WSWCF Academy Street Workout World Cup 2019 Jürmal recorded the success of Czech athletes
Author: On Saturday, June 15, four Czechs gathered in Jürmal, Latvia, for the 2019 Academy Street Workout World Cup, one of several battles held by the WSWCF.
Two of them had a fantastic success!
But in our story, we'll go back a few weeks to let you know how it all started.
In our team we have a very talented Jura Sasyn, who has won more than ten battles on the Czechoslovak street workout scene, he has also had successes from foreign battles, for example from the 2017 Berlin battles where he finished second (the first was Dan Rosenberg) and from the WSWCF battles in Nitra where he also finished second in 2017.
Based on these successes, we decided to keep an eye on the battles announced by WSWCF in Europe and enter him in one of them. We skipped the battle held in Iceland and entered Jura Sasyn in Jürmala, Latvia, which was also the Latvian championship. We sent the organizers an unedited two-minute video of Jura's sets on trapeze, bars and ground and soon an email arrived informing us that Jura was entered in the competition.
Here is a video from this stage from 2017 to give you an idea
In terms of preparation for the competition, the option chosen was to arrive in Riga on Friday at noon and drive from Riga to Jürmala to test the construction of the trapeze and bars, then prepare for the competition and in the evening run errands in the seaside town itself.
Jürmala is really a very beautiful town drowning in greenery and with beautiful beaches. There are very large forests around the town with many peat ponds. The city is made up of regular streets with the construction of Art Nouveau residential districts with wooden panelled houses, large gardens and ornamental trees. The city is home to the wealthier part of the Latvian population, so it's like being on the French Riviera. Both English and Russian can be spoken very well in Latvia, so in terms of the development of our republic before and after the Velvet Revolution, all Czechs in Latvia could speak English.
If you are more interested in the city itself, we also attach a video about Jürmala.
Battle greeted us from the early morning hours with golden rays illuminating the beach with the construction of dykes and blue sky and sea. In the morning, the Latvian championship was taking place and the top three Latvians advanced to the battle. The battle itself started at 14:00 local time.
27 athletes were invited to compete and they came from different countries such as Canada, Russia, Israel, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia and of course representatives of the home country. Among the most represented countries, apart from the home country, were Russia with four athletes from Sakhalin Island, then our republic, namely Jura Sasyn, Josef Ruzicka, Patrik Cerny and Jan Cerny, four representatives from the neighbouring Estonia, two Finns, two from Israel, none other than Dan Rosenberg and Tom Rosenberg and two athletes from Denmark and other countries had one representative each. Originally Josef Ruzicka was not registered for the competition, but because the representative of Belarus did not come to the competition we were allowed to register our fourth and youngest representative at the last minute.
In the basic round each athlete had 3 minutes for his set on trapeze, bars and ground. After this round, 10 athletes moved on based on the jury's scoring. Among the ten athletes, Patrik Cerny made it through from the third place and Jura Sasyn from the sixth place after the basic round.
Ranking of athletes after the basic round:
1. Daniels Laizans Latvia 28,5
2. Dan Rosenberg Israel 24,5
3. Patrik Cerny Czech Republic 24
4. Titas Janevichus Lithuania 23,5
5. Edgar Zindoga Finland 22
6. Yuriy Sasyn Czech Republic 21
7. Pauls Jemeljanovs Latvia 19
8. Tom Rosenberg Israel 17,5
9. Jasper Neumann Denmark 17
10. Xavier Cormier Canada 16
11-12. Jaani Bronec Estonia 15
11-12.Vadym Shumskii Russia 15
13-15. Arnas Lebedevos Poland 14,5
13-15. Dima Siraev Sweden 14,5
13-15. Vladimir Suvorov Russia 14,5
16. Vlad Djomin Latvia 14
17. Anatoly Ivanov Estonia 13,5
18-20. Robert Klein Estonia 13
18-20. Harry Berglund Sweden 13
18-20. Aleksandrs Kaminskis Latvia 13
21-22. Jireh Anderson Denmark 12
21-22. Asad Mohamed Finland 12
23-24. Alexander Chernov Russia 10,5
23-24. Alexander Rvachev Russia 10,5
25. Karl Nidas Estonia 10
26. Jan Cerny Czech Republic 9,5
27. Josef Růžička Czech Republic 9
The first ten athletes competed in a 1vs1 duel according to the best-versus-worst system. So the first competed with the tenth and the second with the ninth etc. This meant that Jura Sasyn, as the sixth, competed with the fifth Edgar Zindoga from Finland. Patrik Cerny competed with Tom Rosenberg. Jura Sasyn was delighted with his opponent. Edgar Zindoga is a very smiley athlete with a lot of experience and he literally enjoyed the battle and managed to create a great atmosphere, not only because of his thymoline smile full of white teeth. They both performed very challenging sets on the trapeze and bars and despite the high difficulty of the exercises and the situation that it was an elimination bout, there was a very friendly atmosphere between the two athletes as if they were very old friends. In the end the jury voted for Jura Sasyn and both representatives of the Czech Republic advanced to the final among the best five athletes.
1. Daniels Laizans Latvia 1
10. Xavier Cormier Canada 0
2. Dan Rosenberg Israel 1
9. Jesper Neumann Denmark 0
3. Patrik Cerny Czech Republic 1
8. Tom Rosenberg Israel 0
4. Titas Janevichus Lithuania 1
7. Pauls Jemeljanovs Latvia 0
5. Edgar Zindoga Finland 0
6. Yuriy Sasyn Czech Republic 1
The top five athletes were Daniels Laizans, Dan Rosenberg, Yuri Sasyn, Patrik Cerny and 16-year-old Titas Janevichus.
All five athletes performed their best sets on the trapeze and bars and gravity seemed to be non-existent at times and there is a bug in the Matrix somewhere. The athletes who performed one of the most difficult static exercises in terms of static, namely the maltesers in full execution, were Daniels Laizans and Jura Sasyn. Jura Sasyn unusually pulled out a 540 in dynamics which he had not tried at all in training and he tried this exercise for the first time on Friday on the construction, the day before the competition. After all the sets of five athletes were completed, the jury's verdict was awaited.
The final ranking was as follows:
- Daniels Laizans
- Titas Janevichus
- Dan Rosenberg
This is a great success for our country, because two athletes from the Czech Republic were among the absolute top 5 in terms of world level!
And what did we like most about the battle? Absolutely the greatest experience was the very friendly atmosphere, which made you feel that it doesn't matter what country you are from, what you know or what you have done. It was one community, one team, one family. Everyone felt it the most in the hotel, at breakfasts together where it was incredible fun with all the athletes, whether they were from Sakhalin or Denmark, or in the evening at a walk around the city or an evening program.
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