Team Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan and Dominick Cunningham qualified to the Pommel and Vault finals respectively yesterday on the opening day of the European Gymnastics Championships 2024 in Rimini, Italy.

McClenaghan qualified in 2nd with a score of 15.133 on pommel while teammate Cunningham qualified in 8th on Vault with a combined score of 14.150.

The Pommel Horse final will take place on Friday 26th with the Vault final taking place on Saturday 27th.

The Championships are being shown live on Eurovision Sport, a free-to air streaming platform.

The team placed 17th scoring a 233.894 led by Adam Steele’s impressive All-Around contribution scoring 80.332. Teammate Eamon Montgomery scored a 14.000 on the Floor Exercise while Daniel Fox (pictured above) led the team on Still Rings with a score of 13.166 while also scoring 75.484 in the All-Around.

The focus now shifts to the Men’s Junior Competition where James Hickey will compete this morning 25th April in subdivision 1 at 09.00 Irish time.

“Happy to make another European Finals, more work to be done but got the job done for today,” said McClenaghan.

“Today was a special day, Rhys McClenaghan continues his campaign to retain his European Title and Dominick performed an amazing 1st vault that helped secure his European Vault final,” added Coach Luke Carson.

“Adam Steele was the man of the hour with a personal best in his AA performance. He performed with confidence and elegance all the way through. We are all very proud of him.”

“This was a great team performance with a significant improvement from 2023 moving from 23rd to 17th position in ranks with a team score of 233.894 a 5.832 improvement from 2023,” said Gymnastics Ireland Performance and Technical Manger, Sally Johnson.

“Super work from Adam, absolute credit to him with one of the very best Irish AA scores achieved to date. Great job in qualifying from Rhys on Pommel and Dominick on Vault. Well done to all the team in all the preparations and performances,” concluded CEO Ciaran Gallagher.

 

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