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

On Thursday competition will begin at Munich’s Olympiahalle, site of the Artistis Gymnastics competition at the 1972 Olympics. Part of the multi-sport European Championships, the women will compete from 11 to 14 August, while the men take centerstage from 18 to 21 August. Today, we explain how you can follow the women’s competition.

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37 Federations are travelling to Munich to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 259 gymnasts are scheduled to compete: 112 juniors and 147 seniors.

 

Who to watch?

Munich welcomes the reigning European Champion on floor and 2021 European Gymnast of the Year Jessica Gadirova and her twin sister Jennifer together with recently crowned Commonwealth Champions Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton and Ondine Achampong (GBR), 2020 European Champion on vault and bars Zsofia Kovacs (HUN), Germany’s star team featuring Kim Bui, Eli Seitz, Pauline Schaefer-Betz, Sarah Voss and Emma Malewski, France’s Marine Boyer, Italy’s trusted team of Alice and Asia D’Amato, Giorgia Villa and Martina Maggio, Portugal’s Filipa Martins and Slovenia’s vaulting duo Teja Belak, making her comeback after becoming a mum, and Tjasa Kysselef. Romania’s Ana Barbosu, who dominated the 2020 junior Europeans will make her senior European debut. In the junior competition, we’ll see the stars of the recent European Youth Olympic Festival like Helen Kevric (GER) and Amalia Puflea (ROU).

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 11 August – Senior qualifications & All-around ranking

10:00 – 12:02 Subdivision 1

12:24 – 14:26 Subdivision 2

15:28 – 17:31 Subdivision 3

17:53 – 19:55 Subdivision 4

Followed by all-around award ceremony

 

Friday 12 August – Junior qualifications, Team & All-around ranking

12:20 – 14:20 Subdivision 1

15:20 – 17:20 Subdivision 2

17:50 – 19:50 Subdivision 3

Followed by team & all-around award ceremonies

 

Saturday 13 August

14:00 – 15:40 Senior Team FINAL

Followed by award ceremony

 

Sunday 14 August

10:00 – 13:00 Junior apparatus FINALS & award ceremonies

14:30 – 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