The event was due to be held in Gothenburg last year but was postponed because of the pandemic and switched to the venue of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

This is the fourth time Russia has staged the event, with the 1996, 2002 and 2012 editions having been hosted in Saint Petersburg.

A total of 23 national federation teams will challenge for continental titles in trampoline, tumbling and double mini-trampoline, with 213 senior and 258 junior gymnasts scheduled to compete.

Russia’s team includes the London 2012 individual trampoline silver medallist Dmitri Ushakov and Yana Pavlova, who will defend the individual trampoline title she won when this event was last held three years ago in Baku.

Other top home gymnasts set to compete include Andrey Yudin, Mikhail Melnik, Vadim Afanasev, Viktoria Danilenko, Mikhail Zalomin, Vasili Makarski, Aleksandr Odintsov and Galina Begim.

Belarus, meanwhile, will be represented by a team including the reigning Olympic men’s individual champion Uladzislau Hancharou and the team-mate with whom he won the synchro and trampoline team titles at the 2018 European Championships, Aleh Rabtsau.

Poland will field the 2019 European Games champions in synchronised trampoline, Artur Zakrzewski and Lukasz Jaworski.

Among the French competitors will be the women’s individual trampoline champion at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Lea Labrousse and her team-mates Allan Morante and Marine Jurbert.

Top tumbling performers will includes Tachina Peeters of Belgium, defending men’s champion Mikhail Malkin of Azerbaijan and Denmark’s 2018 silver medallist Rasmus Steffensen.

In the double mini-trampoline event, Sweden have selected Lina Sjoeberg and Jonas Nordfors), Georgia’s team includes Luba Golovina and Portugal have selected Diogo Abreu, Diogo Ganchinho and Beatriz Martins.

Competition starts tomorrow with qualifications for senior double mini-trampoline and tumbling, and qualifications and final for junior trampolining.