Category: parkour (free running)

Shang Chunsong – World Parkour Champion

Fan favourite, Shang Chunsong, was captain of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Additionally she represented China at the 2013, 2014, and 2015 World Championships where she won silver with the team at the latter two.

Domestically she is the 2015 and 2016 Chinese national all-around champion.

In Parkour she is the 2024 World freestyle champion.

FIG Parkour World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan on November 17, 2024. 

Today she’s a Gymnastics coach training Parkour independently.

… the 28-year-old said via her personal Weibo account that the world title has helped make up for the regrets she had in gymnastics and her next goal is the World Games in 2025.

The gold medal finish ensured her automatic qualification for the World Games 2025 Chengdu, scheduled to take place in August in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. 

Former Chinese gymnastics captain makes history in parkour

She competes a LOT of difficulty.

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Gymnastics in Gaza

Wassim Naqqar, 11, snagged first place in gymnastics in the Palestinian territories before the war began.

But after being forced to flee northern Gaza in April as fighting escalated in the area, he left Palestine Club in Sheikh Redwan, where he would train in gymnastics, yoga and parkour, a sport that involves running, swinging and vaulting in urban spaces.

His favourite sport of the three? Gymnastics. But because the region is war-torn, he says he often winds up practising it on the rubble. …

WaPo (paywall) – This 11-year-old does gymnastics atop the rubble of Gaza as the war rages on

Father-son duo helping train around 60 kids in war-torn region, teaching them gymnastics and parkour

Gymnastics in emerging nations

I’m a volunteer for IOC and FIG helping member countries who want to grow and improve their Gymnastics sports.

A NEW video looks at the challenges faced around the world. Facilities. Coaching. Local knowledge about the sports.

Parkour is one of the easiest disciplines to get started.

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No Parkour in 2024, 2028 Olympics

The newish gender-balanced and youth-centred medal sports for Paris are …

A last ditch effort to get Parkour into the Olympics was proposed — Farmer Chasing Chicken Parkour. It failed. 😀

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1/1 twisting Dive Roll

These excellent skills have disappeared from Men’s Gymnastics.

Too bad.

The Storror Parkour group from the U.K. use them a lot in their videos.

(I never mastered the thing, myself.)

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Robots doing Parkour

Are they eligible for Paris? 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2021)

Check out some other “stunt robots”.

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Parkour Worlds – interviews

The FIG version of this sport is so new, the best in the world are still getting to understand it.

1st Worlds were a success.

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