The 41st World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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was held at The O2 arena

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 in London

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, on 12 October to 18 October 2009. Similar to the World Championships in 2005, there were no team competitions. Individual All Around and Event Finals were contested.

Competition schedule

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• 13.10.2009 Men's Qualification
  • 09:50 Subdivision 1
  • 14:30 Subdivision 2
  • 19:00 Subdivision 3

• 14.10.2009 Women's Qualification
  • 09:50 Subdivision 1
  • 12:30 Subdivision 2
  • 15:40 Subdivision 3
  • 18:20 Subdivision 4
  • 20:50 Subdivision 5

• 15.10.2009 18:30 Men’s All-around Final
• 16.10.2009 18:30 Women’s All-around Final

• 17.10.2009 Apparatus Final Day 1
  • 13:00 Men's Floor Exercise
  • 13:40 Women's Vault
  • 14:45 Men's Pommel Horse
  • 15:25 Women's Uneven Bars
  • 16:05 Men's Rings

• 18.10.2009 Apparatus Final Day 2
  • 13:00 Men's Vault
  • 13:35 Women's Balance Beam
  • 14:35 Men's Parallel Bars
  • 15:15 Women's Floor Exercise
  • 15:50 Men's Horizontal Bar

Medal winners

Men
Women

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Sergio Sasaki Junior	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...   Brazil	31/03/92	17 years
Oldest	Ildar Valeiev	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...   Kazakhstan	18/02/74	35 years

Position	| Gymnast	|	|	|	|	|	|	| Total
		15.625	14.900	15.225	16.050	14.725	14.975	91.500
		14.250	15.500	14.200	15.450	15.050	14.475	88.925
		14.825	13.400	14.825	15.925	14.925	14.500	88.400
4		14.650	13.200	15.075	15.400	15.075	14.900	88.300
5		15.000	13.425	15.075	14.875	14.550	14.550	87.475
6		15.000	13.600	14.575	15.800	13.975	14.400	87.350
7		14.500	15.000	14.325	15.300	14.200	13.825	87.150
8		14.025	14.150	14.750	16.025	13.000	14.225	86.175
9		15.050	14.600	14.400	14.400	14.200	13.475	86.125
10		14.750	13.625	14.025	15.350	14.075	14.275	86.100
11		15.225	14.075	14.225	15.350	14.350	12.600	85.825
12		15.075	13.425	14.525	15.325	13.200	14.225	85.775
13		13.250	13.350	14.125	15.225	14.975	14.150	85.075
13		14.225	13.875	14.175	15.125	13.525	14.150	85.075
15		14.875	12.850	14.075	14.550	14.550	14.000	84.900
16		14.425	11.775	14.250	15.600	14.625	14.100	84.775
17		13.775	11.100	14.900	15.750	15.125	13.650	84.300
18		13.525	13.225	14.725	15.250	13.900	13.575	84.200
19		13.925	13.800	14.000	15.275	13.500	13.650	84.150
19		14.675	11.750	14.625	15.975	13.100	14.025	84.150
21		13.500	14.075	14.800	15.325	13.425	12.925	84.050
22		13.525	13.125	14.200	15.225	13.425	13.450	82.950
23		14.000	10.900	13.350	15.100	14.725	14.125	82.200
24		14.050	13.225	14.300	14.175	12.575	13.475	81.800

Floor

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Steven Legendre Steven Legendre Steven Legendre is an American gymnast who competed for the University of Oklahoma Sooners men's gymnastic team from 2008 to 2011 and is a member of the U.S. National Team.-Early years:...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...   United States	05/05/89	20 years
Oldest	Marian Drăgulescu Marian Dragulescu Marian Drăgulescu is a Romanian artistic gymnast. During his senior gymnastics career he has won an impressive number of 26 medals at Olympic games, World or European Championships among which eight gold medals at World Championships...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/80	28 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		6.600	9.100		15.700
		6.800	8.875		15.675
		6.600	8.975		15.575
4		6.500	9.075	0.1	15.475
5		6.600	8.825		15.425
6		6.600	8.800		15.400
7		6.600	8.625		15.225
8		6.200	8.750		14.950

Pommel horse

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Louis Smith Louis Smith (gymnast) Louis Antoine Smith is an English artistic gymnast from Eye near Peterborough. He is a member of the Huntingdon Gymnastics club, training alongside teammate Daniel Keatings under coach, Paul Hall....	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...   United Kingdom	22/04/89	20 years
Oldest	Krisztián Berki Krisztián Berki Krisztián Berki is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. He is a pommel horse specialist.He is 2010 and 2011 World gold medalist and 2007, 2009 World silver medalist. He is also the 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 European Champion on that event. He won the Universiade 2009 in Belgrade...	Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...   Hungary	18/03/85	24 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		6.600	9.600		16.200
		6.900	9.175		16.075
		6.600	8.800		15.400
4		6.500	8.725		15.225
5		6.400	8.750		15.150
6		6.600	8.375		14.975
7		6.100	8.650		14.750
8		6.600	7.850		14.450

