The 6th World Championships of Wheel Gymnastics will take place in Buetgenbach/Belgium and Aachen/Germany, 2005 May from 3 – 7. Ten fifferent nations with a total of 85 competitors have registered for the championships: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and USA.
In the team competition the reigning world champion, Germany, will meet teams from Japan, Norway and Switzerland.
The IRV will be celebrating its 10th anniversary during the World Championships. An exhibition will trace the most important stages of development over the last 10 years.
The General Assembly of the International Rhönrad Federation (IRV) will be held on 3rd May 2005.....
One of the main items on the agenda will be the election of a new president to replace the German Franz Obry, who stood down as president in 2004 in order to focus on national obligations as Chairman of the German Gymnastics Federation’s (DTB) Technical Committee for Wheel Gymnastics.
The DTB has nominated Paul Sieler as candidate for the IRV presidency. Paul Sieler has been vice president of the IRV for many years.