Today, 2 May, the 2024 Women’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships kick off in the Pavilions of the Rimini Fair with the qualifying competition for the first Senior divisions.
The Italy of Manila Esposito, Alice D’Amato, Asia D’Amato, Angela Andreoli and Elisa Iorio will take the field in the final division starting from 6.00 pm. Senior qualifying matches are airing on the Eurovision Sports app for free; the details of the various subdivisions with the times and various race curiosities are described in this article here.
The female subdivisions of the qualification for the 2024 European Artistic Championships
Subdivision 1
In the first subdivision there were gymnasts from Spain, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Ireland and a Mixed Group made up of Luxembourg, Malta, Liechtenstein and the Principality of Monaco.
Spain played an excellent match, so much so that they reached the top of the team standings without any particular problems. Alba Petisco And Ana Perez they both completed an excellent performance on all the tools and drove the team towards this good result. Laura Casabuena, on the other hand, seems to have not taken part in the qualification, cheering on her teammates from the sidelines.
Belgium was unable to express itself at its best either on the beam or on the parallel bars, two of its top tools. The Olympic champion on the stands Nina Derwael she fell on both of these tools and it is likely that we will not see her again in either final. The teammate Maellyse Brassart she is the only Belgian gymnast to complete a competition without errors and to leap into second position in the provisional All-Around ranking (51.932), behind Petisco. Among the outsiders, a good individual performance by the Finnish gymnast Kaia Tanskaneswho ends the race without hope of obtaining the pass to Paris, provisionally in the hands of Brassart.
Subdivision 2
In the second subdivision, the following took place: Latvia, France, Bulgaria, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and Germany.
There France (159.130) and the Romania (158,798) they conducted a good qualification, placing themselves first and second respectively in the partial classification. Stands out in the vault test Coline Devillard with the average of the two jumps of 13.983, while Sabrina Maneca – Voiena (ROU) leads the all around ranking with a score of 52,700followed by the Spanish Alba Petisco at a thousandth (52,699).
Excellent performance also by Germany (153,697) which is fourth in the rankings and Portugal (146.931) in sixth provisional position.
Among the exercises in this subdivision, the parallel bars stand out Helen Kevric (GER) from the value of 14,066 and the excellent performance on vault Valentina Georgevia (BUL) which presents two excellent jumps (VT1: 14.100 and VT2: 13.533) from the average of 13.816.
A test with a few too many errors for Slovakia (144,063)Slovenia (119,798), Bulgaria (139,795) and Latvia (132,463).
Subdivision 3
In the third subdivision there were: Israel, Sweden, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Austria, Croatia and Georgia.
For the first time on the European stage the team of Kosovowho despite finishing his race in last provisional position, brought a great test full of emotions to the race field.
A good rotation on the parallel bars for the Swedenof particular importance is the exercise of Nathalie Westlund with a value of 13,733.
The Austrian Charlize Moerz presents a good free body exercise with a value of 12.966.
