30. Juli 2018  
Glasgow, GBR  
Artistic Gymnastics

ECh Artistic Gymnastics -for the first time in the multi-sports event of the 1st European Championships

The first 2018 European Championships as  a multi-sports event will involve seven sports and will take place from 02 to 12 August 2018 in the Scottish city of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and in the German capital Berlin (Track and Field). At this time in Glasgow the European Championships in swimming (disciplines swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, open water swimming), cycling (disciplines track bike, road bike, mountain bike, BMX) rowing, triathlon, golf and ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS will be held. In addition, the European Athletics Championships will take place in Berlin from 7 to 12 August. All together around 4,500 athletes will participate in these competitions  ....

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♦♦ 39th EUROPEANS of WOMEN's
      ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 2018
        - Glasgow / GBR;  August 02 - 05 -

Since the first continental championships in 1957 (Bucharest / ROU) - initially in biennium rhythm - the British Gymnastics Federation - after London (1973) and Birmingham (1996 + 2010) - is now the host again for the fourth time for women. Also included in this historical balance are the European Team Championships announced in the new millennium of every two years, with the European Gymnastics Federation (UEG) awarding European Championship team titles since 1994 (Stockholm) - 2018 in Glasgow now for the 13th time.
RUSSIA starts as defending champion (Bern, 2016) and former 4-time European team champion;
UNITED KINGDOM wants to use its host role to seriously press Russian women as the last two-time vice-champion ...
ROMANIA is the most successful nation with 7 victories (!) in the historical record, but at the moment it is hard to judge in the medals.
ITALY as European surprise champion in 2006 and behind the Swiss two years ago in Berne at the time ranked 5th, will certainly argue with the bronze FRENCH team from 2016 this time around the medals.
The Swiss women are as handicapped by the failure of their Giulia Steingruber, as well as the Germans with Sophie Scheder, Tabea Alt and Elisbath Seitz equal to 3 important performers are painfully missing ...
Regrettably, in this mode, there is no all-around competition this year. Who will triumph in the individual device finals, is then certainly a question of the current form of the day.
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♦♦ 40th EUROPEANS of  M E N's
      Artistic Gymnastics 2018
       - Glasgow / GBR;  August 09 - 12

After the 1955 Men's European Championship's premiere in Frankfurt / Main, now the gymnasts in Glasgow have a round 40th anniversary, ignoring the selective and so-called "Individual Championships" method of counting that has been unnecessarily complicated since 2005 by the UEG.
Since 1996, a men's rating has also been introduced in men every two years, omitting the multi-discipline rating.

RUSSIA also leads the men in this team record with 6 wins, won last in 2014 and 2016 in a row, so wants 2018 the hat-trick!
ROMANIA's 2x gold, on the other hand, is already a bit further down (2002, 2004).
FRANCE (1998), GERMANY (2010) and most recently GREAT BRITAIN (2012) have each been continental champions once, while the Russians in Glasgow have had to make their possible hat-trick in front of the highly motivated British hosts, who have given them their last 2x silver medals !
Whether for the ambitious SWISS TEAM after last Bronze in its native Bern (2016) again the medal range is possible, may be doubted after the failure of her stretching virtuoso Pablo Braegger, although the potential of her ambitious newcomer is not to be underestimated.
Germany does compete with "seasoned" strategists such as Marcel Nguyen, Andreas Bretschneider and Andreas Toba. Whether their experience and content is sufficient to withstand the onslaught of younger vintages, one will see, as well as whether and how the debutant Nick Klessing (Junior European Champion at the rings) and Nils Dunkel can further profile in his 2nd European Championship in this sense.
Unfortunately the highest-quality continental title of the all-around champion is missing - is also not advertised for men this year after UEG mode.
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