Baku, Azerbaijan, November 19, 2021-US Women's Double Mini Trampoline Team, composed of Lacey Jenkins/Integrity Athletics of Marton, Illinois, Shelby Nobuhara/High Altitude of Mapton, Utah, and Westville, Ohio The composition of Trinity Van Natta/Integrity Athletics and Tristan Van Natta from Westville, Ohio/Integrity Athletics won the gold medal at the 2021 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday. The team entered the final of the event as second place, leading the Russian Gymnastics Federation by 104.800 points with an advantage of 104.900 to 104.800, thus ensuring the American back-to-back championship dating back to 2019. The World Trampoline Gymnastics Championships did not happen in 2020 due to the continuing pandemic. Trinity Van Natta leads with 34.800, and sister Trinstan is the only returning member of the 2019 gold medal team, leading the team with 35.200. Nobuhara is in second place with 34.900 odds. Jenkins contributed to the team qualifying. Nobuhara and Tristan Van Natta will seek to increase their medal collections in the women’s individual double mini trampoline finals on Sunday. The U.S. team is also eligible to participate in the men's team double mini trampoline finals and the men's and women's team tumble finals held at Milli Gimnastika Arenasi on Friday. World individual medal winners Alex Lenkert/Integrity Athletics (37.100) of Columbus, Ohio, Ruben Padilla/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling (39.300) of Bluffdale, Utah, and teammate Changa Anderson/Silver of Washington, DC Stars Gymnastics (24.900) and Tomas Minc Chevy Chase, Md./Dynamite Gymnastics finished fourth with 101.300 in the men's team double mini trampoline final. The Russian Gymnastics Federation topped the list with a score of 115.800. Portugal (111.300) and Spain (108.700) won the silver and bronze medals respectively. Padilla will participate in Saturday's individual double mini-finals. He has the highest score and is one of only two athletes to exceed 39.000 points. Lenkert, who will join Padilla in the men's individual double mini trampoline final, also participated in the men's team wrestling competition last Friday. Renkert (33.300) and teammate Kaden Brown from Herriman/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling (38.400), Utah, and Charlie Larson (33.300) from White Bear Lake/Twin City Twisters, Minnesota, ranked behind third earlier in the day​​​​ Won the fourth place. Their total score of 105.000 was surpassed by the Russian Gymnastics Federation (112.800), Britain (111.200) and Denmark (106.900), and they were on the podium. Brown played the second-highest scoring roll pass in Friday's final and will participate in the individual final on Sunday. Savannah Cecil/Knoxville's top track team in Crossville, Tennessee (30.700), Miah Bruns/World Championship Center (33.300) in Crete, Illinois, and Tire of Knoxville, Tennessee Yataylor/Knoxville's top track team (29.200) and Davis' Sarah Thompson Ill./J and J Tumbling and Trampoline ranked fifth in the women's team wrestling final. France topped the list with 99.400, one point ahead of Belgium. The United Kingdom ranks third with 98.100. After finishing fourth in the qualifying yesterday, Taylor will participate in the women's individual roll final on Saturday. Men’s and women’s team trampoline competitions are also held on Friday. For men, Belarus won the gold medal with a score of 180.690, followed by Japan (178.335) and the Russian Gymnastics Federation (169.550). The Japanese team reached the women's podium with 164.245 points. China (163.250) ranked second, and the Russian Gymnastics Federation (162.920) ranked third. The US team did not participate in the team trampoline finals. American trampoline athletes will set their sights on individual competitions. Four Americans are eligible for tomorrow's trampoline semifinals, and the top eight gymnasts will advance to Sunday's finals. Cody Gesuelli of Huntsville/Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy in Huntsville, Alabama and Isaac Rowley/Eagle Gymnastics Academy in Allen, Texas will participate in the men’s semifinals, while Maia Amano/Merino Trampoline in Honolulu, Hawaii The Gymnastics Academy and Jessica Stevens of Ellicott, Maryland will compete in the men’s semifinals./Fairland Gymnastics will compete in the women’s competition. Gesuelli and Padilla are also eligible to participate in the men's synchronized trampoline finals to be held on Saturday.