2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The SSE Hydro, where the competition took place
Venue	The SSE Hydro
Location	Glasgow, United Kingdom
Start date	23 October 2015
End date	1 November 2015

The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom at The SSE Hydro from 23 October – 1 November 2015. The competition serves as a qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1] This was the first time that Scotland hosted the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[2]

Japan won the men's team all-around competition for the first time since 1978, and the United States won the women's team all-around title for the third straight time. In the individual all-around competitions, Kōhei Uchimura and Simone Biles won their sixth and third successive title, respectively. Qualifying in thirteenth place, team Romania failed to automatically qualify to the Olympic Games for the first time since 1966.

On December 4, 2015, British Gymnastics announced that the event had been named "Sporting Event of the Year" by The Sunday Mail.^[3]

Competition schedule

Date	Time	Round
23 October 2015	09:40	Women's qualifying (Day 1 - morning)
23 October 2015	14:40	Women's qualifying (Day 1 - afternoon)
24 October 2015	09:40	Women's qualifying (Day 2 - morning)
24 October 2015	14:40	Women's qualifying (Day 2 - afternoon)
25 October 2015	09:40	Men's qualifying (Day 1 - morning)
25 October 2015	16:10	Men's qualifying (Day 1 - afternoon)
26 October 2015	09:40	Men's qualifying (Day 2 - morning)
26 October 2015	16:10	Men's qualifying (Day 2 - afternoon)
27 October 2015	18:15	Women's team final
28 October 2015	17:30	Men's team final
29 October 2015	18:25	Women's all-around final
30 October 2015	17:45	Men's all-around final
31 October 2015	13:30	Apparatus finals
1 November 2015	13:30	Apparatus finals

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Venue

The competition was held in The SSE Hydro, which opened in 2013. This arena hosted the Gymnastics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[5]

Olympic qualification

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

As is traditional for any World Championships prior to the Olympic year, the Championships served as the first of two qualification rounds for artistic gymnasts to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the qualification round of Worlds, the top 8 teams in both MAG and WAG competitions receive an automatic qualification berth to the Games. Teams placed 9-16th at the World Championships will be invited to the 2016 Olympic Test Event in Rio and the top 4 teams from that event will make up the 12 teams at the Olympics.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around	Japan Tomomasa Hasegawa Naoto Hayasaka Ryohei Kato Kazuma Kaya Kenzō Shirai Yusuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura	Great Britain James Hall Brinn Bevan Daniel Purvis Louis Smith Kristian Thomas Max Whitlock Nile Wilson	China Deng Shudi Lin Chaopan Liu Rongbing Liu Yang Xiao Ruoteng You Hao Zhang Chenglong
Individual all-around	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	Deng Shudi (CHN)
Floor	Kenzō Shirai (JPN)	Max Whitlock (GBR)	Rayderley Zapata (ESP)
Pommel horse	Max Whitlock (GBR)	Louis Smith (GBR)	Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) Kazuma Kaya (JPN)
Rings	Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE)	You Hao (CHN)	Liu Yang (CHN)
Vault	Ri Se-gwang (PRK)	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	Donnell Whittenburg (USA)
Parallel bars	You Hao (CHN)	Oleg Vernyayev (UKR)	Oleg Stepko (AZE) Deng Shudi (CHN)
Horizontal bar	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	Danell Leyva (USA)	Manrique Larduet (CUB)
Women
Team all-around	United States Simone Biles Gabby Douglas Brenna Dowell Madison Kocian Maggie Nichols Aly Raisman MyKayla Skinner	China Chen Siyi Fan Yilin Mao Yi Shang Chunsong Tan Jiaxin Wang Yan Zhu Xiaofang	Great Britain Becky Downie Ellie Downie Claudia Fragapane Ruby Harrold Kelly Simm Amy Tinkler Charlie Fellows
Individual all-around	Simone Biles (USA)	Gabby Douglas (USA)	Larisa Iordache (ROU)
Vault	Maria Paseka (RUS)	Hong Un-jong (PRK)	Simone Biles (USA)
Uneven bars	Fan Yilin (CHN) Viktoria Komova (RUS) Daria Spiridonova (RUS) Madison Kocian (USA)	None awarded	None awarded
Balance beam	Simone Biles (USA)	Sanne Wevers (NED)	Pauline Schäfer (GER)
Floor	Simone Biles (USA)	Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)	Maggie Nichols (USA)

