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The European Championships are currently being held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Women's individual qualification rounds held today determined who will advance to the finals this weekend, starting with the all-around final tomorrow, at 5:30 local time. Great Britain's Ellie Downie made waves, qualifiying first to the all-around final, as well as the vault and floor final and earning spots in the bars and beam finals. For more information visit: http://www.clujeurogym2017.ro/en/ http://www.flogymnastics.com/event/255050-2017-european-championships Full results listed below

Here are the team, all around and event qualifiers after five subdivisions of competition. Note - the highlighted names indicate the athletes qualified.  Per FIG rules, only two per country can advance to all-around and event finals.  In the event more than two athletes per country placed in the top 24/top 8, the next highest qualifying gymnast qualifies (so long as it's still in compliance with the two per country rule. Team

This world championships is the last world championships before the Rio Olympic Games in Summer of 2016. These world championships are a big deal because this event is acting as a qualifier to not only the Olympics themselves, but the Olympic Test event, the final qualifying event for the Olympics. The qualifications from the past two days in Glasgow have been a mad scramble to get that ticket to Rio. The list of automatic qualifiers and those who must qualify through the test event.

As promised, here are the team final results from the qualifications: Top Qualifying Score: 236.611 Cut Off Qualifying Score: 222.354 Difference: 14.057

Qualifications for the World Championships have concluded. Here are the final standings for the individual all-around and the event finals adjusted for the two per country rule. All-Around Results: Top qualifying score: 61.598 Cut off qualifying score: 55.216 Difference: 6.782