The 2024 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships is the 40th edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships. The competition took place on 22-26 May 2024 at the Papp László Sportaréna in Budapest, Hungary. It was the final qualifying event for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The individual Olympic quota from the competition went to Vera Tugolukova and the group quota to Azerbaijan, although these results were disputed by the Polish Gymnastics Federation. In 2025, the President of the Superior Jury of judges at the competition was banned for four years and stripped of her judging qualifications due to score manipulation.
For 2024, the event also doubles as the Oceania Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, with the gymnasts from Australia and New Zealand being ranked and qualifying for the Olympics separately from the European competitors. The individual Oceania berth went to Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva from Australia, who had narrowly missed the 2021 Oceania Olympic spot amidst controversy with the competition procedures. The group Oceania berth went to Australia as well.
Fanni Pigniczki of Hungary became the first Hungarian rhythmic gymnast in the history of the European Championships to win a medal of any color in the individual event when she won a silver medal in the ball apparatus final. Liliana Lewińska won Poland's first European medal at the senior level with her silver medal in clubs, having previously won the first European medals for Poland at the 2022 Junior European Championships.
The SmartScoring Shooting Star Award was presented to California native Emily Beznos, representing Moldova. Beznos was accepted to the University of California at Los Angeles at age 14 in 2020. She graduated at age 16 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science, becoming one of the youngest graduates in the university’s history in 2022.
Participating countries
Updated on May 7 2024.
Competition schedule Wednesday May 22 09:00 – 11:00 Set A – Junior individuals qualifications & Team ranking (Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon) 11:15 – 13:15 Set B – Junior individuals qualifications & Team ranking (Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon) 11:15 – 16:15 Set C – Junior individuals qualifications & Team ranking (Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon) 16:30 – 18:30 Set D – Junior individuals qualifications & Team ranking (Hoop, Ball, Clubs, Ribbon) 18:30 – 18:45 Award ceremony Junior individuals Team Thursday May 23 09:00 – 11:00 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 11:15 – 13:15 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 14:15 – 16:15 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 16:30 – 18:30 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball) 19:55 - 20:55 Junior Individuals Apparatus Finals (Hoop & Ball) 21:05 -22:05 Junior Individuals Apparatus Finals (Clubs & Ribbon) Friday May 24 09:00 – 11:00 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 11:15 – 13:15 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 14:15 – 16:15 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) 16:15 - 16:45 Opening Ceremony 18:00 – 20:00 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon) Saturday May 25 10:00 – 13:10 Senior Individuals AA Final - SET B 14:20 – 17:20 Senior Individuals AA Final - SET A 17:20 – 17:30 Award Ceremony AA Seniors Individuals 17:45 – 19:45 Senior Groups (5 hoops and 3 ribbons & 2 balls – SET A) 20:00 – 22:00 Senior Groups (5 hoops and 3 ribbons & 2 balls – SET B) 22:00 – 22:30 Award Ceremony AA Senior Groups & Team (Senior Individuals and Senior Groups) Sunday May 26 10:10 – 11:10 Senior Individuals Hoop & Ball Finals 11:20 – 12:20 Senior Individuals Clubs & Ribbon Finals 12:25 – 12:35 Award Ceremony Senior Individual Apparatus finals 12:35 - 12:40 Gymnast of the Year Award 13:45 – 14:25 Senior Groups 5 Hoops Final 14:35 – 15:15 Senior Groups 3 ribbons & 2 balls Final 15:15 - 15:25 SmartScoring Shooting Star Award 15:25 – 15:40 Award Ceremony Senior Groups Apparatus finals 16:00 - 16:45 Closing Ceremony & Gala
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Controversies At the end of the individual qualifying round, Vera Tugolukova, representing Cyprus, was in position to earn the European Olympic quota, narrowly ahead of Liliana Lewińska from Poland. However, before the allocation of the spot was officially confirmed, the Polish Gymnastics Federation alleged that the judging was corrupt and that Lewińska's scores were lowered, preventing her from winning the Olympic berth. The Polish Gymnastics Federation's president announced their intention to protest the results, and they filed appeals to the International Gymnastics Federation and the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation. He later said that some of the judges at the competition had filed complaints as well. There were also allegations that the Polish group's scores had been similarly lowered.
