24th Euoropean Championships Trampoline, Double Mini-Tramp, and Tumbling - Guimaraes, Portugal.

24th Euoropean Championships Trampoline, Double Mini-Tramp, and Tumbling - Guimaraes, Portugal.( 8 - 12 April 2014 )

The federations have now announced the athletes who will represent them.

In Trampoline women 48 seniors (19 NF), 58 juniors (22 NF), 34 senior synchro gymnasts (14 NF) and 44 junior synchro gymnasts (17 NF) will compete.
In Trampoline men there will be 66 seniors (25 NF), 56 juniors (23 NF), 44 senior synchro gymnasts (15 NF) and 36 junior synchro gymnasts (12 NF).         In Double Mini-Tramp will compete 18 men (8 NF), 20 boys (7 NF), 14 women (5 NF) and 22 girls (9 NF).
And finally in Tumbling the Federations have entered 14 women (5 National Fed. ), 30 girls (8 NF), 30 men (9 NF) and 24 boys (8 NF).

In Trampoline (the only Olympic discipline), one of the favourites in the senior women category will be Tatsiana Piatrenia/BLR, 5th at the London Olympic Games in 2012, the best European after 2 Canadians and 2 Chinese, and 2012 European Champion. Her main rivals will be the Russian Victoria Voronina, Vice European Champion in 2012 and 8th at the London OG, Laura Gallagher/GBR (bronze medallist at the 2012 ECh) and the Georgian Luba Golovina who is very experienced and has impressive results (6th at the 2008 OG, 7th at the 2012 OG and 5th at the 2012 ECh). The Ukrainian Anna Tarnovska has also to be watched carefully as she was 3rd at the 2012 European Championships, but in the junior category.

With regard to Trampoline men, the Russian Dmitry Ushakov, Vice Olympic Champion in London 2012, 6th at the 2008 OG in Peking, will participate to defend his European title won in 2012 in St. Petersburg. His opponents will be his compatriot Sergei Azarian (bronze medallist at the last WCh), the Portuguese Diogo Ganchinho who was 4th at the 2012 ECh as well as the Belarussian Mikalai Kazak, the oldest gymnast in this category who was 8th at the 2008 OG in Beijing. Two of his compatriots who had very good results in the junior category at the ECh 2012 (Yauheni Hankovich – 2nd and Uladzislau Hancharou – 5th) will compete this time with the seniors.

Russia and Great Britain were the European nations having won the most medals (a total of 8 respectively 10 medals) at the 2013 World Championships  in Sofia. Will they be able to repeat their success and dominate this European Championships. in Portugal?

pic: Tatsiana Piatrenia/BLR.