European Gymnastics is one of five continental unions that represents the interests of

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in the

International Gymnastics Federation The International Gymnastics Federation ( French: ''Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique'', abbr. FIG) is the body governing competition in all disciplines of gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on 23 ...

( or ''FIG''). It was formed on 27 March 1982 as the European Union of Gymnastics ( or ''UEG'') and adopted its current name on 1 April 2020.

Events

European Gymnastics organises

European Gymnastics Championships The European Union of Gymnastics organises European Gymnastics Championships for each of the following gymnastics disciplines: Events Current Defunct All-time medal table ;Notes *Countries are ranked by number of gold, silver and bronz ...

for each of the

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disciplines.

Current

Defunct

Member federations

In 2015, European Gymnastics consisted of 50 member federations

Other

In June 2021, the president of European Gymnastics, Farid Gayibov, was being investigated for his close association with Kamran Ramazanov, the CEO of the Azeri IT company SmartScoring. In 2017, Gayibov signed a service contract on behalf of European Gymnastics with SmartScoring for providing live scoring and video streaming services for certain European gymnastics competitions amidst the protests of a number of member federations of European Gymnastics. Despite millions of dollars in financing, SmartScoring provided poor coverage of the qualification rounds of the 2021 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland and the 2021 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Varna, Bulgaria. After the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

, the

(FIG) barred Russian athletes and officials, including judges. It also announced that "all FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events planned to take place in Russia ... are cancelled, and no other FIG events will be allocated to Russia ... until further notice." FIG also banned the Russian flag at its events.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Gymnastics governing bodies Gymnastics in Switzerland

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