2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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.

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 Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique 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 2020 Summer Olympics caused the 2021 event to fall during the same year. The last time the Olympics and the World Championships were held in the same year was in 1996.

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.


 * 🇨🇴 Jossimar Calvo withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19. He was replaced in the fourth rotation group by first reserve 🇦🇹 Alexander Benda.
 * 🇰🇿 Milad Karimi withdrew to focus on event finals. He was replaced in the third rotation group by second reserve 🇫🇮 Robert Kirmes.
 * 🇨🇾 Ilias Georgiou withdrew and was replaced in the second rotation group by third reserve 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. 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.


 * 🇯🇵 Daiki Hashimoto withdrew and was replaced by his compatriot 🇯🇵 Kazuma Kaya who had not qualified due to the two-per-country rule.

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


 * 🇯🇵 Daiki Hashimoto and first reserve 🇨🇳 Zhang Boheng withdrew, so second reserve 🇦🇲 Harutyun Merdinyan took part in the final.

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.


 * 🇨🇳 Zhang Boheng withdrew and was replaced by first reserve 🇮🇹 Marco Lodadio.

Parallel bars

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

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


 * 🇯🇵 Hitomi Hatakeda withdrew due to a neck and spinal cord injury suffered in practice. She was replaced in the first rotation group by first reserve 🇭🇺 Csenge Bácskay.

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 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.

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. Calvo subsequently withdrew from the all-around final.

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