Preview of the European Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline in Sochi (RUS)

On Thursday, competition will begin at Sochi’s Iceberg Arena. It’s the fourth time Russia will host the Trampoline Europeans after the 1996, 2002 and 2012 editions which were all hosted in Saint Petersburg.

23 Federations are travelling to Sochi to challenge for the continental titles. A total of 213 senior and 258 junior gymnasts are scheduled to compete.

 

Who to watch?

Hosts Russia nominated a powerful team that includes 2012 Vice-Olympic Champion Dmitri Ushakov, Andrey Yudin, Mikhail Melnik, defending European Champion Yana Pavlova, Vadim Afanasev, Viktoria Danilenko, Mikhail Zalomin, Vasili Makarski, Aleksandr Odintsov, Galina Begim and a whole generation of rising stars. Other big names include 2016 Olympic Champion Uladzislau Hancharou and his Belarussian teammates Aleh Rabtsau and Ivan Litvinovich, Poland’s 2019 European Games Champions in synchronised trampoline Artur Zakrzewski and Lukasz Jaworski, Individual European Games Champion Lea Labrousse and her French teammates Allan Morante and Marine Jurbert, tumbling stars Tachina Peeters (BEL), Mikhail Malkin (AZE) and Rasmus Steffensen (DEN), DMT stars Lina Sjoeberg and Jonas Nordfors (SWE), Georgia’s legend Luba Golovina and Portugal’s Diogo Abreu, Diogo Ganchinho, the defending European Champion, and Beatriz Martins.

Of course, all gymnasts are looking to excel in Sochi after a long period of uncertainty 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 (Round 1 – two routines and Round 2 – one routine), a final (one routine) and a team final (one routine). The gymnasts with the 24 best scores from Round 1 will advance to Round 2. Only 3 gymnasts per member federation may compete in Round 2. The gymnasts start Round 2 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 (4 gymnasts per team, 3 best scores will be counted, the gymnasts within the team will compete in the same order as in the Qualification).

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

 

Schedule (all times listed are in Sochi local time)

Thursday 29 April

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

18:00 – 18:30 Opening ceremony

18:45 – 20:00 TRA junior team FINAL

 

Friday 30 April

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

18:00 – 19:30 DMT & TUM senior team FINAL

19:30 – 20:30 TRA senior team FINAL

 

Saturday 1 May

11:00 – 13:15 Qualifications – SYN junior

14:00 – 15:40 Qualifications – SYN senior

16:30 – 18:00 DMT & TUM junior team FINAL

18:30 – 19:50 Semi-final TRA junior

19:50 – 21:10 Semi-final TRA senior

 

Sunday 2 May

11:00 – 12:00 TUM boys, DMT girls & SYN junior FINALS

12:30 – 13:30 TUM girls, DMT boys & SYN senior FINALS

14:30 – 15:30 TUM men, DMT women & TRA junior FINALS

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

17:20 – 17:35 Closing Ceremony

 

How to follow the competition?

A livestream of the entire event is available free of charge around the globe on https://www.youtube.com/user/trampolineru.

Follow the live scoring on https://sporttech.io/events/d8e3facd-71c4-47da-69c5-9f010f5170a8/ovs/event/TRA

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.

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