| 2022 Trampoline World Championships | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Arena Sofia |
| Location |  Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Start date | 16 November 2022 |
| End date | 19 November 2022 |
| Competitors | 310 from 38 nations |
The 2022 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 16 to 19 November 2022. [1] [2] It was held in conjunction with the 2022 Trampoline Gymnastics World Age Group Competitions, which was competed the next week in the same arena from 23 to 26 November. This was the third time the World Championships were hosted in Sofia after the 2013 and 2017 Championships. [3]
Contents
310 athletes from 38 countries competed in 15 events. [2] The gymnast ambassadors for the event were Radostin Rachev and Anna Dogonadze. [4]
For the first time, Great Britain won the most medals (9) at the championships, including the most gold medals (4). [5] Great Britain won both the men's and women's tumbling team events, [6] as well as the all-around team event, where they tied for points with the United States and won on a tie break. [7] Their fourth title was in women's tumbling, won by 17-year-old Comfort Yeates. Oceanian gymnasts from Australia and New Zealand won four titles, their best-ever performance at the World championships. [8]
Hikaru Mori won Japan's first individual women's title at the World Championships less than an hour after she and Megu Uyama won their second women's synchronized title. [9] The silver medalist, Bryony Page, was given a rare perfect 10 score for displacement in qualifications, which was the first in her career. [10] Dylan Schmidt became the first New Zealand man to win an individual World Championships title and the first non-Chinese man to do so since the 2005 World Championships, [8] [11] while the men's individual team title was won by a Portuguese team for the first time. [10]
