Preview of the 2022 Men’s Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Munich (GER)

Part of the multi-sport European Championships, the women competed last week. On Thursday competition will begin for the men at Munich’s Olympiahalle. Today, we explain how you can follow the men’s competition.

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38 Federations are travelling to Munich to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 288 gymnasts are scheduled to compete: 135 juniors and 153 seniors.

 

Who to watch?

The field includes stars like reigning Olympic Champion on floor Artem Dolgopyat (ISR), Vice-Olympic Champion on floor Rayderley Zapata (ESP), double European Champion on parallel bars and 2021 European Gymnast of the Year Ferhat Arican (TUR), 2019 World Champion on parallel bars Joe Fraser (GBR), Greek Lord of the Rings Eleftherios Petrounias, Irish star Rhys McClenaghan, reigning World Champion on floor Nicola Bartolini (ITA), recently crowned Mediterranean Games all-around Champion Adem Asil (TUR), 2019 European Games Champions Artur Davtyan (ARM) and Robert Tvorogal (LTU), Ukraine’s rising star Ilia Kovtun alongside veteran teammate Igor Radivilov, 2020 European Champion on pommel horse Matvei Petrov (ALB), Croatia’s master of the high bar Tin Srbic while the host nation Germany counts the Hero de Janeiro Andreas Toba, Lukas Dauser, Nils Dunkel, Glenn Trebing and Lucas Kochan in its ranks.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Munich after a long period of uncertainty and we wish every single gymnast loads of success.

 

Competition format

Each country can enter a team of 3 – 5 gymnasts of which up to 4 gymnasts compete on each apparatus, or up to 2 individual gymnasts. The 3 best scores on each apparatus are added together to make the team total on that apparatus, with the 8 best teams advancing to the team final where 3 gymnasts will compete on each apparatus and all 3 scores count towards the team total.

The 8 highest ranked gymnasts in the qualifying competition per apparatus advance to the Apparatus Finals, with a maximum of 2 gymnasts per country / final.

The results of both the senior and junior qualifying competition will determine the All-Around European Artistic Gymnastics Champion 2022. A separate All-Around Final result list will be produced which will detail the top 24 gymnasts with the highest All-Around ranking. A maximum of 2 gymnasts per Federation will be taken into consideration.

The results from the Junior Qualifying competition will also determine the Junior European Artistic Gymnastics Team Champions 2022. A separate Team Final result list will be produced which will detail the top 8 Teams with the highest Team total ranking.

This event also serves the continental qualifying competition for the 2022 World Championships. For details, see the FIG TR Art. 5.1.1 Qualifications Pathway to the World Championships.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Munich local time CET)

Thursday 18 August – Senior qualifications & All-around ranking

10:00 – 12:50 Subdivision 1

13:53 – 16:44 Subdivision 2

17:07 – 19:56 Subdivision 3

Followed by all-around award ceremony

 

Friday 19 August – Junior qualifications, Team & All-around ranking

10:00 – 12:50 Subdivision 1

14:00 – 16:50 Subdivision 2

17:30 – 20:20 Subdivision 3

Followed by team & all-around award ceremonies

 

Saturday 20 August

14:45 – 17:15 Senior Team FINAL

Followed by award ceremony

 

Sunday 21 August

09:45 – 12:00 Junior apparatus FINALS & award ceremonies

13:45 – 17:30 Senior apparatus FINALS & award ceremonies

 

How to follow the competition?

Europe’s biggest free-to-air broadcasters are giving the ‘major event’ treatment to the multi-sport European Championships in Munich, with over 40 EBU Members showing over 3,500 hours of live, delayed, and digital coverage across more than 50 channels. So check your local TV listings!

We’ll also provide a livestream of the entire competition. For juniors it will be on gymtv.online thanks to our partner SmartScoring and for seniors on  https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/europeangymnastics/ thanks to our partner Eurovision. You can follow the live scoring on www.Munich2022.com.  

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

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #Munich2022. Tagline #BackToTheRoofs