166 male and 109 female gymnasts from respectively 38 and 36 countries will compete in the 8^th Individual Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Szczecin (POL) in four weeks’ time!

Now that the national federations had to nominate their teams, we have an idea of which gymnasts will make the trip to Poland and the line-up is simply impressive …

In the women’s competition 2017 European Champion Ellie Downie, Great Britain’s first European all-around Champion, will look to defend her crown while two-time European and reigning World Champion on bars Nina Derwael (BEL) and France’s Melanie de Jesus dos Santos are two of last year’s winners on the roster. Russia’s Angelina Melnikova won floor in 2017 and clinched several medals in Glasgow 2018. Her teammate, vault specialist and former European and World Champion Maria Paseka is returning to competition after having back surgery in December 2017. The Netherlands’ Eythora Thorsdottir is back again as well, looking to continue on the good vibes of the 2017 Europeans where she won two medals as is France’s Coline Devillard, victorious on vault in 2017. Italy is sending 4 out of the 5 gymnasts of last year’s extremely successful junior team: Giorgia Villa, Elisa Iorio and twins Asia and Alice D’Amato. Other first-year seniors looking to make a name for themselves are Anastasia Bachynska (UKR), Amelie Morgan (GBR), Emma Slevin (IRL) among others.

On the men’s side, a truly spectacular field of champions will be representing their country. Some of the biggest names are three-time World and former Olympic Champion on high bar Epke Zonderland (NED), the 2017 and 2018 high bar European Champions from Switzerland Pablo Braegger and Oliver Hegi, defending floor Champion Dominick Cunningham (GBR) and his teammates double Olympic Champion Max Whitlock and rings master Courtney Tulloch, 2016 pommel horse Champion Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM), European Games floor winner Rayderley Zapata (ESP) and his fellow gold medallist on pommel horse Saso Bertoncelj (SLO), France’s rings powerhouse Samir Ait Said, 2017 high bar World Champion Tin Srbic (CRO), Vice-Olympic all-around champion Marcel Nguyen (GER), defending pommel horse European Champion Rhys McClenaghan (IRL), Israeli specialists Artem Dolgopyat, Aleksandr Shatilov and Andrei Medvedev, Romanian superstar Marian Dragulescu, Turkish contenders Ferhat Arican. Ahmet Onder and Ibrahim Colak; the Russian strongholds Nikita Nagornyy who recently won 6 out of the 7 available individual national titles, and reigning all-around World Champion Artur Dalaloyan who are joined by teammates Dmitriy Lankin and Denis Ablyazin. Ukraine is missing reigning European all-around Champion Oleg Verniaiev due to recovery from surgery but can count on Petro Pahniuk and Igor Radivilov.

The stars for the home crowd will surely be Marta Pihan-Kulesza and her husband Roman Kulesza, who live and train in Szczecin.

Find the full list of participants below!