The FIG World Challenge Cup 2025 is set to take place in Varna, Bulgaria from 8-11 May.
The women’s events include vault, bars, beam, and floor, while men will be crowned in floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar events.
This is the first World Challenge Cup of five in 2025.
FIG World Challenge Cup 2025 Varna: Gymnasts to watch out for
Norway’s Sofus Heggemsnes will look to repeat the feat he recorded two years ago. He won his nation’s first World Cup gold, on high bar, at the same venue where he also made his senior debut in 2017.
The Oslo native has competed in six world championships, and one Olympic Games, at Tokyo 2020.
Having failed to qualify for Paris 2024, Heggemsnes is focused on the LA 2028 Olympic Games.
Another Norwegian gymnast Sebastian Sponevik won silver in the vault final in Varna in 2023, a year after achieving the same feat at the junior European championships, proving his pedigree on this explosive apparatus.
Another athlete to watch out for is Sweden’s Jennifer Williams, who earned a podium finish at the FIG World Cup, on beam in Osijek, Croatia in April.
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Williams was also part of the history-making Swedish women’s squad that made the European team final for the first time ever, in Rimini, Italy in 2024, finishing eighth.
The second World Challenge Cup of five will take place from 15-17 May in Koper, Slovenia before the next edition of the continental championships takes place at the end of the month.
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FIG World Challenge Cup 2025: Schedule
- 8-11 May 2025 Varna, Bulgaria
- 15-17 May 2025 Koper, Slovenia
- 18-21 June 2025 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- 13-14 Sept 2025 Paris, France
- 26-28 Sept 2025 Szombathely, Hungary
FIG World Challenge Cup 2025: Format
The World Challenge Cup series is run by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). A minimum of three competitions are held on individual apparatus only. Each gymnast is awarded points for their finishing position after each event, with a final ranking position tallied by the points secured on each apparatus at series’ end.
