The 2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships was the 37th edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, which took place on 9–13 June 2021 at the Palace of Culture and Sports in Varna, Bulgaria. This was the first year that Bulgaria hosted the European Championships.
The event was the last chance for European gymnasts to qualify a quota to compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, with one individual quota and one group quota available. It also, for the first time, served as a qualification event for country quotas at the 2021 World Championships. The Olympic quotas were won by Fanni Pigniczki and the group representing Ukraine.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all persons involved in the event were required to undergo tests for Covid, and the arena was restricted to 50 percent of its total capacity.
Russian gymnasts dominated the event, winning over a third of the available medals and nine of the twelve titles. Arina Averina won the all-around, her second European title after the 2018 European Championships, and was joined on the podium by her twin sister, Dina Averina, who won bronze and also won three of the apparatus finals. The silver medalist, Boryana Kaleyn, won Bulgaria's first European all-around medal in more than twenty years, since Maria Petrova won the 1994 European Championships. The previous year's European champion, Linoy Ashram, was in fourth place in the all-around but won the clubs final, the first time since the 2011 European Championships that a non-Russian gymnast won a European apparatus final.
Rachel Stoyanov, representing North Macedonia, won the "Shooting Star" award.
Entrants and event format Each member nation of European Gymnastics could send either two or three individual gymnasts, who could perform a maximum of eight routines between them in the qualification round; a gymnast's three highest scores were used to determine qualification to the all-around final. The eight gymnasts (maximum two per country) with the highest scores per apparatus in the qualification round advanced to the apparatus final. Each member nation could also send a senior and a junior group. Each country's senior entrants formed a team, with the scores of all individual and group routines in the qualification round being added to determine team rankings.
37 countries entered 321 gymnasts in the competition. The countries participating in the competition were:
Competition schedule Wednesday June 9 10:00–11:40 Junior groups qualification & AA ranking (5 Balls, 5 Ribbons – SET A 1-12) 11:55–13:35 Junior groups qualification & AA ranking (5 Balls, 5 Ribbons – SET B 13-24) 18:30–19:00 Opening Ceremony 19:00–19:40 Junior groups 5 Balls Final 19:55–20:35 Junior groups 5 Ribbons Final 20:35–20:50 Award ceremony Junior groups All-Around 20:50–21:05 Award ceremony Junior groups Apparatus Final Thursday June 10 10:00–12:00 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 12:15–14:15 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 15:15–17:15 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 17:30–19:30 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) Friday June 11 10:00–12:00 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 12:15–14:15 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 15:15-17:15 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 17:30–19:30 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) Saturday June 12 10:00–12:25 Senior Individuals AA Final (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon – SET A) 12:40–15:05 Senior Individuals AA Final (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon –SET B) 15:05–15:20 Award Ceremony AA Seniors Individuals 16:30-18:00 Senior Groups (5 balls and 3 hoops & 2 pairs of clubs – SET A) 18:15–19:40 Senior Groups (5 balls and 3 hoops & 2 pairs of clubs – SET B) 19:40–19:55 Award Ceremony AA Senior Groups 19:55–20:10 Award Ceremony Team (Senior Individuals and Senior Groups) Sunday June 13 10:00–11:05 Senior Individuals Hoop & Ball Finals 11:10–12:15 Senior Individuals Clubs & Ribbon Finals 12:15-12:30 Award Ceremony Senior Individual Apparatus finals 13:00–13:40 Senior Groups 5 Balls Final 13:45–14:25 Senior Groups 3 Hoops + 4 Clubs Final 14:25–15:00 Award Ceremony Senior Groups Apparatus finals Source:
