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.

  1. SMIRNOV Daniil WG2 79.997
  2. MUSAEV Radmir WG2 78.997
  3. LE KHAC Tomasz POL 78.698
  4. SCHUMACHER Ben SUI 78.599
  5. GOLOVIN Volodymyr UKR 78.432
  6. CHOWDHURY Uzair GBR 77.898
  7. RUGGERI Riccardo ITA 77.731
  8. MAZZOLA Pietro ITA 77.597
  9. ATKINS George GBR 77.331
  10. CARRERES Otger ESP 76.865
  11. PATON Jayden NED 76.365
  12. BUCKLEY Michael SUI 76.198
  13. HAVRYLCHENKO Valentyn UKR 75.931
  14. AKINDURO Axel Andras HUN 75.799
  15. WACHTER Samuel AUT 75.565
  16. BALAZS Jeremy AUT 75.266
  17. TIROSH Tomer ISR 75.231
  18. SOLEBAN Sami NED 75.064
  19. GAL Kristof HUN 74.898
  20. ROLIN Maxime BEL 74.665
  21. STRYPSTEIN Noe BEL 74.298
  22. ALSHANOV Davyd GER 73.498
  23. WARD Robert IRL 73.332
  24. KARTASHOU Tsimur WG1 73.030

Full results.

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 AllAroundResultsMagDownload

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.

  1. Great Britain 237.559
  2. WG2 237.360
  3. Italy 234.592
  4. Switzerland 230.229
  5. Germany 230.029
  6. Ukraine 229.393
  7. Hungary 226.261
  8. Austria 225.695

Full results.

JUNIORS – Individual – Qualification TeamRankingMagDownload

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.

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

Click PLAY or watch Kensley on YouTube.

Read Lauren’s LIVE blog of the final subdivision.

Kovtun, Dukhno, Marinov

Full results.

Graphics from Escore10 on Facebook.

The gymnasts from Putin’s dictatorship were very, very impressive.

RESULTS Men’s European Gymnastics Championships Zagreb.

YES it was a storybook ending for Illia to win in his adopted nation.

YES it was a fantastic performance for Illia who’s not competed for quite a while.

But rejudging those routines MIGHT result in a different ranking. I did feel there was some home score advantage in Zagreb.

Reflect on the past.

13 teams qualify to Worlds 2026

For many programs, finishing top 13 was their major goal.

Men’s European Gymnastics Championships Zagreb was a very competitive TEAM competition.

Full results.

World Gymnastics 2 (250.662)
Switzerland
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
Germany
France
Hungary
Netherlands
Israel
Spain
Ukraine
Cyprus

Türkiye misses by a tenth and Finland by four tenths. 😭

(via the Gymternet)

I’d confidently predicted that GBR would win.