Unicon (unicycling)

This article is about the unicycling convention. For other uses, see Unicon (disambiguation).
Start of the 100 km race at the Unicon 16 in Brixen 2012

Unicon, previously known as UNICON, is the World Unicycling Convention and Championships sanctioned by the International Unicycling Federation (IUF).

The IUF sanctions a biennial world unicycling convention and competition, the major event on the international unicycling calendar. Events include artistic (such as group, pairs, individual), track racing (such as 100 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, 30 metres walk the wheel, 50 metres one-foot), road races (such as 10 kilometres, marathon), stillstand, slalom, muni (cross-country, uphill, downhill), street, trials, flatland, basketball and hockey.

List of Unicons

Unicon Year Dates Location
Unicon I 1984 Syracuse, New York, United States
Unicon II 1986 Uniondale, New York, United States
Unicon III 1987 Tokyo, Japan
Unicon IV 1988 Aquadilla, Puerto Rico
Unicon V 1991 Hull, Quebec, Canada
Unicon VI 1992 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Unicon VII 1994 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Unicon VIII 1996 5-12 August 1996 Guildford, United Kingdom
Unicon IX 1998 27 July - 2 August Bottrop, Germany[1]
Unicon X 2000 August Beijing, China
Unicon XI 2002 25 July - 2 August North Bend, Washington, United States
Unicon XII 2004 23 July - 1 August Tokyo, Japan
Unicon XIII 2006 23 July - 2 August Langenthal and Bern, Switzerland[2]
Unicon XIV 2008 26 July - 4 August Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark[3]
Unicon XV 2009/10 27 December - 7 January Wellington, New Zealand[4]
Unicon XVI 2012 21 July - 31 July Brixen, Italy[5][6]
Unicon XVII 2014 30 July - 10 August Montreal, Quebec, Canada[7]
Unicon XVIII 2016 27 July - 10 August San Sebastián, Spain
Unicon XIX 2018 29 July - 10 August Ansan, Korea
Unicon XX 2022 26 July - 6 August Grenoble, France[8]
Unicon XXI 2024 14 July - 26 July Bemidji, Minnesota, USA[9]

Unicon XIX records

At Unicon 19 in Ansan, Korea, a new record was set by Mike Taylor in the Platform High Jump. Mike successfully landed the high jump of 148.5cm.

References

  1. ^ Unicycle Hockey World Championships 1998 at UNICON IX
  2. ^ "Unicon 13 (2006) Langenthal and Bern, Switzerland". Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  3. ^ "Unicon 14 (2008) Denmark". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  4. ^ "Unicon 15 (2009/10) New Zealand". Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  5. ^ "Unicon XVI goes to..." 2009-12-16. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  6. ^ "Unicon 16 (2012) Italy". Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  7. ^ "Unicon 17 - Montréal". Retrieved 2014-09-06.
  8. ^ "Unicon 20 postponed to 2022". 6 December 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Unicon page from IUF". Retrieved 21 August 2022.
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