The FIG Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships, or FIG World Junior Artistic Gymnastics Championships,
is an
artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
competition organized by the
International Gymnastics Federation
The International Gymnastics Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, FIG) is the body governing all disciplines of competitive gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on July 23, 1881, in ...
(FIG). The inaugural edition was held in Győr, Hungary in June 2019.
Subsequent championships are then to be held biannually in odd numbered years from 2021 onward.
The 2021 edition was cancelled because of the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
. The next championships are scheduled for 2023.
Those eligible are girls aged 14–15 and boys aged 16–17.
(There's also a proposal to let 18-year-old boys stay on junior level for that year's world championships. If they choose to compete at the junior worlds, they won't be able to compete at the senior ones, and vice versa. The proposal will be discussed at the FIG Council meeting in Namibia in May 2020.)
The programme of the junior worlds comprises eight boys' (team, all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar) and six girls' disciplines (team, all-around, floor exercise, vault, uneven bars, balance beam),
with a total of 14 sets of medals at stake.
Editions
Best results of top nations by event
Men's results
Only nations who have won a medal are listed. Positions below 8 are not taken into account.
Women's results
Only nations who have won a medal are listed. Positions below 8 are not taken into account.
See also
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World Artistic Gymnastics 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 ...
References
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