Trampolining

After the Fédération Internationale de Trampoline (FIT) managed to get its sport on the Olympic Programme for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the governing body became part of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which also governs the Olympic disciplines of artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.

The FIG was founded on 23 July 1881, in Liège, Belgium, with three founding members: Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. It was originally called the Bureau des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastique (FEG) until 1921, when it was rebranded to the FIG. In 2025, the organization changed to its current name, World Gymnastics (WG). As of January 2026, World Gymnastics has 167 member federations.

At the Olympics, only an individual event (one for men and one for women) is contested. Through 2024, China has won the most medals in the discipline, with 16 medals and four golds, followed by Canada, with eight medals and two golds.

Before Olympic inclusion, trampolining was already being contested at the World Games, with the inaugural 1981 edition including individual, synchronized, and double mini trampoline events (both for men and women). After individual trampolining entered the Olympic universe, the synchronized and double mini trampoline events kept their presence at the World Games, and they are still contested there to this day.

Britain’s Bryony Page and Canada’s Karen Cockburn lead the female overall tally in the discipline, both with three medals. Cockburn’s countrywoman Rosie MacLennan won gold medals in both London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. As of 2024, she is the only female trampoline gymnast with more than one Olympic gold medal.

China’s Dong Dong leads the men’s overall medal table, with four medals and one gold from 2008-2020. Just as MacLennan, Belarussian Ivan Litvinovich is the only gymnast of its gender to have won two gold trampoline medals at the Olympic Games.

Trampoline gymnastics has also been part of the Youth Summer Olympics programme since the competition’s début, at Singapore 2010, with individual events for boys and girls.