1988 World Sports Acrobatics Championships

8th World Sports Acrobatics Championships
Location	Antwerp, Belgium
Start date	1 December 1988 (1988-12-01)
End date	4 December 1988 (1988-12-04)
Competitors	61 from 8 nations
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The 1988 World Sports Acrobatics Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 1 to 4 December 1988.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	12	1	3	16
2	Soviet Union	10	4	2	16
3	China	8	4	9	21
4	Poland	0	2	0	2
5	United States	0	1	2	3
6	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
8	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		30	12	21	63

Men's Tumbling

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Feng Tao	‹See TfM› China
	Sergey Pogiba	Soviet Union
	Steve Eliot	United States

Straight

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Feng Tao	‹See TfM› China
	Yordan Tzintzarcki	Bulgaria
	Steve Eliot	United States

Twisting

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Feng Tao	‹See TfM› China
	Steve Eliot	United States
	Sergey Pogiba	Soviet Union

Men's Group

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		Soviet Union
		‹See TfM› China
		Bulgaria

Balance

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		‹See TfM› China
		Soviet Union
		West Germany

Tempo

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		Soviet Union
		Poland
		‹See TfM› China

Men's Pair

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Sergey Tsigevskiy, Valeriy Liapunov	Soviet Union
	Chen Yun, Chen Baohuang	‹See TfM› China
	Rumen Latschkov, Nedialko Nedeltchev	Bulgaria

Balance

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Sergey Tsigevskiy, Valeriy Liapunov	Soviet Union
	Chen Yun, Chen Baohuang	‹See TfM› China
	Rumen Latschkov, Nedialko Nedeltchev	Bulgaria

Tempo

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Chen Yun, Chen Baohuang	‹See TfM› China
	Robert Wultanski, Mariusz Polanski	Poland
	Robert Jilg, Alexander Grassmann	West Germany

Mixed Pair

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Miglena Bastscheva, Svetelosar Jeliaskov	Bulgaria
	Svetlana Mikhalitzheva, Yevgeniy Mikhalitzhev	Soviet Union
	Lu Jia, Qi Lijun	‹See TfM› China

Balance

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Miglena Bastscheva, Svetelosar Jeliaskov	Bulgaria
	Svetlana Mikhalitzheva, Yevgeniy Mikhalitzhev	Soviet Union
	Lu Jia, Qi Lijun	‹See TfM› China

Tempo

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Miglena Bastscheva, Svetelosar Jeliaskov	Bulgaria
	Svetlana Mikhalitzheva, Yevgeniy Mikhalitzhev	Soviet Union
	Lu Jia, Qi Lijun	‹See TfM› China

Women's Group

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		Bulgaria
		Soviet Union
		‹See TfM› China

Balance

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		Bulgaria
		Soviet Union
		‹See TfM› China

Tempo

Rank	Team	Country	Point
		Bulgaria
		Soviet Union
		‹See TfM› China

Women's Pair

Overall

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Milena Datscheva, Nikolina Koleva	Bulgaria
	Wang Li, Zang Xiurong	‹See TfM› China
	Alison Tout, Emma Carlisle	United Kingdom

Balance

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Milena Datscheva, Nikolina Koleva	Bulgaria
	Marina Tkachenko, Elena Kandzuba	Soviet Union
	Wang Li, Zang Xiurong	‹See TfM› China

Tempo

Rank	Team	Country	Point
	Milena Datscheva, Nikolina Koleva	Bulgaria
	Wang Li, Zang Xiurong	‹See TfM› China
	Marina Tkachenko, Elena Kandzuba	Soviet Union

Women's Tumbling

Overall

Rank	Gymnast	Country	Point
	Maria Dimova	Bulgaria
	Yao Zhihua	‹See TfM› China
	Philippa Musikant	United Kingdom

Straight

Rank	Gymnast	Country	Point
	Maria Dimova	Bulgaria
	Liudmila Gromova	Soviet Union
	Yao Zhihua	‹See TfM› China

Twisting

Rank	Gymnast	Country	Point
	Yao Zhihua	‹See TfM› China
	Maria Dimova	Bulgaria
	Valeri Kis	Hungary

References

• [1]
• [2]

1. "InterSportStats". intersportstats.com. Retrieved 2025-05-17.