Trampoline and tumbling athletes won three medals, including one gold, at the 2025 FIG Baku World Cup in Azerbaijan this past weekend.

In the inaugural mixed synchronized trampoline session, the U.S. pair of Alexandra Mytnik (Manalapan, N.J./Elite Trampoline Academy) and Trevor Harder (Archdale, N.C./Carolina Elite Trampoline Academy) won the first U.S. World Cup title ever with a total score of 48.370. They beat out the pair from Uzbekistan of Farangiz Ruzieva and Mirshokhid Khasanboev, who were second with a 48.080, and the pair from host-country Azerbaijan of Seljan Mahsudova and Ali Niftaliyev ,who landed third with a 47.990.

Silver medals were earned by Nastia Katchalova (Lakeland, Fla./Elite World Gymnastics) and the women’s pair of Maia Amano (Honolulu, Hawaii/Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy) and Trinity Van Natta (Huntsville, Ala./Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy). Katachlova took home a tumbling silver with her 23.800 in women’s competition on Sunday. The independent athletes of Aleksandra Liamina and Arina Kaliandra took first (25.600) and third (22.300), respectively.

Amano and Van Natta scored a 47.440 to rank second behind the Japanese pair of Kiko Tanaka and Ena Sakurai in first with a 48.800. The Bulgarian pair of Hristina Peneva and Mariyana were third with a 45.710.

Also qualifying to final competition in Baku were Emma Cox (Webb City, Mo./Oklahoma Extreme Tumbling & Trampoline), who landed fourth (18.700) in women’s tumbling, and Xavier Harper (Oak Ridge, Tenn./Premier Athletics Knoxville), who also was fourth (26.700) in men’s tumbling. Mytnik ranked sixth in women’s individual competition (49.210), while Harder and Elijah Vogel (Longmont, Colo./Xtreme Altitude Gymnastics) placed sixth (59.030) and seventh (58.810), respectively, in the men’s individual trampoline final. Harder and Vogel also were eighth in the men’s synchro final with an 11.300.

Also were in action in Baku were Changa Anderson (Washington, D.C./Fairland Gymnastics), Paul Bretscher (Knoxville, Tenn./Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy), Lyric Gordon (East Moline, Ill./Elite Athletics QC), Annie Hansen (Hooper, Utah/Northern Star Bounders), BJ Mensah (New York, N.Y./CAVU Trampoline and Tumbling), Logan McCoy (Highlands, N.J./North Valley Gymnastics), Alec Pelezo (Magnolia, Texas/World Champions Centre), and Amare Walker (Rockaway, N.J./CAVU Trampoline and Tumbling).



Nastia Katchalova (left) – tumbling silver medalist


Trinity Van Natta and Maia Amano (left) – synchro silver medalists