The 2021

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were held in

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from October 18–24, 2021. The competition took place at the

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. It was the third time that Japan hosted the event, following the

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and

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editions. The competition was originally scheduled to be held in

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, before the Danish Gymnastics Federation withdrew from hosting in July 2020. In November 2020, the

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announced Kitakyushu as the replacement host city for the same dates. Although the World Championships are traditionally not held in Olympic years, the postponement of the

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caused the 2021 event to fall during the same year. The last time the

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and the

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were held in the same year was in 1996.

Competition schedule

Medal summary

Medalists

Medal standings

Overall

Men

Women

Men's results

Individual all-around

China's

Zhang Boheng Zhang Boheng ( zh, 张博恒, born 4 March 2000) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed at the 2021 Chinese Artistic Gymnastics Championships and won the all-around at the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Career In 2015 he was ...

narrowly defeated reigning Olympic champion

Daiki Hashimoto is a Japan men's national gymnastics team, Japanese artistic gymnast. Widely regarded as the successor of Kohei Uchimura, he won two gold medals at the Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics, in Gymnastics at the 2020 Summe ...

of Japan by 0.017 points to take the title. Both won their first individual World medals. Ukrainian gymnast

Illia Kovtun Illia Yuriyovych Kovtun ( uk, Ілля Юрійович Ковтун; born 10 August 2003) is a Ukrainian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who competed at the Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2021 2021 ...

rounded out the podium in bronze. Both Zhang and Hashimoto later withdrew from the first day of event finals. Oldest and youngest competitors

Floor

Nicola Bartolini Nicola Bartolini (born 7 February 1996) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He is the 2021 World Champion and 2021 European bronze medalist on floor exercise. Bartolini's early career was plagued with injury as a shoulder injury and subsequent sur ...

of Italy won the country's first-ever gold medal on floor, as well as its first World title since Juri Chechi's

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win on rings. Silver medalist

Kazuki Minami Kazuki Minami (born 24 January 2000) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He turned senior in 2019 and became the 2019 World Cup gold medalist on Floor Exercise at Cottbus and Paris. At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2021 W ...

of Japan and bronze medalist

Emil Soravuo Emil Soravuo (born 28 March 1997) is a Finnish artistic gymnast and the 2021 bronze medalist in floor exercise. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's floor exercise event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. In 2014, he repr ...

of Finland also won their first individual World medals. Defending champion

Carlos Yulo Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo (born February 16, 2000) is a Filipino artistic gymnast who has won multiple medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He is the first Filipino and the first male Southeast Asian gymnast to medal at the Wor ...

of the Philippines had a costly out-of-bounds deduction and finished fifth. Oldest and youngest competitors

Pommel horse

Stephen Nedoroscik Stephen Nedoroscik (born October 28, 1998) is an American artistic gymnast who specializes on the pommel horse. He is the 2021 World Champion and a two-time NCAA National Champion on the event. He is a member of the United States men's nation ...

won the United States' first title on pommel horse and the country's first men's title in any event since

Danell Leyva Danell Johan Leyva (born October 30, 1991) is a Cuban-American former gymnast who competed for the United States. He is the 2012 Olympic individual all-around bronze medalist and 2016 Olympic parallel bars and horizontal bar silver medalist. H ...

won parallel bars in

. China's

Weng Hao Weng Hao (; born 21 March 1998) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed in the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada, placing 6th in the pommel horse event finals. Over the course of the 2016 FIG Artistic Gymnastics ...

and

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 ...

of Japan tied for the silver medal. Oldest and youngest competitors

Rings

Top qualifier

Lan Xingyu Lan Xingyu (; born 18 December 1997) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. He competed in the 2019 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bat ...

of China won his first individual World title after previously earning gold as an alternate for the Chinese team in

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Marco Lodadio Marco Lodadio (born 24 March 1992) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He is a two-time silver medalist in the rings at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the gold medalist in this event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. ...

of Italy was called up from first reserve and earned a second consecutive silver on the event, his third World medal overall. Lodadio's teammate

Salvatore Maresca Salvatore Maresca (born 16 September 1993) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He is the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships bronze medalist in still rings and the 2021 European Championships bronze medalist in the rings. The former award h ...

and Grigorii Klimentev of RGF tied for the bronze medal, the first individual World medal for both. Oldest and youngest competitors

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors

Parallel bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

Horizontal bar

Oldest and youngest competitors

Women's results

Individual all-around

Angelina Melnikova Angelina Romanovna Melnikova ( rus, Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the jo ...

( RGF) became the first non-American to win a World or Olympic all-around title since her Russian teammate

Aliya Mustafina Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina (russian: Алия Фархатовна Мустафина) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 45 Olympic, World and European Championship medals, she is considered one of the most success ...

did so at the 2010 World Championships. Americans

Leanne Wong Leanne Ashley Wong (born September 20, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member of the gold medal winning teams at the 2022 World Championships and the 2019 Pan American Games. She is the 2021 World all-around silver medalist ...

and

Kayla DiCello Kayla Kecia DiCello ( or or ) (born January 25, 2004) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2021 World all-around bronze medalist. On the junior level, she is the 2019 Junior World vault champion and the 2019 U.S. Junior national all-a ...

won the silver and bronze medals, respectively, the first individual World medal for both. Oldest and youngest competitors

Vault

Reigning Olympic champion

Rebeca Andrade Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade (born 8 May 1999) is a Brazilian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic and 2021 World champion on the vault and 2022 World all-around champion. Andrade is the first Brazilian female gymnast to medal at an Olym ...

of Brazil won the title for her first individual World medal. Silver medalist

Asia D'Amato Asia D'Amato () (born 7 February 2003) is an Italian artistic gymnast. She represented Italy at the 2020 Olympic Games. She was a member of the teams that won bronze at the 2019 World Championships and gold at the 2022 European Championships. ...

is the first Italian female artistic gymnast to ever qualify for a World vault final.

(RGF)'s bronze was her second individual medal at the World Championships following the all-around title. Oldest and youngest competitors

Uneven bars

Wei Xiaoyuan Wei Xiaoyuan ( zh, 韦筱圆, born August 25, 2004) is a Chinese artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is best known for her work on the uneven bars, where she is a two-time world champion (2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 202 ...

won the title for her first individual World medal and China's first medal on the event since winning four titles in a row from

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(tie in

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). Top qualifier

of Brazil earned the silver for her second individual medal of the day. Wei's teammate Luo Rui finished in bronze after losing a tiebreaker to Andrade. Oldest and youngest competitors

Balance beam

Oldest and youngest competitors

Floor

Oldest and youngest competitors

Qualification

Men's results

Subdivision 6 of the men's qualification was delayed 90 minutes while the equipment was disinfected after a Colombian gymnast, later revealed to be

Jossimar Calvo Jossimar Orlando Calvo Moreno (born 22 July 1994) is a Colombian artistic gymnast, part of the national team. At the 2015 Pan American Games Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of th ...

, in the previous subdivision tested positive for

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. Calvo subsequently withdrew from the all-around final.

Individual all-around

Floor

Pommel horse

Rings

Vault

Parallel bars

Horizontal bar

Women's results

Individual all-around

Vault

Uneven bars

Balance beam

Floor

Participating nations

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Notes

References

External links

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Sporting events in Japan

Sports competitions in Kitakyushu