Preview of the 2023 European Championships in Aerobic Gymnastics in Antalya (TUR)

From Friday to Sunday, all eyes will be on Antalya (TUR) where Europe’s finest Aerobic gymnasts will compete in the 13^th edition of the European Championships in Aerobic Gymnastics.

21 National Federations have registered a grand total of 397 gymnasts: 183 seniors and 214 juniors. The participants have the opportunity to compete in Individual Men / Women, Mixed Pairs, Trios, Groups, Aero Dance and Aero Step.

Entry is free-of-charge!

 

Who to watch?

Host nation Türkiye will be well represented by 2021 World Champion and 2022 silver medallist Ayse Begum Onbasi who will face stiff competition from reigining World Champion Anastasiia Kurashvili (UKR). Kurashvili and mixed pair partner Stanislav Halaida were recently crowned World Cup series winners. 2021 World Champion and 2022 silver medallist Miquel Mane (ESP) earned top honours in this year’s World Cup series ahead of Portugal’s Rui Cansado.

Winning medals as juniors in the last edition of the Aerobics Europeans, Maelys Lenclos (FRA),  Lola Lawrence (GBR),  Lucrezia Rexhepi (ITA), Borislava Ivanova and Hristo Manolov (BUL) now all compete as seniors and are challenging for the medals.

Lenclos and longtime partners Clara Lestruhaut and Victoria Trosset clinched the Trios World Cup series victory over Davide Nacci, Francesco Sebastio and Sara Cutini (ITA). All three Frech ladies then joined Juliette Leblanc and Yaelle Winona Mathieu to prevail in the Groups category as well.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Antalya! We wish every single gymnast loads of success, supporting them to achieve their goals.

 

Competition format

National Federations may enter a maximum of two units per category for IM, IW, MP, TR and one per category for GR, AD, AS  in the qualification rounds.

The top 8 proceed to the finals. If there are less than 12 entries per category, only 6 proceed. As only 5 units registered for Aerobic Step, only Qualifications with Medals will take place.

The finals start from mark of zero, the units with the highest score (in accordance with tie-break rules) in each category are declared European Champions.

To participate in the Team Ranking, federations must participate with at least one unit in the qualifications of the following categories: Individual Men and/or Individual Women, Mixed Pair, Trio, Group o Aerobic Dance or Aerobic Step. The team ranking list will be established by adding the 5 best places (rankings). The Federation with the lowest total of ranking places will be declared European Team Champion.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Antalya local time)

Friday 17 November

12:00 – 15:30    Junior Qualifications TR & Senior Qualifications IW

16:00 – 16:30    Opening Ceremony

16:30 – 19:15    Junior Qualifications GR/AD & Senior Qualifications IM/MP

 

Saturday 18 November

12:30 – 15:30    Junior Qualifications IW & Senior Qualifications TR

16:00 – 19:10    Junior Qualifications IM/MP & Senior Qualifications GR/AD/AS

Followed by award ceremonies Senior AS, Junior & Senior Team Ranking

 

Sunday 19 November

09:50 – 10:20    Junior Final IW

10:25 – 10:55    Junior Final IM

11:00 – 11:30    Junior Final MP

Followed by award ceremonies Junior IW, IM & MP

12:05 – 12:35    Junior Final TR

12:40 – 13:10    Junior Final GR 

13:15 – 13:45    Junior Final AD

Followed by award ceremonies Junior TR, GR & AD

14:45 – 15:15    Senior Final IW

15:20 – 15:50    Senior Final IM

15:55 – 16:25    Senior Final MP

Followed by award ceremonies Senior IW, IM & MP

17:00 – 17:30    Senior Final TR

17:35 – 18:05    Senior Final GR

18:10 – 18:30    Senior Final AD

Followed by SmartScoring Shooting Star Award, award ceremonies Senior TR, GR and AD and Closing Ceremony

 

How to follow the competition?

We provide a livestream on gymtv.online, thank to our partner SmartScoring. This costs € 6 for the entire competition. You can follow the live scoring on www.smartscoring.com.

As usual European Gymnastics will provide start lists, results, photos, videos and competition reports on its website and social media. New this year will be live coverage on TikTok!

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #Antalya2023