Trampoline & Tumbling World Champs

The 2011 Trampoline & Tumbling World Championships take place this weekend at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. I myself will be attending to cheer on Britain's best with my university trampolining buddies.

For individual trampoline, these championships will act as the first qualification event for the Olympic Games. To qualify places in London, British gymnasts must either make the final (top 8) at the Worlds (where two places per individual class are available) or failing that go on to the Olympic Test event in January (where just one place is available per class).

British Champion Katherine Driscoll is the current world number one woman, with Bryony Page (8^th) and Emma Smith (10th) joining her in the top ten. British Champion Luke Strong (18 ^th) and James Higgins (20^th) are the top placed men.

Other disciplines (not part of of the olympic games) are synchronised  trampoline, tumbling and the crazy-dangerous looking double mini trampoline. 

International faces to watch include reigning olympic champions in trampoline, He Wenna and Li Chunlong of China (The chinese should have no difficulty at all qualifying a full quota to London 2012, they have also been men's and women's world champions at the last 2 world championships) 

Here is a list of last years results and this years entries.  

The competition will be preceded by the world age group championships (a sort of junior worlds) giving a chance to see the names who will appear beyond 2012. 

Click here for the event website and full media guide.  

Schedule

Thursday 17 November
Qualifications:
Trampoline Individual men
Trampoline Individual women

Friday 18 November
Qualifications:
Double Mini Trampoline men
Double Mini Trampoline women
Tumbling men
Tumbling women

Opening Ceremony

Finals:
Trampoline Team Final men
Trampoline Team Final women

Saturday 19 November
Qualifications:
Synchronised men
Synchronised women

Finals:
Double Mini Trampoline Team Final men
Double Mini Trampoline Team Final women
Tumbling Team Final men
Tumbling Team Final women
Synchronised Final women
Trampoline Individual Final men

Sunday 20 November
Finals:
Double Mini Trampoline Final men
Double Mini Trampoline Final women
Tumbling Final men
Tumbling Final women
Synchronised Final men
Trampoline Individual Final women

Closing ceremony