World Champions Mikhail Malkin (AZE), Bryony Page (GBR), Melania Rodriguez (ESP) and Candy Brière-Vetillard (FRA) headline #TRA2024

From 3 to 7 April 2024, the Portuguese city of Guimaraes will host the 29^th European Championships in Trampoline, Double Mini-Trampoline and Tumbling.

The deadline for nominative entries has now passed. We’re excited to see a grand total of 431 gymnasts at work: 324 seniors and 293 juniors, representing 29 of our member Federations.

 

Trampoline – Individual and Synchronised

Defending European Champion and reigning World Champion Bryony Page (GBR) is facing competition from 2023 team Vice World Champions Clea Brousse and Laura Paris, 2022 junior European Champion Silvia Coluzzi (ITA), Lina Sjoeberg (SWE), Seljan Mahsudova (AZE), Luba Golovina (GEO), Svitlana Malkova (UKR), among many others. Page and Isabelle Songhurst are defending the synchro gold. At the World Cup in Baku last month, Georgians Anano Apakidze and Marian Ragimovi earned the bronze medal.

All European finalists of the 2023 Worlds are lining up: Gabriel Albuquerque (POR), Zak Perzamanos (GBR), Benny Wizani (AUT) and Pedro Ferreira (POR), as will the defending European Champion, France’s Allan Morante.  Other names to watch: Diogo Abreu (POR), Mykola Prostorov (UKR), Julien Chartier (FRA) and Andrew Stamp (GBR). In synchro, all eyes will be on World Champions Caio Lauxtermann and Fabian Vogel (GER) and France’s Morgan Demiro-o-Domiro and Pierre Gouzou.

The competition in Guimaraes promises to be thrilling!

 

Double Mini-Trampoline

The reigning World Champion, Spain’s Melania Rodriguez, is aiming to regain the European title she won back in 2018. Her main challenge will come from British and Portuguese athletes. Great Britain is sending all four of their World Champion team: Molly McKenna, Ruth Shevelan, Kirsty Way and Bethany Williamson while the host nation have lined up two of its Vice World Champion team: Diana Gago, 2023 World Individual bronze medallist, and Alexandra Garcia.

The men’s competition will feature Vice World Champion David Franco (ESP) and bronze medallist Tiago Sampaio Romao (POR), our 2022 SmartScoring Shooting Star Daniel Schmidt (GER), junior stand-out Brent Deklerck (BEL), and Great Britain’s Omo Aikeremiokha and Lewis Gosling.

 

Tumbling

The biggest names in the women’s competition include European and World Champion Candy Brière-Vetillard and her France teammates Maiwenn Prevot, Manon Morancais and Maelle Dumitru-Marin, Great Britain’s Vice World Champion Megan Kealy, World bronze medallist Saskia Servini, Naana Oppon and 2022 World Champion Comfort Yeates; Baku World Cup silver medallist Alexandra Efraioglou (GRE), and for Belgium, 2021 European Champion Tachina Peeters and World finalists Evi Milh and Louise Van Regenmortel.

At the recent World Cup event in Baku, Individual and Team World Champion Mikhail Malkin and his teammate Adil Hajizada clinched gold and silver, with Portugal’s Vasco Peso in third place. Can we expect a rematch in Guimaraes? It will have to include Great Britain’s men, who have won every title possible, including gold at the previous Europeans and silver at last year’s Worlds. This year, we’ll see Jaydon Paddock, William Cowen, Kristof Willerton and Fred Teague in action. Another powerhouse, Denmark, fields 2023 World team bronze medallists Martin Abildgaard and Magnus Lindholmer, and their teammates Mads Hansen and Jeppe Mikkelsen.

 

Wauw, what a line-up, exciting times are certainly ahead!

We hope to see and hear the Trampoline community in Guimaraes. Get your tickets on Bilhetes Campeonato Da Europa Ginástica De Trampolins - Ticketline!