Euros 2025 Medal Spherical-up | Stability Beam State of affairs

Let’s rank all people! Time for a breakdown of the ultimate WAG medal rely and what transpired this week on the 2025 European Championships.

TEAM GOLD
Manila Esposito
Sofia Tonelli
Alice D’Amato
Emma Fioravanti
Giulia Perotti

ALL-AROUND GOLD
Manila Esposito

FLOOR EXERCISE SILVER
Manila Esposito

MIXED TEAM BRONZE
Manila Esposito
Lorenzo Casali

BALANCE BEAM BRONZE
Sofia Tonelli

Italy tried fairly exhausting to make it bizarre this week however ended up being simply too great at gymnastics and received the medal rely with 5.

Within the group competitors, the Italians bought instantly misplaced in a forest with falls on each bars and beam from Alice D’Amato, falls on each beam and ground from Giulia Perotti, and a DTY fall from Manila Esposito—but it surely didn’t matter! Getting into their Simone period with gusto (and aided by 4-up, 3-count), they didn’t need to hit all that effectively to win gold. Which is what occurred. Congratulations!

Esposito certified first within the AA even with that vault fall, so a downgrade again to her extra snug Y1.5 together with an amazing displaying on beam introduced her a repeat all-around championship within the absolute spotlight of the competitors for the Italians. Shocking nobody, Esposito ended up because the medal MVP with 4—two golds, a silver, and a bronze—although her reasonable quest for six medals was dropped at an finish by event-final falls on bars and beam. She completed the competitors on a excessive word, nonetheless, along with her typical ground hit for a silver medal, finishing the complete medal colour spectrum.

A possible strategic hiccup within the blended group occasion left the Italians with bronze regardless of one of the best cumulative rating of all of the international locations, although additionally they bought a pleasing shock of a bronze within the type of Sofia Tonelli’s beam medal. Tonelli was the breakout star of the Italian group at this competitors, the one one who delivered 4 counting scores within the group occasion, and her crisply elegant beam within the occasion remaining was rightly rewarded with a medal.

Commiserations, in the meantime, to Alice D’Amato, who was cruelly denied the chance for particular person {hardware} by her qualification falls. We’ll at all times have the Olympic beam remaining.

FLOOR EXERCISE GOLD
Ana Barbosu

BALANCE BEAM SILVER
Ana Barbosu

ALL-AROUND BRONZE
Ana Barbosu

UNEVEN BARS BRONZE
Ana Barbosu

The Romanians have been absolutely the queens of chaos at this competitors, and we love them for it. It began within the group occasion.

Simply outpacing Alice D’Amato within the “most certainly to resort to a lifetime of axe-throwing after this” rankings, Sabrina Voinea opened her competitors by falling on her ahead roll beam mount after which went on to hit all of her precise bonkers issue. She went to ground and fell on a full-in, then accurately eye-rolled her method via a pair silly leaps, after which scratched vault. It’s known as the Satan’s Triple Play: two falls and a scratch.

If Voinea had vaulted for any of the scores she bought on vault final yr, Romania would have received group bronze as an alternative of France. However because it was…fourth.

Shifting to the all-around remaining, Voinea handed the chaos baton to Ana Barbosu, who fell on beam and scored an 11 and nonetheless one way or the other managed to win the bronze medal. Then, Barbosu missed the bars remaining as first alternate, however then bought promoted into the ultimate when Helen Kevric withdrew, after which hit for one more bronze medal. She is an precise magician?

Magic and chaos full, Barbosu hit her stride and moved onto her finest ones on the final day of occasion finals, resolving any beam points to win silver in that remaining, then simply outscoring Esposito on ground to finish the competitors with a gold and a four-medal tally. Technically, Esposito is the medal MVP as a result of her 4 medals have been 2 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze and Barbosu’s have been 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronzes, however Barbosu’s have been additionally all particular person medals and a couple of of Esposito’s have been group medals, and that ought to rely for one thing.

In the meantime again within the chaos class, Romania’s second-best gymnast at this competitors had been retired for five.5 years till final month. You understand how you do. Denisa Golgota was a creative and execution star at this meet, and Romania is deeply lucky to have her again.

MIXED TEAM GOLD
Karina Schönmaier
Timo Eder

VAULT GOLD
Karina Schönmaier

TEAM SILVER
Helen Kevric
Janoah Müller
Lea Marie Quaas
Karina Schönmaier
Silja Stöhr

Reviews of the loss of life of the German group seem like tremendously exaggerated. With out the bolstering routines of the golden era gymnasts, the German girls’s squad had been in a little bit of a lull, failing to qualify a group to the Olympics for the primary time in 20 years.

This lull seems to be achieved now, and far faster than anticipated. The Germans outperformed expectations at their residence championship, led by the 3-medal efficiency of Karina Schönmaier, who positively wins most improved gymnast in comparison with the individual we noticed compete at world championships over the last quadrennium. Her DTY and Lopez mixture received vault gold, she hit her three occasions for blended group gold, and she or he superior to the ground remaining and all-around remaining (earlier than withdrawing), confirming her evolution from qualification-routine-squad-gymnast to group star.

