The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is delighted to announce a new pay-per-view live streaming offer that will allow fans of Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline Gymnastics to watch the finals of World Cup and World Challenge Cup events in this Olympic year.
The World Cup season starts on 15 February with the Apparatus World Cup in Cairo (EGY), which is a qualifying event for this year’s Olympic Games in Paris and will see over 300 athletes from 71 countries competing. Three further FIG Apparatus World Cups, in Cottbus (GER), Baku (AZE) and Doha (QAT) also count as qualifying events for the Olympic Games, with the three best results from these four events being taken into account and the two-top ranked eligible athletes on each apparatus, based on the Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List, securing a quota place by name for Paris 2024.
In Trampoline, two World Cup events in Baku and Cottbus will also count towards Olympic qualification. The Olympic Qualification World Cup Ranking List for Trampoline combines the results of these two events with the three qualifying events from the 2023 World Cup series. The two best results out of all five events will be considered, regardless of how many competitions the athletes participated in. The FIG Trampoline World Cup offers the most qualification places for Paris 2024 out of all the events on the FIG Trampoline calendar.
Although the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Series does not count towards Olympic qualification, the five events this year in Palaio Faliro (GRE), Sofia (BUL), Baku (AZE), Tashkent (UZB) and Milan (ITA) all take place before this summer’s Olympic Games and therefore offer the perfect opportunity for fans to watch their favourite athletes perform before the Games.
The FIG World Challenge Cup in Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics starts in Antalya (TUR) on 29 March and moves on to Osijek (CRO), Varna (BUL) and Koper (SLO), finishing in Szombathely (HUN) on 6 October. The Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup kicks off in Portimao (POR) on 10 May before moving on to Jerusalem (ISR) and finishing in Cluj-Napoca (ROU) on 14 July.
The FIG’s live streaming platform has been developed in collaboration with the federeation’s long-standing partner Spring Media and their technical partner Staylive and allows fans to choose which FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events they wish to watch live without any obligation to purchase a season pass. The live stream will be available in selected territories with the exception of the host country for each event (please visit the Help Centre on the platform using the link below for more details).
Commenting on the new offering, FIG President Morinari Watanabe said “I’m delighted that we have been able to make this live streaming service available with the support of Dentsu, the worldwide rightsholder for the FIG World Cup series. The most frequent question we hear from our fans is ‘where can I watch this live?’. The launch of this new service just in time for the Olympic year shows that we have listened.”