Medal winners Team Senior IndividualDina AverinaArina AverinaLala KramarenkoSenior GroupAnastasia BliznyukAnastasiia MaksimovaAngelina ShkatovaAnastasiia TatarevaKarina MetelkovaOlga KarasevaSenior IndividualAlina HarnaskoAnastasiia SalosSenior GroupArina TsitsilinaHanna HaidukevichAnastasiya MalakanavaAnastasiya RybakovaHanna ShvaibaKaryna YarmolenkaSenior IndividualLinoy AshramNicol ZelikmanSenior GroupKarin VexmanYuliana TeleginaYana KramarenkoOfir DayanNatalie Raits Senior Individual Finals Arina Averina Boryana Kaleyn Dina Averina Dina Averina Linoy Ashram Anastasiia Salos Dina Averina Linoy Ashram Alina Harnasko Linoy Ashram Dina Averina Anastasiia Salos Dina Averina Alina Harnasko Arina Averina Senior Group Finals Anastasia BliznyukOlga KarasevaAnastasiia MaksimovaAngelina ShkatovaAnastasiia TatarevaKarina MetelkovaAlessia MaurelliMartina CentofantiAgnese DurantiMartina SantandreaDaniela MogureanYana KramarenkoYuliana TeleginaKarin VexmanOfir DayanNatalie Raits Simona DyankovaLaura TraetsMadlen RadukanovaStefani KiryakovaErika ZafirovaAnastasia BliznyukOlga KarasevaAnastasiia MaksimovaAngelina ShkatovaAnastasiia TatarevaKarina MetelkovaYana KramarenkoYuliana TeleginaKarin VexmanOfir DayanNatalie Raits Yana KramarenkoYuliana TeleginaKarin VexmanOfir DayanNatalie RaitsSimona DyankovaLaura TraetsMadlen RadukanovaStefani KiryakovaErika ZafirovaAlessia MaurelliMartina CentofantiAgnese DurantiMartina SantandreaDaniela Mogurean Junior Group Finals Milena AnMariia FedorovtsevaAnna GroshSofiia IakovlevaNonna NianinaElizaveta TataevaKristiana DoychevaKamelia PetrovaSuzan PouladianMaria StamenovaGergana TrendafilovaAleksandra VasilevaShani BakanovEliza BanchukAlona HillelEmili MalkaSimona Rudnik Milena AnMariia FedorovtsevaAnna GroshSofiia IakovlevaNonna NianinaElizaveta TataevaKristiana DoychevaKamelia PetrovaSuzan PouladianMaria StamenovaGergana TrendafilovaAleksandra VasilevaPalina AliaksandravaAntanina KatulinaPalina SlancheuskayaKseniya SvirskayaVarvara YushkoDaria Vyshnikova Milena AnMariia FedorovtsevaAnna GroshSofiia IakovlevaNonna NianinaElizaveta TataevaKristiana DoychevaKamelia PetrovaSuzan PouladianMaria StamenovaGergana TrendafilovaAleksandra VasilevaShani BakanovEliza BanchukAlona HillelEmili MalkaSimona Rudnik
Results Team Rank Nation 5 3 , 2 Total 55.600 56.975 54.100 48.250 46.250 44.000 305.675 52.400 53.650 54.300 43.675 46.100 40.450 290.575 47.300 53.900 52.100 45.950 45.550 41.850 286.650 4 49.850 52.650 51.350 43.200 46.000 40.200 283.250 5 47.900 47.500 48.050 41.200 45.100 39.450 269.200 6 43.900 45.550 51.100 38.200 45.100 42.350 266.200 7 46.050 44.200 49.250 41.100 41.750 40.475 262.825 8 45.200 48.200 47.400 32.650 40.550 40.300 254.300 9 45.050 46.050 46.300 38.350 36.900 36.950 249.600 10 43.325 46.500 43.450 40.500 38.650 36.350 248.775 11 42.400 45.300 44.750 40.650 33.800 36.850 243.750 12 41.000 45.300 43.450 39.400 36.000 36.750 241.900 13 42.475 43.600 42.800 36.325 34.100 38.250 237.550 14 40.200 39.425 42.600 28.750 33.800 38.400 223.175 15 35.250 40.450 38.200 33.550 34.350 37.925 219.725 16 40.250 40.300 38.050 29.325 28.250 27.950 204.125 17 36.850 32.700 40.350 38.550 21.550 27.950 187.950
