Preview of the 2026 European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling in Portimao (POR)

From Wednesday to Sunday, all eyes will be on Portugal, on the wonderful town of Portimao, where Europe’s finest gymnasts will compete in the 30^th edition of the European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling.

Portimao will welcome 297 senior and 320 junior gymnasts from 29 countries. For the first time ever, the U21 category is added, in Individual and Synchronised Trampoline! There, we’ll see 82 gymnasts compete.

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Who to watch?

Trampoline – Individual and Synchronised

We are in for a sensational week with reigning Olympic Champion Ivan Litvinovich, Vice-Olympic Champion Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya and home crowd favourite and defending European Champion Pedro Ferreira (POR) headlining the event. Also looking to excel in Portimao are last year’s World Championships finallists Gabriel Albuquerque (POR), Jorge Martin (ESP), Andrei Builou (AIN), Seljan Mahsudova (AZE), Katsiaryna Yarshova and Iana Lebedeva (AIN).

In Synchro, Litvinovich and Builou are the reigning World Champions while Albuquerque partnered with Lucas Santos to win the World Games and will be joined in competition by their teammates Diogo Abreu and Pedro Ferreira. In the women’s competition, Lea Labrousse aims to find new success for France while Sofiia Aliaeva and Anzhela Bladtseva won gold at both World Cup events this year.

The absence of the British title holders leaves the door wide open for the many talented trampolinists on the roster. The U21 category made the programme for the very first time, including a mixed synchro competition in that age group!

 

Double Mini-Trampoline

New European Champions will be crowned in DMT as both 2024 winners are absent.  Superstar Melania Rodriguez (ESP) withdrew due to injury. Can Kirsty Way regain the title for Great Britain? Or will we see Anastasia Heinrich (GER), Galina Begim (AIN) or Alexandra Garcia (POR) on the top step of the podium?

In the men’s competition, we’re excited to see a showdown between World Games Champions Brent Deklerck (BEL), silver medallist Omo Aikeremiokha (GBR), Spain’s Carlos Del Ser and Portugal’s Diogo Cabral.

 

Tumbling

The biggest names in the women’s competition include defending European Champion Alexandra Efraimoglou (GRE), World Champion Arina Kaliandra (AIN), Team World Champions Maelie Abadie and Manon Morancais (FRA) and World bronze medallist Lani Spiessens (BEL). While in the men’s competition, we’ll keep a keen eye out for defending European Champion and Vice-World Champion Magnus Lindholmer (DEN) and his teammate Martin Abildgaard who won bronze at Worlds in 2025, Team World Champions Tofig Aliyev, Adil Hajizade & Mikhail Malkin (AZE), World Games bronze medallist Fred Teague (GBR) and Portuguese crowd-pleaser Vasco Peso.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Portimao! We wish every single gymnast loads of success, supporting them to achieve their goals.

 

Competition format

The competition programme in the disciplines TRA, DMT and TUM consists of a qualifying competition (Qualification Q1 with two exercises and Semi-Final Q2 with one exercise), a final for TRA and two final rounds F1 and F2 for DMT and TUM.  

TRA, DMT and TUM Team competitions consist of Qualification (Q1 – two exercises) and a Final (one exercise). If there are less than 4 teams for a team competition, the team competition will be cancelled.

The winner of each competition group will qualify to Semi-Final (Q2) or to the Final.

Participation: The number of gymnasts who will go forward from Qualification (Q1) to Semi-Finals (Q2) depends on the number of entries in the nominative registration. Only 3 gymnasts / 2 pairs per member federation may compete in the Semi-Final (Q2). The gymnasts / pairs start the Semi-Final (Q2) with a score of zero. The winner of each competition group will qualify to the Final.

The final determines the European Champion. Participation:

• A maximum of 8 individual gymnasts per discipline and age category, men and women (maximum 2 per NF).
• In DMT and TUM Final 4 gymnasts qualify from F1 to F2.
• A maximum of 8 synchro pairs per age category, men and women, and U21 mixed (maximum 1 per NF).
• The top 5 teams in TRA, DMT and TUM per age category, men and women (3 gymnasts per team).

