2023-04-16 16:06:12
With a score of 14,000, Gadirova beat her compatriot Alice Kinsella (13,666 pts) and the Romanian Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (13,566 pts).
The 18-year-old Briton, world exercise champion five months ago, thus won her third title of the week following winning the all-around and team gold.
“I had so much fun. That’s why I go to the gym,” said the one who now has six European gold medals. “It’s been an amazing week, I can’t believe it. Couldn’t have asked for anything more.”
Also in the beam final, she was only able to take seventh place following an unusual fall on the dismount.
The Dutch Sanne Wevers won on the apparatus ahead of the Italian Manila Esposito and the Hungarian Zsofia Kovacs.
On the French side, the only Habs in the running, Cameron-Lie Bernard, took fifth place in the parallel bars final, won by the Ukrainian Illia Kovtun
In the absence of the reigning European champion, the Briton Joe Fraser, the Ukrainian scored 15.166 points, which allowed him to beat the Turkish Ferhat Arican in front of his home crowd (14.933 pts). This is the first international title for Kovtun, 19, who won moments following the bronze medal on high bar.
For his first European Championships, Bernard, 24, performed a stable and controlled exercise on his favorite apparatus, rewarded with 14,366 points.
Thinking of Antwerp
“It was a stressful final because it was going very fast,” he reacted. “I managed to reach this final and make a move. Fifth in Europe, that looks good, I’m happy. The results of these European championships are positive, I think.”
The male delegation of the Blues therefore left Antalya without a medal but with four finalist places and above all a seventh place in the teams, which offered them a team ticket for the World Championships, their main objective before the start of the competition.
The Antwerp Worlds in October will be crucial to aim for a team qualification for the Paris Olympics.
“We’re not thinking of Paris yet, we’re thinking of Antwerp, that’s where it’s going to happen. When we see France in the top twelve nations, that’s where we can talk regarding Paris, but not before “, said Bernard at the microphone of France Télévisions.
In the day’s other finals, the Croatian Tin Srbic won on the high bar, while the Armenian Artur Davtyan won the European title in the vault ahead of the defending champion, the Briton Jake Jarman.
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