The 2011
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 7–16, 2011, at the
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
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.
Due to uncertainty over the nuclear situation following the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six m ...
, the
International Federation of Gymnastics
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revealed it was considering moving the event, but on May 22 FIG president
Bruno Grandi announced that the World Championships would take place in Tokyo as planned.
Participating countries
83 countries participated, which included gymnasts from
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Albania
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Argentina
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Armenia
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* Australia
* Austria
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Azerbaijan
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Bangladesh
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Belarus
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* Belgium
* Brazil
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Bulgaria
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* Canada
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Chile
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* China
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Chinese Taipei
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Colombia
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Costa Rica
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Croatia
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Cyprus
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Czech Republic
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* Denmark
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Dominican Republic
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Egypt
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El Salvador
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* Finland
* France
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Georgia
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* Germany
* Greece
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Guatemala
* Hong Kong
* Hungary
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Iceland
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* India
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Indonesia
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* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
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Jamaica
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* Japan
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Kazakhstan
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Kuwait
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Latvia
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Lithuania
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Luxembourg
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Malaysia
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* Mexico
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Monaco
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Mongolia
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Namibia
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* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Norway
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Peru
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Philippines
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* Poland
* Portugal
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Puerto Rico
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Qatar
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Romania
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* Russia
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Saudi Arabia
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Serbia
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Singapore
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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South Africa
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South Korea
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* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
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Thailand
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Tunisia
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* Turkey
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Ukraine
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Uzbekistan
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Venezuela
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Vietnam
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Olympic qualification
Teams
This event was the first qualifying stage for the
2012 Summer Olympics, which were held in London. The top 24 men's and women's teams from the
2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were allowed to send a full team of gymnasts. The top 8 men's and women's teams directly qualified for the team events at the 2012 Olympics. Teams placed 9th to 16th got a second chance to qualify a full team at the Olympic Test Event on January 10–18, 2012, from which four men's and women's teams qualified.
Individuals
The winners of gold, silver and bronze medals in each apparatus qualified for the Olympics, either as individuals or as members of their national team. Additional individual gymnasts qualified from the Test Event in January.
Competition schedule
All times are
JST (
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
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).
Oldest and youngest competitors
Medalists
Women's results
Qualification
Team all-around
In the qualifying round, 5 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and the top 4 scores were counted towards the team's total. The top 8 teams qualified to the final.
In the final round, held on October 11, only 3 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and all the scores counted. The United States team won the gold medal with solid performances by all gymnasts on all apparatus, while the Russian team made several mistakes and finished a distant second. China narrowly beat Romania to win the bronze medal, followed by Great Britain in fifth place.
[Wieber leads USA to Gold]
[Women's team final results]
This was the highest ranking finish Great Britain had ever had for a team at a World Championship.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Controversy
During the presentation of medals, the
National Anthem of the United States
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bo ...
was abruptly ended, causing some frustration amongst both the coaches and the gymnasts themselves.
*Alicia Sacramone injured her Achilles tendon during the last podium training and had already left Japan when the Team Final started. However, US National Team Coordinator Marta Karolyi opted to keep her on the roster instead of officially naming alternate
Anna Li to the team and subsequently competed with only 5 instead of the usual 6 gymnasts. This led to Sacramone receiving her tenth World Championships medal and officially becoming the US gymnast with the most World Championship medals. As Sacramone was not present during the competition, Li dressed, supported the team on the floor, and accepted the team medal for Sacramone. Li later passed the medal on to Sacramone and received (as customary for the World team alternates) a copy from USAG.
Individual all-around
The final was held on October 13. None of the medalists from the previous year were able to compete to defend their title as the gold and bronze medalists—
Aliya Mustafina and
Rebecca Bross, respectively—were both unable to compete at worlds due to knee injuries, and silver medalist Jiang Yuyuan did not qualify high enough over her teammates. A number of gymnasts ranked high enough to make the all-around final, but did not qualify due to the two-per-country rule. All the gymnasts from the USA that competed in the preliminary round ranked in the top 24. The gymnasts affected were
Gabby Douglas (5th),
Sabrina Vega (9th), and
McKayla Maroney (12th) of the United States. Also affected were
Tan Sixin (15th) and
Jiang Yuyuan (20th) of China,
Yuko Shintake (21st) and
Yu Minobe (23rd) of Japan, and
Anna Dementyeva (31st) of Russia. The last gymnast to qualify was
Carlotta Ferlito
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, who ranked 32nd in the preliminary competition.
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Vault
Phan's bronze medal was the first medal for Vietnam at a World Championships. Maroney's performance secured the third consecutive World gold medal for the USA on women's vault following
Kayla Williams in 2009 and teammate
Alicia Sacramone in 2010. Chusovitina's silver was her 11th world medal (her 9th vault world medal). As her first world championships was in Indianapolis in 1991, she has been competing at an international level since before her fellow vault finalists were born.
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*: Yamilet Peña attempted a handspring double front vault, which has a 7.1 D Value score, but because she landed on her back, she scored a 0.000.
Uneven bars
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Balance beam
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Floor
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On the day before the competition, it was announced that
Diana Bulimar injured her foot, and first reserve
Lauren Mitchell would take her place in the final. Shortly after the women's beam competition, it was announced that Russia decided to pull
Viktoria Komova from the competition to give her teammate (and second reserve)
Ksenia Afanasyeva a chance to compete in the final instead. During warm up
Vanessa Ferrari injured herself; so, third reserve
Diana Chelaru was quickly added to replace her.
Men's results
Qualifications
Team all-around
In the
qualifying round, 5 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and the top 4 scores counted towards the team's total. The top 8 teams qualified for the final.
In the final round, held on October 12, only 3 gymnasts performed on each apparatus, and all the scores were counted. The Chinese team won the title for the fifth successive time, benefiting from crucial mistakes by the last 2 Japanese gymnasts. Japan was still able to win the silver medal, with a margin of only 0.010 point from the United States in bronze medal position.
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* Berbecar landed on his back, therefore scored a 0.000.
Individual all-around
The all-around final was held on October 14. Three gymnasts had ranked high enough to qualify, but were not allowed to compete due to the two-per-country rule. The affected gymnasts were
Jonathan Horton (5th),
Fabian Hambüchen (19th) and
Steven Legendre (24th). On the day of the final,
Marian Drăgulescu pulled out of the competition and
Nathan Gafuik took his place.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Floor
The final for Men's Floor Exercise took place on October 15.
Marian Drăgulescu had qualified in 2nd, but pulled out of the competition on the morning of the final. As the first reserve, Jake Dalton (USA) took his place. There was also an inquiry made by the Japanese coaches into the scoring when Kōhei Uchimura's difficulty score was only awarded a 6.500 because they had mistaken a triple twisting move for a double twisting move. The inquiry was accepted by the judges, and the score adjusted accordingly, which gave Uchimura the gold medal.
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Pommel horse
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Rings
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Vault
Originally,
Marian Drăgulescu was to compete in this final, but had to pull out of competition due to an injury.
Denis Ablyazin replaced him in the final as the first reserve.
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Parallel bars
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Horizontal bar
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Medal table
Overall
Men
Women
References
External links
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