The first European Games will  be held from 12th – 28th June  in Baku Azerbaijan. The artistic gymnastics events run from the 14th  – 20th, and the nominative roster has now been released. For Great Britain Rebecca Tunney, Tyesha Mattis, and Kelly Simm are listed, having been announced by British Gymnastics toward the end of April. Of course the nominative roster can always change, and two of the three gymnasts on the list have been fighting back to full fitness for some time now, but hopefully all three girls will be fit and ready to compete.

Kelly Simm has competed well this year at both the British and English championships, and will be seen again in  the Flanders International Team Challenge to be held in Ghent Belgium over the weekend of 30th/31st May. Rebecca Tunney hasn’t been seen in competition since 2014 Europeans, fighting back from an injury sustained in December, she missed the English, British, and Europeans championships this year. Hopefully she too will travel to Ghent for an outing before Baku, British and international gymnastics fans will be thrilled to see her back. Tyesha Mattis returned from her 2014 injury contesting two events at the recent British championships, taking gold on both. She has had minor surgery a few weeks ago on the same ankle injury, so hopefully she will be back to fitness in time to compete. Tyesha when fully fit will be one of the strongest AA gymnasts in GB, to be British champion on her two weakest pieces gives an idea of her potential.

This is a strong team from GB, like the Brits Russia is strong, but Komova and Shelgunova especially are somewhat unknown in terms their likely routines and performance levels. The British girls will be looking for at least  podium sport here as a team, and it’s an entirely realistic prospect. The team competition is 3-3-2 so a completely new format to be tested, for this blogger two does not a team make, but that is what has been decided.

This blog will of course be covering all the action from Baku when the time comes.

The list as it stands:

AUT MADER Jasmin
AUT MANNERSDORFER Marlies
AUT STABINGER Jessica

AZE INSHINA Yuliya
AZE NEKRASOVA Marina
AZE PRAVDINA Kristina

BEL MYS Gaelle
BEL VANDENHOLE Cindy
BEL VERSCHUEREN Lisa

BLR TSEKHMISTRENKA Valeryia
BLR YAKUBAVA Natallia
BLR LIFENKA Sviatlana

BUL RASHKOVA Valentina
BUL MILEVA Ralitsa
BUL ZLATKOVA Albena

CRO MADIR Dina
CRO KOLJANIN Karmen
CRO POSCIC Ana

CYP SAVVIDOU Stelutsa

CZE CENKOVA Veronika
CZE FIALOVA Petra
CZE KANYAI Anna Maria

DEN WANG Linnea
DEN HULGAARD Mette
DEN LAURITSEN Michelle

ESP CARMONA URBANO Ainhoa
ESP COLOM MARTIN Claudia
ESP PEREZ CAMPOS Ana

FRA BREVET Marine
FRA KUHM Anne
FRA PIKUL Valentine

GBR MATTIS Tyesha
GBR SIMM Kelly
GBR TUNNEY Rebecca

GEO DZIDZIGURI Nato

GER SCHEDER Sophie
GER GRIESSER Leah
GER SEITZ Elisabeth

GRE MILLOUSI Vasiliki
GRE AFRATI Argyro
GRE XOULOGI Ioanna

HUN BOCZOGO Dorina
HUN DIVEKY Luca
HUN MAKRA Noemi

IRL DONNELLY Tara
IRL MAWHINNEY Nicole
IRL OREILLY Ellis

ISL ROBERTSDOTTIR Norma
ISL HERMANNSDOTTIR Thelma
ISL BELANYI Dominiqua

ISR FELDON Tzuf

ITA CAMPANA Giorgia
ITA LEOLINI Alessia
ITA UGRIN Tea

LAT JEROFEJEVA Diana
LAT GRISANE Valerija
LAT CIRCENE Alina

LTU ZITINEVICIUTE Vaida

NED VAN GERNER Celine
NED TOP Lisa
NED WEVERS Lieke

NOR SKREGELID Martine
NOR BERG Solveig
NOR BRAATEN Sofie

POL PIHAN-KULESZA Marta
POL JURKOWSKA-KOWALSKA Katarzyna
POL JANIK Gabriela

POR MARTINS Ana Filipa

ROU JURCA Laura
ROU BULIMAR Diana
ROU ZARZU Silvia

RUS KOMOVA Victoria
RUS MUSTAFINA Aliya
RUS SHELGUNOVA Evgeniya

SLO GOLOB Sasa

SRB RAJCIC Aleksandra

SUI BARLOGGIO Caterina
SUI DIACCI Jessica
SUI STEINGRUBER Giulia

SVK MOKOSOVA Barbora

TUR YILMAZ Tutya

UKR FEDOROVA Yana
UKR KYSLA Angelina
UKR SANKOVA Krystyna

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