08. Dezember 2005  
Lausanne / SUI  
Artistic Gymnastics

Provisional entries for European Championships of artistic gymnastics 2006

Volos - host city of European Championships
of artistic gymnastics 2006

35 countries with 159 gymnasts in the senior category and 34 countries with 154 gymnasts for the juniors sent in their provisional entries to the UEG for the European Championships of women's artistic gymnastics 2006.
The competitions will be held from April 27 to 30, 2006 in Volos (GRE).
For the Men’s European Championships (EC), which will take place from May 4 to 7 in Volos/GRE, 39 countries have sent their provisional entries and will compete with 31 complete senior and junior teams.
(UEG)
The women's competition programme will contain, for the seniors and the juniors competition I (qualifications), competition IV (team finals) and competition III (apparatus finals).

The Men’s championships will be held one week after the Women’s EC. We are undoubtedly moving towards a participation record with 39 federations present out of 47. 31 countries will be present with a full team.
The competition format for the seniors and the juniors is the same as for the women’s competitions: competition I (qualifications), competition IV (team finals), competition III (apparatus finals).
The 2006 European championships are of particular importance as they are the first international competitions organized according to the new FIG Code of points. In particular, due to the incidents that occurred in Athens, the FIG had postponed the coming into force of the code of points artistic gymnastics in order to review the texts.
Consequently, the intercontinental judges courses were postponed too and will be held mid-December in Leipzig (MAG) and Chiba/Tokyo (WAG).
The European competitions will allow to make a first statement of the new rules to be applied.