2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships Explained

2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
Date Start:	10 June 2014
Date End:	15 June 2014
Nations:	33 members of the European Union of Gymnastics
Format:	FIG rules
Venue:	National Gymnastics Arena
Location:	Baku, Azerbaijan
Prev:	Vienna 2013
Next:	Minsk 2015

The 30th Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships took place from June 10 to June 15, 2014 at the then newly opened National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan. 33 participating federations with their juniors and seniors gymnasts participated at the event.

Participating countries

List of delegations participating in Championship.

Schedule

Wednesday, June 11
- 08h00 - 22h00 Official Training
- 18h00 Briefing session with the Heads of delegation
Thursday, June 12
- 08h00 - 22h00 Official Training
Friday, June 13
- 09h30 - 11h15 C I - Juniors, Group A - Hoop + Ball
- 11h50 - 13h50 C I - Juniors, Group B - Hoop + Ball
- 14h45 - 16h30 C I - Juniors, Group C - Hoop + Ball
- 17h00 - 17h55 Opening Ceremony
- 17h55 - 20h45 C I - Seniors groups alternating 10 Clubs / 3 Balls - 2 Ribbons
- 20h45 Award Ceremony - Seniors group all-around competition I
Saturday, June 14
- 09h30 - 11h30 C I - Juniors, Group B - clubs + ribbon
- 11h50 - 13h50 C I - Juniors, Group C - clubs + ribbon
- 14h30 - 16 h 30 C I - Juniors, Group A - clubs + ribbon
- 16h30 - 17h00 Award Ceremony - Junior Team competition I
- 17h00 - 19h00 C II - Seniors, Group B - 4 apparatus (place 11 to 20 from ECh 2013)
- 19h15 - 21h15 C II - Seniors, Group A - 4 apparatus (place 01 to 10 from ECh 2013)
- 21h15 Award Ceremony - Senior individual all-around competition II
Sunday, June 15
- 12h00 - 13h00 Competition III - Juniors - Hoop and Ball
- 13h00 - 14h00 Competition III - Juniors - Clubs and Ribbon
- 14h30 - 16h20 Competition III - Senior groups - 10 Clubs, 3 Balls and 2 Ribbons
- 16h30 Gala and Closing Ceremony

Overview

The 20 best senior individuals from 2013 will compete at the multiple competition (CII). 102 juniors (from 32 NF) will participate in the qualifying competition I (CI) and team competition and the final competition (4 apparatus) (CIII), 21 senior groups (consisted of 6 gymnasts) will present two different voluntary exercises, one executed with one apparatus (clubs), the other with different apparatus (3 balls/2 ribbons) on the occasion of the competition I (general competition) and the competition III (final competition for each exercise). At the European Championships in even years, the 20 best gymnasts from competition I of the previous year present their routines.

Controversies

According to Armenian sources, the organizers of the European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics in Baku asked the Belarusian group to not use the music of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, which was reported by head coach Irina Leparskaya at a press conference in Minsk. The group had been performing their 2 Ribbons + 3 Balls routine with Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance", but they had to change to different music two weeks before the start of the Championships event. Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Samaya Mamedova said they did not interfere in any federation's music decisions:

Regarding Belarus, we didn't ask them to abandon their music. This decision was taken by Belarus itself. This is another provocative piece of information spread by Armenians to tarnish Azerbaijan as organizer of the European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics.^[1]

The Belarusian group, usually medal contenders, finished 17th in the all-around and placed last with their 2 Ribbons + 3 Balls qualification score amongst 21 countries during the European Championships. Armenia did not compete or send any delegations to the championships.

Medal winners

Senior Individual Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Yana Kudryavtseva	Melitina Staniouta	Ganna Rizatdinova
Senior Group Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Anastasia Maksimova Aleksandra Semenova Diana Borisova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva Daria Avtonomova	Sofia Lodi Marta Pagnini Camilla Patriarca Valeria Schiavi Andreea Stefanescu	Alona Koshevatskiy Ekaterina Levina Karina Lykhvar Ida Mayrin Lihi Shochatovitch Yuval Filo
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Reneta Kamberova Tsvetelina Stoyanova Tsvetelina Naydenova Hristiana Todorova Mihaela Maevska-Velichkova	Anastasia Maksimova Aleksandra Semenova Diana Borisova Anastasiia Tatareva Daria Avtonomova	Alejandra Quereda Sandra Aguilar Artemi Gavezou Elena Lopez Lourdes Mohedano
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Anastasia Maksimova Aleksandra Semenova Diana Borisova Maria Tolkacheva Daria Avtonomova	Aliya Pashayeva Siyana Vasileva Diana Doman Aliaksandra Platonova Aynur Mustafayeva	Reneta Kamberova Tsvetelina Stoyanova Tsvetelina Naydenova Hristiana Todorova Mihaela Maevska-Velichkova
Junior Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Yulia Bravikova Irina Annenkova Olesya Petrova Veronika Polyakova	Mariya Trubach Stefaniya-Sofiya Manakhava Anastasiya Rybakova	Zhala Piriyeva Zuleykha Ismayilova
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Yulia Bravikova	Zhala Piriyeva	Anastasiya Rybakova
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Irina Annenkova	Mariya Trubach	Boryana Kaleyn
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Olesya Petrova	Mariya Trubach	Linoy Ashram
scope=row style="text-align:left"	Irina Annenkova	Valeriya Khanina	Linoy Ashram

