DAYTONA BEACH 2014

TRAMPOLINE CELEBRATES
ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

An important milestone in the history of Trampoline Gymnastics, the year 1964 was not only when the International Trampoline Federation (FIT) was created, but also the time of the inaugural Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships.

Fifty years later, on the occasion of the 2014 World Championships, the international Trampoline Gymnastics community commemorated the early years of the discipline. FIT Honorary Members, authorities of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), former Trampoline World champions and delegation members of the 30th World Championships gathered for an anniversary dinner in Daytona Beach (USA).

FIG President Prof. Bruno Grandi (ITA) paid tribute to the attending Ron Froehlich (USA), who was the last president of the FIT and the driving force of the integration of Individual Trampoline in the Olympic programme. Grandi also honored Alexander Moskalenko (RUS) and Irina Karavaeva (RUS), the first two Olympic champions in Trampoline, who attended the festivities at the Ocean Center.

Among the distinguished guests of the anniversary dinner were furthermore Jeff Hennessy (USA), former chairman of the FIT Technical Committee and the United States’ most successful Trampoline and Double Mini-trampoline coach, Horst Kunze (GER), who has been heading the  TRA TC for 24 years, as well as the first women’s and men’s Individual Trampoline World champions Judy Wills Cline (USA) and Dan Millman (USA).

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