1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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The 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in
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. There was no team competition at this meet; gymnasts competed in the all-around and event finals only. The opening ceremony took place on 12 April at the
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, and the competition took place from 13–18 April at the
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. Fifty-seven nations participated, more than at any previous edition of the
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 ...
. The member states of the
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competed under their own flags for the first time. This was the first world championships to allow only 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, with 2 gymnasts per nation instead of 3. This format returned at the 2003 World Championships and has remained ever since.


Medallists

* Because Belenky's home country,
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, did not have a gymnastics federation, he competed at this event as an independent (UNA) athlete.


Medals


Overall


Men


Women


Participants


Men

* Because Belenky's home country,
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
, did not have a gymnastics federation, he competed at this meet as an unattached (UNA) athlete.


Women


Men's results


All-around


Floor exercise


Pommel horse


Rings


Vault


Parallel bars


Horizontal bar


Women's results


All-around


Vault


Uneven bars


Balance beam


Floor exercise

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