{"id":585755,"date":"2026-08-15T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585755\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:04:09","slug":"european-gymnastics-championships-2026-next-gen-sparkle-in-apparatus-finals-with-colas-kevric-among-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585755\/","title":{"rendered":"European Gymnastics Championships 2026: Next gen sparkle in apparatus finals with Colas, Kevric among the winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day three of the 2026 European Championships<\/a> in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics<\/a> and it was time to decide the senior apparatus finals medallists in Zagreb.<\/p>\n

Angelina Melnikova of WG2 won the vault title on Saturday (15 August) while 18-year-old\u00a0Helen Kevric<\/a> claimed gold on uneven\u00a0bars for Germany.<\/p>\n

France’s superstar Elena Colas, 16, was beam champion, while Manila Esposito<\/a> rounded out the competition with top spot on floor.<\/p>\n

Melnikova of WG2 won gold in the first final of the afternoon adding the vault title to the all-around gold from Thursday. Scoring 14.166, was enough to beat the defending champion, Karina Sch\u00f6nmaier of Germany on 14.066 after competing a clean Yurchenko double full first vault and then a beautifully styled Lopez, comprising a round-off on to the horse, a 1\/2-turn on and front layout 1\/2 off.<\/p>\n

Lisa\u00a0Vaelen<\/a> just pipped Great Britain’s Abigail Martin<\/a> to the bronze medal with the final vault of the round. The Belgian scored an average of 13.983 to best Martin by just 0.084 points.<\/p>\n

Helen Kevric<\/a> continued where she left off from Friday’s qualification competition, at the top of the standings on uneven bars. The German teenager, who suffered an injury in the all-around<\/a> at last year’s continental championships and is making inroads back into international competition, was thrilled with her performance, which garnered her a mark of 14.500. That was highest score of the day on any apparatus.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have the right words but I’m just happy to win the gold medal,” Kevric told Olympics,com at the buzzing arena.<\/p>\n

“When I walked in here, I didn’t think a lot about the medals because I just wanted to perform, and now I’m really happy that I can say that I’m a European champion on bars, and it’s just an amazing feeling.”<\/p>\n

The Italian pair of Elisa Iorio<\/a> and Giulia Perotti rounded out the podium with silver and bronze, respectively. That makes Iorio a two-time continental silver medallist on the event and 16-year-old Perotti a second time European medallist after winning gold in 2025 in the team event, a title Italy will defend on Sunday (16 August).<\/p>\n

“I’m feeling grateful and so proud of myself and my work,” said Iorio, one of the team members who won Olympic team silver at Paris 2024<\/a>. “I worked a lot in this year, so I’m very happy to do my bars today and do it pretty well.”<\/p>\n

Perotti, a junior world medallist on the apparatus in 2023, was also happy with her performance.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m still very emotional,” said the teenager. “To be honest, I wasn\u2019t expecting this, and all the hard work over the past few months has paid off because I\u2019ve put in so much effort and even changed several routines, and I couldn\u2019t wait to bring all of this to these European Championships.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day three of the 2026 European Championships in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and it was time to decide the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-585755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}