The 2013

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 gymna ...

were held in

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, Belgium, from 30 September to 6 October 2013 at

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Kōhei Uchimura is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist (all-around, team and floor exercise), winning three golds and four silvers, and a twenty-one-time World medalist (all-around, team, floor exercise, horizontal bar, and ...

won the men's all-around gold medal and finished the competition with four total medals.

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 ...

won the women's all-around title and also finished the competition with four medals.

Competition schedule

All times are CEST (

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Medalists

Men's results

Individual all-around

The final was held on 3 October.

won his fourth consecutive individual all-around world championship crown, outscoring silver medalist Ryohei Kato by 1.958 points. Uchimura became the first gymnast to win four world individual all-around titles. He posted the highest score on three of the six apparatuses.

Floor

The final was held on 5 October. Japan's

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became the first gymnast to successfully perform a backward quadruple-twisting layout somersault (the ''Shirai'' or ''Shirai-Nguyen'' on floor), and a forward triple-twisting layout somersault (the ''Shirai 2'' on floor) in the final of a major, and he secured the gold."McKayla Maroney wins worlds vault"
espn.go.com. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013. At 17 years, 1 month and 11 days, Shirai also became the youngest male gymnast at the championships to take a gold medal, and the youngest ever male world champion on floor exercise.

Pommel horse

The final was held on 5 October. Kohei Kameyama of Japan won the gold medal.

Rings

The final was held on 5 October. Arthur Zanetti, the Olympic champion on this event, won the gold.

Vault

The final was held on 6 October. The Olympic vault champion,

Yang Hak-Seon Yang Hak-seon ( ; born 6 December 1992) is a South Korean artistic gymnast who specialises in the vault. He is the first South Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal. Personal life According to his Olympic profile, Yang started his gymna ...

, took the gold."More gold for all-around champions Kohei Uchimura, Simone Biles at gymnastics worlds"
''The Washington Post''. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013. Shirai originated a new skill on this apparatus as well at these championships, the ''Shirai'' or ''Shirai-Kim'' on vault, or a Yurchenko (round off–back handspring entry onto platform) triple twist/full or triple-twisiting Yurchenko (TTY).

Parallel bars

The final was held on 6 October.

of Japan and

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of China shared the gold medal.

Horizontal bar

The final was held on 6 October. Epke Zonderland, the reigning Olympic champion, had a routine "full of gravity-defying leaps" and won the gold medal.

Women's results

Individual all-around

The final was held on 4 October. The top two finishers were

and Kyla Ross, both of the United States. It was the third time that the US won the World Championship all-around gold and silver medals. Ross led going into the final apparatus, floor exercise, but Biles had a higher difficulty score and overtook Ross to win the gold medal by 0.884 points. Russia's

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 successf ...

, the 2010 champion in this event, won the bronze.

Vault

The final was held on 5 October. Defending champion McKayla Maroney received 15.724 points and won the gold medal. As the last gymnast to perform, she nearly stuck her Amanar vault for a 15.966, and then her Yurchenko half-on, front layout full off earned a score of 15.483.

, who had won the all-around title the day before, won silver in this event. 2008 Olympic Vault Champion Hong Un Jong took the bronze.

Uneven bars

The final was held on 5 October. Kyla Ross, who had won the all-around silver medal the day before, won another silver in this event.

Huang Huidan Huang Huidan () is a Chinese artistic gymnast. She is the 2013 world uneven bars champion and 2014 world uneven bars silver medalist. She represents Zhejiang in domestic competitions. Junior career Huang joined the Chinese national team in 2009 ...

took the gold, and Olympic champion

took the bronze.

Balance beam

The final was held on 6 October.

won the gold medal, finishing ahead of Americans Kyla Ross and

. All three filed petitions to change their difficulty scores but only Ross' and Biles' were accepted.

Floor

The final was held on 6 October.

won her second gold and fourth total medal of the competition. 2006 World all-around champion Vanessa Ferrari took the silver. Romanian Olympic medalist Larisa Iordache got the bronze medal.

Qualification

Men's Qualification

Men's qualifications details for the remaining individual apparatus finals can be referenced on the website of

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Women's Qualification

Medal table

Men

Women

References

External links

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