Preview of the 2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Baku (AZE)

IsraelOn Thursday competition will begin at Baku’s fantastic National Gymnastics Arena for junior groups and senior individuals. It’s the fourth time Azerbaijan will host the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships!

35 Federations are travelling to Azerbaijan to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 196 gymnasts are scheduled to compete: 81 senior individuals and 115 gymnasts form junior groups.

 

Who to watch?

Top names are counting on your support in Baku: Russia is sending its top trio, Dina and Arina Averina and Aleksandra Soldatova; Ekaterina Halkina, Anastasia Salos and Alina Harnasko will represent Belarus; Israel is represented by Linoy Ashram and Nicol Zelikman; Bulgaria counts on Katrin Taseva, Neviana Vladinova and Boryana Kaleyn; Alexandra Agiurgiuculese and Milena Baldassarri fly under the Italian flag; Ukraine boosts young rising stars Vlada Nikolchenko and Viktoria Onoprienko; while Azerbaijan’s Veronika Hudis and Zohra Aghamirova compete in front of their home crowd.

Of course, many more gymnasts are looking to excel in Baku and we wish every single gymnast loads of success.

 

Competition format

This European Championships is for junior groups and senior individuals. The first three days are qualification for both categories according to the draw of the starting order and the combined scores will determine the team rankings.

On Thursday, the junior groups present their exercise with 5 hoops. On Friday, the senior individuals complete their hoop and ball routines. On Saturday, the junior groups present their exercise with 5 ribbons. The senior individuals compete with clubs and ribbon.

The best 8 gymnasts per apparatus and the 8 best groups qualify for the event finals which will be held on Sunday. For the individuals there is a limit of 2 gymnasts per country per apparatus. The top 24 individuals in the all-around guarantee their country a starting place at next year’s European Championships.

On Sunday all apparatus finals are held.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Baku local time)

Thursday 16 May 2019 – QUALIFICATIONS AND TEAM COMPETITION

17:00 – 17:30    Opening ceremony

17:30 – 18:50    Qualifications junior groups 5 hoops

 

Friday 17 May 2019 – QUALIFICATIONS AND TEAM COMPETITION

12:00 – 13:50    Qualifications senior individuals (hoop and ball) set A

14:30 – 16:00    Qualifications senior individuals (hoop and ball) set B

16:10 – 18:00    Qualifications senior individuals (hoop and ball) set A

 

Saturday 18 May 2019 – QUALIFICATIONS AND TEAM COMPETITION

10:00 – 11:30    Qualifications senior individuals (clubs and ribbon) set B

11:40 – 13:30    Qualifications senior individuals (clubs and ribbon) set C

14:30 – 16:20    Qualifications senior individuals (clubs and ribbon) set A

16:40 – 18:00    Qualifications junior groups 5 ribbons

18:10 – 18:25    Award ceremony Team Competition

18:25 – 18:40    Award ceremony All-around junior groups

 

Sunday 19 May 2019 – APPARATUS FINALS

12:00 – 12:40     Junior groups 5 hoops

12:45 – 13:25     Junior groups 5 ribbons

13:30 – 13:45    Award ceremony junior groups

 

14:40 – 15:50     Senior individuals finals hoop and ball

16:00 – 17:10     Senior individuals finals clubs and ribbon

17:15 – 17:35    Award ceremonies senior individuals

17:35 – 17:45     SmartScoring Award

17:45 – 18:15    Gala & Closing ceremony

 

 How to follow the competition?

A livestream of the entire competition is available on https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ueg/ thanks to our partner Eurovision.

Live scoring will be provided on the website of our scoring partner SmartScoring: http://www.smartscoring.com/en/projects/.

Results of past championships are available on our website.

As usual UEG will provide start lists, results, interviews, quotes, photos, videos and competition reports on its website and social media.

Official hashtag of the event: #RGECh2019

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