European Championships 2023: How to watch artistic gymnastics from Antalya – Preview, schedule and stars competing

One year before Paris 2024 and all the European artistic gymnastics stars will be coming out to play at the 2023 European Gymnastics Championships in Antalya, Türkiye from 11-16 April.

Thirty-nine countries will be represented by 321 gymnasts – 178 men and 143 women – competing for team, all-around and apparatus honours.

Gymnasts will also be staking individual claims for places on their nation’s squad should their country qualify for France’s Games.

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Who to watch at the 2023 European Gymnastics Championships – returning champions

The All-around champion in the women’s competition, Italy’s Asia D’Amato is rehabbing an injury suffered at the 2022 edition but her compatriot and bronze medallist, Martina Maggio returns as does the silver medallist from Great Britain, Alice Kinsella.

The Italian side will defend their team title, while GB are aiming to go one better than their second-place finish last time out. Germany are aiming for another podium finish after bagging bronze in front of a jubilant home crowd in August.

All-around men’s champion and parallel bars gold medallist, Joe Fraser of Great Britain is absent but Türkiye’s duo of Ahmet Onder and Adem Asil will be supported in their all-around endeavours by the home crowd. The men’s squad will hope to go one, or even two, better in the team competition after claiming bronze in Munich but will face quite the challenge from defending champions Great Britain and silver-medallists Italy.

Just two champions from the 10 apparatus finals for women and men at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, Germany are missing in 2023. Fraser and high-bar title holder, Marios Georgiou of Cyprus, who are both rehabilitating injuries. The rest are back to defend their titles.

Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) – 2022 European champion men’s floor
Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) – 2022 European champion pommel horse
Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) – 2022 European champion still rings
Jake Jarman (GBR) – 2022 European champion men’s vault

Zsofia Kovacs (HUN) – 2022 European champion women’s vault
Elisabeth Seitz (GER) – 2022 European champion women’s uneven bars
Emma Malewski (GER) – 2022 European champion women’s balance beam
Jessica Gadirova (GBR) – 2022 European champion women’s floor

Who to watch at the 2023 European Gymnastics Championships – world and Olympic medallists

Six-time Olympic medallist, including three gold, Max Whitlock of Great Britain returns to the fray following a lengthy time out after defending his pommel horse title at Tokyo 2020. With eyes on a fourth Games, Whitlock appears for the first time in international competition since deciding to make a run for Paris and will be up against the reigning world champion, another pommel horse specialist, Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan.

Two other gymnasts returning to the international arena are Whitlock's compatriot Becky Downie, the 2019 world and European silver medallist on her specialist apparatus, the uneven bars, and the gymnast who beat her to that world gold, Belgium's Nina Derwael will also be in Türkiye.

Artur Davtyan of Armenia, the 2022 world champion and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallist on vault will be showcasing his explosive skills, while four-time European gold medallist Igor Radivilov of Ukraine will be looking to add to his tally.

Three-time Youth Olympic Games champion, world team bronze medallist from 2019, and perennial crowd favourite, Giorgia Villa will continue her march toward a first senior Olympic Games. The 20-year-old injured her ankle days before the start of Tokyo 2020 and was unable to take her place on the team.

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Who to watch at the 2023 European Gymnastics Championships – next generation

A number of up-and-coming gymnasts have been making inroads onto the senior circuit including Romania's Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, a three-time junior European medallist including gold on vault, and part of the team that won the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival title. The 16-year-old was also a double gold medallist at the FIG Apparatus World Cup in Doha last month.

Anna Lashchevska of Ukraine also recently medalled at World Cup events while Maneca-Voinea's compatriot Amalia Ghigoarta is making her senior debut here as is Hungary's Botond Molnar, the 2022 junior European men's all-around champion.

2023 European artistic gymnastics championships schedule

Location: Antalya Sports Hall, Antalya, Türkiye
Dates: 11-16 April 2023
Times below are local (BST +2 / CEST +1)
WAG – Women's Artistic Gymnastics MAG – Men's Artistic Gymnastics

Tuesday 11 April – day 1

• 10am-12.55pm MAG qualification subdivision 1
• 2pm-4.55pm MAG qualification subdivision 2
• 5.30pm-8.15pm MAG qualification subdivision 3

Wed 12 April – day 2

• 10am-12pm WAG qualification subdivision 1
• 1.30pm-3.30pm WAG qualification subdivision 2
• 4pm-6pm WAG qualification subdivision 3
• 6.30pm-8.30pm WAG qualification subdivision 4

Thurs 13 April – day 3

• 4pm-6.45pm MAG All-Around Final

Fri 14 April – day 4

• 4pm-6pm WAG All-Around Final

Sat 15 April – day 5

• 1.30pm-2pm MAG floor apparatus final
• 2.10pm-2.55pm WAG vault and MAG pommel horse apparatus finals
• 3.10pm-3.55pm WAG bars and MAG rings apparatus finals

Sun 16 April – day 6

• 1pm-1.45pm WAG beam and MAG vault apparatus finals
• 2pm-2.45pm WAG floor and MAG parallel bars apparatus finals
• 3-3.30pm MAG high bar apparatus final

How to watch 2023 European Gymnastics Championships in Antalya, Türkiye

For information on how to watch the 2023 European Gymnastics Championships check here for list of broadcasters.

Upcoming artistic gymnastics competitions

• 27-30 April FIG Apparatus World Cup Cairo, Egypt
• 25-28 May FIG World Challenge Cup Varna, Bulgaria
• 1-4 June 2023 FIG World Challenge Cup Tel-Aviv, Israel
• 8-11 June FIG Challenge Cup Osijek, Croatia