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.[1][4] The individual Oceania berth went toAlexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva from Australia, who had narrowly missed the 2021 Oceania Olympic spot amidst controversy with the competition procedures.[8] The group Oceania berth went to Australia as well.[9]
Fanni Pigniczki ofHungary 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.[10]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 the2022 Junior European Championships.[11]
The SmartScoring Shooting Star Award was presented to California native Emily Beznos, representingMoldova. Beznos was accepted to theUniversity 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.[12]
At the end of the individual qualifying round,Vera Tugolukova, representing Cyprus, was in position to earn the European Olympic quota, narrowly ahead ofLiliana 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 theInternational Gymnastics Federation and the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation.[14][15] He later said that some of the judges at the competition had filed complaints as well.[15] There were also allegations that the Polish group's scores had been similarly lowered.[16]
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.[16] 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 theCourt of Arbitration for Sport.[6]
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.[7][17]
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