All you need to know: WAG European Championships 2012

The 29th Women’s Junior & Senior European Gymnastics Championships kick off in Brussels May 9th – 13th 2012. Some 252 gymnasts are scheduled to compete this year between the two competitions where 36 countries will be represented. This will be the last big international event before the Olympic Games in London in July, gymnasts will be hoping to show off and test out their upgrades ahead of team trials.

 Schedule:

Monday 7th May

• 11.00am – 6.40pm: Junior Podium Training

24 Juniors will proceed to the All Around Final. The Seniors will not have an All Around competition but will have Apparatus and Team Finals. 

Wednesday 9 May 2012: Qualifications Juniors

• 1.00 pm - 3.30 pm: subdivision 1 (SLO, DEN, BUL, SVK, CRO, GRE, SRB, GEO, TUR, ISL, LTU, UKR, GBR, ROU, SWE)
• 4.00 pm - 6.00 pm: subdivision 2 (BEL, HUN, RUS, NOR, IRL, GER, FRA, ESP)
• 6.10 pm - 8.30 pm: subdivision 3 (NED, SUI, ITA, FIN, CZE, BLR, AUT, LAT)

Medal ceremony

Thursday 10 May 2012: Qualifications Seniors

• 10.00 am - 12.00 pm: subdivision 1 (ITA, DEN, ROU, AUT, RUS, POL, CRO)
• 12.10 pm – 2.10 pm: subdivision 2 (BEL, POR, TUR, GBR, SUI, ISL, FRA, SLO)
• 3.15 pm – 5.15 pm: subdivision 3 (LTU, SVK, UKR, BLR, ESP, NOR, HUN, CZE, ISR)
• 5.25 pm – 7.25 pm: subdivision 4 (LAT, BUL, NED, IRL, GRE, SWE, LUX, MDA, FIN, GER)

Friday 11 May 2012

• 7.00 pm - 9.15 pm: All Around Final Juniors

Saturday 12 May 2012

• 3.00 pm - 5.15 pm: Team Final Seniors

Sunday 13 May 2012

• 9.30 am - 12.30 pm: Apparatus Finals Juniors

• 2.00 pm- 5.00 pm: Apparatus Finals Seniors

Participants

The nominative list was released last week, although some Federations have changed their line ups in the mean time. Below are some of the senior teams who have been announced and may be different to the nominative list.

Russia

• Aliya Mustafina
• Viktoria Komova
• Maria Paseka
• Anastasia Sidorova
• Anastasia Grishina

Great Britain

• Hannah Whelan
• Ruby Harrold
• Danusia Francis
• Rebecca Tunney
• Jennifer Pinches

Ireland

• Sophie McCoo
• Sarah Buckley
• Emma Lunn

Start Order for Qualification

Coverage

EuroSport Germany

• Team Finals – Sunday 13th May, 10am – 11am
• Event Finals – Monday 14th May, 9.45am – 10.45am

Red Button:

• Saturday 12th May 14.00 – 16.30 European Team Gymnastics
• Sunday 13th May 12.45 – 16.30 European Team Gymnastics (12.45pm – 4pm on Freeview)

BBC1 :

• Saturday 19th May, 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Romania (thanks to Emanuel)

TVR 2

• Saturday, 12.05 – Final Team ( live, 16.00-18.30 local time)
• Sunday, 13.05 – Finals apparatus (live, 15.00-18.00 local time)

TVR 1

• All days, from 19.40, News Bulletin from Brussels

Russia

Russian Federation on SportBox

Team Finals

Event Finals

The UEG has compiled potential television broadcasting information below:

If you have information of television coverage in your area, please post in the comments section below and lets develop as concise list of coverage in different countries.

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Online Coverage

The following will be reporting live from Brussels:

• Gymnastics Examiner – Twitter – Facebook
• Couch Gymnast – Facebook – Twitter
• Gym Power – Twitter – Facebook
• The All Around – Facebook – Twitter
• Double Front - Twitter – Facebook
• As always keep an eye on the FIG Youtube Channel and also the Twitter and Facebook for videos and photographs.
• British Gymnastics will have their Media team there also – follow for British updates on Twitter and Facebook.
• Keep an eye on the official website also.

Make sure to follow, like and subscribe by RSS to the above sites for up to the minute live action from London. They will all work hard to bring you as much information as possible from the different nations competing. Please feel free to ask if you are unsure of how to use an RSS Reader.