Author name: Maksym Siegienczuk

Dear unicycling community,

There have been difficult past few years. The Covid 19 took a great impact on the work of Federation, mostly by freezing our activities due to uncertainty of the future. We are gladly after another successful Unicon, and Covid is not an excuse anymore, but in this time the composition of IUF Board has dramatically changed. We are missing experienced IUF board members and in the close future we expect another few directors to leave.

We all are busy individuals and sparing a time for Federation is often not easy. There is plenty work to be done, for what we need more hands, clever heads and understanding of community needs.

Every two years we used to have elections for the IUF executive board and as always, we ask around if some of you are interested in becoming a Board member.

You might ask yourself what it means to be a Board member, so here is a short explanation of what we do.

The main tasks of the IUF are running the rulebook committee, developing the IUF software tools, hunting for possible upcoming Unicon hosts, negotiating with them to secure a good level of organization for all of you, listening to the different interest of all unicycling nations / streaming’s, developing our sport in other countries and many more small things that come around the corner. As we are a global team, all of this must be coordinated online and during virtual meetings we hold every 1 or 2 months to discuss all running tasks in detail. It should also be mentioned that this position is 100% unpaid, you invest all your skill and time to support the unicycling world. All this can be a great fun but also very annoying sometimes, as usually no decision makes everybody happy ?

If you are interested in joining the board, send your application to contact@unicycling.org until the 31 of January 2023.

It should contain the following points:

• Name
• Age
• Country
• Disciplines
• Interests
• Uni events attended/organized
• Uni organization you are a part of
• Why you are good candidate

We are looking forward to your application. Once we received it, you will get an email from us to confirm the receipt of your application.

Best regards

Maksym Siegienczuk
IUF President

We are pleased to announce new IUF World Records.

IUF Slalom

Mathias Bracke from Belgium set a new IUF World Record in the discipline of IUF Slalom, with a time of 17.32 seconds performed during Einrad Cup Münsterland in Warendorf, Germany on September 10, 2022.

The former male World Record holder was Gert-Jan De Vleeschouwer, also from Belgium, who has held the record of 17.59 seconds since 2018.

30m Wheelwalk

Ryosuke Bansai from Japan set new IUF World Record in the discipline of 30 meter Wheelwalk with the time of 6.47 seconds, performed during Unicon 20 on 5 August 2022 in Grenoble, France.

The previous record was held by Yunsung Park from Korean Republic, with a time of 7.071 seconds, performed in 2016.

50m Onefoot

Misaki Uchida from Japan set new IUF World Record in the discipline of 50 Onefoot with the time of 7.22 seconds, performed during Unicon 20 on 5 August 2022 in Grenoble, France.

The previous record was held by Niklas Wojtek from Germany, with a time of 7.582 seconds, performed in 2016.

Congratulations to Mathias, Ryosuke and Misaki!

Currently, as reported by IUF World Record Committee there are another 3 pending records performed during Unicon 20.

IUF World Records are set in compliance of the IUF World Record Guidelines