Preview of the 2024 European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling in Guimaraes (POR)

From Wednesday to Sunday, all eyes will be on the cradle of Portugal, the wonderful city of Guimaraes, where Europe’s finest gymnasts will compete in the 29^th edition of the European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling.

Guimaraes will welcome 325 senior and 291 junior gymnasts from 29 countries. Come and support them, get your tickets on Bilhetes Campeonato Da Europa Ginástica De Trampolins - Ticketline (sapo.pt)

 

Who to watch?

The best of the very best are travelling to Portugal. With this line-up, exciting times are certainly ahead!

Trampoline – Individual and Synchronised

Defending European Champion and reigning World Champion Bryony Page (GBR) is facing competition from 2019 European Games Champion Léa Labrousse, 2022 junior European Champion Silvia Coluzzi (ITA), Lina Sjoeberg (SWE), recent Olympic qualifiers Noemi Romero (ESP), Seljan Mahsudova (AZE) and Luba Golovina (GEO); Svitlana Malkova (UKR), among many others. Page and Isabelle Songhurst are defending the synchro gold. At the World Cup in Baku in February, Georgians Anano Apakidze and Marian Ragimovi earned the bronze medal while Germany’s Aurelia Eisloeffel and Maya Moeller clinched bronze last weekend in Cottbus.

All European finalists of the 2023 Worlds are lining up: Gabriel Albuquerque (POR), Zak Perzamanos (GBR), Benny Wizani (AUT) and Pedro Ferreira (POR), as will the defending European Champion, France’s Allan Morante.  Other names to watch: Diogo Abreu (POR), Mykola Prostorov (UKR), Julien Chartier (FRA) and Andrew Stamp (GBR). In synchro, all eyes will be on World Champions Caio Lauxtermann and Fabian Vogel (GER), France’s Morgan Demiro-o-Domiro and Pierre Gouzou, Portugal’s Diogo Abreu and Pedro Ferreira and Great Britain’s Zak Perzamanos and Corey Walkes.

The competition in Guimaraes promises to be thrilling!

 

Double Mini-Trampoline

The reigning World Champion, Spain’s Melania Rodriguez, is aiming to earn the European title that she won as a junior in 2018. Her main challenge will come from British and Portuguese athletes. Great Britain is sending all four of their World Champion team: Molly McKenna, Ruth Shevelan, Kirsty Way and Bethany Williamson while the host nation have lined up two of its Vice World Champion team: Diana Gago, 2023 World Individual bronze medallist, and Alexandra Garcia.

The men’s competition will feature Vice World Champion David Franco (ESP) and bronze medallist Tiago Sampaio Romao (POR), our 2022 SmartScoring Shooting Star Daniel Schmidt (GER), junior stand-out Brent Deklerck (BEL), and Great Britain’s Omo Aikeremiokha and Lewis Gosling.

 

Tumbling

The biggest names in the women’s competition include European and World Champion Candy Brière-Vetillard and her France teammates Emilie Wambotte, Manon Morancais and Maelle Dumitru-Marin, Great Britain’s Vice World Champion Megan Kealy, World bronze medallist Saskia Servini, Naana Oppon and 2022 World Champion Comfort Yeates; Baku World Cup silver medallist Alexandra Efraioglou (GRE), and for Belgium, 2021 European Champion Tachina Peeters and World finalists Evi Milh and Louise Van Regenmortel.

At the World Cup event in Baku, Individual and Team World Champion Mikhail Malkin and his teammate Adil Hajizada clinched gold and silver, with Portugal’s Vasco Peso in third place. Can we expect a rematch in Guimaraes? It will have to include Great Britain’s men, who have won every title possible, including gold at the previous Europeans and silver at last year’s Worlds. This year, we’ll see Jaydon Paddock, William Cowen, Kristof Willerton and Fred Teague in action. Another powerhouse, Denmark, fields 2023 World team bronze medallists Martin Abildgaard and Magnus Lindholmer, and their teammates Johannes Soemod and Alexander Bredvig.

