1990 Athens European Championships

1990 Athens European Championships
City	Athens, Greece
All-Around Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
Vault Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR) Natalia Kalinina (USSR) Mirela Paşca (ROU)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
Preceded by	1989 Brussels European Championships
Succeeded by	1992 Nantes European Championships

The 18th European Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in Athens, Greece.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Five of the six team members performed on each apparatus, while only the four highest scores during each rotation were used to determined the overall team total. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight 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 determined by adding the scores earned by her on each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.
• 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 determined solely by the score earned by her on the apparatus during this competition.

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	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Natalia Kalinina Soviet Union (USSR)	Henrietta Ónodi Hungary (Hungary)
Vault	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Cristina Bontaş Romania (ROU)	Eva Rueda Spain (ESP)
Uneven Bars	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR) Natalia Kalinina Soviet Union (USSR) Mirela Paşca Romania (ROU)	N/A	N/A
Balance Beam	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Natalia Kalinina Soviet Union (USSR)	Maria Neculiţă Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Tatiana Groshkova Soviet Union (USSR)	Henrietta Ónodi Hungary (HUN) Milena Mavrodieva Bulgaria (BUL)

Notable Moments

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

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	USSR	6	3	0	9
2	Romania	1	1	2	4
3	Spain	0	0	1	1
4	Hungary	0	0	1	​1
5	Bulgaria	0	0	1	​1