Medal table

The United States led the medal table for second consecutive time, followed by Japan and Russia, while hosts Great Britain finished 5th with 5 medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	2	3	10
2	Japan	4	0	1	5
3	Russia	3	1	0	4
4	China	2	2	4	8
5	Great Britain	1	3	1	5
6	North Korea	1	1	0	2
7	Greece	1	0	0	1
8	Cuba	0	1	1	2
8	Romania	0	1	1	2
10	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
10	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
12	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Total		17	13	15	45

Men's results

Team competition

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Brinn Bevan	Great Britain	June 16, 1997	18 years
Oldest	Yoo Won-chul	South Korea	July 20, 1984	31 years

Rank	Team							Total
01 !	Japan	47.258 (1)	45.166 (1)	43.798 (5)	45.766 (2)	45.665 (5)	43.165 (7)	270.818
	Naoto Hayasaka	15.133			14.833
	Ryohei Kato		14.733	14.366		15.533	15.033
	Kazuma Kaya		15.400
	Kenzo Shirai	16.325			15.533
	Yusuke Tanaka			14.466		14.266	13.666
	Kōhei Uchimura	15.800	15.033	14.966	15.400	15.866	14.466
02 !	Great Britain	45.766 (2)	44.999 (2)	43.666 (6)	45.499 (4)	45.532 (6)	44.883 (2)	270.345
	Brinn Bevan		13.966		15.133
	Daniel Purvis	15.400		14.333		15.466
	Louis Smith		15.333
	Kristian Thomas	14.600			15.333		15.000
	Max Whitlock	15.766	15.700	14.400	15.033	15.033	15.000
	Nile Wilson			14.933		15.033	14.833
03 !	China	44.565 (4)	41.565 (7)	45.999 (1)	45.666 (3)	47.765 (1)	44.399 (3)	269.959
	Deng Shudi	14.966		14.600	15.233	16.066
	Lin Chaopan	15.133	13.466		15.200	15.766	15.333
	Liu Yang			15.766
	Xiao Ruoteng		13.433		15.233		14.233
	You Hao		14.666	15.633		15.933
	Zhang Chenglong	14.466					14.833
4	Russia	44.366 (5)	43.600 (3)	44.165 (4)	45.900 (1)	46.266 (2)	44.065 (4)	268.362
	Denis Ablyazin	15.100		14.433	15.700
	David Belyavskiy	14.666	14.100	14.866	15.200	15.600	14.566
	Nikita Ignatyev			14.866		15.400	14.966
	Nikolai Kuksenkov		14.800			15.266	14.533
	Nikita Nagornyy	14.600			15.000
	Ivan Stretovich		14.700
5	United States	43.933 (7)	42.032 (6)	45.066 (2)	44.624 (6)	46.133 (3)	46.065 (1)	267.853
	Chris Brooks						14.933
	Danell Leyva		13.100			15.800	15.666
	Alexander Naddour	15.100	15.066	14.700	14.466
	Paul Ruggeri	14.633			15.100	14.733	15.466
	Donnell Whittenburg	14.200	13.866	15.166	15.058	15.600
	Brandon Wynn			15.200
6	Switzerland	44.232 (6)	42.998 (4)	42.165 (8)	43.333 (8)	45.799 (4)	43.133 (8)	261.660
	Christian Baumann		14.666	13.933		15.266	13.300
	Pablo Brägger	14.866		13.766	15.133		15.433
	Pascal Bucher		13.666			15.333
	Claudio Capelli	14.800			14.300
	Oliver Hegi		14.666				14.400
	Eddy Yusof	14.566		14.466	13.900	15.200
7	South Korea	43.082 (8)	42.066 (5)	42.823 (7)	44.999 (5)	43.832 (7)	43.233 (6)	260.035
	Kim Han-sol	15.283		14.166	15.400
	Lee Jun-ho	13.433			14.766
	Lee Sang-wook		13.200			14.866	14.333
	Park Min-soo		14.200	14.066		13.533	14.600
	Shin Dong-hyen	14.366	14.666		14.833
	Yoo Won-chul			14.591		15.433	14.300
8	Brazil	44.666 (3)	39.432 (8)	44.699 (3)	44.316 (7)	42.932 (8)	43.532 (5)	259.577
	Francisco Barretto		11.100			14.966	13.700
	Lucas Bitencourt		13.866	14.400		14.600	14.666
	Diego Hypólito	15.233			14.716
	Arthur Mariano	14.733	14.466		14.700		15.166
	Caio Souza	14.700		14.766	14.900	13.366
	Arthur Zanetti			15.533

