GYMNASTICS and golf have been added to the programme for the inaugural European Sports Championships in 2018.
The European Artistic Gymnastics Championships will take place at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, while the first-ever European Golf Team Championships will be held at Gleneagles, which hosted the 2014 Ryder Cup.
The addition of gymnastics and golf brings the total number of sports involved in the brand-new European Sports Championships concept to seven alongside athletics, aquatics, cycling, rowing and triathlon.
Every sport will be hosted by Scotland except athletics, which will be staged in German capital Berlin. The event will take place from August 1-12, 2018.
The European Aquatic Championships will take place at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow with diving and synchronised swimming at Edinburgh's Royal Commonwealth Pool and open water swimming at Loch Lomond.
Four European Cycling Championships will be held in Glasgow. Track, road, mountain bike and BMX will attract 650 riders to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, the Cathkin Braes mountain bike trails, the streets of Glasgow and a new BMX facility to be built in the Knightswood area of the city.
The European Championships for rowing and triathlon will both be staged at Strathclyde Country Park in North Lanarkshire.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Daniel Purvis said: "Glasgow showed exactly what it was capable of during the World Championships and Commonwealth Games, but it can now look ahead to 2018 and the excitement of the inaugural European Sports Championships.”
It has also been announced that Aberdeen will host the 2020 LEN European Junior Championships, featuring swimming and diving.
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