1996 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 21st European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held from 16-19 May 1996 in Birmingham, England.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Seniors
Team details	Romania Lavinia Miloșovici Gina Gogean Simona Amânar Ana Maria Bican Andreea Cacovean	Russia Dina Kochetkova Svetlana Khorkina Rozalia Galiyeva Oksana Lyapina	Ukraine Liubov Sheremeta Anna Mirgorodskaya Lilia Podkopayeva
All-Around details	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	Lavinia Miloșovici  (ROU)
Vault details	Simona Amânar  (ROU)	Gina Gogean  (ROU)	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)
Uneven Bars details	Svetlana Khorkina  (RUS)   Simona Amânar  (ROU)   Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	none awarded	none awarded
Balance Beam details	Rozalia Galiyeva  (RUS)	Gina Gogean  (ROU)	Elena Piskun  (BLR)
Floor details	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)   Lavinia Miloșovici  (ROU)	none awarded	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)   Joana Juárez  (ESP)
Juniors
Team details	Russia Elena Zamolodchikova Ksenia Bogdanova Ludmila Ezhova Anna Kovalyova Julia Grichko	France Elvire Teza Émilie Volle Orélie Troscompt Fanny Cottencin Magalie Ruffato	Ukraine Viktoria Karpenko Olga Teslenko Olga Kozlova Yelena Zhyikova Inha Shkarupa
All-Around details	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)
Vault details	Maria Olaru  (ROU)	Elena Zamolodchikova  (RUS)	Inha Shkarupa  (UKR)
Uneven Bars details	Elvire Teza  (FRA)	Olga Teslenko  (UKR)   Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	none awarded
Balance Beam details	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	Elvire Teza  (FRA)	Ludmila Ezhova  (RUS)
Floor details	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)

Medal table

Combined

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania  (ROU)	7	3	2	12
2	Ukraine  (UKR)	4	1	5	10
3	Russia  (RUS)	3	2	2	7
4	France  (FRA)	1	2	0	3
5	Italy  (ITA)	0	2	0	2
6	Belarus  (BLR)	0	1	1	2
7	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		15	11	11	37

Seniors

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania  (ROU)	4	2	1	7
2	Ukraine  (UKR)	3	0	2	5
3	Russia  (RUS)	2	1	1	4
4	Belarus  (BLR)	0	1	1	2
5	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		9	4	6	19

Juniors

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania  (ROU)	3	1	1	5
2	France  (FRA)	1	2	0	3
3	Ukraine  (UKR)	1	1	3	5
4	Russia  (RUS)	1	1	1	3
5	Italy  (ITA)	0	2	0	2
Totals (5 entries)		6	7	5	18

Senior results

All-around

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	9.806	9.725	9.762	9.912	39.205
	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	9.731	9.825	9.775	9.775	39.106
	Lavinia Miloșovici  (ROM)	9.793	9.837	9.637	9.800	39.067
4	Simona Amânar  (ROM)	9.831	9.737	9.612	9.762	38.942
5	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)	9.656	9.762	9.525	9.787	38.730
6	Svetlana Khorkina  (RUS)	9.750	9.750	9.262	9.787	38.549
7	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou  (GRE)	9.425	9.612	9.600	9.625	38.262
8	Mónica Martín  (ESP)	9.549	9.500	9.525	9.662	38.236
9	Ludivine Furnon  (FRA)	9.474	9.537	9.387	9.712	38.110
10	Joana Juárez  (ESP)	9.649	9.637	9.037	9.700	38.023
11	Elena Piskun  (BLR)	9.187	9.787	9.575	9.350	37.899
12	Nikolett Krausz  (HUN)	9.581	9.175	9.362	9.737	37.855
13	Annika Reeder  (GBR)	9.431	9.262	9.325	9.525	37.543
14	Kathleen Stark  (GER)	9.543	9.037	9.362.	9.537	37.479
15	Giordana Rocchi  (ITA)	9.531	9.437	9.037	9.462	37.467
16	Ludmilla Prince  (LAT)	9.487	9.400	8.925	9.512	37.324
17	Liubov Sheremeta  (UKR)	9.512	9.187	8.887	9.625	37.211
18	Pascale Grossenbacher  (SUI)	9.443	9.500	8.862	9.350	37.155
19	Adi Peer  (ISR)	9.118	9.525	8.687	9.375	36.705
20	Ilena Menghesso  (ITA)	9.468	9.150	8.525	9.462	36.605
21	Cindy Klemrath  (GER)	9.462	9.187	8.225	9.362	36.236
22	Gabriela Krčmárová  (CZE)	9.268	9.175	8.525	9.187	36.155
23	Maya Shani  (ISR)	9.437	8.600	8.587	9.237	35.861
24	Monique Cohnen  (BEL)	9.043	8.275	8.912	9.350	35.580

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Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Simona Amânar  (ROU)	9.774
	Gina Gogean  (ROU)	9.768
	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	9.756
4	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)	9.725
4	Svetlana Khorkina  (RUS)	9.725
6	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	9.662
7	Joana Juárez  (ESP)	9.518
8	Einat Kedar  (ISR)	9.418