The draw back for the German group was the damage to Helen Kevric, whose 14.766 on bars and vault DTY have been consequential in incomes the group silver medal. Kevric was on observe for added medals within the all-around (#3 qualifier) and on bars (#1 qualifier) earlier than a vault damage within the AA remaining took her out of the remainder of the competitors.

UNEVEN BARS GOLD
Nina Derwael

BALANCE BEAM GOLD
Nina Derwael

VAULT BRONZE
Lisa Vaelen

So, Nina’s back-back now. Going the route of the bars and beam specialist right here and never bothering with these different silly leg ones, Derwael received the Nastia Double, her first main meet medals in 3 years and (shockingly) her first Euro bars title in 7 years.

Following Kevric’s withdrawal, Derwael turned the heavy favourite for gold on bars ought to she get via successful, which she did, and the next day she put up one among her patented “what do you even deduct?” beam routines to E-score everybody else into submission and take beam gold.

Regardless that Belgium’s group outcomes have flagged currently, they’re nonetheless able to racking up the person occasion medals and beating extra extra strong groups within the medal rely. Lisa Vaelen bought into the act with a vault bronze thanks largely to her handspring rudi, which was probably the most troublesome hit vault within the remaining.

ALL-AROUND SILVER
Alba Petisco

FLOOR EXERCISE BRONZE
Alba Petisco

Alba Petisco had her meet. Six years since her senior debut, Alba Petisco got here via for her first medals at a significant competitors at this yr’s Euros, combining distinctive leap execution with expressive efficiency to steal the present within the all-around for silver and add a ground medal for good measure.

VAULT SILVER
Valentina Georgieva

Georgieva delivered her second consecutive European vault silver medal, hitting the DTY for the highest single vault rating within the remaining, and including a profitable Tsuk 1.5 to clinch a medal.

The story of Georgieva’s efficiency and the entire vault remaining, although, was the brand new 0.2 bonus for performing vaults with completely different post-flight instructions truly coming into play. Georgieva had one of the best vaults of the ultimate, outscoring gold medalist Schönmaier on each the primary and second vaults, and would have received the title in any earlier yr. However since her vaults each had backward post-flight, Georgieva didn’t get the 0.2 bonus, whereas Schönmaier did, vaulting her (get it) into the gold place by lower than a tenth and knocking Georgieva to silver.

UNEVEN BARS SILVER
Bettina Lili Czifra

In probably the most “the place did that come from?” second of the occasion finals, Czifra earned a silver on uneven bars after one of the best routine of her or anybody else’s life for 14.100. That is the primary time she has ever hit the 14 mark in competitors, and she or he did it within the Euros bars remaining. The second- and third-best bars scores of Czifra’s profession got here on the Olympics, so…looks like she’s a gamer.

MIXED TEAM SILVER
Ruby Evans
Jake Jarman

The British girls’s group is in a interval of (doubtlessly momentary) generational transition—no Gadirovas, no Downies, no Kinsellas, no Morgans, and so on—so there weren’t a ton of huge medal expectations coming into this meet. Seeing only one medal on the chart and having it are available in an occasion the place MAG helped rather a lot just isn’t tremendous shocking.

Ruby Evans, principally what counts as a veteran on this group proper now, bought that silver medal and had some nice moments on this competitors, performing a beautiful ground routine for fourth in that remaining and coming a bars hit in need of a medal within the all-around. We additionally noticed flashes from different members of the squad—Alia Leat had a formidable beam going within the group competitors earlier than a wolf flip bought her.

Total, it’s a bunch that also wants seasoning—or, you already know, a Jessica Gadirova being again.

TEAM BRONZE
Lorette Charpy
Ming Van Eijken
Romane Hamelin
Djenna Laroui
Morgane Osyssek-Reimer

France opened Euros by reminding us that the Olympics by no means occurred—what are you speaking about—for a bronze within the group competitors. Extra medals didn’t observe, however in a whole lot of methods, profitable only one bronze medal undersells the standard of the French efficiency right here.

There have been a number of very robust showings, most notably from Morgane Osyssek-Reimer, who received this meet’s Flying Pavlova trophy for many regal 4th-place finishes, coming in 4th within the blended group competitors, after which once more within the all-around remaining, after which once more on beam. A superb meet, if considerably devoid of shiny issues ultimately. Lorette Charpy additionally had an excellent one, coming in fifth behind Osyssek-Reimer’s 4th place each within the all-around and on beam.

Vanesa Masova seems to be like Czechia’s finest gymnast in many years, performing brilliantly executed gymnastics on bars and beam—doing the sort of factor we used to name Worldwide Look and now simply name good—to put top-6 on each occasions within the all-around remaining and fifth on bars within the occasion remaining. It’s occurring.

Jennifer Williams of Sweden did the beam of all beams in qualification for an “is {that a} typo?” 6.4 D rating and 14.533 complete, eclipsing her earlier finest beam rating by greater than a degree. That’s what we name a problem glow up. She fell on each beam and ground within the occasion finals for no medals, however all of us observed that qualification beam.

Within the so-close division, Finland’s Maisa Kuusikko very almost bought on the bars podium with a 13.600 for fourth place, and Teja Belak very almost bought her first main medal along with her personal fourth-place end on vault. Belak has 35 vault medals (and 10 golds) at World Cup occasions over a span of 16 years as a senior to cement her standing as Problem Cup Latynina, however by no means something at Euros.