The 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 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 Copenhagen, Denmark, 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 World Championships 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 narrowly defeated reigning Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan by 0.017 points to take the title. Both won their first individual World medals. Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun rounded out the podium in bronze. Both Zhang and Hashimoto later withdrew from the first day of event finals.

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 Jury Dimitri Chechi (; born 11 October 1969) is a retired Italian gymnast. Biography Chechi was named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He won the Olympics title in the rings at Atlanta 1996 and was third at Athens 2004. Chechi's bronze was the res ...

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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 Wo ...

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

Pommel horse

Stephen Nedoroscik won the United States' first title on pommel horse and the country's first men's title in any event since Danell Leyva won parallel bars in

. China's

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and

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of Japan tied for the silver medal.

Rings

Top qualifier

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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 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

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

Vault

Parallel bars

Horizontal bar

Women's results

Individual all-around

Angelina Melnikova ( RGF) became the first non-American to win a World or Olympic all-around title since her Russian teammate Aliya Mustafina did so at the 2010 World Championships. Americans

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and Kayla DiCello won the silver and bronze medals, respectively, the first individual World medal for both.

Vault

Reigning Olympic champion Rebeca Andrade of Brazil won the title for her first individual World medal. Silver medalist Asia D'Amato is the first Italian female artistic gymnast to ever qualify for a World vault final. Angelina Melnikova (RGF)'s bronze was her second individual medal at the World Championships following the all-around title.

Uneven bars

Wei Xiaoyuan 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 Rebeca Andrade 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.

Balance beam

Floor

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 he won three individual gold medals, becoming in the first Colombian to do so. He competed at the 2016 S ...

, in the previous subdivision tested positive for COVID-19. 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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