The 25th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in
Stuttgart
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,
West Germany
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, in 1989 from October 14 to October 22.
The scoring rule ''New Life'' was introduced. This meant that gymnasts' scores were not carried over to the all-around and the event finals from the team competition.
Results
Men
Team Final
All-around
Floor Exercise
Pommel Horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel Bars
Horizontal Bar
Women
Team Final
All-around
Vault
Brandy Johnson was awarded scores of 9.937 and 9.950 for her two vaults in competition, giving her an average score of 9.943, enough for third place and the bronze medal, which was presented to her at the medal ceremony. Subsequently, however, the judges accepted a protest from the USA and revised her score to an average of 9.950, to share second place with Cristina Bontaș. She returned to the arena to be awarded her silver medal before the medal ceremony for uneven bars.
Uneven Bars
Balance Beam
Floor Exercise
Medals
Overall
Men
Women
Opening Event
The opening event was created and organised by
Traumfabrik
References
Gymn Forum: World Championships ResultsTraumfabrik.de
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World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are the world championships for artistic gymnastics governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). The first edition of the championships was held in 1903, exclusively for male gymnas ...
1989 in gymnastics
20th century in Baden-Württemberg
International gymnastics competitions hosted by West Germany