The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the umbrella body of free-to-air broadcasters, has consolidated its gymnastics offering by renewing its long-standing rights deal for competitions organized by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
The deal, from 2025 to 2028, grants the EBU exclusive rights to air the FIG World Championships in the artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline disciplines, as well as non-exclusive rights for non-Olympic disciplines and events in aerobic, acrobatic, and parkour.
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The rights include World Gymnaestrada, the international multi-discipline event being held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2027.
The renewal covers 20 EBU members, including EPTV (Algeria), VRT (Belgium), BNT (Bulgaria), HRT (Croatia), CYBC (Cyprus), YLE (Finland), ARD/ZDF (Germany), ERT (Greece), MTVA (Hungary), RÚV (Iceland), RTÉ (Ireland), RAI (Italy), NOS (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), STVR (Slovakia), TVE (Spain), SRG (Switzerland), TRT (Türkiye), and UA:PBC (Ukraine).
The EBU’s free streaming platform, Eurovision Sport, will also provide coverage alongside the 20 broadcasters.
The next event to be broadcast under the renewed agreement is the FIG Artistic Gymnastic World Championships being held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from October 19 to 25, followed by coverage of the Trampoline World Championships in Pamplona, Spain, from November 5 to 9.
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By GlobalDataThe rights add to the EBU’s slate of gymnastics rights, which include events organized by European Gymnastics through a deal struck earlier this year, which will also run through 2028, the year of the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
That deal covers the annual Artistic Gymnastics European Championships and Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships across 21 different territories.
In terms of recent rights deals, earlier this week, the EBU secured exclusive live rights across almost all of Europe to the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games to complement its deal for the 2026 Winter Olympics (alongside WBD), meanwhile, through a deal disclosed in early 2023 that covers all Olympic Games – Winter and Summer – through 2032.
Earlier this year, the EBU extended its long-running media distribution partnership with World Rowing through 2032, covering a host of the governing body’s biggest events, including the annual World Rowing Championship, the European Rowing Championships, and the annual World Rowing Cups series.