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Kazuma Kaya	Japan	November 19, 1996	18 years
Oldest	Andrey Likhovitskiy	Belarus	June 23, 1986	29 years

Rank	Gymnast							Total
01 !	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	15.733	15.100	14.933	15.633	15.833	15.100	92.332
02 !	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	14.666	14.300	15.233	15.433	15.733	15.333	90.698
03 !	Deng Shudi (CHN)	15.133	14.400	14.533	15.300	15.933	14.800	90.099
4	Oleg Vernyayev (UKR)	14.975	13.566	15.233	15.300	16.000	14.566	89.640
5	Max Whitlock (GBR)	15.700	16.100	14.516	15.000	15.100	12.833	89.249
6	Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS)	14.666	14.933	14.800	14.866	15.033	14.900	89.198
7	Daniel Purvis (GBR)	15.166	14.666	14.466	14.900	15.400	14.466	89.064
8	Donnell Whittenburg (USA)	15.266	14.166	15.533	14.533	15.633	13.666	88.797
9	Xiao Ruoteng (CHN)	14.866	14.033	14.266	15.166	14.733	15.166	88.230
10	Kazuma Kaya (JPN)	14.666	15.400	14.033	14.700	14.933	14.466	88.198
11	David Belyavskiy (RUS)	14.700	14.700	14.766	14.033	15.366	14.466	88.031
12	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	15.000	14.500	14.000	14.466	14.800	15.200	87.966
13	Pablo Brägger (SUI)	14.866	13.833	13.800	14.800	15.300	15.200	87.799
14	Bart Deurloo (NED)	15.200	14.666	14.166	14.700	13.466	14.966	87.164
15	Christian Baumann (SUI)	14.200	14.433	14.066	14.416	15.000	14.400	86.515
16	Andrey Likhovitskiy (BLR)	14.066	14.766	13.900	14.100	14.700	14.466	85.998
17	Danell Leyva (USA)	13.733	12.933	14.233	14.300	15.366	14.000	84.565
18	Park Min-soo (KOR)	13.975	14.566	13.766	14.033	14.966	13.033	84.339
19	Rubén López (ESP)	14.266	12.333	14.133	14.666	14.166	14.533	84.097
20	Lucas Bitencourt (BRA)	12.966	14.066	14.200	14.733	13.566	14.300	83.831
21	Cristian Bataga (ROU)	14.500	13.366	14.166	14.558	13.966	13.033	83.589
22	Jim Zona (FRA)	14.733	13.466	12.866	14.433	14.166	13.633	83.297
23	Axel Augis (FRA)	14.233	14.200	14.166	14.866	13.533	11.266	82.264
	Florian Landuyt (BEL)	4.591			14.733	11.866	13.933	45.123