Rings

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Arthur Zanetti	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...   Brazil	16/04/90	19 years
Oldest	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...   Kingdom of Bulgaria	24/02/73	36 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		6.800	8.875		15.675
		6.700	8.875		15.575
		6.800	8.750		15.550
4		6.500	8.825		15.325
4		6.800	8.525		15.325
6		6.700	8.600		15.300
7		6.700	8.550		15.250
8		7.100	7.650		14.750

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Flavius Koczi Flavius Koczi Flavius Koczi is a Romanian artistic gymnast. He is a world silver medalist on vault and an eight-time European medalist . Koczi is the 2006 European champion on pommel horse, the 2011 European Champion on vault, and was one of the vault finalists at the 2008 Olympic Games.-External links:...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	26/08/87	22 years
Oldest	Marian Drăgulescu Marian Dragulescu Marian Drăgulescu is a Romanian artistic gymnast. During his senior gymnastics career he has won an impressive number of 26 medals at Olympic games, World or European Championships among which eight gold medals at World Championships...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/80	28 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Score 1	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Score 2	| Total
		7.000	9.550		16.550	7.200	9.400		16.600	16.575
		7.000	9.375		16.375	7.000	9.300		16.300	16.337
		7.000	9.375		16.375	7.000	9.200		16.200	16.287
4		7.000	8.925	0.1	15.825	6.600	9.275		15.875	15.850
5		7.000	8.350	0.1	15.250	7.000	9.300		16.300	15.775
6		6.600	9.200		15.800	6.600	9.000	0.1	15.500	15.650
7		7.200	8.375		15.575	7.000	9.125	0.4	15.725	15.650
8		6.600	9.350		15.950	6.600	8.300		14.900	15.425
Position	| Gymnast	| Vault 1				| Vault 2				| Total

Parallel bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Pham Phuoc Hung	Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...   Vietnam	10/06/88	21 years
Oldest	Vasileios Tsolakidis	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....   Greece	09/09/79	30 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		7.000	8.950		15.950
		6.900	8.875		15.775
		6.400	9.100		15.500
4		6.300	9.050		15.350
5		6.700	8.600		15.300
6		6.100	9.025		15.125
7		5.900	8.575		14.475
8		6.300	8.025		14.325

Horizontal bar

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Danell Leyva Danell Leyva Danell Leyva is a Cuban-American gymnast. He is the 2011 U.S national all-around gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars....	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...   United States	30/10/91	17 years
Oldest	Aljaž Pegan Aljaž Pegan Aljaž Pegan, born June 2, 1974, is a Slovenian gymnast.Pegan is one of the best Slovenian gymnasts, he competes on Horizontal Bar, where he is world and European champion...	Slovenia Slovenia Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...   Slovenia	02/06/74	35 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		7.500	8.650		16.150
		7.300	8.525		15.825
		6.700	8.925		15.625
4		7.000	8.600		15.600
5		7.000	8.500		15.500
6		6.400	8.775		15.175
7		6.000	8.375		14.375
8		6.700	6.550		13.250

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors

Men	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Ana Porgras Ana Porgras Ana Porgras is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She won the uneven bars bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and the balance beam gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. Porgras is considered to be one of the most artistic gymnasts of her generation, reminiscent of the Eastern...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/93	15 years
Oldest	Miki Uemura	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...   Japan	06/03/86	23 years

Position	| Gymnast	|	|	|	|	| Total
		14.825	14.800	14.000	14.200	57.825
		14.525	15.075	15.300	12.875	57.775
		13.600	15.050	14.800	13.725	57.175
4		14.400	13.625	15.100	14.025	57.150
5		14.300	14.600	14.450	13.300	56.650
6		14.700	13.950	14.225	13.700	56.575
7		13.675	14.675	14.125	14.025	56.500
8		15.125	13.875	13.500	13.425	55.925
9		14.275	13.625	14.125	13.600	55.625
10		14.625	14.700	12.850	13.300	55.475
11		14.225	13.900	13.500	13.600	55.225
12		13.975	14.175	13.400	13.325	54.875
13		13.400	13.250	14.225	13.650	54.525
14		14.050	13.500	13.250	13.275	54.075
15		13.725	13.900	13.175	13.050	53.850
16		14.500	13.600	12.150	13.525	53.775
17		13.400	13.075	14.550	12.600	53.625
18		13.950	13.300	13.600	12.550	53.400
19		13.900	13.650	12.600	12.925	53.075
20		13.200	13.025	13.625	13.175	53.025
21		13.725	12.075	13.850	12.800	52.450
22		13.325	12.800	12.200	12.750	51.075
23		13.550	11.575	13.100	12.250	50.475
24		13.100	11.525	12.075	13.200	49.900

