Preview of #Antalya2023

On Tuesday, Antalya’s Sports Hall will be the place to be for all gymnastics fans! Entry to the venue is free of charge.

Out of respect for the victims of the earthquakes that hit Türkiye on 6 February 2023, we’ll focus on the sports event itself. Any additional entertainment has been cancelled, including the performance of our mascot Luigi.

39 Federations are travelling to Antalya to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 321 gymnasts are scheduled to compete: 178 men and 143 women, for team, all-around and apparatus glory.

 

Who to watch?

Get ready to be amazed by an impressive line-up!

On the Field of Play, we’ll witness performances by the 2022 European All-Around Champion Asia D’Amato (ITA) and apparatus winners Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM), Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE), Jake Jarman (GBR), Zsofia Kovacs (HUN), Eli Seitz (GER), Emma Malewksi (GER) and Jessica Gadirova (GBR). Other big names include reigning World Champions Rhys McClenaghan (IRL) and Artur Davtyan (ARM), 2016 Olympic Champion Sanne Wevers (NED), 2020 junior European Champions Ana Barbosu (ROU) and Ilia Kovtun (UKR) and seasoned vault and rings medallist Igor Radivilov (UKR), as well as European all-around bronze medallist Martina Maggio (ITA).

The home nation Türkiye’s hopes rely on reigning World Champion on rings Adem Asil, double European Champion Ferhat Arican and Vice-European all-around Champion Ahmet Onder.

We proudly welcome back to the international stage Vasiliki Millousi (GRE) and Marta Pihan-Kulesza (POL), two fan favourites and exceptional athletes, returning to competition after becoming mums. What an inspiration!

Keep your eyes on junior stand-outs Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (ROU) and Anna Lashchevska (UKR) who recently won World Cup stages, along with Amalia Ghigoarta (ROU), Radomyr Stelmakh (UKR) and Botond Molnar (HUN) who are making their senior debut here.

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

A MAG Team consists of 3 - 5 gymnasts, of which up to 4 compete on each apparatus. MAG Federations who compete with a Senior Team may bring a 6th gymnast to participate as an individual apparatus specialist. This gymnast may compete on a maximum of 3 apparatus. Each country can enter 5 WAG gymnasts, of which a maximum of 4 gymnasts compete on each apparatus.

The results of both the men’s and women’s qualifying competition will determine the Team European Artistic Gymnastics Champion 2023. The 3 best scores on each apparatus are added together to make the total score for the Team.

The 24 gymnasts with the highest ranking obtained in the qualifying competition will qualify for the Individual All Around Final. A maximum of 2 gymnasts per National Federation are allowed. 3 reserve gymnasts will be designated.

The 8 highest ranked gymnasts in the qualifying competition per apparatus advance to the Apparatus Finals, with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per country / final.

This event also serves the continental qualifying competition for the 2023 World Championships. For details, see the FIG TR ‘Qualifications Pathway to the World Championships’.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Antalya local time)

Tuesday 11 April – Men’s qualifications & Team ranking

10:00 – 12:55 Subdivision 1

14:00 – 16:55 Subdivision 2

17:30 – 20:15 Subdivision 3

Followed by team award ceremony

 

Wednesday 12 April – Women’s qualifications & Team ranking

10:00 – 12:00 Subdivision 1

13:30 – 15:30 Subdivision 2

16:00 – 18:00 Subdivision 3

18:30 – 20:30 Subdivision 4

Followed by team award ceremony

 

Thursday 13 April

16:00 – 18:45 Men’s All-Around FINAL & award ceremony

 

Friday 14 April

16:00 – 18:00 Women’s All-Around FINAL & award ceremony plus SmartScoring Shooting Star

 

Saturday 15 April – Apparatus FINALS part 1

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

14:10 – 15:10 Women’s vault and Men’s pommel horse FINALS & award ceremonies

15:10 – 16:10 Women’s uneven bars and Men’s rings FINALS & award ceremonies

 

Sunday 16 April – Apparatus FINALS part 1

13:00 – 14:00 Women’s beam and Men’s pommel vault FINALS & award ceremonies

14:00 – 15:00 Women’s floor and Men’s parallel bars FINALS & award ceremonies

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

 

How to follow the competition?

Europe’s biggest free-to-air broadcasters are as excited as we are about these Europeans, with over 20 EBU Members showing the finals. So check your local TV listings!

We’ll provide a livestream of the entire competition. For both qualifications days, streaming is available on gymtv.online thanks to our partner SmartScoring. You’ll need to register to see the stream but it remains free. For all-around and apparatus finals https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/europeangymnastics/ is the place to be, 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. New this year will be live coverage on TikTok!

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #Antalya2023