The 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was the forty-seventh edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from October 2–8, 2017, at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event marked the first time since

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that the Championships had been held in

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. Montreal was also the host of the 1985 World Championships and the

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. The event was part of Montreal's 375th anniversary and Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations, both of which were in fall of 2017.

Competition schedule

All times are EDT ( UTC–4).

Medalists

Overall standings

Overall medal table

Men's medal table

Women's medal table

Men's results

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors

Floor

Due to a dead spot on the floor in the last subdivision of qualifications that allowed a rotation of gymnasts to redo their floor routines,

Bram Verhofstad Bram Verhofstad (born 3 February 1995) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. He competed at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships The 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was the forty-seventh edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World ...

of the Netherlands bumped out the original eighth-place qualifier Tomás González of Chile. After an appeal by the Chilean Gymnastics Federation, González was reinstated. As a result, there were nine gymnasts in the final. Oldest and youngest competitors

Pommel horse

Oldest and youngest competitors

Rings

Oldest and youngest competitors

Vault

Top qualifier

Yang Hak-seon Yang Hak-seon ( ; born 6 December 1992) is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault. He is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Personal life According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymn ...

of South Korea withdrew with a hamstring injury and was replaced by first reserve Artur Dalaloyan of Russia in the final. Oldest and youngest competitors

Parallel bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

Horizontal bar

With the successful completion of the double-twisting straight ''Kovac'' (aka double-twisting ''Cassina'' or ''Bretschneider'' straight) in competition by

Hidetaka Miyachi Hidetaka (written: 秀孝, 秀貴, 秀隆, 英孝, 英貴, 英峻, 英学, or 英高) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese video game director *, Japanese ...

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(despite a fall on a different element in his routine) during the horizontal bar individual event final, the skill—now officially called the ''Miyachi'' on the horizontal bar—has been automatically named after him, the only element currently in men's artistic gymnastics to be assigned the new and highest difficulty score of I (0.9). Oldest and youngest competitors

Women's results

Individual all-around

Great Britain's Alice Kinsella withdrew before the final due to an ankle injury sustained in qualifications and was replaced by first reserve Lee Eun-ju of South Korea. Second-place qualifier Ragan Smith of the United States injured her ankle during warm-ups moments before the first event and withdrew. Second reserve

Ioana Crișan Ioana Crișan (born ) is a Romanian female artistic gymnast. At the 2016 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships The European Women's Gymnastics Championships are an artistic championships for female gymnasts from European countries ...

of Romania replaced Smith in the top group, as there was no time to re-seed due to Smith's late withdrawal. Oldest and youngest competitors

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors

Uneven bars

Nina Derwael of Belgium is the first gymnast from her country to make an event final and her bronze was the first-ever medal for Belgium. Oldest and youngest competitors

Balance beam

Pauline Schäfer Pauline Sieglinde Schäfer or Schäfer-Betz (born 4 January 1997) is a German Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who represented Germany at the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Olymp ...

won the first-ever World Championships balance beam gold medal for Germany. Oldest and youngest competitors

Floor

Top qualifier Ragan Smith of the United States withdrew after sustaining an ankle injury in warm-ups for the all-around final earlier in the week; she was replaced by first reserve Ellie Black of Canada in the floor final.

Mai Murakami is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast and Olympic medalist. She is the 2017 World Champion and 2021 World Champion on floor exercise, the 2018 World all-around silver medalist and floor exercise bronze medalist, and a four-time Japanese nat ...

won

's first-ever gold for women on the event. Oldest and youngest competitors

Qualification

Men's results

Individual all-around

Floor

Pommel horse

Rings

Vault

Parallel bars

Horizontal bar

Women's results

Individual all-around

Vault

Uneven bars

Balance beam

Floor

Subdivisions

References

External links

Official website
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