Vova Galchenko

Vladimir Galchenkohttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/sports/playmagazine/601juggler.html?pagewanted=2 (born September 15, 1987),http://vova.galchenko.com/about/ known as Vova, is a juggler originally from Penza, Russia.
Vova and his sister Olga moved to the United States in 2003, where they received training from Jason Garfield.http://web.archive.org/web/20070110233741/http://jasongarfield.com/2004.html The Galchenkos went on to break four world records in club passinghttp://web.archive.org/web/20040207131152/http://juggling.org/records/records.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/20050205103558/http://juggling.org/records/records.html and win seven IJA and WJF club passing competitions.http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/https://www.thewjf.com/results/
Vova won the IJA Individuals Stage Competition in 2008,http://www.juggle.org/history/champs/champs2008.php and the WJF Overall Championship in 2011.http://www.thewjf.com/wjf7/wjf7_results.php He was on Luke Burrage's Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers chart every year from 2003 to 2013.http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1643 He ranked 2nd on the list in 2006.http://www.lukeburrage.com/audio/Juggling%20Podcast%201%20-%20The%20Top%2040%20Most%20Popular%20Jugglers%20of%202006.mp3
== World records ==
Records with publicly available video evidence:
*6 clubs on a unicycle: 12 catches in 2003 (video), tied with Jirvan Knobbe in 2024 (video)
*Most 5 club 5 up 360s in 1 minute: 31 in 2008 (video)
*Most connected 5 club 5 up 360s: 9 in 2008 (video)
*Most connected 6 ring 4 up 360s: 2 in 2007 (video)
*180 qualified with the most clubs: 7 clubs, 5 up in 2006 (video), tied with Anthony Gatto (video)
*360 qualified with the most clubs: 7 clubs, 7 up in 2008 (video), tied with Anthony Gatto in 2005 (video), Spencer Androli in 2020 (video), Masahiro Takahashi in 2021 (video), Kaito Tanioka in 2023 (video), and Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse in 2024 (video)
*1080 qualified with the most clubs: 5 clubs, 5 up 2-stage in 2006 (video), tied with Jason Garfield (video)
Records set in WJF competition:
*Most 3 club 3 up 360s in 1 minute: 42 (at WJF 7)
*Most 3 club 3 up 720s in 1 minute: 17 (at WJF 2)
Former club passing world records by Vova and Olga Galchenko:
*9 clubs: 676 passes caught
*10 clubs: 378 passes caught
*11 clubs: 152 passes caught
*12 clubs: 54 passes caught
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== Competitions ==
Vova won the following IJA and WJF competitions.
IJA 2003:
*Numbers: Club Passing with Olga Galchenko
IJA 2004:
*Stage: Teams with Olga Galchenko
*Individual Props: 6 Club Passing with Olga Galchenko
WJF 2004:
*Advanced Clubs
*5 Club Freestylehttp://www.thewjfstore.com/2004convention.php
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360s
*6 Club passing with Olga Galchenko
*7+ Club passing with Olga Galchenko
IJA 2005:
*Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
WJF 2005:
*Advanced Clubs
*Club Endurance
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360s
*Club Passing with Dave Nager
: Challenge Competitions:http://www.thewjfstore.com/2005convention.php
*5 Club Low 360s
*3 Club Low 720s
WJF 2006:
*5 Ball Freestyle
*7 Ball Freestyle
*3 Club Freestyle
*5 Club Freestyle
*Club Endurance (second person ever to juggle 7 clubs for over 100 catches in competition)
*5 Ball 360s (tied with Thomas Dietz)
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360s
*Club passing with Olga Galchenko
*Club passing Endurance with Olga Galchenko
: Challenge Competitions:http://www.thewjfstore.com/2006overall.php
*5 Club Low 360s
*3 Club Low 720s
*7 Ball Isolated Endurance
*7 Club Isolated Endurance
IJA 2007:
*Numbers: Solo Clubs
*Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
*Numbers: 3-Person Club Passing with Tsushi & Takashi Kikyo
WJF 2007:
*Advanced Clubs
*5 Ball Freestyle
*3 Club Freestyle
*5 Club Freestyle
*Club Endurancehttp://www.thewjfstore.com/2007overall.php
*7 Club Isolated Endurance
*5 Club Backcross Isolated Endurance
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360s
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IJA 2008:
*Stage: Individuals
*Numbers: Solo Balls (tied with Daniel Eaker)
*Numbers: Solo Clubs
*Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
WJF 2008:
*Advanced Clubs
*6 Club Freestyle
*7 Club Freestyle
*Ring Endurance (tied with Thomas Dietz)
*Club Endurance
*7 Club Isolated Endurance
*5 Club Backcross Isolated Endurance
*5 Ball 360s (tied with Thomas Dietz)
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360shttp://thewjfstore.com/2008overall.php
*Triathlon
WJF WinterBlitz 2009:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rSgkydQLk
* Advanced Balls
* Advanced Rings
* 3 Club Freestyle
* 4 Club Freestyle
* 6 Club Freestyle
* 7 Club Freestyle
WJF 2011:
*3 Club Freestyle
*5 Club Freestyle
*6 Club Freestyle
*7 Club Freestyle
*Club Endurance
*7 Club Isolated Endurance
*3 Club 360s
*5 Club 360s
*Overall Championship
== References ==
Category:Jugglers
Category:Performers
Category:IJA champions
Category:WJF champions
Category:Numbers jugglers