won the Olympics twice in individual jumps, but could not climb to the top step of the pedestal at the world championships. In Nanjing, he got better. He won the gold medal with 66,300 points. In the final, Ivan Litvinovich was ahead of his eternal rivals from China - this year's World Cup winner Wang Zisai (66,160) and Yan Lanyu (65,830). The top five was closed by another Belarusian Andrei Builov (64,530). Earlier in his career, Litvinovic became world champion five times, but in a team or synchronized jumps. And now in China he won both in qualifying and in the semifinals.

By the way, the finalist selection system. Were it not for the World Gymnastics rule that the strongest eight should not have more than two athletes from the same country, we could watch the Union State Championship at the World Cup. Belarusians and Russians in Nanjing looked better than anyone else, even the Chinese. However, because of this rule were forced in the semi-finals to take excessive risks leading in qualifying Jan Lebedev and Ekaterin Ershova. The risk was not justified, the mistakes left them out of the final. But the silver medalist of Paris-2024 Violetta Bordilovskaya survived in the jumping “meat grinder” and again returns home with a silver award – 57.360 points. Only Chinese Zhu Xueing (57,500) performed better. The trio was closed by Japanese Kiko Tanaka (57,140).

- This is 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, President of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus Viktor Lukashenko congratulated the trampoline jumping team on its success at the World Cup in China. Hard work, skill, endurance, willpower and team spirit once again helped to achieve a resounding triumph and prove that the Belarusian trampoline jumping school is deservedly the strongest in the world. You were unmatched among the best at the planetary forum – and the country is proud of everyone. KSTATI

Litvinovich and Melnikov were third in synchronized jumps. Another bronze was brought by the women's team (Bordilovskaya, Ershova, Yana Lebedev, Zlat Miniakhmetov).

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