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Next gold coup for German gymnastics at the home European Championships in Leipzig: Karina Schönmaier has chosen the new European champion in the individual finals. With her exercise on Friday (May 30th), Schönmaier came to 13,983 points. The 19-year-old prevailed ahead of Walentina Georgiewa (Bulgaria, 13,900 points) and Lisa Vaelen (Belgium, 13,666).
Karina Schönmaier: “It’s a very great gift for me”
“It was just like a dream. I never thought that I would never have felt that it would never have expected to be there – and that the hymn is played for me,” said Schönmaier: “It is a very great gift for me. It is insane, I cannot describe these feelings. It is like in the film. I have no words because it is such a great feeling.”
“I just came to tears
Schönmaier started the final as the second and had to wait after her exercise until her six other competitors were finished. It was nerve -wracking to have to wait, whether it is rich or not. “I could just cry for joy, I just came to tears,” she said about the moment of salvation. It is the first European Championship title for a German gymnast since Oksana Chusovitina 2008.
It runs round for Karina Schönmaier
For Schönmaier, who trains in Chemnitz, it is a day after The allegedly serious injury to her teammate Helen Kevric Already the third medal at the continental championships. The Bremen native won silver with the German team on Monday,, On Wednesday she and Timo Eder became European champion in the first mixed team final.
Participation in the individual finals in the jump had secured her as the best of the qualification. On Saturday, Schönmaier also competes on the ground in the medal decision.
Helen Kevric operated successfully
Originally, Schönmaier would also have been in the multi-Kampf decision on Thursday (May 29th, but women’s head coach Gerben Wiersma had prescribed a competition break at short notice after the mixed team final and instead sent Janoah Müller to 20th, Kevric injured himself on the first device at the landing, the competition as well as the rest of the European Championship ended.
Wiersma then spoke of a “kneecap injury”, Kevric has now been successfully operated on in Stuttgart. She would have been one of the medal candidates both in the all -around and in the uneven bar finals on Friday.
The winners of the other finals
The other medals on Friday, the first day of the device finals, were awarded without German participation. Belgian Nina Derwael won with 14.466 points on the uneven bars. For the third time, Luke Whitehouse won the title on the ground and completed the triple with 14,500 points.
The Briton Luke Whitehouse triumphed on the ground at the 2025 gymnast European Championships in Leipzig.
Hamlet Manukyan triumphed from Armenia with 14,766 points on the pommel horse. And together with 14,400 points, defending champion Eleftherios Petrounias (Greece) and all-around European champions Adem Asil (Türkiye) won together with 14,400 points.
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