Results

Seniors

Individual all-around

^[2]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation				Total
scope=row		Yana Kudryavtseva	18.700	17.433	18.800	18.566	73.499
scope=row		Melitina Staniouta	18.266	18.200	17.850	18.100	72.416
scope=row		Ganna Rizatdinova	18.083	18.066	18.000	17.500	71.649
scope=row	4	Neta Rivkin	17.950	17.816	18.033	17.800	71.599
scope=row	5	Margarita Mamun	16.000	18.466	16.716	18.533	69.715
scope=row	6	Marina Durunda	17.733	17.566	16.950	17.425	69.674
scope=row	7	Katsiaryna Halkina	17.366	17.283	17.100	17.266	69.015
scope=row	8	Kseniya Moustafaeva	17.025	17.600	17.600	16.550	68.775
scope=row	9	Salome Phajava	16.850	16.833	17.400	17.233	68.316
scope=row	10	Carolina Rodriguez	16.783	17.050	16.833	16.766	67.432
scope=row	11	Mariya Mateva	17.033	16.675	16.950	16.766	67.424
scope=row	12	Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky	17.066	16.816	17.033	16.183	67.098
scope=row	13	Neviana Vladinova	17.150	16.866	16.616	16.416	67.048
scope=row	14	Viktoria Mazur	15.983	17.233	16.416	16.950	66.582
scope=row	15	Gulsum Shafizada	17.000	16.033	16.500	16.883	66.416
scope=row	16	Varvara Filiou	15.366	17.266	17.116	16.433	66.181
scope=row	17	Nicol Ruprecht	16.800	16.333	16.050	16.600	65.783
scope=row	18	Alexandra Piscupescu	14.725	16.025	16.266	16.900	63.916
scope=row	19	Dora Vass	15.666	16.016	15.900	14.791	62.373
scope=row	20	Natascha Wegscheider	15.825	15.266	15.858	14.625	61.574

Group all-around

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Rank	Nation		Total
scope=row		18.366	18.200	36.566
scope=row		17.366	17.383	34.749
scope=row		17.333	17.050	34.383
scope=row	4	17.666	16.633	34.299
scope=row	5	17.358	16.733	34.091
scope=row	6	17.350	16.700	34.050
scope=row	7	16.566	16.516	33.082
scope=row	8	16.033	16.850	32.883
scope=row	9	16.566	15.750	32.316
scope=row	10	16.666	15.233	31.899
scope=row	11	16.700	15.041	31.741
scope=row	12	16.016	15.575	31.591
scope=row	13	15.533	14.133	29.666
scope=row	14	15.708	13.325	29.033
scope=row	15	14.325	14.475	28.800
scope=row	16	14.783	13.075	27.858
scope=row	17	17.400	10.400	27.800
scope=row	18	13.850	13.916	27.766
scope=row	19	14.525	12.716	27.241
scope=row	20	14.333	12.750	27.083
scope=row	21	13.566	12.816	26.382

Group 10 clubs

^[4]

Rank	Nation			Total
scope=row		align=left	8.900	8.866		17.766
scope=row		align=left	8.900	8.733		17.633
scope=row		align=left	8.850	8.700		17.550
scope=row	4	align=left	8.850	8.633		17.483
scope=row	5	align=left	8.800	8.633		17.433
scope=row	6	align=left	8.600	8.566		17.166
scope=row	7	align=left	8.550	7.833		16.383
scope=row	8	align=left	8.000	7.700	0.60	15.100

Group 3 balls + 2 ribbons

^[5]

Rank	Nation			Total
scope=row		align=left	9.100	9.266		18.366
scope=row		align=left	8.650	9.000		17.650
scope=row		align=left	8.850	8.733		17.583
scope=row	4	align=left	8.700	8.800		17.500
scope=row	5	align=left	8.700	8.700		17.400
scope=row	6	align=left	8.800	8.533	0.05	17.283
scope=row	7	align=left	8.200	7.833	0.30	15.733
scope=row	8	align=left	7.900	5.800	0.60	13.100

Juniors

Team

^[6]

