TeamGym European Championships to be held in Espoo in October 2026

Nearly one thousand participants from around 17 different countries are expected to take part. The competitions are divided into three sections women, men and mixed teams with separate competitions for juniors and seniors.

Thousands are expected to flock to Metro Areena over the four competition days. The atmosphere in the stands will be exceptional since the event is both entertaining and exciting to watch and the audience’s enthusiastic encouragement is central to this sport.

‘It’s really great to be hosting the championships in this sport, which emphasises communality and the joy of gymnastics, in Finland. Today, team sports are of particular interest to children and young people, and it is important to bring a high-level TeamGym competition to Finland in cooperation with Espoo and clubs,’ says Mira Keränen, President of the Finnish Gymnastics Federation.

‘It is also great to get to host the TeamGym European Championships in Espoo in addition to the TeamGym Nordic championships for seniors, which will be held in November 2025. This will further strengthen Espoo’s position as a strong gymnastics city,’ says Martti Merra the City of Espoo's Sports Director.

TeamGym is an impressive team sport that requires effective teamwork and excellent technique with difficult skills in acrobatic and gymnastic elements The teams  consist of 8–10 gymnasts, all ofwho must compeate on floor. . 6 gymnasts perform on each round on tumble and trampet, and gymnasts can be changed between the rounds.

In TeamGym, spectators get to enjoy three different disciplines: floor programme, tumbling series on the tumble track, and high tumbles on the trampet. The trampet resembles a small trampoline. In each discipline, teamwork is central. Tumbles must flow in a smooth sequence one after the other, and the floor programme requires seamless cooperation.

Globally, TeamGym has been a rather unknown gymnastics discipline, and so far the Nordic countries have dominated international competitions. Approximately 1,700 people are involved in the sport in Finland, with an annual increase of about 20 percent.

Official European Championships have been organised on even-numbered years since 1996. TeamGym is a strongly Nordic sport: it is the most popular type of gymnastics in Sweden and Denmark. TeamGym originates from Sweden and Denmark, where it developed into an official sport in the 1980s. The sport spread rapidly to Finland and later to other parts of Europe. The European Championship for national teams  were launched in 2012 in their current form (1 team/country/section).

Finland’s best results in the European Championships are bronze medal in the senior Women’s section in 2012 and 2021.