Following discussions with our member countries, we will continue to offer all around junior and senior competitions as well as individual discipline finals at the world championships from 2020 onwards.

However, we want all medal-deciding competitions to have a maximum length of approximately 2½ hours, which means we will need to organise preliminary rounds for both juniors and seniors (Semi Finals), followed by all around and individual discipline finals. The competition format for Cyr wheel is also under review and will change before the next world championships.

The competition format for Cyr wheel is also under review and will change before the next world championships.

In addition to the World Championships, the IRV aims to offer an open training & competition programme directed towards Gym and Cyr wheel gymnasts of all levels who would like to combine informal competitions with training sessions and workshops. We are currently organising an event along these lines within the framework of the CSIT World Sports Games in Tortosa, Spain, in July 2019.

The maximum final scores for all disciplines will be equal in the future. As is the case today, the final score for a routine will be the sum of a difficulty score and an execution score.

The maximum score for difficulty will be the same for all three disciplines. This will be achieved by implementing a new system of how to count and calculate difficulty moves in straight-line and spiral, and by revising the difficulty catalogue in vault.

The maximum score for execution will also be the same for all three disciplines. This will be achieved by always deducting execution faults from a maximum amount of 10 points.

For routines performed to music, the score for artistic impression (currently referred to as the “music score”) will also be set at a maximum of 10 points. In order to calculate the final score for routines performed to music, the arithmetic mean of the execution score and the score for artistic impression will be added to the difficulty score.

E elements will be introduced as the highest level of difficulty in straight-line and spiral. In these disciplines, the best 8 difficulty elements will be counted. This will also be the case for routines performed to music.

In order to promote variation in gym wheel routines, the current system of structure groups will be revised. There will be 10 structure groups for each discipline, and all elements in the difficulty catalogue will represent at least one of these groups. The difficulty judge(s) will give a bonus for every fulfilled structure group. Stenographic symbols will be developed for each structure group in order to make it easier for the difficulty judges to write down the routines. This new system of structure groups will replace the current composition requirement, which forms part of the execution score.

As is the case today, a gymnast will be able to combine different elements within one judging unit in order to perform a move that represents more than one structure group.

In vault, the current difficulty catalogue will be revised so that the maximum difficulty in vault will be equal to the maximum difficulty in straight-line and spiral. The vault catalogue will be updated at regular intervals in order to incorporate more difficult vaults as and when there are gymnasts who perform them. In between updates, however, gymnasts will not be rewarded for performing a more difficulty vault than the ones listed in the catalogue.

What is now called the “music score” will be re-named “artistic impression” in the future. The IRV is currently working on new ideas for judging artistic impression in straight-line. The maximum score for artistic impression will be 10 points, whereby the arithmetic mean of the score for artistic impression and the execution score will counted towards the final score and added to the difficulty score.