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1963 Paris European Championships
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City

Paris, France

All-Around Gold Medalist

Marjana Bilic (YUG)

Vault Gold Medalist

Solveig Egman (SWE)

Uneven Bars Gold Medalist

Thea Belmer (NED)

Balance Beam Gold Medalist

Eva Rydell (SWE)

Floor Exercise Gold Medalist

Marjana Bilic (YUG)

Preceded by

1961 Leipzig European Championships

Succeeded by

1965 Sofia European Championships

The 4th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in Paris, France in 1963.

Format of Competition[]

The scoring in all the events was basically the same as for gymnastics events at the Olympics. Each country was allowed to enter a team of eight gymnasts, but in contrast to the previous Olympics not more than six of them were allowed to participate in all exercises. Nations with incomplete teams, could enter one to three gymnasts for the individual competition. Six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. The new feature of the competition was in women's events: each of them was judged by four judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score.

The scoring in the team competition was different from the one at the previous Olympics, its principle became the same: five best scores constituted the team's score for the routine; these scores constituted the overall team's totals.

Results[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
All-Around 600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Marjana Bilic
Yugoslavia (YUG)
800px-Flag of Sweden Solveig Egman
Sweden (SWE)
800px-Flag of Sweden Eva Rydell
Sweden (SWE)
Vault 800px-Flag of Sweden Solveig Egman
Sweden (SWE)
800px-Flag of the Netherlands Thea Belmer
Netherlands (NED)
800px-Flag of the Netherlands Jannie Viersta
Netherlands (NED)
Uneven Bars 800px-Flag of the Netherlands Thea Belmer
Netherlands (NED)
600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Tereza Kocis
Yugoslavia (YUG)
800px-Flag of Sweden Solveig Egman
Sweden (SWE)
Balance Beam 800px-Flag of Sweden Eva Rydell
Sweden (SWE)
600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Tereza Kocis
Yugoslavia (YUG)
600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Marjana Bilic
Yugoslavia (YUG)
Floor Exercise 600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Marjana Bilic
Yugoslavia (YUG)
800px-Flag of Sweden Solveig Egman
Sweden (SWE)
600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Tereza Kocis
Yugoslavia (YUG)

Controversy[]

  • Because these championships weren't held in an Eastern Bloc country, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland all boycotted. This is because East Germany would have likely been excluded from these championships.[1]

Medal Count[]

Rank Country Gold-medal Silver-medal Bronze-medal Total
1 600px-Flag of SFR Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 2 2 2 6
2 800px-Flag of Sweden Sweden 2 2 2 6
3 800px-Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands 1 1 1 3

References[]

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