2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships

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|date_start = 9 June 2021

|date_end = 13 June 2021

| venue = Palace of Culture and Sports

| location = {{flagicon|BUL}} Varna, Bulgaria

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| previous = Kyiv 2020

| next = Tel Aviv 2022

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The 2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships was the 37th edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, which took place on 9–13 June 2021 at the Palace of Culture and Sports in Varna, Bulgaria.{{cite web |title=2021 European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics |url=https://www.europeangymnastics.com/event/2021-european-championships-rhythmic-gymnastics/overview |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=European Gymnastics}} This was the first year that Bulgaria hosted the European Championships.{{Cite web |last=Gayibov |first=Farid |date=8 July 2021 |title=The President's Note N° 7 - 2021 |url=https://www.europeangymnastics.com/news/presidents-note-ndeg-7-2021 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=European Gymnastics |language=en}}

The event was the last chance for European gymnasts to qualify a quota to compete at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, with one individual quota and one group quota available. It also, for the first time, served as a qualification event for country quotas at the 2021 World Championships. The Olympic quotas were won by Fanni Pigniczki and the group representing Ukraine.{{Cite web |date=9 July 2021 |title=Highlights of #Varna2021 |url=https://www.europeangymnastics.com/news/highlights-varna2021 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=European Gymnastics |language=en}}

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all persons involved in the event were required to undergo tests for Covid, and the arena was restricted to 50 percent of its total capacity.{{Cite web |last=Antonov |first=Alexander |date=7 June 2021 |title=ДКС с последни приготовления преди Европейското по художествена гимнастика |trans-title=DCC with final preparations before the European Rhythmic Gymnastics |url=https://gong.bg/oshte-sport/drugi-sportove/multimedia/video/dks-s-posledni-prigotovleniia-predi-evropejskoto-po-hudozhestvena-gimnastika-639438 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Gong.bg |language=bg}}

Russian gymnasts dominated the event, winning over a third of the available medals and nine of the twelve titles. Arina Averina won the all-around, her second European title after the 2018 European Championships, and was joined on the podium by her twin sister, Dina Averina, who won bronze and also won three of the apparatus finals. The silver medalist, Boryana Kaleyn, won Bulgaria's first European all-around medal in more than twenty years, since Maria Petrova won the 1994 European Championships. The previous year's European champion, Linoy Ashram, was in fourth place in the all-around but won the clubs final, the first time since the 2011 European Championships that a non-Russian gymnast won a European apparatus final.

Rachel Stoyanov, representing North Macedonia, won the "Shooting Star" award.

Entrants and event format

Each member nation of European Gymnastics could send either two or three individual gymnasts, who could perform a maximum of eight routines between them in the qualification round; a gymnast's three highest scores were used to determine qualification to the all-around final. The eight gymnasts (maximum two per country) with the highest scores per apparatus in the qualification round advanced to the apparatus final. Each member nation could also send a senior and a junior group. Each country's senior entrants formed a team, with the scores of all individual and group routines in the qualification round being added to determine team rankings.{{Cite web |date=7 June 2021 |title=Preview of the 2021 European Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics in Varna (BUL) |url=https://www.europeangymnastics.com/news/preview-2021-european-championships-rhythmic-gymnastics-varna-bul |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=European Gymnastics |language=en}}

37 countries entered 321 gymnasts in the competition. The countries participating in the competition were:{{Cite web |date=12 May 2021 |title=Nominative Registrations |url=https://backend.europeangymnastics.com/sites/default/files/paragraph/document/Nominative_applications_37th_ECh_RG_13.pdf |publisher=European Gymnastics}}

