Preview of the 2025 European Championships in Aerobic Gymnastics in Ganja (AZE)

On Friday, Europe’s best Aerobics gymnasts will take to the stage of the 2025 European Championships! Held for the first time in the city of Ganja (AZE), 18 countries will be represented by 151 senior gymnasts.

Check out all event information, including full start lists and results, on our website: 2025 European Aerobic Championships - Ganja (AZE) | European Gymnastics

 

Who to watch?

We’re in for an absolute treat! Scheduled to compete are big names like Turkish superstar Ayse Onbasi, reigning World Champion Miquel Mane (ESP), Bulgarian powerhouses Hristo Manolov, Antonio Papazov and Borislava Ivanova, defending European Champions Clara Lestruhaut and Maelys Lenclos (FRA), Ukraine’s Anastasia Kurashvili and Stanislav Halaida among others.

Italy, crowned best team at both the 2023 European and the 2024 World Championships, counts on the expertise of World bronze medallist and defending European Champion Davide Nacci, who has his trusted colleagues including Sara Cutini, Marcelo Patteri, Matteo Falera and Francesco Sebastio by his side. All five athletes enjoyed silver success at the World Games this summer. Romania, the best junior team at the previous Europeans, brings a wealth of experience to Ganja. They will field top names like Leonard Manta, Daniel Tavoc, Darius Branda, Vladut Popa and Claudia Ristea, the World Games bronze medallists in the group final.

Fresh off an impressive victory at the World Games, Antonia Konig, Zoltan Locsei, Fruzsina Fejer, Anna Makranszki, Vanessza Ruzicska, Tunde Himmel, Kamilla Goda and Andras Agoston Mikulecz are looking to bring Aerobic Dance gold to Hungary yet again. The host nation’s hopes rely on reigning Vice-World Champions and World Games silver medallists Vladimir Dolmatov and Madina Mustafayeva.

We’re pleased to welcome former junior standouts like Nadia Almeida, Leonor Januario & Tiago Pinheiro (POR), Aleksandar Mishinkov (BUL), Sampo Nousiainen & Jade Sirvioe (FIN) to the senior competition too!

We’re looking  forward to seeing a wealth of skills and creativity out on the floor, and wish all participants a lot of success in achieving their goals!

 

Competition format

6 categories will be contested during this event: Individual Women (IW), Individual Men (IM), Mixed Pairs (MP), Trios (TR), Groups (GR) and Aerobic Dance (AD).

Qualifications: the top 8 per category proceed to the final. If there are less than 12 entries in a category, only 6 proceed to the final. Max. 2 per country for IW, IM, MP and TR. Max 1 per country for GR and AD.

Finals start from mark of zero. The units with the highest score in each category are declared European Champions. Ties will be broken according to the FIG TR. Sec. 6 –1.2.

The Team ranking will be determined by adding the 5 best places: Individual Men or Individual Women, Mixed Pairs, Trios, Groups and Aerobic Dance. The Federation with the lowest total score will be declared European Team Champion! In case of a tie in points at any place in the Team Ranking, the ranking will be determined by the following criteria:

1. the best ranked Group

2. the best ranked Trio

3. the best ranked counting Aerobic Dance.

If there is still a tie, the tie will not be broken.

 

Schedule  ***All times indicated in Azerbaijan local time zone***

Friday 14 November 2025 - Qualifications

15:30 – 16:00    Opening Ceremony

16:00 – 18:30    Individual Women

18:45 – 20:00    Individual Men

 

Saturday 15 November 2025 - Qualifications

15:30 – 16:30    Mixed Pairs

16:40 – 17:55    Trios

18:15 – 18:55    Groups

19:05 – 19:30    Aerobic Dance

Followed by Team medal ceremony

 

Sunday 16 November 2025 - FINALS

13:00 – 13:35    Individual Women

13:35 - 14:10    Individual Men

Followed by medal ceremonies   

14:50 – 15:25    Mixed Pairs

15:25 – 16:00    Trios

Followed by medal ceremonies   

16:40 – 17:15    Groups

17:15 – 17:50    Aerobic Dance

Followed by SmartScoring Shooting Star Award and medal ceremonies   

 

How to follow the competition

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You can follow the live scoring on Live Results - SmartScoring | Every second matters.

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #AER2025