The British girls will head in to Saturday’s team final high on confidence knowing a similar performance could put them on the medal podium. The format of the competition meant that three of the five strong team had to compete on each piece of apparatus and every routine counted toward the final team score – the top 8 being the target for the final.
Under this pressure the girls thrived, every routine was performed cleanly and every girl did their job for the team. The mood was set starting off on beam, a notoriously nervy apparatus, where all girls showed fantastic composure which continued and strengthened throughout the competition. The team score was the main target for the girls but there were also outstanding individual performances that see gymnasts in to individual apparatus finals on Sunday. 16 year old GBR debutante Claudia Fragapane powered her way in to the floor (2nd scoring 14.766) and vault (3rd scoring 14.462) finals with Rebecca Downie 5th in the beam rankings (scoring 14.200) and top on bars scoring a magnificent 15.100. If it wasn’t for the two per country into final ruling GBR could have had three girls in the bars final, Rebecca Tunney joins Rebecca Downie placing in 3rd scoring 14.966 with Ruby Harrold missing out in 7th spot.
* source: baga
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Thursday, May 15
* Qualification Day, 35^th Women's ECh
     → Start list (I - IV), Qualification
10:00 – 12:00 Subdivision I :  (+: only individuals)
                     NOR, AZE, SWE, BUL, CZE, UKR, LAT +FIN.
12:10 – 14:10 Subdivision II :
                     DEN, CRO, AUT, SUI, CRO, GRE,  +LUX, LTU, SRB, GEO, CYP
15:20 – 17:20 Subdivision III:
                     IRL, ISL, BLR, HUN, POL, NED,  + POR, TUR, SVK, ISR
17:30 – 19:30 Subdivision IV:
                     GER, RUS, ROU, BEL, ESP, GBR, FRA, ITA

♦ Qualified Nations:

1. GBR – 172,147;  2. ROU – 171,130;  3. RUS – 170,621;  4. ITA – 166,928
5. GER – 166,695;  6. SUI – 163,663;  7. BEL – 162,630;  8. ESP – 162,271

9. NED – 161,788;  10. POL – 160,729;  11. FRA – 159,797;  12. SWE – 156,880
13. HUN – 154,072;  14. AUT – 152,631;  15. CZE – 150,646;  16. AZE – 147,729

17. BLR – 146,562;  18. UKR – 143,887;  19. IRL – 141,195;  20. CRO – 140,895
21. GRE – 140,204;  22. ISL – 136,845;  23. NOR – 130,928;  24. LAT – 127,695
25. DEN – 113,996;  26. BUL – 110,964

►► Final standing, Teams results
        
* all ECh & JECh you will find on ► R e s u l t s
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REVIEW:
Recently an ECh Team competition took place 2012 (33^rd Europeans*, Bruessels/BEL), performed with this result:
Romania (defending ECh champion), ahead of Russia and Italy, then followed by the ambitious British women, France, Spain, and Germany.
) * - Curiously, the European Gymnastics Union (UEG) ignores in a confusing counting the so called "Individual ECh", and comes so to another number of continental events.
But definitely now the 35^th Women's and the 36^th Men's European Championships takes place in 2014 and have been held since 1959 resp. 1957 in chronological addition.
- the Editors)