European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

[1] In odd years, they are held in tandem with the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and include a team competition.

Despite the alternating formats, all winners are considered European champions with one medal table.

[citation needed] As a result, there is no individual all-around title awarded in even-numbered years (except for juniors), and similarly no team all-around title awarded in odd-numbered years.

[citation needed] In 2015, UEG agreed that beginning in 2018, the annual European Championships in the midyear of the Olympic cycle (i.e. 2 years after, and before, a Summer Olympic Games) would be held as part of the new multi-sport European Championships event, and would be held in that format every four years.

Although these championships are numbered separately, and the medals awarded counted separately, they constitute European Championships in the same manner as the men- and women-only competitions they alternate with, and the winners are considered European champions in the same way.

9th European Gymnastics Championships for men in Madrid 14th and 15th May 1971. The medal ceremony for the parallel bars, from right to left: the Italian Giovanni Carminucci (gold), and Mikhail Voronin from the USSR, Klaus Köste from the GDR and Nikolai Andrianov from the USSR (all silver).