On the second day of this European Championships, the senior women show their gymnastic skills. In teams of 5 gymnasts per country the best 8 teams qualify for the teams final. Also the gymnasts with the best apparatus scores come back in the event finals.
The first gymnasts begin the day at 10.00 am local time (EET), including Ukrain and Bulgaria. The Bulgarian senior team looked very confident earlier this week, officially representing the organizing country. The favorites for the tare the same as the junior ones: Russia and Romania. However Russia didn’t compete any international team competition this year, they have outstanding gymnasts performing. Great-Brittain heading up in their backyard with a very well balanced team. Also Belgium, France and Germany have chances to make the team final on saturday.
Each country can contain 5 gymnasts, 3 of them compete at each apparatus and those 3 scores count. There is no individual all-around ranking this year, only event finals for every apparatus.
In those event finals, a lot of beautiful things will come to us. The Russians are also individually very strong, are there some other gymnasts who can outscore them? Is Alyia Mustafina still the world-class star she used to be? What can the Romanians do on their specialist apparatus, beam? Can Giulia Steingruber (SUI) defend her title on vault? The competition looks promising!
Schedule of the day - 15th of may 2014
Subdivision 1: Norway, Azerbaijan, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Latvia.
Subdivision 2: Lithuania, Luxembourg, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Georgia and Cyprus.
Subdivision 3: Ireland, Iceland, Belarus, Portugal, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Israel and the Nederlands
Subdivision 4: Germany, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Spain, Great-Britain, France and Italy.
In the first week of the European championships, the senior and junior women compete for several European titles. Junior women compete a team competition, an individual all-around competition and event finals on every apparatus. The senior women only have a team competition and individual event finals.
14 may 2014 - Junior qualifications + team competition
15 may 2014 - Senior qualifications
16 may 2014 - Junior individual All-around competition
17 may 2014 - Senior team competition
18 may 2014 - Junior + senior apparatus finals
The men have their European championships in the consecutive week.
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