2017 Cluj-Napoca European Championships

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2017 Cluj-Napoca European Championships

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2017 Cluj-Napoca European Championships
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City	Cluj-Napoca, Romania
All-Around Gold Medalist	Ellie Downie (GBR)
Vault Gold Medalist	Coline Devillard (FRA)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Nina Derwael (BEL)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Cătălina Ponor (ROU)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Angelina Melnikova (RUS)
Preceded by	2016 Bern European Championships
Succeeded by	2018 Glasgow European Championships

The 34th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships will be held from April 20-23 at the Sala Polivalenta Cluj-Napoca in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Initially, the host city was to be Bucharest but was switched to Cluj-Napoca in June 2016. There was no junior competition this year.

Format of Competition

All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

• The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. Each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
• The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Competition Schedule

April 20	Qualifications
April 21	All-Around
April 22	Vault Event Final
	Uneven Bars Event Final
April 23	Balance Beam Event Final
	Floor Exercise Event Final

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
All-Around	Ellie Downie Great Britain (GBR)	Zsófia Kovács Hungary (HUN)	Mélanie Dos Santos France (FRA)
Vault	Coline Devillard France (FRA)	Ellie Downie Great Britain (GBR)	Boglárka Dévai Hungary (HUN)
Uneven Bars	Nina Derwael Belgium (BEL)	Elena Eremina Russia (RUS)	Elisabeth Seitz Germany (GER) Ellie Downie Great Britain (GBR)
Balance Beam	Cătălina Ponor Romania (ROU)	Eythora Thorsdottir Netherlands (NED)	Larisa Iordache Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise	Angelina Melnikova Russia (RUS)	Ellie Downie Great Britain (GBR)	Eythora Thorsdottir Netherlands (NED)

Notable Moments

• During qualifications, Romania's Cătălina Ponor failed to fulfill one of the requirements on floor exercise. The judges initially missed this and awarded her a 5.4 D score, giving her a final score of 13.566 that was good enough to make the floor exercise final. After the competition had concluded, the judges realized their error and took off five tenths for not fulfilling the requirement, which dropped her D score to 4.9. Her new score of 13.066 left her out of the floor exercise final.
• Germany's Tabea Alt qualified third into the all-around but had to withdraw due to illness.
• Ellie Downie is the first British gymnast to become European All-Around Champion.
• Zsófia Kovács achieved the highest all-around placing for a Hungarian gymnast: second.
• Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos won France their first European all-around medal since 2005.
• Coline Devillard became the first French gymnast to win the European title on vault.
• Nina Derwael became the first Belgian gymnast to win a European gold medal.
• Great Britain's Becky Downie injured her elbow in the uneven bars final. Her spot in the balance beam final was given to her teammate Claudia Fragapane.

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	Great Britain	1	2	1	4
2	Russia	1	1	0	2
3	France	1	0	1	2
4	Romania	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary	0	1	1	2
6	Netherlands	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	1	0	0	1
8	Germany	0	0	1	1

Gallery

• All-Around Medalists (from left): Zsófia Kovács (HUN), Ellie Downie (GBR), Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos (FRA)
• Vault Medalists (from left): Ellie Downie (GBR), Coline Devillard (FRA), Boglarka Devai (HUN)
• Uneven Bars Medalists (from left): Elena Eremina (RUS), Nina Derwael (BEL), Ellie Downie (GBR), Elisabeth Seitz (GER)
• Balance Beam Medalists (from left): Eythora Thorsdottir (NED), Catalina Ponor (ROU), Larisa Iordache (ROU)
• 'Floor Exercise Medalists (from left): Ellie Downie (GBR), Angelina Melnikova (RUS), Eythora Thorsdottir (NED)

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External Links

• Official site
• Official results