Max Whitlock and Becky Downie return to GB team for European Gymnastics Championships

Max Whitlock has won 4 European golds, 3 silvers and a bronze

Max Whitlock and Becky Downie person returned to the Great Britain squad for the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships successful Turkey.

Downie, 31, returns for the archetypal clip since the 2021 World Championships.

World champion Jessica Gadirova is besides included successful the GB women's squad for the lawsuit successful Antalya from 11-16 April.

Downie and Gadirova are joined by Alice Kinsella, Ondine Achampong and Georgia-Mae Fenton.

Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse volition marque their debuts successful the men's lawsuit alongside world, European and Commonwealth medallists Jake Jarman and Courtney Tulloch.

But satellite level champion Giarnni Regini-Moran misses retired arsenic helium recovers from enarthrosis surgery.

"Going done a signifier wherever I truly struggled aft Tokyo was a clip I learned a batch astir myself, particularly reasoning I was finished with the sport," said Whitlock.

"This play of self-reflection and maturation led maine to instrumentality but with a caller mindset. I'm much relaxed successful grooming and successful contention but arsenic much motivated to support processing and progressing.

"It's astir a nothing-to-lose mindset which tin beryllium truthful almighty successful competition. I'm looking guardant to competing connected a large signifier again."

British Gymnastics show manager Tracy Whittaker-Smith said: "The instrumentality to large title enactment of Max Whitlock and Becky Downie is hugely invited and breathtaking for each progressive portion elder large championships debutants Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse volition nary uncertainty summation invaluable acquisition from being alongside a squad of gymnasts who person achieved truthful overmuch and person been performing truthful spectacularly.

"With a beardown database of established GB gymnasts progressing to afloat fittingness and signifier aft a engaged 2022 and galore up-and-coming younger names to look retired for, it's wide that determination is simply a large excavation of endowment for america each to beryllium excited astir with little than 500 days to spell to the Olympics."

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