The European Championship is over and it was an amazing event. Thanks to the organizing team for all their work!
During ECU some new World Records were set.

Our congratulation to:

Gert-Jan De Vleeschouwer – IUF Slalom – 17.60s
Niklas Wojtek, Simon Rodler, Andreas Richter, Noah Leber – 4×100 Meter – 50.71s
Ana Schrödinger – Stillstand – 1h 49min 08.37s
Ana Schrödinger – Slow Forward – 2min 56s 02
York Beese – Slow Backwards – 1min 03s 08
Lisa Maria Hanny – Long Jump – 327cm

Thanks to IUF World Records Committee member Mirjam Lips for reporting all of these records.

Yesterday we got the first new World Records in Donostia, congratulations to the riders! Here are the new records and who did them:
Track Coasting:
Male: Knut Steffens (Germany) 177.6m Donostia, Spain July 2016
Female: Lisa-Maria Hanny (Germany) 170.3m Donostia, Spain July 2016

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Female: Mirjam Lips (Switzerland) 27.027km Donostia, Spain July 2016

Congratulations to Mary Wegscheider, Mike Taylor and Aiden Teleki for beating the existing Records in Highjump on Plattform while the WInter EUC 2016. So the femal World Record is now at 0,87 Meter and the male World Record is at 1,38 Meter.

We are glad to announce that the Unicon 18 registration opened today. Be an early bird and register yourself soon, and don’t forget to tell your friends about it. More information concerning Unicon 18 will be following in the next few days.

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Congratulations to all NAUCC champions, thanks to everyone involved in the organisation and good luck to everyone competing at UNIOEC.

NAUCC 2015
UNIOEC

We would like to ask YOU to provide us some nice unicycle related pictures for our website. Your picture will appear then on our start page so if you like to send us a picture, make sure that you have the legal rights for it and also add in the email, you send to us, your permission for the IUF to use it on the IUF website. Please send your picture to contact (at) unicycling.org
We wont be able to show all pictures at the same time but will rotate them time by time so yours should appear earlier or later.
Many thanks in advance!

Ken updated the World Record list today based on the result lists provided by the Unicon host. You find the updated list here: iuf-world-records

We also want to congratulate all World Champions and Age Group winners to their great results while Unicon 17. Beside of all those great results, 16 World Records was broken, WOW!!!

Please check the list and inform us in case you find an error.

Based on the request of many riders and national federations the IUF Board decide last year that national and continental championships should be able to get the status to be an official IUF recognized championship. So we can announce now the first official European Championship UNIOEC 2015.
This event will happen in the first two weeks of August 2015 in Mondovi/Italy. You can find a first overview about the event here. The registratgion will open after Unicon.

Don’t miss the new Unicon Newsletter No 14. It was send out by EMail yesterday but you can also access it online here

Yesterday we got the first part of the Japanese rulebook translation. So you can find now the race rules in Japanese as PDF document here.
Thanks to Tokutake-san for translating it and to Haruko for providing it.