Preview of the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Basel (SUI)

On Wednesday competition will begin at Basel’s St Jakobshalle. It’s the fifth time Switzerland will host the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships: the Men’s event was held in Bern in 1975, in Lausanne in 1990 and 2008 and, most recently, the 2016 Europeans in Bern for both men and women.

38 Federations are travelling to Basel to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 268 gymnasts are scheduled to compete: 109 women and 159 men.

 

Who to watch?

In the women’s competition, we look forward to seeing 2015 European all-around Champion Giulia Steingruber (SUI), 2019 European all-around Champion Melanie de Jesus dos Santos (FRA), 2019 European Games Champion Angelina Melnikova and her teammate, the 2019 junior World all-around Champion, Viktoria Listunova (RUS), 2020 European Champions Zsofia Kovacs (HUN) and Larisa Iordache (ROU) and many more.

The men’s field will be equally experienced, with on the roster: 2019 European all-around Champion Nikita Nagornyy (RUS), high bar super star Epke Zonderland (NED), double Olympic Champion Max Whitlock (GBR), home crowd favourite Pablo Braegger (SUI), Greek Lord of the Rings Eleftherios Petrounias, Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan, Lithuania’s trailblazer Robert Tvorogal, Turkey’s first European gold medallists Ibrahim Colak and Ferhat Arican, Romanian legend Marian Dragulescu, and the list goes on. Junior standout Ilia Kovtun (UKR) will make his senior debut in Basel.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Basel after a long period of uncertainty and we wish every single gymnast loads of success.

 

Competition format

Each country can enter 6 male and 4 female gymnasts with a maximum of 4 gymnasts each per apparatus competing.

The 24 gymnasts with the highest ranking obtained in the qualifying competition advance to the All-Around Final with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per country. The 8 highest ranked gymnasts in the qualifying competition per apparatus advance to the Apparatus Finals, again with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per country / final.

2 Olympic quota for men and 2 for women will be determined based on the results of the all-around qualification competition. For the Tokyo 2020 Qualification, the handling of eligibility and results is the responsibility of FIG.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Basel local time CET)

Wednesday 21 April

10:00 – 12:00 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 1

13:30 – 15:30 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 2

16:00 – 18:00 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 3

18:30 – 20:30 Women’s qualifications – subdivision 4

 

Thursday 22 April

10:00 – 12:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 1

14:00 – 16:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 2

17:00 – 19:40 Men’s qualifications – subdivision 3

 

Friday 23 April

13:30 – 15:30 Women’s all-around FINAL & award ceremony

17:00 – 19:45 Men’s all-around FINAL & award ceremony

 

Saturday 24 April

13:30 – 14:10 Men’s floor FINAL & award ceremony

14:10 – 15:10 Women’s vault FINAL, Men’s pommel horse FINAL & award ceremonies

15:10 – 15:10 Women’s uneven bars FINAL, Men’s rings FINAL & award ceremonies

 

Sunday 25 April

13:00 – 14:00 Women’s beam FINAL, Men’s vault FINAL & award ceremonies

14:00 – 15:00 Women’s floor FINAL, Men’s parallel bars FINAL & award ceremonies

15:00 – 15:40 Men’s high bar FINAL & award ceremony

 

How to follow the competition?

The competition will be held behind closed doors with a livestream of the entire event available free of charge around the globe. The qualifications will be streamed on gymtv.online thanks to our scoring partner SmartScoring. A livestream of the senior finals is available on https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/europeangymnastics/ thanks to our partner Eurovision. You can follow the live scoring on www.smartscoring.com.

As usual European Gymnastics will provide start lists, results, interviews, quotes, photos, videos and competition reports on its website and social media.

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #Basel2021

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