Cyr wheel

A Cyr wheel or Roue Cyr is a sports acrobatics or device similar to the drum hoop, but only with a single tire.

The IRV (International Wheel Gymnastics Federation ) has taken the sports equipment first with the official designation Monowheel in the competition program. The name was changed at the annual meeting of the Association line 2013 Cyr Wheel. For the first time the Cyr Wheel was at the World Championships in 2013 in Chicago, part of the championships.

The tire consists of a bent steel tube, it is optionally coated with epoxy and taped at the points that need to be particularly handy. The steel pipe has a diameter of 3-5 centimeters, the tire itself has a diameter which is 10-20 inches taller than the man who wants to use it. The weight of the Cyr can be 7 to 15 kilograms.

Named after the wheel is Daniel Cyr, although it was not its inventor, but it had made ​​in 2003 known as the winner of the silver medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris. Known worldwide, it was the performance at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Turin 2006. Use of Einreifens is however documented in the 19th and 20th centuries.

By reducing to a single tire that Cyr is much faster and more dynamically to enable rotations as the drum hoop. At the same time it stabilizes itself and the artists inside of the wheel by the rotation, similar to the operation of a gyro. Since the internal secure handles the missing Rhönrades hands are to be crushed but much risk during use of Cyr.