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1973 London European Championships
350px-European Union of Gymnastics logo.svg

City

London, UK

All-Around Gold Medalist

Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)

Vault Gold Medalist

Angelika Hellmann (GDR)
Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)

Uneven Bars Gold Medalist

Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)

Balance Beam Gold Medalist

Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)

Floor Exercise Gold Medalist

Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)

Preceded by

1971 Minsk European Championships

Succeeded by

1975 Skien European Championships

The 9th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in London, UK in 1973.

Format of Competition[]

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

  • Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
  • Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
  • Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and three gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
All-Around 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet Union (USSR)
800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Olga Korbut
Soviet Union (USSR)
800px-Flag of East Germany Kerstin Gerschau
East Germany (GDR)
Vault 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet Union (USSR)

800px-Flag of East Germany Angelika Hellmann
East Germany (GDR)

N/A 800px-Flag of Germany Uta Schorn
West Germany (FRG)
Uneven Bars 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet Union (USSR)
800px-Flag of East Germany Angelika Hellmann
East Germany (GDR)
600px-Flag of Romania Alina Goreac
Romania (ROU)
Balance Beam 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet Union (USSR)
600px-Flag of Romania Alina Goreac
Romania (ROU)
600px-Flag of Romania Anca Grigoraș
Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet Union (USSR)
800px-Flag of East Germany Kerstin Gerschau
East Germany (GDR)
600px-Flag of Romania Alina Goreac
Romania (ROU)

Notable Moments[]

  • USSR's Ludmilla Tourischeva became the third gymnast to sweep all five events at a single European Championships, following Larisa Latynina and Věra Čáslavská.

Medal Count[]

Rank Country Gold-medal Silver-medal Bronze-medal Total
1 800px-Flag of the Soviet Union USSR 5 1 0 6
2 800px-Flag of East Germany East Germany 1 2 2 5
3 600px-Flag of Romania Romania 0 1 3 4
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