In 1972, a yo-yo contest referred to as the “World Yo-Yo Championship” was held in Toronto, Canada, where it was won by professional yo-yo demonstrator Bunny Martin. However, this was not a genuine world contest.
In 1992, after about a thirty some-odd year hiatus of the championship, Dale Oliver brought back the World Yo-Yo Contest in its current format, with the first running held at the 1992 International Jugglers’ Association (IJA) convention in Montreal, Canada. Watch Dale show off his moves in the video below.
Since 2000, the World Yo-Yo Contest was run by Greg Cohen in Orlando, Florida, USA. In 2013, the World Yo-Yo Contest committee announced the contest would be taken over by the then-newly-formed International Yo-Yo Federation and the contest would move between the Americas, Europe and Asia each year. Considering that there were those within the community who wished for the contest to be held in places with more exposure than at the Rosen Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom in Orlando, Florida, this was readily accepted.
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