Gold that's been waiting for 30 years. In Minsk met trampoline, triumphantly performed at the world Cup

Today, November 9, our national trampoline jumping team returned to Minsk, triumphantly performing at the World Championships in Nanjing, China. At the National Airport, athletes were greeted with flowers and congratulations, writes sb.by.

Belarusians won six awards – three gold, one silver and two bronze. For the first time in his career, Ivan Litvinovich became the world champion in individual competitions, the title of champions in mixed synchronous jumps was defended by Ekaterina Ershova and Stanislav Yaskevich, and another gold in team competitions was won by Ivan Litvinovich, Andrei Builov, Stanislav Yaskevich and Ivan Melnikov. Violetta Bordilovskaya returned with silver from the planetary forum, our women’s team won bronze awards, and Ivan Litvinovich and Ivan Melnikov in synchronized jumps.

- The last time the Belarusian athlete became world champion was in 1996, when Dmitry Polyarush achieved success. And after 30 years, the gold was won by Ivan Litvinovich, Olga Vlasova. - The girls also performed well. Everyone fought, tried, did everything to the maximum. Everyone remembered why they came there, what country was behind them and how many fans supported them.

Stanislav Yaskevich and Ekaterina Ershova, who opened a score in Nanjing for the gold awards of Belarusians, admitted that it was more difficult to hold the title of champions than to win for the first time. The athletes came up with a new, more complex program and showed excellent results. Of course, they were happy that they managed to bring the first medal in the tournament for our country.

- We will try to keep the bar, Stanislav Yaskevich assured. - Right now, pride is overwhelming. We have long wanted to carry our flag, listen to our anthem, standing on a pedestal. We are very happy to return our national symbols.

For Ivan Litvinovich, the World Championship medals won in Nanjing were not the first in his career: earlier our athlete had already climbed to the highest step of the podium, but according to the results of team competitions and synchronized jumps. Personal gold caused special emotions. Ivan, speaking with journalists, noted with a smile that usually athletes first achieve success at the world championships, and then at the Olympics, he also turned out the opposite.

- Since Dmitry Polyarush won the world championship 30 years have passed. Now I won, and for me it is very important and honorable, Ivan admitted. Athletes are trying to collect a full set of awards, and I lacked personal gold at the World Cup. In 2019 I won silver, now I won.

- It seems they started to grow together, I was a little more than a week preparing for the World Cup. At first I did not believe in myself, but thanks to Olga Anatolyevna everything turned out: she correctly stimulated me, said that this start is very important for us, we are going to it with a flag. This prompted me to perform even in this state, the athlete said. Everything was fine, but during qualifying he aggravated the injury. I was relieved, continued the speech - and this is the result.

Ivan Litvinovich spoke about his plans for the future at the airport simply: get to Vitebsk and go to training tomorrow. In the near future, international competitions are not planned for our trampoline jumping team. According to Olga Vlasova, the next departure is scheduled for May - the athletes will perform at the stage of the World Cup, which will already be licensed.