The 23rd trampoline, tumbling and double mini trampoline European Championships are due to take place in St Petersburg, Russia from the 10-14th April. The event will include 27 countries with a total of 569 gymnasts taking part in the Championships.
The last major competition for these disciplines was the World Championships in Birmingham in November 2011. Great Britain successfully secured a female individual trampoline place in the 2012 Olympic Games at the Championships after British Champion and World number one Katherine Driscoll claimed a finals spot finishing in 7th place.
The British women’s trampoline team produced a sensational performance to claim the silver medal in the women’s team trampoline final and synchronized trampoline pair Kat Driscoll and Amanda Parker took the bronze medal in the women’s synchro final. The gymnasts will be looking to go one step better at the European Championships.
The world age group gymnasts also showed great promise, winning three gold’s, three silvers and three bronze in total across all three disciplines.
Schedule Wednesday 11th April TRA- Junior boys and girls synchro prelims TRA- Senior men and women's synchro prelims
Thursday 12th April TRA- Senior men’s and women’s indv U21 prelims TRA- Junior boys and girls indv prelims DMT- Senior men’s and women's prelims DMT- Senior men’s and women’s team finals TUM- Senior men’s and women’s prelims TUM – Senior men’s and women’s team finals
Friday 13th April TRA- Indv men’s and women’s prelims TRA- Senior men’s and women’s teams finals DMT- Junior boys and girls prelims DMT- Junior boys and girls team finals TUM- Junior boys and girls prelims TUM- Junior boys and girls team finals
Saturday 14th April TRA- Junior boys and girls and men’s and women's synchro finals TRA- men’s and women's u21 and senior indv finals TRA- Junior boys and girls indv finals DMT- Junior boys and girls finals DMT-Senior men’s and women's indv finals TUM- Junior boys and girls finals TUM- Senior men’s and women's indv finals
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Good luck to all the gymnasts taking part.
Preview c/o www.ueg.org The favourites:
In trampoline (the only Olympic discipline), one of the favourite in the women’s category is Anna Dogonadze/GER, Olympic Trampoline Champion in Athens 2004, 8th at the Olympic Games in 2008, vice European Champion in 2010 and 6th at the World Championships in Birmingham last year. Her main contenders will be the Russian Galina Goncharenko (3rd at the ECh in 2010), Katherine Driscoll/GBR (4th at the ECh in 2010 and 8th at the WCh in 2011) and the Belarusians Tatsiana Piatrenia (5th at the WCh in 2011).
In the Synchro discipline, Anna Dogonadze and her partner Jessica Simon will try to defend their title, which they obtained these last 2 years on the European and World level. The two British gymnasts Katherine Driscoll and Amanda Parker (3rd at the WCh 2011 in Birmingham), the two Ukrainian Nataliia Moskvina and Maryna Kyiko (4th at ECh 2010 and 5th at WCh 2011) as well as the Spanish pair Laura Garcia and Cristina Sainz/ESP (6th at WCh 2011) are also promising.