A week after the competition ended, the allocation of the Olympic spots from the Oceania Championships, which was run at the European Championships, as well as the tripartite spot, had been released, but not the allocation of the quotas given at the European Championships. The official quota allocation was released on June 4 and allocated the spots in line with the event results to Tugolukova and the Azerbaijan group. The Polish Gymnastics Federation stated that they were preparing a further appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Gymnastics Ethics Foundation Disciplinary Commission released its decision on 6 February 2025. Evangelia Trikomiti, the President of the Superior Jury at the 2024 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, was found guilty of breaking the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) code of ethics, code of conduct, the general judges’ rules and the judge’s oath by manipulating the scores at the Championships. She was declared ineligible to participate in all gymnastics-related activities for a period of four years, excluding coaching, and her FIG Judge Brevet was annulled. The FIG rejudged the routines of both gymnasts and found that Lewińska should have been placed higher and thus should have earned the Olympic quota. However, the proceeding was not about a “field of play” decision, so the results were not changed.
The case was appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). In January 2026, CAS upheld the disciplinary decisions of the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation and dismissed the appeal.
Medal winners Team Amalia LicăLisa Garac Alona Tal FrancoMeital Maayam Sumkin Ilaha BahadirovaShams Aghahuseynova Fidan Gurbanli Govhar Ibrahimova Senior IndividualBoryana KaleynElvira KrasnobaevaStiliana NikolovaSenior GroupSofia IvanovaMagdalina MinevskaKamelia PetrovaRachel StoyanovMargarita VasilevaSenior IndividualMilena BaldassarriTara DragasSofia RaffaeliSenior GroupMartina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura ParisAlessia RussoSenior IndividualDaria AtamanovDaniela MunitsSenior GroupShani BakanovAdar FriedmannRomi ParitzkiOfir ShahamDiana Svertsov Senior Individual Finals Stiliana Nikolova Sofia Raffaeli Darja Varfolomeev Boryana Kaleyn Stiliana Nikolova Taisiia Onofriichuk Sofia Raffaeli Fanni Pigniczki Daniela Munits Daniela Munits Liliana Lewinska Boryana Kaleyn Darja Varfolomeev Sofia Raffaeli Elvira Krasnobaeva Senior Group Finals Sofia IvanovaMagdalina MinevskaKamelia PetrovaRachel StoyanovMargarita Vasileva Martina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura ParisAlessia Russo Ana ArnauInés BerguaMireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma Solaun Martina CentofantiAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliDaniela MogureanLaura ParisAlessia Russo*Ana ArnauInés BerguaMireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma SolaunShani BakanovAdar FriedmannRomi ParitzkiOfir ShahamDiana Svertsov Ana ArnauInés BerguaMireia MartínezPatricia PérezSalma SolaunShani BakanovAdar FriedmannRomi ParitzkiOfir ShahamDiana SvertsovDiana BaievaAlina MelnykValeriia PeremetaKira ShyrykinaMariia Vysochanska Junior Individual Finals Amalia Lică Alona Tal Franco Olivia Maslov Meital Maayam Sumkin Anna Piergentili Magdalena Valkova Amalia Lică Alja Ponikvar Alona Tal Franco Amalia Lică Dara Malinova Barbare Kajaia * reserve gymnast
Oceanian Championships Oceania Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva Miyabi Akiya Havana Hopman
