2021_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships

2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Artistic gymnastics competition


The 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Kitakyushu, Japan from October 18–24, 2021. The competition took place at the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium. It was the third time that Japan hosted the event, following the 1995 and 2011 editions.

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The competition was originally scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, before the Danish Gymnastics Federation withdrew from hosting in July 2020.[1] In November 2020, the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique announced Kitakyushu as the replacement host city for the same dates.[2]

Although the World Championships are traditionally not held in Olympic years, the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics caused the 2021 event to fall during the same year.[3] The last time the Olympics and the World Championships were held in the same year was in 1996.[4]

Competition schedule

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Medal summary

Medalists

Medal standings

Overall

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Men

  *   Host nation (Japan)

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Women

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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.[7]

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  • Colombia Jossimar Calvo withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19.[8] He was replaced in the fourth rotation group by first reserve Austria Alexander Benda.
  • Kazakhstan Milad Karimi withdrew to focus on event finals.[9] He was replaced in the third rotation group by second reserve Finland Robert Kirmes.
  • Cyprus Ilias Georgiou withdrew and was replaced in the second rotation group by third reserve Greece Nikolaos Iliopoulos.

Floor

Nicola Bartolini of Italy won the country's first-ever gold medal on floor, as well as its first World title since Juri Chechi's 1997 win on rings.[10] Silver medalist Kazuki Minami of Japan and bronze medalist Emil Soravuo 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.

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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 2011.[11] China's Weng Hao and Kazuma Kaya of Japan tied for the silver medal.

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Rings

Top qualifier Lan Xingyu of China won his first individual World title after previously earning gold as an alternate for the Chinese team in 2018. 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 Salvatore Maresca and Grigorii Klimentev of RGF tied for the bronze medal, the first individual World medal for both.

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Vault

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Parallel bars

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  • China Zhang Boheng withdrew and was replaced by his compatriot China Shi Cong who had not qualified due to the two-per-country rule.

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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.[12] Americans Leanne Wong and Kayla DiCello won the silver and bronze medals, respectively, the first individual World medal for both.

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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.[14] Angelina Melnikova (RGF)'s bronze was her second individual medal at the World Championships following the all-around title.

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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 2013 to 2017 (tie in 2015). 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.

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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, in the previous subdivision tested positive for COVID-19.[15] Calvo subsequently withdrew from the all-around final.[8]

Individual all-around

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Parallel bars

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Women's results

Individual all-around

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Participating nations

Notes

  1. Under the Court of Arbitration for Sport ban, Russia may not use its name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" at any world championships until December 16, 2022.[16] Thus, Russian gymnasts competed under a modified flag of the Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia and the name "RGF" at the 2021 World Championships.

References

  1. "Denmark withdraws from hosting the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships". Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. July 7, 2020.
  2. Gómez Marín, John Eric (October 21, 2021). "Jossimar Calvo muestra madurez ante la adversidad" [Jossimar Calvo shows maturity in the face of adversity]. El Colombiano (in Spanish).
  3. "Mondiali ginnastica artistica, Nicola Bartolini oro a sorpresa nel corpo libero" [Artistic gymnastics world championships, Nicola Bartolini surprise gold in the floor exercise]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). October 23, 2021.
  4. "畠田瞳が女子個人総合決勝を棄権 練習で首負傷 脊髄損傷・頸椎打撲と診断" [Hitomi Hatakeda withdraws from the women's individual all-around final, diagnosed with neck and spinal cord injury, cervical spine bruise in practice]. Yahoo! Japan (in Japanese). October 20, 2021. Archived from the original on October 21, 2021. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  5. Villa, Stefano (October 23, 2021). "Asia D'Amato esplode i salti della vita: argento ai Mondiali! Exploit memorabile, tra le grandi dell'artistica italiana" [Asia D'Amato explodes on vault: silver at the World Championships! Memorable exploit, among the great Italian artistic gymnasts]. OA Sport (in Italian).

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