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Youna Dufournet Youna Dufournet Youna Dufournet is a French gymnast, the 2009 World Vault bronze medalist and reigning all-around champion of the Mediterranean Games. In addition to her vaulting medal, Dufournet placed fifth in the all-around at the World Championships, the highest placement ever for a female French gymnast...	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...   Early Modern France	19/10/93	15 years
Oldest	Ariella Kaeslin Ariella Kaeslin Ariella Kaeslin is a Swiss artistic gymnast. Kaeslin swept all five gold medals at the 2007 Swiss National Championships. She has also represented Switzerland at the World Championships in 2007, 2006 and 2005 and is a medalist on the World Cup circuit...	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....   Switzerland	11/10/87	22 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Score 1	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Score 2	| Total
		6.300	8.900		15.200	5.800	9.175		14.975	15.087
		6.300	8.775		15.075	5.300	8.775	0.1	13.975	14.525
		5.300	8.975		14.275	5.600	9.025		14.625	14.450
4		5.800	8.925		14.725	5.600	8.450	0.1	13.950	14.337
5		6.500	7.925	0.1	14.425	6.500	7.700	0.1	14.100	14.262
6		5.600	8.775	0.1	14.275	5.800	8.475	0.1	14.175	14.225
7		5.800	8.625		14.425	5.600	8.475	0.1	13.975	14.200
8		5.300	8.800	0.1	14.000	5.200	7.475	0.1	12.525	13.287
Position	| Gymnast	| Vault 1				| Vault 2				| Total

Uneven bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Ana Porgras Ana Porgras Ana Porgras is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She won the uneven bars bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and the balance beam gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. Porgras is considered to be one of the most artistic gymnasts of her generation, reminiscent of the Eastern...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/93	15 years
Oldest	Cha Yong Hwa Cha Yong Hwa Cha Yong Hwa is a North Korean artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2007 World Championships, and represented North Korea at the 2008 Olympic Games, replacing Hong Su Jong....	North Korea North Korea The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...   North Korea	08/01/90	19 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		7.100	8.900		16.000
		6.200	8.675		14.875
		6.300	8.375		14.675
		6.200	8.475		14.675
5		6.300	8.350		14.650
6		5.900	8.700		14.600
7		5.900	8.675		14.575
8		5.100	6.850		11.950

Balance beam

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Ana Porgras Ana Porgras Ana Porgras is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She won the uneven bars bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and the balance beam gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. Porgras is considered to be one of the most artistic gymnasts of her generation, reminiscent of the Eastern...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/93	15 years
Oldest	Kim Un Hyang	North Korea North Korea The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...   North Korea	18/10/90	19 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		6.400	8.600		15.000
		6.300	8.575		14.875
		6.000	8.550		14.550
4		6.000	8.450		14.450
5		5.800	8.400		14.200
6		5.700	8.500	0.1	14.100
7		6.400	7.025		13.425
8		5.600	7.525		13.125

Floor

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Ana Porgras Ana Porgras Ana Porgras is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She won the uneven bars bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and the balance beam gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam. Porgras is considered to be one of the most artistic gymnasts of her generation, reminiscent of the Eastern...	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...   Kingdom of Romania	18/12/93	15 years
Oldest	Elizabeth Tweddle	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...  United Kingdom	01/04/85	24 years

Position	| Gymnast	| D Score	| E Score	| Penalty	| Total
		6.100	8.550		14.650
		5.800	8.750		14.550
		5.700	8.600		14.300
4		5.900	8.375		14.275
5		5.700	8.425		14.125
5		5.500	8.625		14.125
7		5.400	8.475		13.825
8	‡	0.900	2.075		2.975

^‡ = Jessica Gil Ortiz was unable to conclude her Floor Exercise routine due to injury.

Medal count

1	People's Republic of China	6	2	1	9
2	United States	2	1	2	5
3	Romania	2	1	1	4
4	Japan	1	1	2	4
5	United Kingdom	1	1	0	2
6	Australia	0	2	1	3
7	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
7	Hungary	0	1	0	1
7	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
7	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Russia	0	0	2	2
12	France	0	0	1	1
12	Israel	0	0	1	1
12	Italy	0	0	1	1
12	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
TOTAL		12	12	13	37

External links

• London 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Official Website
• Official results