The 1991 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the second edition of the acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Beijing, China, from September 26 to September 28, 1991. [1] The competition was organized by the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA).
Olga Valentinovna Korbut is a retired Belarusian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988.
Acrobatic gymnastics is a competitive discipline of gymnastics where partnerships of gymnasts work together and perform figures consisting of acrobatic moves, dance and tumbling, set to music. There are three types of routines; a 'balance' routine where the focus is on strength, poise and flexibility; a 'dynamic' routine which includes throws, somersaults and catches, and a 'combined' routine which includes elements from both balance and dynamic.
Conference Carolinas, formerly known as the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) or the Carolinas Conference, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) primarily at the Division II level. It is also considered as one of the seven Division I conferences for men's volleyball. Originally formed in 1930, the league reached its modern incarnation in 1994. Member institutions are located in the southeastern United States in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Conference Carolinas membership currently consists of 14 small colleges or universities, 12 private and two public.
Gymnastics has been part of all World Games. Among the disciplines, there are rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining and tumbling as well as acrobatics and aerobics. Artistic gymnastics are not contested at the World Games because all of its disciplines have always been Olympic sports.
The Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships are the World Championships for acrobatic gymnastics. Before 2006 they were known as the World Sports Acrobatics Championships.
20th Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Coimbra, Portugal from June 14 to June 17, 2006. This was the first time the competition was called "Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships", after previously being called "World Sports Acrobatics Championships".
The Chowan Hawks are the athletic teams that represent Chowan University, located in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.
Youri Germanovich Vorobyev is a Soviet-born coach of acrobatic gymnastics who produced more than a dozen world-championship acrobatic gymnasts during his coaching career in the Soviet Union and Russia.
The Mountain East Conference (MEC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and officially began competition on September 1, 2013. It consists of 11 schools, mostly in West Virginia with other members in Maryland and Ohio.
The Limestone Saints are the athletic teams that represent Limestone University, located in Gaffney, South Carolina, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sporting competitions. The Saints compete as members of the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) for most sports, having joined that league in July 2020 after 22 years in Conference Carolinas (CC). Limestone maintains CC membership in two sports, specifically men's wrestling and women's acrobatics & tumbling. Men's wrestling is one of two sports in which the SAC and CC operate as a single league, the other being women's field hockey. The SAC operates the field hockey championship, while CC operates the wrestling championship. The men's volleyball team competes as an independent. The swim team competed in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference before being dropped in 2018; the field hockey and wrestling teams were members of the ECAC–Division II before 2018, when the SAC and CC established their alliance in those two sports. The football team had been independent, but entered into a scheduling agreement with the SAC in 2015. This agreement was replaced in 2017 by formal affiliate membership, which continued until the Saints joined the SAC full-time in 2020.
FIG World Cup refers to a number of events organized by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) across seven competitive gymnastics disciplines: 1) acrobatic gymnastics, 2) aerobic gymnastics, 3) men's artistic gymnastics, 4) women's artistic gymnastics, 5) women's rhythmic gymnastics, 6) trampoline and tumbling, and 7) parkour.
Hand to hand acrobatics is a type of performance in which an acrobatic base and flyer balance on top of each other in either a gymnastic or acrobatic medium. It combines strength, agility, flexibility, and balance. For it to be considered hand to hand acrobatics, the top performer (flyer) must be making physical contact only with the base's hands, with the flyer's hands keeping them balanced. Positions the top can perform in this style of acrobatics are straddles, handstands, pikes, press to handstand, one arm handstands, planches, flags, and many others. Hand to hand acrobatics can also include dynamic catches and throws that either begin with a throw from a hand to hand position or end in a catch in the hand to hand position.
NCAA Emerging Sports for Women are intercollegiate women's sports that are recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, but do not have sanctioned NCAA Championships.
Junior World Gymnastics Championships refers to a number of different World Championships in four disciplines recognized by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in competitive gymnastics: acrobatic gymnastics, men's and women's artistic gymnastics, and rhythmic gymnastics.
The 1989 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the first edition of the acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Katowice, Poland, from December 1 to December 3, 1989. The competition was organized by the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA).
The 1993 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the third edition of the acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Moscow, Russia, from April 8 to 10, 1993. The competition was organized by the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA).
The 1995 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the fourth edition of the acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Riesa, Germany, from May 27 to 28, 1995. The competition was organized by the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA).
The 1997 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the fifth edition of the acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, from May 29 to 31, 1997. The competition was organized by the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA).
The 1999 Junior World Sports Acrobatics Championships was the sixth edition of the junior acrobatic gymnastics competition, then named sports acrobatics, and took place in Nowa Ruda, Poland, from October 7 to 9, 1999. The competition was organized by the International Gymnastics Federation.
The 3rd Pan American Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships were held in Monterrey, Mexico from November 22 to 24, 2019. The competition was organized by the Mexican Gymnastics Federation and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.