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Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Svetlana Khorkina  (RUS)	9.825
	Simona Amânar  (ROU)	9.825
	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	9.825
4	Lavinia Miloșovici  (ROU)	9.800
5	Liubov Sheremeta  (UKR)	9.775
6	Elena Piskun  (BLR)	9.725
6	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	9.725
8	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)	9.262

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Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Rozalia Galiyeva  (RUS)	9.725
	Gina Gogean  (ROU)	9.712
	Elena Piskun  (BLR)	9.650
4	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	9.575
5	Simona Amânar  (ROU)	9.562
6	Liubov Sheremeta  (UKR)	9.450
7	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)	9.000
8	Anna Mirgorodskaya  (UKR)	8.762

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Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Lilia Podkopayeva  (UKR)	9.862
	Lavinia Miloșovici  (ROU)	9.862
	Dina Kochetkova  (RUS)	9.800
	Joana Juárez  (ESP)	9.800
5	Rozalia Galiyeva  (RUS)	9.762
6	Svetlana Boginskaya  (BLR)	9.600
7	Simona Amânar  (ROU)	9.562
8	Elena Piskun  (BLR)	9.412

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Junior Results

All-around

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROM)	9.549	9.700	9.562	9.662	38.473
	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	9.599	9.662	9.462	9.500	38.223
	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)	9.562	9.687	9.625	9.150	38.024
4	Elvira Teza  (FRA)	9.531	9.775	9.012	9.587	37.905
5	Elena Zamolodchikova  (RUS)	9.700	9.687	8.800	9.537	37.724
5	Maria Olaru  (ROM)	9.662	9.612	8.975	9.475	37.724
7	Gemma Paz  (ESP)	9.343	9.512	9.162	9.637	37.654
8	Ksenia Bogdanova  (RUS)	9.549	9.325	9.050	9.462	37.386
9	Lisa Mason  (GBR)	9.443	8.875	9.400	9.475	37.193
10	Diana Teixeira  (POR)	9.456	9.625	8.887	9.162	37.130
11	Birgit Schweigert  (GER)	9.393	9.612	9.250	8.850	37.105
12	Émilie Volle  (FRA)	9.356	9.500	8.812	9.387	37.055
13	Eva Ševcová  (SVK)	9.362	9.212	9.125	9.125	36.824
14	Zuzana Sekerová  (SVK)	9.281	9.312	8.962	9.125	36.680
15	Anna Nilsson  (SWE)	9.193	9.312	8.850	8.900	36.255
16	Natalie Lucitt  (GBR)	9.206	8.787	9.025	9.150	36.168
17	Nina Zarzhitskaya  (BLR)	9.406	8.562	8.550	9.500	36.018
18	Eva Filo  (HUN)	9.374	8.950	8.525	9.100	35.949
19	Gabriella Onodi  (HUN)	9.343	8.262	9.225	8.725	35.555
20	Michaela Knorrova  (CZE)	9.006	8.925	8.387	9.187	35.505
21	Diana Plaza  (ESP)	9.493	7.875	8.812	9.325	35.505
22	Tatiana Tessyuk  (BLR)	9.443	8.737	8.200	8.725	35.195
23	Olga Menin  (ISR)	8.418	9.212	8.537	8.875	35.042
24	Vesna Stavrev  (SLO)	9.112	7.525	8.800	9.000	34.437

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Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Maria Olaru  (ROU)	9.687
	Elena Zamolodchikova  (RUS)	9.668
	Inha Shkarupa  (UKR)	9.662
4	Anna Kovalyova  (RUS)	9.631
5	Ainhoa Aguado  (ESP)	9.599
6	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	9.543
7	Andrea Behunová  (SVK)	9.487
8	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	9.268

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Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Elvire Teza  (FRA)	9.812
	Olga Teslenko  (UKR)	9.725
	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	9.725
4	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)	9.712
5	Martina Bremini  (ITA)	9.675
6	Émilie Volle  (FRA)	9.500
7	Ludmila Ezhova  (RUS)	9.225
8	Kirsten Visser  (NED)	8.950

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Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	9.750
	Elvire Teza  (FRA)	9.675
	Ludmila Ezhova  (RUS)	9.412
4	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)	9.387
5	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	8.987
6	Olga Teslenko  (UKR)	8.750
7	Eva Ševcová  (SVK)	8.700
8	Diana Teixeira  (POR)	8.625

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Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Viktoria Karpenko  (UKR)	9.675
	Adriana Crisci  (ITA)	9.662
	Alexandra Marinescu  (ROU)	9.625
4	Martina Bremini  (ITA)	9.562
5	Orélie Troscompt  (FRA)	9.500
6	Ksenia Bogdanova  (RUS)	9.475
7	Maria Olaru  (ROU)	9.412
8	Elena Zamolodchikova  (RUS)	9.125

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References

1. "1996 European Championships Women's AA". Gymn Forum. 21 November 1997. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
2. "1996 European Championships Women's EF". Gymn Forum. 21 November 1997. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
3. "1996 Jr. European Championships Women's AA". Gymn Forum. 18 January 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2025.