The 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was the 48th edition of the

Artistic Gymnastics World 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 competition was held from October 25 – November 3, 2018, at the Aspire Academy Dome in

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. It was the first time that the competition was held in the

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Simone Biles Simone Arianne Biles (; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her seven Olympic medals tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast. Having won 25 World Championship medals, she is the most de ...

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 Yelena Lvovna Shushunova (russian: Елена Львовна Шушунова; sometimes spelled Elena Shushunova; 23 May 1969 – 16 August 2018) was a Soviet Russian gymnast. Shushunova was one of five women (alongside Larisa Latynina, Věra � ...

in 1987.

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

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. Oldest and youngest competitors

Individual all-around

Defending champion

Xiao Ruoteng Xiao Ruoteng (, born 30 January 1996) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. Personal life Xiao was born 30 January 1996 in Beijing, China. He began gymnastics at age five. Xiao has received four awards. The General Administration of Sport of Chin ...

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lost the title on a tiebreaker to

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Artur Dalaloyan Artur Grachyevich Dalaloyan (Russian: Артур Грачьевич Далалоян) born 26 April 1996 is a Russian artistic gymnast who represented ROC at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was part of the teams who won gold at the 2020 Olympic ...

. 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; 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

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, failed to reach the final after finishing behind teammates Xiao and Sun Wei in qualifying. Reigning bronze medalist

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finished in seventh place after some weaker and lower-scoring apparatuses, namely pommel horse.

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René Cournoyer René Cournoyer (born April 23, 1997) is a Canadian artistic gymnast, who has competed internationally since 2014. Career At the 2014 Pan American Youth Gymnastics Championships, Cournoyer qualified for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, ...

withdrew prior to the competition and was replaced by first reserve

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. 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

. Oldest and youngest competitors

Individual all-around

of the

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won an unprecedented fourth all-around title on the women's side. Teammate and defending champion

Morgan Hurd Morgan Elizabeth Hurd (born July 18, 2001) is an American artistic gymnast and a five-time member of the United States women's national team (2016–21). She is the 2017 World all-around champion and balance beam silver medalist and the 2018 ...

placed third.

's Mai Murakami 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. Reigning silver medalist

Ellie Black Elsabeth Ann "Ellie" Black (born September 8, 1995) is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is a three-time Olympian, having represented her country at the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 World all-around silver medalist, ma ...

finished twelfth. The 2017 bronze medalist,

's Elena Eremina, 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

and

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 is a Japanese artistic gymnast. Kaya was part of the Japanese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He also won a gold medal in the 2015 Asian Championships in Hiroshima. At the 201 ...

Sam Mikulak Samuel Anthony Mikulak (born October 13, 1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He is a six-time U.S. national all-around champion (2013–2016, 2018–2019), the 2018 World bronze medalist on high bar, and a three-time Olympian (2012, 2 ...

of the

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and James Hall of

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, when

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and Mikulak took the final's last two spots after their tied 8th place because they posted identical D- and E-scores while Hall 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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