European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships are an annual series of artistic gymnastics championships for male gymnasts from European countries organised by the European Union of Gymnastics. They take place in two biennial formats; in even years they take place in tandem with a junior men's competition, and historically have included a team event, but not an individual all-around.^[1] In odd years, they are held in tandem with the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and include a team competition. These events are sometimes called the European Individual Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Despite the alternating formats, all winners are considered European champions with one medal table.

The event is not to be confused with the gymnastics program of the European Games, whose champions are crowned as European Games champions, but not European champions.

History

Originally held biannually and in odd-numbered years, the championships moved to even-numbered years in 1990. In 2005 a second set of championships was introduced, titled the "individual championships". Although numbered as a separate event, winners in either event are considered European champions, and the championships as a result have in effect become an annual event, but in two formats; in even-numbered years, a stand-alone men's event incorporates the European Junior Artistic Gymnastics championships (an entirely separate women's competition is held in the same years), while in odd-numbered years, the separately numbered 'individual championships' are held in conjunction with the women's competition of the same description, but without juniors, as a single event.^{[citation needed]}

As a result, there is no individual all-around title awarded in even-numbered years (except for juniors), and similarly no team all-around title awarded in odd-numbered years. These thus remain biannual events. Otherwise the apparatus and titles are identical.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, UEG agreed that beginning in 2018, the annual European Championships in the midyear of the Olympic cycle (i.e. 2 years after, and before, a Summer Olympic Games) would be held as part of the new multi-sport European Championships event, and would be held in that format every four years. These combined events will continue to be run by UEG and the other sports federations. Although both the Men's and Women's championships will be held together, in the same venue, these championships will continue to be treated as separate men's and women's events, with junior events included.^{[citation needed]}

A further event, the European Games also holds a full set of championships for European artistic gymnasts in the year preceding the Summer Olympic Games, having begun in 2015. These, however, are organized by the European Olympic Committees and are not recognized as part of the continuity of the European Championships.^[a]

Championships

Before 1996, European men's championships were held separately for both Seniors and Juniors. Beginning in 1996, Senior and Junior men's championships were combined.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] In 2005 a new and combined European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships were inaugurated for senior gymnasts only. Although these championships are numbered separately, and the medals awarded counted separately, they constitute European Championships in the same manner as the men- and women-only competitions they alternate with, and the winners are considered European champions in the same way. For that reason, a list of those championships is also included in the section below.

The 2018 and 2022 editions of the Men's Championships formed part of the multi-sport European Championships of those years.

Senior and Junior Men's Championships (held separately)

Number (S)	Year	Host City	Host Country	Events (S)
1	1955	Frankfurt	West Germany	7
2	1957	Paris	France	7
3	1959	Copenhagen	Denmark	7
4	1961	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	7
5	1963	Belgrade	Yugoslavia	7
6	1965	Antwerp	Belgium	7
7	1967	Tampere	Finland	7
8	1969	Warsaw	Poland	7
9	1971	Madrid	Spain	7
10	1973	Grenoble	France	7
11	1975	Bern	Switzerland	7
12	1977	Vilnius	Soviet Union	7
13	1979	Essen	West Germany	7
14	1981	Rome	Italy	7
15	1983	Varna	Bulgaria	7
16	1985	Oslo	Norway	7
17	1987	Moscow	Soviet Union	7
18	1989	Stockholm	Sweden	7
19	1990	Lausanne	Switzerland	7
20	1992	Budapest	Hungary	7
21	1994	Prague	Czech Republic	8
22	1996	Broendby	Denmark	8

Number (J)	Year	Host City	Host Country
1	1978
2	1980
3	1982
4	1984	Rimini	Italy
5	1986	Karlsruhe	West Germany
6	1988	Avignon	France
7	1990
8	1991
9	1992
10	1993
11	1994	Prague	Czech Republic
12	1996	Copenhagen	Denmark

Combined Senior and Junior Men's Championships

Year	Number (S/J)	Host City	Events (S+J)	Lead nation (S)	Lead nation (J)
1998	23/13	Saint Petersburg	8+2	France	France
2000	24/14	Bremen	8+8	Romania	Russia
2002	25/15	Patras	8+8	Romania	Russia
2004	26/16	Ljubljana	8+8	Romania	Russia
2006	27/17	Volos	7+8	Russia	Germany
2008	28/18	Lausanne	7+8	Russia	Great Britain
2010	29/19	Birmingham	7+8	Germany	Great Britain
2012	30/20	Montpellier	7+8	Russia	Great Britain
2014	31/21	Sofia	7+8	Russia	Great Britain
2016	32/22	Bern	7+8	Russia	Germany
2018	33/22	Glasgow	7+8	Russia	Italy
2020	34/23	Mersin	7+8	Ukraine	Turkey/ Ukraine
2022	35/24	Munich	8+8 *	Great Britain	Italy
2024	36/25	Rimini	7+8	Ukraine	Great Britain

Men's and Women's Senior Individual Championships

Year	Number (S (M+W))	Host city	Events (SM)	Lead nation (SM)

2005	1	Debrecen	12	Spain
2007	2	Amsterdam	12	Russia
2009	3	Milan	12	Germany
2011	4	Berlin	12	Germany
2013	5	Moscow	12	Russia
2015	6	Montpellier	12	Great Britain
2017	7	Cluj-Napoca	12	Russia
2019	8	Szczecin	12	Russia
2021	9	Basel	12	Russia
2023	10	Antalya	12	Turkey
2025	11	tbc	12

Medal table

Seniors

As of 2024.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	90	59	35	184
2	Russia	39	21	29	89
3	Ukraine	20	19	18	57
4	Romania	19	22	14	55
5	Great Britain	17	18	15	50
6	Italy	16	11	19	46
7	Greece	16	6	7	29
8	Hungary	14	12	17	43
9	Bulgaria	12	9	12	33
10	Yugoslavia	11	5	9	25
11	Belarus	10	14	13	37
12	Germany	10	9	16	35
13	East Germany	7	17	17	41
13	France	7	17	17	41
15	Switzerland	7	6	13	26
16	Spain	7	4	4	15
17	Netherlands	6	4	2	12
18	Turkey	5	6	7	18
19	West Germany	5	5	11	21
20	Slovenia	4	5	5	14
21	Poland	3	7	8	18
22	Israel	3	6	7	16
23	Armenia	3	6	6	15
24	Ireland	3	0	0	3
25	Croatia	2	7	1	10
26	Sweden	2	4	4	10
27	Czechoslovakia	2	2	2	6
28	Cyprus	2	1	3	6
29	Finland	1	4	5	10
30	Lithuania	1	2	1	4
31	Latvia	1	1	1	3
32	Albania	1	0	0	1
33	Austria	0	1	1	2
34	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
38	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (38 entries)		346	314	320	980