Gymnastics Explained
Competitions
Competition-format guides for the Olympics, Worlds, Europeans, the Commonwealth Games and the British Championships — not a live results feed.
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How competitions are structured
How Gymnasts Qualify for Olympic Finals
Every Olympic gymnast performs once in qualification; those scores decide the team final field and, subject to a two-per-country limit, who reaches the all-around and apparatus finals.
Team, All-Around and Apparatus Finals Explained
Major artistic gymnastics competitions run three kinds of final — team, all-around and apparatus — each with its own qualification rules from the same qualification scores.
Major competitions
British Artistic Gymnastics Championships Explained
The British Artistic Gymnastics Championships are British Gymnastics' domestic national championship, determining the UK's national title across age groups and levels rather than an international field.
Commonwealth Games Artistic Gymnastics Explained
Commonwealth Games artistic gymnastics runs a team/all-around/apparatus final structure similar to other majors, but with a field limited to Commonwealth nations, making it a different competitive test than the Olympics or Worlds.
European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Explained
The European Artistic Gymnastics Championships are a continental event open to gymnasts representing European nations, run under the same team/all-around/apparatus final structure as global events.
Olympic Artistic Gymnastics: Events, Format and Qualification
Olympic artistic gymnastics runs as a qualification round followed by team, all-around and apparatus finals, each with its own qualification rules.
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Explained
The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships are the FIG's flagship annual (non-Olympic-year) event, running the same team, all-around and apparatus final structure as the Olympics, and doubling as Olympic qualification in some years.