Let’s rank everybody! Time for a breakdown of the final WAG medal count and what transpired this week at the 2025 European Championships.

Italy – 5

TEAM GOLD
Manila Esposito
Sofia Tonelli
Alice D’Amato
Emma Fioravanti
Giulia Perotti

ALL-AROUND GOLD
Manila Esposito

FLOOR EXERCISE SILVER
Manila Esposito

MIXED TEAM BRONZE
Manila Esposito
Lorenzo Casali

BALANCE BEAM BRONZE
Sofia Tonelli

Italy tried pretty hard to make it weird this week but ended up being just too wonderful at gymnastics and won the medal count with five.

In the team competition, the Italians got immediately lost in a forest with falls on both bars and beam from Alice D’Amato, falls on both beam and floor from Giulia Perotti, and a DTY fall from Manila Esposito—but it didn’t matter! Entering their Simone era with gusto (and aided by 4-up, 3-count), they didn’t have to hit all that well to win gold. Which is what happened. Congratulations!

Esposito qualified first in the AA even with that vault fall, so a downgrade back to her more comfortable Y1.5 along with a tremendous showing on beam brought her a repeat all-around championship in the absolute highlight of the competition for the Italians. Surprising no one, Esposito ended up as the medal MVP with four—two golds, a silver, and a bronze—though her realistic quest for six medals was brought to an end by event-final falls on bars and beam. She finished the competition on a high note, however, with her typical floor hit for a silver medal, completing the full medal color spectrum.

A potential strategic hiccup in the mixed team event left the Italians with bronze despite the best cumulative score of all the countries, though they also got a pleasant surprise of a bronze in the form of Sofia Tonelli’s beam medal. Tonelli was the breakout star of the Italian team at this competition, the only one who delivered four counting scores in the team event, and her crisply elegant beam in the event final was rightly rewarded with a medal.

Commiserations, meanwhile, to Alice D’Amato, who was cruelly denied the opportunity for individual hardware by her qualification falls. We’ll always have the Olympic beam final.

Romania – 4

FLOOR EXERCISE GOLD
Ana Barbosu

BALANCE BEAM SILVER
Ana Barbosu

ALL-AROUND BRONZE
Ana Barbosu

UNEVEN BARS BRONZE
Ana Barbosu

The Romanians were the absolute queens of chaos at this competition, and we love them for it. It all started in the team event.

Just outpacing Alice D’Amato in the “most likely to resort to a life of axe-throwing after this” rankings, Sabrina Voinea opened her competition by falling on her forward roll beam mount and then went on to hit all of her actual bonkers difficulty. She went to floor and fell on a full-in, then correctly eye-rolled her way through a couple stupid leaps, and then scratched vault. It’s called the Devil’s Triple Play: two falls and a scratch.

If Voinea had vaulted for any of the scores she got on vault last year, Romania would have won team bronze instead of France. But as it was…fourth.

Moving to the all-around final, Voinea handed the chaos baton to Ana Barbosu, who fell on beam and scored an 11 and still somehow managed to win the bronze medal. Then, Barbosu missed the bars final as first alternate, but then got promoted into the final when Helen Kevric withdrew, and then hit for another bronze medal. She is an actual magician?

Magic and chaos complete, Barbosu hit her stride and moved onto her best ones on the last day of event finals, resolving any beam issues to win silver in that final, then just outscoring Esposito on floor to end the competition with a gold and a four-medal tally. Technically, Esposito is the medal MVP because her four medals were 2 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze and Barbosu’s were 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronzes, but Barbosu’s were also all individual medals and 2 of Esposito’s were team medals, and that should count for something.

Meanwhile back in the chaos category, Romania’s second-best gymnast at this competition had been retired for 5.5 years until last month. You know how you do. Denisa Golgota was an artistic and execution star at this meet, and Romania is deeply fortunate to have her back.

Germany – 3

MIXED TEAM GOLD
Karina Schönmaier
Timo Eder

VAULT GOLD
Karina Schönmaier

TEAM SILVER
Helen Kevric
Janoah Müller
Lea Marie Quaas
Karina Schönmaier
Silja Stöhr

Reports of the death of the German team appear to be greatly exaggerated. Without the bolstering routines of the golden generation gymnasts, the German women’s squad had been in a bit of a lull, failing to qualify a team to the Olympics for the first time in 20 years.

This lull appears to be done now, and much quicker than expected. The Germans outperformed expectations at their home championship, led by the 3-medal performance of Karina Schönmaier, who definitely wins most improved gymnast compared to the person we saw compete at world championships during the last quadrennium. Her DTY and Lopez combination won vault gold, she hit her three events for mixed team gold, and she advanced to the floor final and all-around final (before withdrawing), confirming her evolution from qualification-routine-squad-gymnast to team star.

The downside for the German team was the injury to Helen Kevric, whose 14.766 on bars and vault DTY were consequential in earning the team silver medal. Kevric was on track for additional medals in the all-around (#3 qualifier) and on bars (#1 qualifier) before a vault injury in the AA final took her out of the rest of the competition.

