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European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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The European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships are an annual series of artistic gymnastics championships for male gymnasts from European countries organised by the European Union of Gymnastics. They take place in two biennial formats; in even years they take place in tandem with a junior men's competition, and historically have included a team event, but not an individual all-around.[1] In odd years, they are held in tandem with the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and include a team competition. These events are sometimes called the European Individual Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Despite the alternating formats, all winners are considered European champions with one medal table.

The event is not to be confused with the gymnastics program of the European Games, whose champions are crowned as European Games champions, but not European champions.

History

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9th European Gymnastics Championships for men in Madrid 14th and 15th May 1971. The medal ceremony for the parallel bars, from right to left: the Italian Giovanni Carminucci (gold), and Mikhail Voronin from the USSR, Klaus Köste from the GDR and Nikolai Andrianov from the USSR (all silver).

Originally held biannually and in odd-numbered years, the championships moved to even-numbered years in 1990. In 2005 a second set of championships was introduced, titled the "individual championships". Although numbered as a separate event, winners in either event are considered European champions, and the championships as a result have in effect become an annual event, but in two formats; in even-numbered years, a stand-alone men's event incorporates the European Junior Artistic Gymnastics championships (an entirely separate women's competition is held in the same years), while in odd-numbered years, the separately numbered 'individual championships' are held in conjunction with the women's competition of the same description, but without juniors, as a single event.[citation needed]

As a result, there is no individual all-around title awarded in even-numbered years (except for juniors), and similarly no team all-around title awarded in odd-numbered years. These thus remain biannual events. Otherwise the apparatus and titles are identical.[citation needed]

In 2015, UEG agreed that beginning in 2018, the annual European Championships in the midyear of the Olympic cycle (i.e. 2 years after, and before, a Summer Olympic Games) would be held as part of the new multi-sport European Championships event, and would be held in that format every four years. These combined events will continue to be run by UEG and the other sports federations. Although both the Men's and Women's championships will be held together, in the same venue, these championships will continue to be treated as separate men's and women's events, with junior events included.[citation needed]

A further event, the European Games also holds a full set of championships for European artistic gymnasts in the year preceding the Summer Olympic Games, having begun in 2015. These, however, are organized by the European Olympic Committees and are not recognized as part of the continuity of the European Championships.[a]

Championships

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Before 1996, European men's championships were held separately for both Seniors and Juniors. Beginning in 1996, Senior and Junior men's championships were combined.[2][3][4][5][6] In 2005 a new and combined European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships were inaugurated for senior gymnasts only. Although these championships are numbered separately, and the medals awarded counted separately, they constitute European Championships in the same manner as the men- and women-only competitions they alternate with, and the winners are considered European champions in the same way. For that reason, a list of those championships is also included in the section below.

The 2018 and 2022 editions of the Men's Championships formed part of the multi-sport European Championships of those years.

Senior and Junior Men's Championships (held separately)

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Number (S) Year Host City Host Country Events (S)
1 1955 Frankfurt  West Germany 7
2 1957 Paris  France 7
3 1959 Copenhagen  Denmark 7
4 1961 Luxembourg  Luxembourg 7
5 1963 Belgrade  Yugoslavia 7
6 1965 Antwerp  Belgium 7
7 1967 Tampere  Finland 7
8 1969 Warsaw  Poland 7
9 1971 Madrid  Spain 7
10 1973 Grenoble  France 7
11 1975 Bern  Switzerland 7
12 1977 Vilnius  Soviet Union 7
13 1979 Essen  West Germany 7
14 1981 Rome  Italy 7
15 1983 Varna  Bulgaria 7
16 1985 Oslo  Norway 7
17 1987 Moscow  Soviet Union 7
18 1989 Stockholm  Sweden 7
19 1990 Lausanne  Switzerland 7
20 1992 Budapest  Hungary 7
21 1994 Prague  Czech Republic 8
22 1996 Broendby  Denmark 8
Number (J) Year Host City Host Country Events (J)
1 1978
2 1980
3 1982
4 1984 Rimini  Italy
5 1986 Karlsruhe  West Germany
6 1988 Avignon  France
7 1990
8 1991
9 1992
10 1993
11 1994 Prague  Czech Republic
12 1996 Copenhagen  Denmark

Combined Senior and Junior Men's Championships

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Year Number (S/J) Host City Events (S+J) Lead
nation (S)
Lead
nation (J)
1998 23/13 Russia Saint Petersburg 8+2  France  France
2000 24/14 Germany Bremen 8+8  Romania  Russia
2002 25/15 Greece Patras 8+8  Romania  Russia
2004 26/16 Slovenia Ljubljana 8+8  Romania  Russia
2006 27/17 Greece Volos 7+8  Russia  Germany
2008 28/18 Switzerland Lausanne 7+8  Russia  Great Britain
2010 29/19 United Kingdom Birmingham 7+8  Germany  Great Britain
2012 30/20 France Montpellier 7+8  Russia  Great Britain
2014 31/21 Bulgaria Sofia 7+8  Russia  Great Britain
2016 32/22 Switzerland Bern 7+8  Russia  Germany
2018 33/22 United Kingdom Glasgow 7+8  Russia  Italy
2020 34/23 Turkey Mersin 7+8  Ukraine  Turkey/ Ukraine
2022 35/24 Germany Munich 8+8 *  Great Britain  Italy
2024 36/25 Italy Rimini 7+8  Ukraine  Great Britain
Year Number
(S (M+W))
Host city Events
(SM)
Lead
nation (SM)




2005 1 Hungary Debrecen 12  Spain
2007 2 Netherlands Amsterdam 12  Russia
2009 3 Italy Milan 12  Germany
2011 4 Germany Berlin 12  Germany
2013 5 Russia Moscow 12  Russia
2015 6 France Montpellier 12  Great Britain
2017 7 Romania Cluj-Napoca 12  Russia
2019 8 Poland Szczecin 12  Russia
2021 9 Switzerland Basel 12  Russia
2023 10 Turkey Antalya 12  Turkey
2025 11 tbc 12

Medal table

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Seniors

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As of 2024.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union905935184
2 Russia39212989
3 Ukraine20191857
4 Romania19221455
5 Great Britain17181550
6 Italy16111946
7 Greece166729
8 Hungary14121743
9 Bulgaria1291233
10 Yugoslavia115925
11 Belarus10141337
12 Germany1091635
13 East Germany7171741
 France7171741
15 Switzerland761326
16 Spain74415
17 Netherlands64212
18 Turkey56718
19 West Germany551121
20 Slovenia45514
21 Poland37818
22 Israel36716
23 Armenia36615
24 Ireland3003
25 Croatia27110
26 Sweden24410
27 Czechoslovakia2226
28 Cyprus2136
29 Finland14510
30 Lithuania1214
31 Latvia1113
32 Albania1001
33 Austria0112
34 Azerbaijan0101
 Belgium0101
 Luxembourg0101
 Norway0101
38 Czech Republic0011
Totals (38 entries)346314320980

Juniors

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ winners are therefore described as European Games gold medalists, or European Games champions, not European Champions.

Results

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  • "European Artistic Gymnastics Championships". GymnasticsResults.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  • "European Championships". Gymn-Forum.net.

References

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