 

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

 

Competition format

The competition programme in the disciplines TRA, DMT and TUM consists of a qualifying competition (Qualification Q1 with two exercises and Semi-Final Q2 with one exercise) and a final for TRA, two final rounds F1 and F2 for DMT and TUM.  

TRA, DMT and TUM Team competitions consist of Qualification (Q1 – two exercises) and a Final (one exercise). If there are less than 4 teams for a team competition, the team competition will be cancelled.

The winner of each competition group will qualify to Semi-Final (Q2) or to the Final.

Participation: The number of gymnasts who will go forward from Qualification (Q1) to Semi-Finals (Q2) depends on the number of entries in the nominative registrations:

• 1 to 31 entries No Semi-Final (Q2)
• 32 to 47 entries Semi-Final (Q2) with 16 gymnasts/ pairs
• 48+ entries Semi-Final (Q2) with 24 gymnasts / pairs

Only 3 gymnasts / 2 pairs per member federation may compete in the Semi-Final (Q2). The gymnasts / pairs start the Semi-Final (Q2) with a score of zero. The winner of each competition group will qualify to the Final.

The finals determine the European Champions. Participation:

• A maximum of 8 individual gymnasts per discipline and age category, men and women (maximum 2 per NF).
• In DMT and TUM Final 4 gymnasts qualify from F1 to F2.
• A maximum of 8 synchro pairs per age category, men and women (maximum 1 per NF).
• The top 5 teams in TRA, DMT and TUM per age category, men and women (3 gymnasts per team).

If there are less than 12 entries in a category, only 6 will proceed to the final. The winner is the gymnast / pair with the highest score in Finals (in F2 in DMT and TUM), in Team Finals the winner is the team with the highest sum of ranking points.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Guimaraes local time)

Wednesday 3 April

12:00 – 17:50    TRA Junior Qualifications

12:00 – 18:20    DMT & TUM Senior Qualifications         

19:00 – 19:30    Opening Ceremony

19:30 – 20:30    TRA Junior Team finals & award ceremonies

 

Thursday 4 April

12:00 – 17:50    DMT & TUM Junior Qualifications

12:00 – 17:50    TRA Senior Qualifications

19:30 – 20:30    TRA Senior Team finals and award ceremonies

 

Friday 5 April

12:00 – 15:00    TRA SYN Junior Qualifications

16:00 – 16:45    DMT Women & TUM Men Senior Team finals & award ceremonies

16:45 – 17:30    TRA SYN Junior finals and award ceremonies

17:30 – 18:15    DMT Men & TUM Women Senior Team finals & award ceremonies

 

Saturday 6 April

12:00 – 15:00    TRA SYN Senior Qualifications

16:45 – 17:30    DMT Boys & TUM Girls Junior Team finals & award ceremonies

17:30 – 18:15    TRA SYN Senior finals & award ceremonies

 

Sunday 7 April

10:30 – 11:50    TRA Junior Semi-Finals & TUM Senior Semi-Finals Men

12:00 – 13:20    TRA Senior Semi-Finals & TUM Senior Semi-Finals Women

14:30 – 15:00    DMT Girls & TUM Boys Junior Finals

15:00 – 15:30    DMT Boys & TUM Girls Junior Finals

15:30 – 16:00    TRA Junior Finals

Followed by award ceremonies

16:30 – 17:00    DMT Women & TUM Men Senior Finals

17:00 – 17:30    DMT Men & TUM Women Senior Finals

17:30 – 18:00    TRA Senior Finals

Followed by SmartScoring Shooting Star Award, award ceremonies and Closing Ceremony

 

How to follow the competition?

We provide a livestream on gymtv.online, thank to our partner SmartScoring. This costs € 10 for the entire competition. You can follow the live scoring on Live Results - SmartScoring | Every second matters.

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: #TRA2024