Senior Individual All-Around Rank Gymnast Nation Total Arina Averina 26.200 (6) 29.200 (1) 28.400 (2) 25.300 (1) 109.100 Boryana Kaleyn 27.775 (2) 27.400 (4) 27.950 (3) 24.500 (3) 107.625 Dina Averina 28.000 (1) 29.150 (2) 27.500 (4) 22.675 (7) 107.325 4Linoy Ashram 27.450 (3) 28.300 (3) 28.450 (1) 22.600 (8) 106.800 5Anastasiia Salos 26.900 (5) 25.900 (6) 27.150 (5) 24.525 (2) 104.475 6Alina Harnasko 27.100 (4) 25.500 (10) 26.500 (6) 23.700 (4) 102.800 7Katrin Taseva 24.800 (9) 25.900 (6) 25.700 (9) 22.450 98.850 8Sofia Raffaeli 22.950 26.400 (5) 26.400 (7) 23.000 (5) 98.750 9Nicol Zelikman 25.150 (7) 25.775 (8) 25.850 (8) 21.600 98.375 10Fanni Pigniczki 24.550 25.000 25.400 22.300 97.250 11Viktoriia Onopriienko 25.150 (7) 25.550 (9) 24.800 21.400 96.900 12Ekaterina Vedeneeva 24.650 24.400 25.650 (10) 22.050 96.750 13Vlada Nikolchenko 24.725 (10) 24.000 23.700 22.900 (6) 95.325 14Andreea Verdes 24.600 24.500 25.400 19.900 94.400 15Polina Berezina 23.550 24.650 22.500 22.550 (10) 93.250 16Zohra Aghamirova 23.550 24.650 22.500 22.550 (10) 93.250 17Arzu Jalilova 23.750 23.950 24.100 20.700 92.500 18Eleni Kelaiditi 21.300 24.925 23.950 22.050 92.225 19Natalia Garcia 23.600 24.400 23.550 19.650 91.200 20Salome Pazhava 23.100 21.075 25.150 21.400 90.725 21Kseniya Moustafaeva 23.350 23.300 23.700 19.375 89.725 22Viktoria Bogdanova 23.300 22.100 21.650 21.300 88.350 23Rachel Stoyanov 24.450 20.950 22.050 20.300 87.750 24Margarita Kolosov 20.900 23.325 23.300 19.600 87.125
Hoop Rank Gymnast Nation Total Dina Averina 19.1 9.250 28.350 Linoy Ashram 18.6 9.250 27.850 Anastasiia Salos 18.5 9.150 27.650 4 Alina Harnasko 18.1 9.000 27.100 5 Lala Kramarenko 17.5 9.300 26.800 6 Katrin Taseva 17.7 8.900 26.600 7 Boryana Kaleyn 17.8 8.800 26.600 8 Viktoriia Onopriienko 15.5 8.650 24.150
Ball Rank Gymnast Nation Total Dina Averina 19.6 9.250 28.850 Linoy Ashram 19.2 9.400 28.600 Alina Harnasko 19.2 9.300 28.500 4 Arina Averina 19.0 9.200 28.200 5 Nicol Zelikman 17.8 8.975 26.775 6 Boryana Kaleyn 18.0 8.350 26.350 7 Katrin Taseva 17.1 8.950 26.050 8 Anastasiia Salos 17.0 7.950 24.950
Clubs Rank Gymnast Nation Total Linoy Ashram 19.3 9.200 28.500 Dina Averina 19.0 9.200 28.200 Anastasiia Salos 18.8 9.000 27.800 4 Boryana Kaleyn 18.8 8.975 27.775 5 Katrin Taseva 19.1 8.400 27.500 6 Alina Harnasko 18.2 8.300 26.500 7 Viktoriia Onopriienko 17.8 8.400 26.200 8 Sofia Raffaeli 16.2 8.100 24.300
Ribbon Rank Gymnast Nation Total Dina Averina 15.4 9.300 24.700 Alina Harnasko 14.3 8.900 23.200 Arina Averina 14.8 7.800 22.600 4 Linoy Ashram 14.1 8.475 22.575 5 Katrin Taseva 14.4 7.700 22.100 6 Khrystyna Pohranychna 13.5 8.500 22.000 7 Anastasiia Salos 13.8 7.500 21.300 8 Nicol Zelikman 12.5 7.500 20.000
Junior Group All-Around Rank Nation 5 5 Total 40.500 27.300 67.800 38.250 27.200 65.450 37.000 26.175 63.175 4 35.650 27.100 62.750 5 38.300 22.575 60.875 6 34.950 23.750 58.700 7 31.625 23.850 55.475 8 31.650 23.550 55.200 9 32.600 21.950 54.550 10 32.650 20.700 53.350 11 30.650 22.500 53.150 12 27.900 21.050 48.950 13 31.400 16.600 48.000 14 30.850 17.050 47.900 15 27.100 18.725 45.825 16 26.700 18.500 45.200 17 28.550 16.350 44.900 18 25.650 15.500 41.150 19 24.575 11.450 36.025 20 19.650 10.850 30.500
5 Balls Rank Nation Total 31.6 8.800 0.000 40.400 30.3 8.750 0.050 39.000 29.7 7.850 0.000 37.550 4 28.1 8.100 0.050 36.150 5 27.4 7.600 0.000 35.000 6 26.1 6.950 0.000 33.050 7 26.7 6.600 0.300 33.000 8 24.1 6.200 0.050 30.250
5 Ribbons Rank Nation Total 21.7 8.300 0.000 30.000 20.4 8.400 0.000 28.800 20.4 8.250 0.000 28.650 4 19.7 6.800 0.000 26.500 5 19.3 6.300 0.000 25.600 6 17.6 6.650 0.000 24.250 7 17.3 5.800 0.000 23.100 8 17.2 6.100 0.300 23.000
Senior Group All-Around Rank Nation 5 3 , 2 Total 46.250 44.000 90.250 45.100 42.350 87.450 45.550 41.850 87.400 4 46.100 40.450 86.550 5 46.000 40.200 86.200 6 45.100 39.450 84.550 7 41.750 40.475 82.225 8 40.550 40.300 80.850 9 38.650 36.350 75.000 10 36.900 36.950 73.850 11 36.000 36.750 72.750 12 34.100 38.250 72.350 13 34.350 37.925 72.275 14 33.800 38.400 72.200 15 33.800 36.850 70.650 16 28.250 27.950 56.200 17 21.550 27.950 49.500 18 23.600 24.150 47.750
5 Balls Rank Nation Total 38.6 8.900 0.000 47.500 38.5 8.775 0.000 47.275 37.6 8.550 0.000 46.150 4 36.3 7.825 0.000 44.125 5 36.4 7.700 0.000 44.100 6 35.5 8.200 0.000 43.700 7 36.0 7.500 0.050 43.450 8 33.9 7.750 0.000 41.650
3 Hoops + 4 Clubs