Romania's gymnastics team withdrew from the final of the mixed contest from the European Championships in Leipzig
Article by David Istrate – published Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 15:29 / Updated Wednesday, May 28, 2025 15:36
On Wednesday, May 28, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation announced that Romania will not evolve in the final of the mixed team contest at the European Championships in Leipzig, where it had qualified from the 15th place.
Between May 26 and 2, the German city Leipzig houses the European Gymnastics Championships. Within this competition, the International Gymnastics Federation (Fig) introduced a mixed contest for the first time, the purpose being to integrate this test to the 2028 Olympic Games from Los Angeles.
Ana Maria Barbosu and Nicholas Ţarcă had to represent Romania in the final
The rules of this contest are simple: Gymnast and gymnast in each country with the highest soil notes, parallels and fixed (male), respectively jumping, beam and soil (female) are chosen to represent the team in the final.
The two compete in the final of the mixed contest and, based on the total score obtained at the 6 samples, the final ranking is made.
Following team competitions, the two gymnasts who should have represented Romania were Ana Maria Barbosu and Nicholas Ţarcă. The tricolors qualified in this final from the 15th position, but the athletes, coaches and the management of the federation made the decision not to participate.
“The team leader, Ana Bărbosu, will compete tomorrow for a European medal in the final of the individual compound, a competition in which it has qualified with the second score,” the Romanian Gymnastics Federation said. Most likely, the decision was taken in the context in which Ana Bărbosu will compete tomorrow with good chances at the medal in the final of the individual compound test.
The place of Romania will be taken by Austria, which will take place with Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Israel, Norway, Turkey, Belgium and Poland.
Ana Barbosu qualified in three individual finals at Leipzig competition
In team competition, Ana Bărbosu had 13,600 on the beam and ground, 13,400 in parallels and 13,333 at jumps for a total of 53,933 pointswhich positioned it in the second place in the ranking of the gymnasiums in the competition.
Therefore, Bărbosu has qualified in the final of the individual compound and will also participate in the individual finals on the ground and beam.
The fight for gold in the “queen test” of gymnastics will be given on Thursday, May 29, at Leipzigwhile the finals on the ground and beam will be played on Saturday, May 31, on the last day of the European Championships.
