1981 Madrid European Championships

1981 Madrid European Championships
City	Madrid, Spain
All-Around Gold Medalist	Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Vault Gold Medalist	Cristina Grigoraş (ROU)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Preceded by	1979 Copenhagen European Championships
Succeeded by	1983 Gothenburg European Championships

The 13th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Madrid, Spain in 1981.

Format of Competition

The artistic 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 two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-Around	Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR)	Cristina Grigoraş Romania (ROU)	Alla Misnik Soviet Union (USSR)
Vault	Cristina Grigoraş Romania (ROU)	Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR) Birgit Senff East Germany (GDR)	N/A
Uneven Bars	Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR)	Cristina Grigoraş Romania (ROU) Alla Misnik Soviet Union (USSR)	N/A
Balance Beam	Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR)	Natalia Ilienko Soviet Union (USSR)	Rodica Dunca Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise	Maxi Gnauck East Germany (GDR)	Alla Misnik Soviet Union (USSR)	Cristina Grigoraş Romania (ROU)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	East Germany	4	2	0	6
2	Romania	1	2	2	5
3	USSR	0	3	1	4