Rank	Nation					Total
scope=row			30.233	32.133	31.866	32.133	96.815
scope=row			31.441	31.482	31.750	29.991	94.915
scope=row			31.182	30.632	31.174	31.649	94.364
scope=row	4	align=left		30.732	30.350	26.750	28.524	91.348
scope=row	5	align=left		30.033	29.391	29.300	29.483	89.182
scope=row	6	align=left		29.157	29.833	26.774	29.375	89.123
scope=row	7	align=left		28.249	28.649	28.474	25.050	87.189
scope=row	8	align=left		27.941	29.316	29.100	28.300	86.766
scope=row	9	align=left		28.300	26.949	27.350	29.408	86.741
scope=row	10	align=left		28.141	26.049	28.900	28.183	85.849
scope=row	11	align=left		27.132	28.191	29.116	27.316	85.373
scope=row	12	align=left		27.600	26.450	28.599	27.241	83.440
scope=row	13	align=left		27.282	27.616	27.557	26.407	83.430
scope=row	14	align=left		28.600	25.466	27.500	26.800	82.900
scope=row	15	align=left		26.558	26.857	28.066	25.199	82.781
scope=row	16	align=left		24.733	26.407	27.341	28.100	81.848
scope=row	17	align=left		27.049	26.557	27.275	26.949	81.581
scope=row	18	align=left		27.416	26.033	27.658	26.175	81.449
scope=row	19	align=left		26.383	26.499	26.783	26.533	81.215
scope=row	20	align=left		25.566	24.241	27.516	28.007	81.089
scope=row	21	align=left		26.382	24.524	7.166	27.449	80.997
scope=row	22	align=left		27.391	26.233	24.666	24.741	78.907
scope=row	23	align=left		24.875	25.766	25.283	26.375	78.341
scope=row	24	align=left		26.124	23.633	26.599	23.691	77.697
scope=row	25	align=left		25.191	23.416	26.366	25.800	77.357
scope=row	26	align=left		25.325	24.075	25.850	24.749	76.016
scope=row	27	align=left		24.524	22.958	24.150	23.600	73.807
scope=row	28	align=left		23.299	23.616	24.574	24.366	73.281
scope=row	29	align=left		23.774	22.708	24.008	22.858	71.557
scope=row	30	align=left		23.658	23.632	21.875	23.608	70.907
scope=row	31	align=left		22.716	24.216	23.291	20.649	70.273
scope=row	32	align=left		21.049	18.441	18.174	18.208	58.189

Hoop

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Rank	Gymnast	Nation		Total
scope=row		align=left	7.550	9.200		16.750
scope=row		align=left	7.350	9.000	0.05	16.300
scope=row		align=left	7.050	8.725		15.775
scope=row	4	align=left	7.000	8.700		15.700
scope=row	5	align=left	7.025	8.633		15.658
scope=row	6	align=left	6.800	8.500		15.300
scope=row	7	align=left	6.700	8.500		15.200
scope=row	8	align=left	6.250	8.000	0.30	13.950

Ball

^[8]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation		Total
scope=row		align=left	7.300	9.000		16.300
scope=row		align=left	7.150	8.866		16.016
scope=row		align=left	7.150	8.800		15.950
scope=row	4	align=left	7.150	8.666		15.816
scope=row	5	align=left	6.800	8.666		15.466
scope=row	6	align=left	6.850	8.600		15.450
scope=row	7	align=left	6.800	8.500	0.05	15.250
scope=row	8	align=left	6.500	8.175		14.675

Clubs

^[9]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation		Total
scope=row		align=left	7.350	9.100	16.450
scope=row		align=left	7.200	9.000	16.200
scope=row		align=left	6.900	8.800	15.700
scope=row	4	align=left	6.775	8.800	15.575
scope=row	5	align=left	6.700	8.800	15.500
scope=row	6	align=left	6.550	8.633	15.183
scope=row	7	align=left	6.400	8.533	14.933
scope=row	8	align=left	6.500	8.200	14.700

Ribbon

^[10]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation		Total
scope=row		align=left	6.950	8.866		15.816
scope=row		align=left	6.950	8.800		15.750
scope=row		align=left	6.950	8.700		15.650
scope=row	4	align=left	7.000	8.566		15.566
scope=row	5	align=left	6.600	8.700		15.300
scope=row	6	align=left	6.600	8.433		15.033
scope=row	7	align=left	6.700	8.200		14.900
scope=row	8	align=left	6.700	8.133	0.60	14.233

Medal count

Juniors

External links

Notes and References

http://haqqin.az/news/23586 Министерство молодежи и спорта о запрете на Хачатуряна
Web site: Senior Individual all-around Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726085850/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/senaafinal.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Group all-around Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714233048/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/groupaa.pdf . 2014-07-14 . dead .
Web site: Group: 10 clubs Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726060839/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/groupafclubs.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Group: 3 balls / 2 ribbons Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726064224/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/groupaf3balls2ribbons.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Junior Team Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924091016/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/junteams.pdf . 2015-09-24 . dead .
Web site: Junior Hoop Final Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726091455/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/junafhoop.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Junior Ball Final Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726080850/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/junafball.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Junior Clubs Final Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042140/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/junafclubs.pdf . 2014-07-26 . dead .
Web site: Junior Ribbon Final Results . 2014-06-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924091013/http://www.rhythmicgymnasticsresults.com/europe/2014/junafribbon.pdf . 2015-09-24 . dead .