18th AEROBIC GYMNASTICS WORLDCHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

The 18^th Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships 2024 will be held from September 27 - 29 in Pesaro, Italy.
The Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships are the championships for qualifying aerobic gymnastics from across the globe.
* The discipline is a thrilling competitive sport originating from aerobics where gymnasts combine complex, high-intensity moves with elements of varying difficulty into an entertaining routine set to music. About 350 gymnasts from 37 nations has drawn. An especially star-studded field reunites reigning titlists in five of the seven Aerobic categories — Individual Men’s and Women’s, Group, Aerobic Dance, and Aerobic Step — for a new showdown, while new World champions are guaranteed in Mixed Pair and Trio events.
* Before the WCh main event, the 11^th World Age Group Competitions kicked off from September 20-22, featuring the next generation of gymnastics stars:

.* FIG WCh Preview --:
An abundance of ambition among Aerobic’s best
The return of athletes from Japan and the People’s Republic of China for the first time since the global pandemic adds an extra dimension to what already presents as an intensely competitive World Championships. With Japan comes two-time Individual Men’s World champion Saito Mizuki, joining 2022 World champion Kim Hanjin (KOR), 2021 World champion Miquel Mane (ESP), and 2014 World champion Ivan Veloz (MEX) among those aiming to take the men’s title.

After exceptional results in her 2023 return, 2018 Individual Women’s World champion Kitazume Riri (JPN) could be one of the main contenders in a race that pits her against the winners of the last two titles in Anastasiia Kurashvili (UKR) and Ayse Onbasi (TUR).

There will be plenty of competition in Mixed Pair, Trio, Group, and Aerobic Step and Aerobic Dance categories, where Brazil, China, France, Hungary, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Romania, and Vietnam have historically been superb. The Koreans, 2022 World champions in Aerobic Step and Dance, return all but one member of both winning teams. Vietnam, whose Group gold two years ago was the first World title for the nation in any Gymnastics discipline, is bringing back its entire golden squad too.
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* F I G - R e p o r t --:

Japan and the People’s Republic of China doubled their gold medal counts as the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships came to an eventful end Sunday in Pesaro (ITA), with the last four more World titles decided.
Amidst a talented field, Miquel Mane (ESP) captured a second Individual Men’s gold in three years. There was also a historic gold for Hungary’s Aerobic Dance team and three bronzes for the host nation, courtesy of its Group and Aerobic Dance team, and Davide Nacci as a solo practitioner.

Kitazume and Saito mix things up with a new gold

Kitazume Riri and Saito Mizuki (JPN) fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming World champions in Mixed Pair, the third World gold for each but the first not won in an individual category. The medal is Kitazume’s second title in Pesaro; the 26-year-old also captured the Individual Women’s title Saturday.

The duo was so prepared to win that the name of their music is “Victory,” Saito explained afterward, smiling at his training partner of more than 20 years. As children, they dreamed of such a moment, he added, and their 20.500 points for a wonderfully synchronised performance made the dream a reality.

“Our goal was to get the victory. Today we just had to do this,” Saito added. “Because of the pandemic, we couldn’t take part in the World Championships for six years. [Training] was all we could do.”

Silver medallists Madina Mustafayeva and Vladimir Dolmatov (AZE) were one of the revelations of the competition with a beautiful display to Duncan Laurence’s “Loving You Is a Losing Game.” Mustafayeva is already a World champion in her own right, having helped Azerbaijan take its only World title to date with gold in Aerobic Dance in 2021.

The World Games champions Tamires Silva and Lucas Barbosa (BRA) recorded one slip in a clever, fast-paced routine about friends entertaining the possibility of becoming more. The small mistake put the title out of reach but was not enough to shut them out of the medals. Bronze is Silva’s second World medal and Barbosa’s third.

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** At the end of the competition days, we summarise the results here in short form:
* Sunday, Sep 29:
* MEN ind. FINAL:    1. Mane, Miquel (ESP) - 21,750
                              2. Saito, Mizuki    (JPN) - 21,400
                                  3. Nacci, Davide (ITA) - 21,300
* MIXED PAIR, FINAL: 1. JAPAN;       2. AZERBAIJAN;   3. BRAZIL II;
* GROUP, FINAL:    1. CHINA;     2. VIETNAM;         3. ITALY;

* AEROBIC DANCE: 1. HUNGARY; 2. ROMANIA; 3. KOREA;

* Saturday, Sep 28:
* TEAM Results:
* TRIO, Final:        1. CHN II - 20,500;     2. FRA - 20,547; 3. BUL - 20,538;
* WOM ind. Final: 1. Kitazume, Riri                 (JPN) - 21,450;
                                 2. Kurashvili, Anastasia (UKR) - 21,150;
                                 3. Leclos, Maelys          (FRA) - 20,650;
* AEROBIC STEP: 1. KOR - 17,800; 2. CHN - 17,400; 3. UKR - 16,900;

* Friday, Sep 27 --: ►► FIG RESULTS - Qualifications

►► FIG, detailed Results, All

11^thAEROBIC World Age Group Competitions 2024
- Pesaro / ITA; September 20 - 22 -

* Juniors - : With 3 discipline victories, the Portuguese hosts became the most successful nation in the juniors and won the individual, women's and men's competitions, as well as the mixed category Spain with 2 successes Step & Dance) and Hungary (trio) and Bulgaria (group) each won a gold medal.
German participants competed in 4 of the 7 categories and did not finish in the top ten and therefore had no chance of reaching the final.
* Age groups --: HUNGARY's young talents dominated the 6 categories and won half of the possible gold medals (Ind. Boys; Group & Dance) with 3 gold medals alone. Three nations achieved one victory each:
- Bulgaria won the Tio (+ 2x silver & 1x bronze
- Spain won the mixed competition (+ 1x silver and 1x bronze) and
- Lithuania triumphed in the girls' individual competition and won another bronze medal.
* Germany only achieved one place in the final, coming 8th out of 17 formations in the Dance category.
* Emma Eggenstein (Blau-Weiß Buchholz), four-time German Youth Champion from 2023, only just missed out on a place in the final in 9th place.
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♦ An overview of the WAG results can be found at
► F I G WAG-Results

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