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King Boom goes Double Dutch

The 5th Shanghai International Double Dutch Contest was held at Qingpu Indoor Stadium over the weekend, featuring nearly 60 teams from home and abroad, including those from France, South Korea, Japan and China’s Hong Kong.

After two days of competition, China’s King Boom Team was crowned champion of the Open Group. The team’s performance combined dance, gymnastics and wushu elements. Team Japan and Team Hong Kong placed second and third, respectively.

Teams representing Anhui’s Huaifang Road Primary School and Shanghai’s Gaojing No. 3 Middle School won the junior and youth group titles, respectively. Gaojing School’s Huang Junkai won the individual speed contest title.

As part of the series of activities related to the contest, a China Rope Jumping Development Forum was held at Shanghai University of Sport’s science park, which provided a communication platform for rope jumping practitioners, sports experts and school officials and teachers.

Officials of local educational units, including Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai University of Sport, gave their perspective on the current and future development of the sport.

Representatives of a rope jumping team from France — in Shanghai for the Double Dutch Contest — also shared with audience their contest organization experience and how the sport is promoted in France.

“As a sport with low threshold, rope jumping is not only a sport, but a positive and active lifestyle,” said Shanghai Yuedong Rope Jumping Club leader Li Shengxi. Yuedong, set up 10 years ago, grew up from a university sports club, and has now become one of China’s leading rope jumping club.

The club even sent a team of entertainers for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil.




 

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