2024 European championships for men: All you need to know.

On wednesday april 24th the European championships for men start in Rimini.  The Baloise team Belgym is represented by Maxime Gentges, Noah Kuavita, Victor Martinez, Glen Cuyle and Luka Vanden Keybus.  Nicola Cuyle will compete as an individual gymnast. 

                                           Photos: An Vanderstraeten, Liesbeth Coremans, Loïc Picchio

On wednesday the Baloise Belgian team will compete in the first subdivision of the qualifications that starts at 10 o clock. They will start their competition on pommel horse. The qualifications also serve as all-around final for the seniors. A Senior team consists of 3 to 5 gymnasts, of which up to 4 compete on each apparatus. The 3 best scores on each apparatus are added together to make the total score for the Team on that apparatus. The 8 best teams from the qualifications will compete in the Team Final. The Belgian men hope to qualify for the Team Final as well as for some apparatus finals.

On the junior side Noam Descamps, Bob Neyrinck, Kyano Schepers, Fynn Van Kampen and Victor Tournicourt will compete as a team. 4 gymnasts compete on each apparatus, the 3 best scores are taken into account for the team final. The results from the Junior Qualifying competition will determine the 2024 Junior European Team Champion and medallists. The 24 highest ranked gymnasts in the all-around from the Junior Qualifying Competition will qualify for the respective All-Around Final with a maximum of two gymnasts per federation. The 8 highest ranked gymnasts (with a max of 2 gymnasts per federation) will compete in the individual apparatus finals. The juniors will compete in the third and last subdivison on thursday, starting at 17:30. They will start their competition on vault.

Schedule 

Wednesday 24 April – Senior Qualifications

10:00 – 13:00    Subdivision 1 with the Baloise Belgym team starting on pommel horse

14:00 – 17:00    Subdivision 2    

17:15 – 17:30    Opening Ceremony

17:45 – 20:45    Subdivision 3

Thursday 25 April – Junior Qualifications

10:00 – 12:50    Subdivision 1

14:00 – 16:50    Subdivision 2    

17:30 – 20:20    Subdivision 3 with the Belgian junior team starting on vault

 Friday 26 April – Senior Apparatus finals part 1

18:00 – 18:45    Floor Final 

18:45 – 19:36    Pommel Horse Final 

19:36 – 20:25    Rings Final 

 Saturday 27 April

10:00 – 10:51    Junior Floor & Pommel Horse Finals 

10:51 – 11:50    Junior Rings & Vault Finals 

11:50 – 12:46    Junior Parallel Bars & Horizontal Bar Finals 

16:30 – 17:16    Senior Vault Final 

17:16 – 18:10    Senior Parallel Bars Final 

18:10 – 19:00    Senior Horizontal Bar Final 

 Sunday 28 April

10:00 – 12:42    Junior All-Around Final

15:30 – 18:15    Senior Team Final

How to follow the competition?

In coöperation with EBU and Smartscoring, European gymnastics is bringing all the action live to your living room (or office ; ) ). 

The senior competition will be streamed on EBU's platform Eurovision-Sport. The finals will be broadcasted on Sporza and other European TV channels.

You can follow the entire junior competition on SmartScoring’s Gymtv.online platform. For € 8, you get the chance to witness the junior men’s competition: qualifications, apparatus finals and all-around final. Get your subscription here: 2024 European Championships in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics - Europeangymnastics (gymtv.online). 

Live scoring is available via Smartscoring.