Preview of the 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Guadalajara (ESP)
The Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation has a wealth of experience, having already hosted in Guadalajara’s Palacio Multiusos earlier this month a World Cup stage and a junior international trophy. Now it’s time for the big challenge: the 2018 Rhythmic Europeans!
40 National Federations will travel to Spain to challenge for the European titles. A total of 224 gymnasts are scheduled to compete, 24 senior individuals, 107 gymnasts from senior groups and 93 junior gymnasts.
Who to watch?
In the senior competition new all-around champions will be crowned. Individually, World Champion Dina Averina will take on a tough challenge from her twin sister Arina, and from Israel’s Linoy Ashram who has been on fire this season. Others to keep your eye on are Italy’s Milena Baldassarri and Alexandra Agiurgiuculese, Belarussians Anastasia Salos and Katsiaryna Halkina, Bulgarians Neviana Vladinova and Katrin Taseva.
For the senior groups, it will be the first continental competition in 2 years. A lot has changed since then, especially the open-ended difficulty scoring which has seen the scores skyrocket! Bulgaria posted the highest D-score so far: a 14.000! Italy and Russia have also impressed. The battle will be exciting.
In the juniors we look for to see the next stars emerge. Russia is sending a strong team that features 2016 junior European Champion Polina Shmatko, Anastasia Sergeeva, Lala Kramarenko and Daria Trubnikova. Others to watch are the girls from Belarus, Ukraine, Italy and host nation Spain of course.
Check the full list of participants below!
Competition format
This European Championships is for junior individuals, senior groups and the top 24 senior individuals of last year’s Europeans. The first two days are qualification for both junior individuals and senior groups. The combined scores will determine the team rankings.
On Friday, the junior individuals present their exercises with hoop and ball while the senior groups compete with 5 hoops. They start according to the draw.
On Saturday, the junior individuals present their exercises with clubs and ribbon. The senior groups compete with 2 ropes and 3 balls. They start according to the team results of day 1.
The best 8 gymnasts per apparatus and the 8 best groups per routine qualify for the event finals which will be held on Sunday. There is a limit of 1 gymnast per country per final.
Schedule
Friday 1 June 2018 – QUALIFICATIONS AND TEAM COMPETITION
10:30 – 12:40 Qualifications junior individuals Set A (hoop and ball)
12:50 – 14:55 Qualifications junior individuals Set B (hoop and ball)
15:45 – 17:50 Qualifications junior individuals Set C (hoop and ball)
18:00 – 18:30 Opening Ceremony
18:30 – 19:50 Qualifications senior groups 5 hoops
Saturday 2 June 2018 – QUALIFICATIONS AND TEAM COMPETITION
09:30 – 11:05 Qualifications junior individuals Set A1 (clubs and ribbon)
11:15 – 12:50 Qualifications junior individuals Set A2 (clubs and ribbon)
13:00 – 13:04 Qualifications group SUI (2 ropes & 3 balls)
13:05 – 14:15 Qualifications junior individuals and senior groups Set A (ranked 18 - 14)
15:15 – 16:25 Qualifications junior individuals and senior groups Set B (ranked 13 - 9)
16:30 – 17:30 Qualifications junior individuals and senior groups Set C (ranked 8 - 5)
17:35 – 18:35 Qualifications junior individuals and senior groups Set D (ranked 4 - 1)
18:40 Award ceremony Team Competition & Senior groups all-around
Sunday 3 June 2018 – FINALS
10:00 – 11:00 Junior individuals finals hoop and ball
11:10 – 12:10 Junior individuals finals clubs and ribbon
12:15 – 12:30 Award ceremonies juniors
12:30 – 13:10 Senior groups final 5 hoops
13:15 – 13:55 Senior groups final 2 ropes & 3 balls
14:00 – 14:15 Award ceremonies senior groups
15:00 – 17:00 Senior individuals all-around Set B (24 – 13)
17:10 – 19:10 Senior individuals all-around Set A (12 – 1)
19:15 – 19:30 Award ceremony senior individuals all-around
19:40 – 20:00 Closing ceremony
How to follow the competition?
Live scoring will be provided on the website of our scoring partner SmartScoring: http://gymtv.online/user/playlist/. There you can also watch LIVE the junior qualification on Friday, the juniors without a team on Saturday and the junior apparatus finals on Sunday. All other competitions will be livestreamed on the EBU platform: https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ueg/.
Results of past championships are available on our website.
As usual UEG will provide start lists, results, interviews, quotes and competition reports on its website and social media.
Official hashtag of the event: #EChGuadalajara
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