Russia and Great Britain men’s favorites
This week the junior and senior men wil compete their competition, the 31st Men’s European Artistic Gymnastics competition. The junior men have a team competition during the qualifications, a final all-around and event finals. The seniors only compete after the qualifications in a team final and the event finals. Russia and Great Britain were last years biggest medal contenders. What will they do this year?
Junior competition
The junior men start wednesday May 21st their qualifications at 10h00 local time (Eastern Europe Time). Traditionally Great Britain and Russia compete for the first place, behind them other countries fight for the third place: Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy. Most of the junior gymnasts compete for the first time on a podium on an international competition. A first step into the road to the Olympic games.
Each country team contains 5 gymnasts, of which 4 can compete at each apparatus. The best 3 count for the final team result. Junior men are born in 1998, 1997 and 1996. In the competition 37 countries will compete, 30 of them have a complete team.
The first 24 junior gymnasts all-around qualify for the all-around final in friday. Brinn Bevan (GBR) is the favorite together with his teammate Niles Wilson and Valentin Starikov (RUS). The first eight gymnasts on each apparatus qualify for the event finals.
Junior qualifications schedule
Subdivision 1 - 10h00 - Sweden, Austria, Greece, Slovenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Iceland and Serbia.
Subdivision 2 - 14h00 - Turkey, Ireland, Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Portugal, Croatia, Czech Republic, Israel, Finland, Lithuania, Armenia and Latvia.
Subdivision 3 - 18h00 - Ukraine, France, Hungary, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, the Nederlands, Bulgaria and Belarus.
Senior competition
Thursday May 22nd the seniors compete their qualifications, starting at 10h00 local time (EET). The first eight countries qualify for the team final on saturday. Great Britain defends the men’s team final, while Russia tries to challenge them. Romania, Belarus and Germany struggle for the third place.
Each country team can contain 5 gymnasts, but only 3 compete on each apparatus. Those three scores count for the final team result. A total of 39 countries are present, 26 of them compete in the team qualifications.
Senior qualifications schedule
Subdivision 1 - 10h00
Norway, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, Serbia, Finland and Denmark
Subdivision 2 - 14h00
Latvia, Poland, Belgium, Lituania, Croatia, Georgia, Cyprus, Israel, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Monaco and Luxemburg
Subdivision 3 - 18h00
Romania, Italy, Spain, Belarus, Portugal, Germany, Ukraine, Armenia, Great-Britain, France and Switzerland
Competition schedule
21 May 2014 - 10h00 - Junior qualifications
22 May 2014 - 10h00 - Senior qualifications
23 May 2014 - 17h00 - Junior all-around final
24 May 2014 - 14h30 - Senior team final*
25 May 2014 - 10h00 - Junior event finals
25 May 2014 - 15h00 - Senior even finals*
*This competitions will be online covered by the European Gymnastics Federations, find here the link to the livestream.
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