2024 FIG Parkour World Championships

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Parkour World Championships are happening now in Kitakyushu, Japan. Parkour under the FIG has two events each for men and women, speed and freestyle. Speed is a timed race through the course, no tricks, just free running and the fastest time wins. There is a qualification round, semi-final round, then the final round determines the medals.

Freestyle is like Artistic with a D and E score combining to give a total score based on the technical skills performed around the course. There is a qualification round and then final round.

So far the Women’s Speed competition and Men’s Freestyle for this Worlds are complete. These are the final results:

Women's Speed Final
1. MEX Ella Bucio - 38:26
2. USA Audrey Johnson - 38:62
3. SWE Miranda Tibbling - 39:55
4. NED Noa Man - 39:58
5. ARG Sara Banchoff Tzancoff - 40:19
6. ESP Marta Gutierrez 41:39

Men's Freestyle Final
1. SWE Elis Torhall - 32.7
2. JPN Mutsuhiro Shiohata - 30.9
3. NED Tangui van Schingen - 29.6
4. JPN Tomoya Suzuki - 28.3
5. ITA Lautaro Chialvo Bantle - 28.1
6. USA Shea Rudolph - 27.7
7. FRA Eloan Hitz - 26.0
8. CZE Antonin Kolenovsky - 25.5

Women’s Freestyle and Men’s Speed Finals are happening tonight (right now) at 1am EST. The finals are streaming live on Peacock in the US and on Eurovision everywhere else that isn’t geoblocked.

Event Website with full schedule and scores: https://live.gymnastics.sport/schedule.php?idevent=17824

Eurovision Stream:

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Earlier this year Shang Chunsong became the National champion in Parkour Freestyle. Now she is here as part of the Chinese team competing against the World in the Freestyle event. This morning she finished in 1st place during qualifications.

 

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The schedule of the competition had to be rearranged and pushed back more than once because of rain through the week. Tonight only three athletes competed in the freestyle final before it started raining again. After a two hour hold and a crew trying to dry off the course, they finally had to call it and cancel the rest of the competition.

The medals for Men’s Speed will be awarded based on the semi-final results and the medals for Women’s Freestyle will be awarded based on the qualification results.

So Shang Chunsong is the World Champion!

I stayed up all night for this lol.