Results Team Junior Rank Nation Total 32.65029.75031.000 31.700 125.100 29.95030.25031.500 32.050 123.750 30.05029.85028.500 29.000117.400 4 31.65029.00026.800 29.850 117.300 5 28.05030.15028.350 27.200 113.750 6 28.80028.35028.650 27.550113.350 7 30.20028.50027.550 26.950 113.200 8 29.65029.20028.800 25.400 113.050 9 30.65025.90027.650 27.600111.800 10 28.35028.40027.450 26.250 110.450 11 30.05027.55028.600 23.950 110.150 12 28.00027.35028.350 25.600 109.300 13 28.55027.30026.800 26.600 109.250 14 26.55028.30026.500 26.500 107.850 15 29.70027.45026.050 23.450106.650 16 27.05026.10025.250 27.550105.950 17 26.50026.35028.000 25.100105.950 18 27.45028.15024.600 25.600105.800 19 27.55022.05026.700 28.600104.900 20 30.10022.75029.250 21.150103.250 21 26.55026.35026.050 24.250103.200 22 25.60023.90026.800 25.350101.650 23 27.05024.65024.650 25.050101.400 24 25.25025.55025.300 25.050101.150 25 25.45024.10026.500 24.150100.200 26 26.50022.95024.950 24.05098.450 27 26.15023.30022.450 23.20095.100 28 24.10025.70023.050 22.20095.050 29 25.45023.70022.950 22.85094.950 30 22.70026.25024.250 21.75094.950 31 26.50023.90023.950 20.30094.650 32 23.95024.15024.000 22.15094.250 33 21.75022.50023.550 22.50090.650 34 21.75022.50020.050 22.95089.300 35 19.45025.00020.050 22.95087.450 36 23.00020.70021.100 17.10081.900
Senior RankNation5 3 , 2 Total 72.500 63.550 67.800 65.300 39.150 34.850 343.150 68.400 67.750 66.450 64.750 38.900 32.300 338.550 70.650 66.200 63.500 64.100 38.150 31.900 334.500 4 66.900 67.950 66.250 64.400 35.800 32.200 333.500 5 67.200 64.600 61.100 62.950 36.750 34.450 327.050 6 65.650 65.400 63.100 63.100 33.250 31.200 321.700 7 65.350 62.550 62.200 62.200 35.300 32.600 320.200 8 67.750 62.000 58.600 62.300 35.750 33.500 319.900 9 62.750 63.400 61.400 54.000 37.050 33.150 311.750 10 60.900 58.450 60.200 59.100 36.450 27.550 302.650 11 61.150 61.550 60.250 53.300 33.100 28.550 297.900 12 59.850 55.650 56.850 51.450 34.600 29.800 288.200 13 61.050 59.800 61.800 54.950 24.400 25.800 287.800 14 60.850 61.200 60.650 52.350 26.600 20.050 281.700 15 60.850 56.450 53.750 56.500 29.400 23.000 279.950 16 55.450 54.650 58.250 52.000 27.050 26.200 273.600 17 58.600 57.400 56.600 54.350 23.250 20.450 270.650 18 59.150 55.300 55.000 55.600 23.900 18.300 267.250 19 55.000 54.550 53.100 51.450 25.900 18.750 258.750
Junior Individual
Hoop RankGymnast Nation D Score E Score A Score Pen Total Amalia Lică 16.3008.2008.350 32.850 Alona Tal Franco 16.3008.2008.250 32.750 Olivia Maslov16.1008.0008.150 32.250 4Dara Malinova 15.1008.2008.000 31.300 5Govhar Ibrahimova 14.4008.1507.850 30.400 6Taisiia Redka 14.7007.9007.600 30.200 7Alise Lebedeva 14.2007.9007.900 30.000 8Elena Vukmir 12.9007.5007.500 27.900
Ball RankGymnast Nation D Score E Score A Score Pen Total Meital Maayam Sumkin 16.7008.3008.550 33.550 Anna Piergentili14.7008.2508.300 31.250 Magdalena Valkova14.9008.2008.100 0.0531.150 4Ilaha Bahadirova14.2008.1008.200 30.500 5Lisa Garac 14.3007.9008.000 30.200 6Elena Vukmir 13.9008.0008.000 29.900 7Alja Ponikvar 14.2007.9007.750 29,850 8Eysan Ates 13.0007.8007.800 0.0528.550
Clubs RankGymnast Nation D Score E Score A Score Pen Total Amalia Lică 14.4008.1508.250 30.800 Alja Ponikvar14.6007.9508.000 30.550 Alona Tal Franco14.4007.7008.350 30.450 4Margherita Fucci13.9008.2508.100 30.250 5Alise Lebedeva 14.4007.9007.650 29.950 6Kseniia Solomon 12.9007.9008.050 28.850 7Sofia Jakovleva 13.5007.4507.850 28.800 8Fidan Gurbanli 12.8007.8007.800 28.400
Ribbon