1996 Birmingham European Championships

1996 Birmingham European Championships
City	Birmingham, UK
Team Gold Medalist	Senior: Romania Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Lavinia Miloşovici Ana Maria Bican Andreea Cacovean Junior: Russia Elena Zamolodchikova Ksenia Bogdanova Ludmila Ezhova Anna Kovalyova Yulia Grichko
All-Around Gold Medalist	Senior: Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR) Junior: Alexandra Marinescu (ROU)
Vault Gold Medalist	Senior: Simona Amânar (ROU) Junior: Maria Olaru (ROU)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Senior: Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) ---------Simona Amânar (ROU) ---------Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR) Junior: Elvire Teza (FRA)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Senior: Roza Galiyeva (RUS) Junior: Alexandra Marinescu (ROU)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Senior: Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR) Lavinia Miloşovici (ROU) Junior: Viktoria Karpenko (UKR)
Preceded by	1994 Stockholm European Championships
Succeeded by	1998 Saint Petersburg European Championships

The 21st European Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in Birmingham, England in 1996. This was the first time the team final and junior competition were contested.

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

Seniors

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Romania Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Lavinia Miloşovici Ana Maria Bican Andreea Cacovean	Russia Svetlana Khorkina Roza Galiyeva Dina Kochetkova Oksana Lyapina	Ukraine Lilia Podkopayeva Lyubov Sheremeta Anna Mirgorodskaya
All-Around	Lilia Podkopayeva Ukraine (UKR)	Svetlana Boginskaya Belarus (BLR)	Lavinia Miloşovici Romania (ROU)
Vault	Simona Amânar Romania (ROU)	Gina Gogean Romania (ROU)	Lilia Podkopayeva Ukraine (UKR)
Uneven Bars	Svetlana Khorkina Russia (RUS) Simona Amânar Romania (ROU) Lilia Podkopayeva Ukraine (UKR)	N/A	N/A
Balance Beam	Roza Galiyeva Russia (RUS)	Gina Gogean Romania (ROU)	Elena Piskun Belarus (BLR)
Floor Exercise	Lilia Podkopayeva Ukraine (UKR) Lavinia Miloşovici Romania (ROU)	N/A	Dina Kochetkova Russia (RUS) Joana Juárez Spain (ESP)

Juniors

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Russia Elena Zamolodchikova Ksenia Bogdanova Ludmila Ezhova Anna Kovalyova Yulia Grichko	France Elvire Teza Emilie Volle Orelie Troscompt Fanny Cottencin Magalie Ruffato	Ukraine Viktoria Karpenko Olga Teslenko Olga Kozlova Yelena Zhyikova Inga Shkarupa
All-Around	Alexandra Marinescu Romania (ROU)	Adriana Crisci Italy (ITA)	Viktoria Karpenko Ukraine (UKR)
Vault	Maria Olaru Romania (ROU)	Elena Zamolodchikova Russia (RUS)	Inga Shkarupa Ukraine (UKR)
Uneven Bars	Elvire Teza France (FRA)	Alexandra Marinescu Romania (ROU) Olga Teslenko Ukraine (UKR)	N/A
Balance Beam	Alexandra Marinescu Romania (ROU)	Elvire Teza France (FRA)	Ludmila Ezhova Russia (RUS)
Floor Exercise	Viktoria Karpenko Ukraine (UKR)	Adriana Crisci Italy (ITA)	Alexandra Marinescu Romania (ROU)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	Romania	7	3	2	12
2	Ukraine	4	1	5	10
3	Russia	3	2	2	7
4	France	1	2	0	3
5	Italy	0	2	0	2
6	Belarus	0	1	1	2
7	Spain	0	0	1	1