Rick Mc

Men’s European Gymnastics Championships JUNIOR All-around

The top 24 gymnasts (maximum 2 / nation) advance to the All-around Final Sun, Aug 23rd, 2026.

This was my first look at the NEW young gymnasts from Russia. They are already astonishingly good.

SMIRNOV Daniil WG2 79.997
MUSAEV Radmir WG2 78.997
LE KHAC Tomasz POL 78.698
SCHUMACHER Ben SUI 78.599
GOLOVIN Volodymyr UKR 78.432
CHOWDHURY Uzair GBR 77.898
RUGGERI Riccardo ITA 77.731
MAZZOLA Pietro ITA 77.597
ATKINS George GBR 77.331
CARRERES Otger ESP 76.865
PATON Jayden NED 76.365
BUCKLEY Michael SUI 76.198
HAVRYLCHENKO Valentyn UKR 75.931
AKINDURO Axel Andras HUN 75.799
WACHTER Samuel AUT 75.565
BALAZS Jeremy AUT 75.266
TIROSH Tomer ISR 75.231
SOLEBAN Sami NED 75.064
GAL Kristof HUN 74.898
ROLIN Maxime BEL 74.665
STRYPSTEIN Noe BEL 74.298
ALSHANOV Davyd GER 73.498
WARD Robert IRL 73.332
KARTASHOU Tsimur WG1 73.030

The top gymnasts here may well move quickly on to their Senior teams. DUKHNO Arsenii, for example, was World Jr Champion 2025. A year later he was 2nd AA at Senior Europeans.

LEYKIN Danila was 4th at World Juniors last year. He’s already qualified to compete for USA with their senior team in 2026.

JUNIORS – Individual – Qualification AllAroundResultsMag Download

Men’s European JR Gymnastics TEAM Final

The battle between Great Britain and World Gymnastics 2 was a thriller.

Both fantastic, with completely different styles. WG 2 very technical. Skills are done with excellent form and line.

GBR is high energy. The goal to compete the highest difficulty possible. They definitely took risks today. And it paid off.

Great Britain 237.559
WG2 237.360
Italy 234.592
Switzerland 230.229
Germany 230.029
Ukraine 229.393
Hungary 226.261
Austria 225.695

Full results.

JUNIORS – Individual – Qualification TeamRankingMag Download

Tomasz Le Khac, Junior gymnast Poland

The most impressive gymnast in subdivision 1 of JR. Men’s European Gymnastics Championships Zagreb was Tomasz Le Khac. 78.698.

Still not strong enough on Rings at age-17. Everything else is world class.

He was 13th AA at Jr Worlds 2025 with 77.432.

Remember the name.

Vault explained – Men’s Artistic Gymnastics

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Men’s European Gymnastics Championships All-around RECAP

From European Gymnastics:

Today, the 2026 Men’s European Championships in Artistic Gymnastics got underway in Zagreb, and the opening day certainly lived up to expectations. The battle for the All-Around podium was fierce, with just the finest of margins separating the leading gymnasts.

It was ultimately Illia Kovtun, competing for Croatia at his first major competition, who claimed the top spot with an outstanding performance, scoring 82.833. He also topped the Parallel Bars standings.

Arsenii Dukhno came very close, finishing just 0.001 points behind Kovtun to take the silver medal. Daniel Marinov completed the podium in third place with a score of 81.899.

Congratulations to the medallists!

GOLD – Illia Kovtun (CRO) 82.833

SILVER – Arsenii Dukhno (WG2) 82.832

BRONZE – Daniel Marinov (WG2) 81.899

Two Russians and one Ukrainian standing together on the podium. So far as I could see, the Russian delegation (World Gymnastics 2) made no effort to politicize their return to international Gymnastics.

Rules were in place to avoid unnecessary controversy.

Olympics.com – Illia Kovtun wins men’s all-around title in Zagreb in front of excitable home crowd

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