The 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was the 48th edition of the
Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The competition was held from October 25 – November 3, 2018, at the
Aspire Academy Dome in
Doha, Qatar.
It was the first time that the competition was held in the
Middle East.
Simone Biles became the first American to
medal on every event at a single World Championships and the first woman to do so in 31 years. The last person to complete this feat was Russian
Yelena Shushunova in
1987
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.
Competition schedule
Medal summary
Medalists
Names with an asterisk (*) denote the team alternate.
Medal standings
Overall
Men
Women
Men's results
Team
The top 3 teams from the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships qualified to the
2020 Summer Olympic Games.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Individual all-around
Defending champion
Xiao Ruoteng of
China
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lost the title on a tiebreaker to
Russia's
Artur Dalaloyan. The tie-breaking procedure in this situation is dropping of the lowest-scoring apparatus from the combined score, and whoever's total score on the remaining five apparatuses is higher after that will rank ahead (74.198 versus 73.465). Dalaloyan became the first Russian man to win the all-around title since
Nikolai Kryukov in
1999
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; they were at that time the only two Russian men to have won the title in the post-Soviet era. Last year's silver medalist, China's
Lin Chaopan, failed to reach the final after finishing behind teammates Xiao and
Sun Wei in qualifying. Reigning bronze medalist
Kenzō Shirai of
Japan
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finished in seventh place after some weaker and lower-scoring apparatuses, namely pommel horse.
Canada's
René Cournoyer withdrew prior to the competition and was replaced by first reserve
Artur Davtyan of
Armenia.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Floor
Oldest and youngest competitors
Pommel horse
Oldest and youngest competitors
Rings
Oldest and youngest competitors
Vault
Oldest and youngest competitors
Parallel bars
Oldest and youngest competitors
Horizontal bar
Oldest and youngest competitors
Women's results
Team
The top 3 teams from the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships qualify to the
2020 Summer Olympic Games.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Individual all-around
Simone Biles of the
United States won an unprecedented fourth all-around title on the women's side. Teammate and defending champion
Morgan Hurd placed third.
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
's
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 ...
recorded her country's highest-ever finish in the all-around, and her silver was Japan's first all-around medal on the women's side since
Kōko Tsurumi's bronze in
2009
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. Reigning silver medalist
Ellie Black of
Canada finished twelfth. The 2017 bronze medalist,
Russia's
Elena Eremina
Elena Vyacheslavovna Eremina (russian: Елена Вячеславовна Ерёмина, pron. ''Yelena Vyacheslavovna Yeryomina'', born 29 July 2001) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2017 World all-around bronze medalist and ...
, was unable to compete due to a back injury. This final was one of the most closely contested of all time, with less than two tenths of a point separating the second- to sixth-place gymnasts.
Oldest and youngest competitors
Vault
Oldest and youngest competitors
Uneven bars
Oldest and youngest competitors
Balance beam
Oldest and youngest competitors
Floor
Oldest and youngest competitors
Qualification
Men's results
Team
Individual all-around
Floor
Although
Artur Dalaloyan of
Russia and
Kenzō Shirai of
Japan
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both posted the top combined score (14.833) in qualifications,
Dalaloyan placed ahead after applying the tie-breaking procedure because he posted a higher E-score than
Shirai (8.633 versus 8.033). The same situation with the score (14.333) happened for
Kazuma Kaya of
Japan
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,
Sam Mikulak of the
USA and
James Hall of
Britain, when
Kaya and
Mikulak took the final's last two spots after their tied 8th place because they posted identical D- and E-scores while
Hall
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ended up placing 10th, and just missed qualifying for the finals, even though he posted the same combined score.
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar
Women's results
Team
Individual all-around
Vault
Uneven bars
Balance beam
Floor
References
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