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Competition schedule

Wednesday June 9
10:00–11:40 Junior groups qualification & AA ranking (5 Balls, 5 Ribbons – SET A 1-12)
11:55–13:35 Junior groups qualification & AA ranking (5 Balls, 5 Ribbons – SET B 13-24)
18:30–19:00 Opening Ceremony
19:00–19:40 Junior groups 5 Balls Final
19:55–20:35 Junior groups 5 Ribbons Final
20:35–20:50 Award ceremony Junior groups All-Around
20:50–21:05 Award ceremony Junior groups Apparatus Final
Thursday June 10
10:00–12:00 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball)
12:15–14:15 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball)
15:15–17:15 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball)
17:30–19:30 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (hoop & ball)
Friday June 11
10:00–12:00 Set C Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon)
12:15–14:15 Set D Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon)
15:15-17:15 Set A Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon)
17:30–19:30 Set B Senior Individuals qualifications (clubs & ribbon)
Saturday June 12
10:00–12:25 Senior Individuals AA Final (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon – SET A)
12:40–15:05 Senior Individuals AA Final (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon –SET B)
15:05–15:20 Award Ceremony AA Seniors Individuals
16:30-18:00 Senior Groups (5 balls and 3 hoops & 2 pairs of clubs – SET A)
18:15–19:40 Senior Groups (5 balls and 3 hoops & 2 pairs of clubs – SET B)
19:40–19:55 Award Ceremony AA Senior Groups
19:55–20:10 Award Ceremony Team (Senior Individuals and Senior Groups)
Sunday June 13
10:00–11:05 Senior Individuals Hoop & Ball Finals
11:10–12:15 Senior Individuals Clubs & Ribbon Finals
12:15-12:30 Award Ceremony Senior Individual Apparatus finals
13:00–13:40 Senior Groups 5 Balls Final
13:45–14:25 Senior Groups 3 Hoops + 4 Clubs Final
14:25–15:00 Award Ceremony Senior Groups Apparatus finals

Source:{{cite web|title=Schedule by UEG|url=https://backend.europeangymnastics.com/sites/default/files/paragraph/document/2021_WORK%20PLAN_RG_0.pdf |publisher=European Gymnastics |format=PDF |access-date= 8 June 2021}}

