Unicon (unicycling)

This article is about the unicycling convention. For other uses, see Unicon (disambiguation).

Start of the 100 km race at the Unicon 16 in Brixen 2012

Unicon, previously known as UNICON, is the World Unicycling Convention and Championships sanctioned by the International Unicycling Federation (IUF).

The IUF sanctions a biennial world unicycling convention and competition, the major event on the international unicycling calendar. Events include artistic (such as group, pairs, individual), track racing (such as 100 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, 30 metres walk the wheel, 50 metres one-foot), road races (such as 10 kilometres, marathon), stillstand, slalom, muni (cross-country, uphill, downhill), street, trials, flatland, basketball and hockey.

List of Unicons

Unicon	Year	Dates	Location
Unicon I	1984		Syracuse, New York, United States
Unicon II	1986		Uniondale, New York, United States
Unicon III	1987		Tokyo, Japan
Unicon IV	1988		Aquadilla, Puerto Rico
Unicon V	1991		Hull, Quebec, Canada
Unicon VI	1992		Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Unicon VII	1994		Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Unicon VIII	1996	5-12 August 1996	Guildford, United Kingdom
Unicon IX	1998	27 July - 2 August	Bottrop, Germany [1]
Unicon X	2000	August	Beijing, China
Unicon XI	2002	25 July - 2 August	North Bend, Washington, United States
Unicon XII	2004	23 July - 1 August	Tokyo, Japan
Unicon XIII	2006	23 July - 2 August	Langenthal and Bern, Switzerland [2]
Unicon XIV	2008	26 July - 4 August	Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark [3]
Unicon XV	2009/10	27 December - 7 January	Wellington, New Zealand [4]
Unicon XVI	2012	21 July - 31 July	Brixen, Italy [5] [6]
Unicon XVII	2014	30 July - 10 August	Montreal, Quebec, Canada [7]
Unicon XVIII	2016	27 July - 10 August	San Sebastián, Spain
Unicon XIX	2018	29 July - 10 August	Ansan, Korea
Unicon XX	2022	26 July - 6 August	Grenoble, France [8]
Unicon XXI	2024	14 July - 26 July	Bemidji, Minnesota, USA [9]

Unicon XIX records

At Unicon 19 in Ansan, Korea, a new record was set by Mike Taylor in the Platform High Jump. Mike successfully landed the high jump of 148.5 cm (58+1⁄2 inches).

External links

• International Unicycling Federation

References

1. Unicycle Hockey World Championships 1998 at UNICON IX
2. "Unicon 13 (2006) Langenthal and Bern, Switzerland" . Retrieved 2014-09-06.
3. "Unicon 14 (2008) Denmark". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
4. "Unicon 15 (2009/10) New Zealand". Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
5. "Unicon XVI goes to..." 2009-12-16. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
6. "Unicon 16 (2012) Italy" . Retrieved 2014-09-06.
7. "Unicon 17 - Montréal" . Retrieved 2014-09-06.
8. "Unicon 20 postponed to 2022". 6 December 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
9. "Unicon page from IUF" . Retrieved 21 August 2022.