Preview of the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics competition season

With the majority of the 2020 Olympic entry tickets being distributed this year, 2019 promises to be an exciting year for artistic gymnastics. The competition schedule is filled to the brim as you can see in the calendar below!

Next week, the World Cup circuit kicks off again, with Olympic tickets available for the best gymnast -(from a country) not yet qualified to Tokyo 2020- on each apparatus after the scheduled 8 meets in the 2019 – 2020 season. For all information about the Olympic qualification process check out the FIG website:  

http://www.gymnastics.sport/site/rules/rules.php#13

For Europe, our focus is firstly on the 8^th Individual European Championships in Szczecin (POL) as the competition begins in less than 2 months’ time! Europe’s best senior gymnasts will battle for individual glory in the all-around and the apparatus finals. Ellie Downie (GBR) and Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) are the defending all-around champions although Verniaiev recently underwent ankle surgery, casting a doubt over his possible participation.

Then we help organise the European Games in Minsk (BLR) where artistic gymnastics is joined by four other gymnastics disciplines. Junior gymnasts get their turn in the spotlight at the inaugural Junior World Championships in Gyor (HUN), followed by the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku (AZE).

The season ends with the all-important World Championships in Stuttgart (GER) where 9 more teams for both men and women can qualify to next year’s Olympics and where individuals can also earn their ticket either in the all-around or by medalling in the apparatus finals.

With several talented juniors turning senior this year, we can expect a change in line-ups from some teams. This will most notably affect the Italian women’s team where the D’Amato twins, Elisa Iorio and junior European all-around and Youth Olympic Champion Giorgia Villa all aim to make the team for Europeans and / or Worlds. For France, Carolann Heduit and Célia Serber join the senior ranks, while Emelie Petz and Lisa Zimmermann are Germany’s top newcomers. Pavel Karnejenko, Jamie Lewis and Amelie Morgan (GBR), Ksenia Klimenko, Sergey Naidin and Yuri Busse (RUS) and Anastasia Bachynska (UKR) are other promising names to remember.

Following our strong and successful tradition, both men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics training camps will be organised in July in Tirrenia (ITA).

 

Calendar 2019

21 – 24 February	World Cup – Melbourne (AUS)
2 March	All-around World Cup – Greensboro (USA)
8 – 10 March	Mental and Physical Preparation Course for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics – Opatija / Rijeka (CRO)
14 – 17 March	World Cup – Baku (AZE)
16 – 17 March	All-around World Cup – Stuttgart (GER)
20 – 23 March	World Cup – Doha (QAT)
23 March	All-around World Cup – Birmingham (GBR)
7 April	All-around World Cup – Tokyo (JPN)
10 – 14 April	European Championships in Artistic Gymnastics, Szczecin (POL)
19 – 21 May	World Challenge Cup – Zhaoqing (CHN)
23 – 26 May	World Challenge Cup – Osijek (CRO)
30 May – 2 June	World Challenge Cup – Koper (SLO)
21 – 30 June	European Games, Minsk (BLR)
27 – 30 June	Junior World Championships – Gyor (HUN)
5 – 15 July	Universiade – Napels (ITA)
5 – 15 July	MAG Training camp – Tirrenia (ITA)
16 – 26 July	WAG Training camp – Tirrenia (ITA)
21 – 27 July	European Youth Olympic Festival – Baku (AZE)
6 – 8 September	World Challenge Cup – Szombathely (HUN)
14 – 15 September	World Challenge Cup – Paris (FRA)
19 – 22 September	World Challenge Cup – Guimaraes (POR)
4 – 13 October	World Championships – Stuttgart (GER)
21 – 24 November	World Cup – Cottbus (GER)