Medal winners

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bgcolor="DFDFDF" \| colspan="4" align="center"\| Team
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|Team}} {{DetailsLink\|#Team}} \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Senior Individual Dina Averina Arina Averina Lala Kramarenko Senior Group Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasiia Maksimova Angelina Shkatova Anastasiia Tatareva Karina Metelkova Olga Karaseva \| valign="top" \|{{BLR}} Senior Individual Alina Harnasko Anastasiia Salos Senior Group Arina Tsitsilina Hanna Haidukevich Anastasiya Malakanava Anastasiya Rybakova Hanna Shvaiba Karyna Yarmolenka \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Senior Individual Linoy Ashram Nicol Zelikman Senior Group Karin Vexman Yuliana Telegina Yana Kramarenko Ofir Dayan Natalie Raits
bgcolor="DFDFDF" \| colspan="4" align="center"\| Senior Individual Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|All-Around}} {{DetailsLink\|#All-Around}} \| Arina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}} \| Boryana Kaleyn {{flagcountry\|BUL\|size=15px}} \| Dina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}}
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|Hoop}} {{DetailsLink\|#Hoop}} \| Dina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}} \| Linoy Ashram {{flagcountry\|ISR\|size=15px}} \| Anastasiia Salos {{flagcountry\|BLR\|size=15px}}
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|Ball}} {{DetailsLink\|#Ball}} \| Dina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}} \| Linoy Ashram {{flagcountry\|ISR\|size=15px}} \| Alina Harnasko {{flagcountry\|BLR\|size=15px}}
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|Clubs}} {{DetailsLink\|#Clubs}} \| Linoy Ashram {{flagcountry\|ISR\|size=15px}} \| Dina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}} \| Anastasiia Salos {{flagcountry\|BLR\|size=15px}}
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|Ribbon}} {{DetailsLink\|#Ribbon}} \| Dina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}} \| Alina Harnasko {{flagcountry\|BLR\|size=15px}} \| Arina Averina {{flagcountry\|RUS\|size=15px}}
bgcolor="DFDFDF" \| colspan="4" align="center"\| Senior Group Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|All-Around}} {{DetailsLink\|#All-Around}} \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Anastasia Bliznyuk Olga Karaseva Anastasiia Maksimova Angelina Shkatova Anastasiia Tatareva Karina Metelkova \| valign="top" \|{{ITA}} Alessia Maurelli Martina Centofanti Agnese Duranti Martina Santandrea Daniela Mogurean \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Yana Kramarenko Yuliana Telegina Karin Vexman Ofir Dayan Natalie Raits
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|5 Balls}} {{DetailsLink\|#5 Balls}} \| valign="top" \|{{BUL}} Simona Dyankova Laura Traets Madlen Radukanova Stefani Kiryakova Erika Zafirova \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Anastasia Bliznyuk Olga Karaseva Anastasiia Maksimova Angelina Shkatova Anastasiia Tatareva Karina Metelkova \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Yana Kramarenko Yuliana Telegina Karin Vexman Ofir Dayan Natalie Raits
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|3 Hoops + 4 Clubs}} {{DetailsLink\|#3 Hoops + 4 Clubs}} \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Yana Kramarenko Yuliana Telegina Karin Vexman Ofir Dayan Natalie Raits \| valign="top" \|{{BUL}} Simona Dyankova Laura Traets Madlen Radukanova Stefani Kiryakova Erika Zafirova \| valign="top" \|{{ITA}} Alessia Maurelli Martina Centofanti Agnese Duranti Martina Santandrea Daniela Mogurean
bgcolor="DFDFDF" \| colspan="4" align="center"\| Junior Group Finals
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|All-Around}} {{DetailsLink\|#Group_All-Around}} \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Milena An Mariia Fedorovtseva Anna Grosh Sofiia Iakovleva Nonna Nianina Elizaveta Tataeva \| valign="top" \|{{BUL}} Kristiana Doycheva Kamelia Petrova Suzan Pouladian Maria Stamenova Gergana Trendafilova Aleksandra Vasileva \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Shani Bakanov Eliza Banchuk Alona Hillel Emili Malka Simona Rudnik
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|5 Balls}} {{DetailsLink\|#5 Balls}} \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Milena An Mariia Fedorovtseva Anna Grosh Sofiia Iakovleva Nonna Nianina Elizaveta Tataeva \| valign="top" \|{{BUL}} Kristiana Doycheva Kamelia Petrova Suzan Pouladian Maria Stamenova Gergana Trendafilova Aleksandra Vasileva \| valign="top" \|{{BLR}} Palina Aliaksandrava Antanina Katulina Palina Slancheuskaya Kseniya Svirskaya Varvara Yushko Daria Vyshnikova
scope=row style="text-align:left" \| {{nowrap\|5 Ribbons}} {{DetailsLink\|#5 Ribbons}} \| valign="top" \|{{RUS}} Milena An Mariia Fedorovtseva Anna Grosh Sofiia Iakovleva Nonna Nianina Elizaveta Tataeva \| valign="top" \|{{BUL}} Kristiana Doycheva Kamelia Petrova Suzan Pouladian Maria Stamenova Gergana Trendafilova Aleksandra Vasileva \| valign="top" \|{{ISR}} Shani Bakanov Eliza Banchuk Alona Hillel Emili Malka Simona Rudnik

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| colspan="4" align="center"| Team

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Senior Individual
Dina Averina
Arina Averina
Lala Kramarenko
Senior Group
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Anastasiia Maksimova
Angelina Shkatova
Anastasiia Tatareva
Karina Metelkova
Olga Karaseva

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Senior Individual
Alina Harnasko
Anastasiia Salos
Senior Group
Arina Tsitsilina
Hanna Haidukevich
Anastasiya Malakanava
Anastasiya Rybakova
Hanna Shvaiba
Karyna Yarmolenka

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Senior Individual
Linoy Ashram
Nicol Zelikman
Senior Group
Karin Vexman
Yuliana Telegina
Yana Kramarenko
Ofir Dayan
Natalie Raits

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| colspan="4" align="center"| Senior Individual Finals

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| Arina Averina
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| Boryana Kaleyn
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