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was held from 19 to 25 May 2014 at the

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. They were held in conjunction with the

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, which ended 18 May in the same arena. It was the fourth time the senior and junior women's and men's European championships had been held in one location, which posed logistical difficulties for the organizers; there were also issues with installing the podiums and apparatuses. For team events, five gymnasts were on each team; for seniors, three gymnasts competed on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total, while for juniors, four gymnasts could compete on each apparatus, with the top three scores counting. 327 gymnasts, 177 senior and 150 junior, from 39 countries competed at the event. The event functioned as a qualification for the

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and for the

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. The junior team from Great Britain won a fourth consecutive junior team gold despite two falls in the final apparatus rotation. In the individual all-around,

Nile Wilson Nile Michael Wilson (born 17 January 1996) is a former British artistic gymnast. He won an Olympic bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the 2016 Summer Olympics; he was a world medallist as a member of the silver-medal winning British ...

won gold by more than a point with the highest scores on the high bar and floor. He won a further three events in the apparatus finals, pommel horse, parallel bars, and high bar, for a total of five golds at the competition. In the senior event, the Russian team won gold, with the British team in second and the Ukrainian team winning bronze.

Denis Ablyazin Denis Mikhailovich Ablyazin ( rus, Денис Михайлович Аблязин, , dʲɪˈnʲis ɐˈblʲæzʲɪn, born 3 August 1992) is a Russian artistic gymnast. Ablyazin is Olympic Champion 2020 in Tokyo and a seven-time Olympic Games med ...

from Russia won three further gold medals in the apparatus finals (floor, rings, and vault).

Oleg Verniaiev Oleg Yuriyovych Verniaiev (; born 29 September 1993) is a Ukrainian artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic parallel bars champion and individual all-around silver medalist. Verniaiev is also the 2014 World parallel bars champion, the 201 ...

won the parallel bars final, while

Max Whitlock Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is an English artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and World Championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in British history. He is also the most successful pomme ...

won the pommel horse final. In the high bar final,

Epke Zonderland Epke Jan Zonderland (born 16 April 1986) is a Dutch artistic gymnast and the 2012 Olympic gold medallist on high bar. He is a 4-time Olympian (2008–20) and has also taken 3 World Championships golds on high bar at the 2013, 2014 and 2018 Wo ...

, the reigning Olympic and World champion on the event, won by more than a point.

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows (all times are local,

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, UTC+03:00). ;Wednesday, 21 May 2014 *10:00–20:30 Junior team final and individual qualifying session ;Thursday, 22 May 2014 *10:00–20:15 Senior qualifying session ;Friday, 23 May 2014 *17:00–19:15 Junior all-around final ;Saturday, 24 May 2014 *14:30–17:00 Senior team final ;Sunday, 25 May 2014 *10:00–12:40 Junior individual event finals *15:00–18:55 Senior individual event finals

Medalists

Senior Results

The British team lead the Russian one by almost three points in the qualification round. The Dutch team advanced to the final round for the first time at the European championships. In the final, the Russian team pulled ahead of the British team by two points to win.

Team

Floor Exercise

Pommel Horse

Still Rings

Vault

Parallel Bars

Horizontal Bar

Junior Results

Team

The junior team competition also served as the qualifying round for the all-around finals as well as the junior event finals. The format of the competition included four gymnasts per team competing on each event with the highest three scores counting towards the team total. The highest scoring all-around and event gymnasts advanced to finals.

Individual All-Around

Floor Exercise

Pommel Horse

Still Rings

Vault

Parallel Bars

Horizontal Bar

Qualification

Seniors

Team Competition

Floor Exercise

Pommel Horse

Still Rings

Vault

Parallel Bars

Horizontal Bar

Juniors

Individual All-Around

Floor Exercise

Pommel Horse

Still Rings

Vault

Parallel Bars

Horizontal Bar

Medal count

Combined

Seniors

Juniors

References

External links

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