Belgium – 3

UNEVEN BARS GOLD
Nina Derwael

BALANCE BEAM GOLD
Nina Derwael

VAULT BRONZE
Lisa Vaelen

So, Nina’s back-back now. Going the route of the bars and beam specialist here and not bothering with those other stupid leg ones, Derwael won the Nastia Double, her first major meet medals in 3 years and (shockingly) her first Euro bars title in 7 years.

Following Kevric’s withdrawal, Derwael became the heavy favorite for gold on bars should she get through a hit, which she did, and the following day she put up one of her patented “what do you even deduct?” beam routines to E-score everyone else into submission and take beam gold.

Even though Belgium’s team results have flagged lately, they’re still capable of racking up the individual event medals and beating more more robust teams in the medal count. Lisa Vaelen got into the act with a vault bronze thanks in large part to her handspring rudi, which was the most difficult hit vault in the final.

Spain – 2

ALL-AROUND SILVER
Alba Petisco

FLOOR EXERCISE BRONZE
Alba Petisco

Alba Petisco had her meet. Six years since her senior debut, Alba Petisco came through for her first medals at a major competition at this year’s Euros, combining exceptional leap execution with expressive performance to steal the show in the all-around for silver and add a floor medal for good measure.

Bulgaria – 1

VAULT SILVER
Valentina Georgieva

Georgieva delivered her second consecutive European vault silver medal, hitting the DTY for the top single vault score in the final, and adding a successful Tsuk 1.5 to clinch a medal.

The story of Georgieva’s performance and the whole vault final, though, was the new 0.2 bonus for performing vaults with different post-flight directions actually coming into play. Georgieva had the best vaults of the final, outscoring gold medalist Schönmaier on both the first and second vaults, and would have won the title in any previous year. But since her vaults both had backward post-flight, Georgieva did not get the 0.2 bonus, while Schönmaier did, vaulting her (get it) into the gold position by less than a tenth and knocking Georgieva to silver.

Hungary – 1

UNEVEN BARS SILVER
Bettina Lili Czifra

In the most “where did that come from?” moment of the event finals, Czifra earned a silver on uneven bars after the best routine of her or anyone else’s life for 14.100. This is the first time she has ever hit the 14 mark in competition, and she did it in the Euros bars final. The second- and third-best bars scores of Czifra’s career came at the Olympics, so…seems like she’s a gamer.

Great Britain – 1

MIXED TEAM SILVER
Ruby Evans
Jake Jarman

The British women’s team is in a period of (potentially momentary) generational transition—no Gadirovas, no Downies, no Kinsellas, no Morgans, etc—so there were not a ton of big medal expectations coming into this meet. Seeing just one medal on the chart and having it come in an event where MAG helped a lot is not super surprising.

Ruby Evans, basically what counts as a veteran on this team right now, got that silver medal and had some great moments in this competition, performing a lovely floor routine for fourth in that final and coming a bars hit short of a medal in the all-around. We also saw flashes from other members of the squad—Alia Leat had an impressive beam going in the team competition before a wolf turn got her.

Overall, it’s a group that still needs seasoning—or, you know, a Jessica Gadirova being back.

France – 1

TEAM BRONZE
Lorette Charpy
Ming Van Eijken
Romane Hamelin
Djenna Laroui
Morgane Osyssek-Reimer

France opened Euros by reminding us that the Olympics never happened—what are you talking about—for a bronze in the team competition. Additional medals did not follow, but in a lot of ways, winning just one bronze medal undersells the quality of the French performance here.

There were several very strong showings, most notably from Morgane Osyssek-Reimer, who won this meet’s Flying Pavlova trophy for most regal 4th-place finishes, coming in 4th in the mixed team competition, and then again in the all-around final, and then again on beam. An excellent meet, if somewhat devoid of shiny things in the end. Lorette Charpy also had a very good one, coming in 5th behind Osyssek-Reimer’s 4th place both in the all-around and on beam.

Valiant Efforts for Zero Medals

Vanesa Masova looks like Czechia’s best gymnast in decades, performing brilliantly executed gymnastics on bars and beam—doing the kind of thing we used to call International Look and now just call good—to place top-6 on both events in the all-around final and 5th on bars in the event final. It’s happening.

Jennifer Williams of Sweden did the beam of all beams in qualification for an “is that a typo?” 6.4 D score and 14.533 total, eclipsing her previous best beam score by more than a point. That’s what we call a difficulty glow up. She fell on both beam and floor in the event finals for no medals, but we all noticed that qualification beam.

In the so-close department, Finland’s Maisa Kuusikko very nearly got on the bars podium with a 13.600 for fourth place, and Teja Belak very nearly got her first major medal with her own fourth-place finish on vault. Belak has 35 vault medals (and 10 golds) at World Cup events over a span of 16 years as a senior to cement her status as Challenge Cup Latynina, but never anything at Euros.