If there are less than 12 entries in a category, only 6 will proceed to the final. The winner is the gymnast / pair with the highest score in Finals (in F2 in DMT and TUM), in Team Finals the winner is the team with the highest sum of ranking points.

Tie breaking rules

The World Gymnastics Tie Breaking rules of the World Championships are in force. Tie Breaking Rules will be applied at all times, also for Junior Finals and TRA U21 Finals. U21 individual: Tie Breaking rules Q1 apply only on the second exercise. TRA Junior Team: Tie Breaking rules Q1 apply only on the second exercise.

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Portimao local time)

Wednesday 8 April

12:40 – 19:20    Q1 TRA Individual Junior

12:40 – 19:20    Q1 TUM Senior

13:30 – 19:20    Q1 DMT Senior

16:00 – 16:20    Opening Ceremony

 

Thursday 9 April

10:35 – 13:55    Q1 TRA Individual U21

14:45 – 19:45    Q1 TRA Individual Senior

14:45 – 19:45    Q1 DMT Junior

15:35 – 19:45    Q1 TUM Junior

 

Friday 10 April

10:50 – 13:20    Q1 TRA Synchro Junior

14:50 – 16:20    Q1 TRA Synchro Mixed U21

16:20 – 17:20    Q2 TRA Synchro Junior

18:05 – 19:35    Q1 TRA Synchro Senior

 

Saturday 11 April

9:30 – 10:30      Q2 TRA Individual Junior

10:00 – 11:00    Q2 DMT & TUM Senior

10:30 – 11:30    Q2 TRA Individual U21 Men

11:00 – 12:00    Q2 DMT Junior Men     

11:30 – 12:30    Q2 TRA Individual Senior

13:30 – 15:00    Team Finals: TRA Junior Women, DMT Senior Men & TUM Junior Women

15:00 – 16:30    Team Finals: TRA Junior Men, DMT Senior Women & TUM Junior Men

Followed by Award Ceremonies

17:30 – 19:00    Team Finals: TRA Senior Women, DMT Junior Men & TUM Senior Women

19:00 – 20:30    Team Finals: TRA Senior Men, DMT Junior Women, TUM Senior Men

Followed by Award Ceremonies

 

Sunday 12 April

9:30 – 10:15      Finals SYN Junior & Award Ceremonies

10:15 – 11:00    Finals DMT Junior Women & TUM Junior Men & Award Ceremonies

11:00 – 11:45    Finals DMT Junior Men & TUM Junior Women & Award Ceremonies

11:45 – 12:30    Finals TRA Individual Junior & Award Ceremonies

13:00 – 13:45    Finals SYN Senior & Award Ceremonies

13:45 – 14:30    Finals DMT Senior Women & TUM Men & Award Ceremonies

14:30 – 15:15    Finals DMT Senior Men & TUM Women & Award Ceremonies

15:15 – 16:00    Finals TRA Individual Senior & Award Ceremonies

16:30 – 17:15    Finals TRA Individual U21 & Award Ceremonies

17:15 – 17:45    SmartScoring Shooting Star Award & Freestyle Show

17:45 – 18:30    Final SYN Mixed U21 & Award Ceremony

 

How to follow the competition?

We provide a livestream on gymtv.online, thank to our partner SmartScoring. This costs € 20 for the entire competition. From Wednesday to Saturday, you can watch the judges’ cameras. One stream for women’s Trampoline, one for men’s Trampoline, one for Double Mini-Trampoline and one for Tumbling. On Sunday, all finals are produced for TV with expert commentary by Blythe Lawrence and Olly Hogben.

Live scoring is available on results.smartscoring.com. As usual European Gymnastics will provide start lists, results, photos, videos and competition reports on its website and social media channels.

Results of past championships are available on our website.

Official hashtag of the event: #TRA2026