Team gymnastics

Team gymnastics group of TS Lustenau (Vorarlberg / Austria) exercising on the mini trampoline.

Team gymnastics , also known as TeamGym , is a gymnastics sport that originated in Scandinavia and is practiced exclusively in Europe.

Team building

Six to twelve active participants compete in the categories female, male or mixed (mixed). Unlike the Olympic Hexathlon of gymnastics there in teamgym not six but three disciplines: floor program trampette and Tumbling .

The European Gymnastics Union (UEG) accepted TeamGym in 2005 as the official competitive discipline of gymnastics and organizes a European championship every two years. In Germany the sport is represented by the Deutscher Turner-Bund (DTB) , in Austria by the Austrian Association for Gymnastics (ÖFT) . TeamGym is the most popular gymnastics sport in the Scandinavian countries; Up to 800 teams take part in the Nordic championships. At the European Championships, the Scandinavian teams always occupy the top ranks.

TeamGym disciplines

The competition grade is calculated as the sum of the three individual grades in the various TeamGym disciplines, in each of which 10.0 is the top grade. Mandatory elements must be shown, all TeamGym disciplines are presented to instrumental music.

Floor program

All athletes show a choreography with exercises from sports gymnastics and sports acrobatics on a 14 x 20 meter floor area. The performance must last between 2½ and 3 minutes. In addition to the technical execution, the expression and the synchronicity are evaluated.

Trampette

Six gymnasts on the team perform exercises on the mini trampoline and the vaulting table in three rounds . Team members can be exchanged between the individual rounds. Are bound Fußsprünge, screws , Salti and combined figures.

Tumbling

Six gymnasts of the team perform acrobatic jumping rows in quick succession on a 13-15 meter long, padded and specially sprung tumbling track in quick succession. Here, too, team members can be exchanged between the individual rounds.

Championship title

European champion

No club teams have been allowed since 2010, the championships are only contested with national teams.

year	venue	Ladies	Mixed	Men's
2016	Maribor	Sweden	Sweden	Denmark
2014	Reykjavík	Sweden	Denmark	Denmark
2012	Aarhus	Iceland	Denmark	Denmark
2010	Malmo	Iceland	Norway	Denmark
2008	Ghent	GF Ling	Ollerup IF	Silkeborg P / D
2006	Ostrava	Stockholm Top Gymnastics	AGF Arus	Silkeborg P / D
2004	Dornbirn	Team Asker	Rodovre and omegns GF	HSG Slagelse
2002	Châlons-en-Champagne	USG-Copenhagen	Rodovre and omegns GF	Slagelse GF HSG
2000	Birmingham	Helsinge SI	Rodovre and omegns GF	Hulby / Slagelse GF
1998	Odense	Berlin TSC	FTVS USK Praha	Gadstrup IF
1996	Jyväskylä	GK Herme	Helsinge SI	Halmstad FG

German champion

year	Ladies	Mixed	Men's
2010	KSC Strausberg	-	TuS Frankfurt (Oder)
2008	KSC Strausberg	TSV Berkheim	TG Landshut
2006	TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf	TSV Berkheim	TG Landshut
2004	TuS Chemnitz-Altendorf	TUG Leipzig	TG Landshut

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scoring rules ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the European Gymnastics Union (PDF file; 320 KB) 
2. ^ TeamGym Statistics, European Gymnastics Union
3. ↑ Website of the TeamGym team of the TG Landshut ( memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Results 

Web links

• TeamGym on the website of the European Gymnastics Union (UEG)
• TeamGym on the website of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB)
• Team gymnastics on the website of the Austrian Association for Gymnastics (ÖFT)