Preview of the 2022 European Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline in Rimini (ITA)

On Wednesday, competition will begin at Rimini’s Fiera Expo & Convention Centre. It’s the very first time Italy will host the Trampoline Europeans! Their experience hosting the World Cup will surely guarantee a spectacular event.

26 Federations are travelling to Rimini to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 308 senior and 240 junior gymnasts are scheduled to compete.

 

Who to watch?

In Trampoline, several big names will appear on the start lists, including 2016 & 2020 Olympic medallist and reigning World Champion Bryony Page (GBR), 2019 European Games Champion and 2021 Vice-European Champion Léa Labrousse (FRA) and Allan Morante (FRA), multiple European medals holder. 3 of the 4 Portuguese gymnasts who clinched European team silver last year are registered to compete in Rimini: Diogo Abreu, Pedro Ferreira and Lucas Santos. 2021 junior European bronze medallist Elif Colak (TUR) will make her senior debut in both individual and synchro.

In Women’s Double Mini-Trampoline, three-time World Champion Lina Sjoeberg (SWE) is looking to grab a second European title! She should face fierce competition from Ines Martins (POR), Bethany Williamson (GBR) and Melania Rodriguez (ESP), who performed 8,5 difficulty in the World Cup event last weekend. In the Men’s competition, Portuguese winners of the 2021 Worlds team silver Tiago Sampaio Romao, Diogo Cabral and Diogo Fernandes are all registered. So is Jonas Nordfors (SWE), silver medallist at the 2018 Europeans, and Daniel Schmidt (GER), bronze-medal winner last year.

In Tumbling, 2021 European Champion Tachina Peeters (BEL) will try to defend her title against reigning World Champion Megan Kealy, with France’s Candy Briere-Vetillard, bronze in 2021, wanting to go upwards in the standings. The Men’s competition will see 2018 European Champion Mikhail Malkin (AZE) try to catch another European gold after his bronze last year. His main rivals are likely to be coming from Great Britain, in name of Kristof Willerton and Jaydon Paddock.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Rimini and we wish every single gymnast loads of success.

 

Competition format

The competition programme in the disciplines TRA Synchro, DMT and TUM consists of a qualifying competition and a final. TRA individual competitions consist of qualifying rounds (Qualifications – two routines and Semi-finals – one routine), a final (one routine) and a team final (one routine). The gymnasts with the 24 best scores from Qualifications will advance to Semi-finals. Only 3 gymnasts per member federation may compete in Semi-finals. The gymnasts start Semi-finals with a score of zero.

TRA Synchro competitions consist of two routines in the qualifying round and one routine in the finals. DMT and TUM competitions consist of two passes in the qualifying round, two passes in the finals and one pass in the team finals.

A maximum of 8 gymnasts per discipline and age category, men and women (maximum 2 per country) and a maximum of 8 synchro pairs per age category, men and women (maximum 1 per NF) advance to the finals.

The team finals feature the top 5 teams in TRA individual, DMT and TUM per age category, men and women (3 gymnasts per team).

All gymnasts, pairs and teams will start Finals with a score of zero.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Rimini local time)

Wednesday 1 June

12:00 – 17:30    Qualifications – TRA junior, DMT & TUM senior

18:30 – 19:00    Opening Ceremony

19:00 – 20:00    FINALS – TRA junior team

 

Thursday 2 June

12:00 – 17:30    Qualifications – DMT & TUM junior

12:00 – 18:25    Qualifications – TRA senior

19:30 – 20:30    FINALS - TRA senior team

 

Friday 3 June

12:00 – 14:00    Qualifications – TRA synchro junior

16:00 – 16:45    FINALS – DMT women & TUM men senior team

16:45 – 17:30    FINALS - TRA synchro junior

17:30 – 18:15    FINALS – DMT men & TUM women senior team

 

Saturday 4 June

11:00 – 14:00    Qualifications – TRA synchro senior

16:00 – 16:45    FINAL – TUM boys junior team

16:45 – 17:30    FINAL – DMT boys & TUM girls junior team

17:30 – 18:15    FINALS – TRA synchro senior

 

Sunday 5 June

10:30 – 11:50    Semi-finals – TRA junior

12:00 – 13:20    Semi-finals – TRA senior

14:30 – 15:00    FINALS – DMT girls & TUM boys junior

15:00 – 15:30    FINALS – DMT boys & TUM girls junior

15:30 – 16:00    FINALS – TRA junior

16:30 – 17:00    FINALS – DMT women & TUM men senior

17:00 – 17:30    FINALS – DMT men & TUM women senior

17:30 – 18:00   FINALS – TRA senior

 

How to follow the competition?

A livestream of the entire event is available free of charge around the globe on gymtv.online where live scoring will be shown too.

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

Results of past championships are available on our website.