International Federation of Acrobatics
The International Federation of Acrobatics was the leading international association of acrobats until 1999 . It was founded in Moscow on November 22, 1973 . The then USSR was in the lead. The first president of IFSA was the Bulgarian Stoil Sotirov . The IFSA created binding competition rules and defined the disciplines. These included the competitions still existing today: women (couple), men (couple), mix (couple), women group (3 women) and men group (4 men) . The male and female jumping , which is no longer held today, was also included in the program . World championships were held until 1992. The venues were
- 1974 Moscow
- 1976 Saarbrücken
- 1978 Sofia
- 1980 Poznan
- 1982 London
- 1984 Sofia
- 1986 Rennes
- 1988 Antwerp
- 1990 Augsburg
- 1992 Rennes
From 1985 the IFSA was a member of the International Olympic Committee . Although this meant that acrobatics was recognized as a sport recognized by the IOC, it was not included in the Olympic program. The IFSA was dissolved in 1999 , since then acrobatics has been an official division of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique and was incorporated into the (FIG).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on the history of IFSA ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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