Floor

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Kenzo Shirai	Japan	August 24, 1996	19 years
Oldest	Tomás González	Chile	November 22, 1985	29 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Total
01 !	Kenzo Shirai (JPN)	7.600	8.633		16.233
02 !	Max Whitlock (GBR)	6.800	8.766		15.566
03 !	Rayderley Zapata (ESP)	6.700	8.500		15.200
4	Deng Shudi (CHN)	6.700	8.466		15.166
5	Daniel Purvis (GBR)	6.500	8.600		15.100
6	Kim Han-sol (KOR)	6.800	8.133		14.933
7	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	6.800	8.000		14.800
8	Tomás González (CHI)	6.800	8.033	-0.100	14.733

Pommel horse

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Kazuma Kaya	Japan	November 19, 1996	18 years
Oldest	Harutyun Merdinyan	Armenia	August 16, 1984	31 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	Max Whitlock (GBR)	7.300	8.833	16.133
02 !	Louis Smith (GBR)	7.200	8.833	16.033
03 !	Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM)	6.700	8.800	15.500
03 !	Kazuma Kaya (JPN)	6.800	8.700	15.500
5	Vid Hidvégi (HUN)	6.600	8.766	15.366
6	Oleg Vernyayev (UKR)	7.000	8.266	15.266
7	Alexander Naddour (USA)	6.700	8.500	15.200
8	Robert Seligman (CRO)	6.400	8.033	14.433

Rings

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Donnell Whittenburg	United States	August 18, 1994	21 years
Oldest	Yuri van Gelder	Netherlands	April 20, 1983	32 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE)	6.800	9.000	15.800
02 !	You Hao (CHN)	7.000	8.733	15.733
03 !	Liu Yang (CHN)	6.900	8.800	15.700
4	Samir Aït Saïd (FRA)	6.800	8.833	15.633
5	Brandon Wynn (USA)	6.800	8.800	15.600
6	Yuri van Gelder (NED)	6.800	8.700	15.500
7	Davtyan Vahagn (ARM)	6.600	8.733	15.333
8	Donnell Whittenburg (USA)	6.700	8.600	15.300

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Kenzo Shirai	Japan	August 24, 1996	19 years
Oldest	Marian Drăgulescu	Romania	December 18, 1980	34 years

Rank	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Score 2	Total
01 !	Ri Se-gwang (PRK)	6.400	9.200		15.600	6.400	8.900	15.300	15.450
02 !	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	6.000	9.300		15.300	6.200	9.300	15.500	15.400
03 !	Donnell Whittenburg (USA)	6.000	9.100		15.100	6.400	9.200	15.600	15.350
4	Oleg Vernyayev (UKR)	6.000	9.466		15.466	6.000	9.100	15.100	15.283
5	Ihor Radivilov (UKR)	6.000	9.200		15.200	6.000	8.966	14.966	15.083
6	Denis Ablyazin (RUS)	6.400	8.000	-0.100	14.300	6.200	9.200	15.400	14.850
7	Kenzo Shirai (JPN)	5.600	8.900		14.500	5.200	9.333	14.533	14.516
8	Kim Han-sol (KOR)	6.000	8.000		14.000	6.000	9.000	15.000	14.500

Parallel bars

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Manrique Larduet	Cuba	July 10, 1996	19 years
Oldest	Yusuke Tanaka	Japan	November 29, 1989	25 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	You Hao (CHN)	7.300	8.916	16.216
02 !	Oleg Vernyayev (UKR)	7.100	8.966	16.066
03 !	Oleg Stepko (AZE)	7.000	8.966	15.966
03 !	Deng Shudi (CHN)	7.100	8.866	15.966
5	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	6.900	8.833	15.733
6	Danell Leyva (USA)	6.900	8.766	15.666
7	Yusuke Tanaka (JPN)	6.600	9.000	15.600
8	Nile Wilson (GBR)	6.600	8.633	15.233

Horizontal bar

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Manrique Larduet	Cuba	July 10, 1996	19 years
Oldest	Chris Brooks	United States	December 19, 1986	28 years

Manrique Larduet was qualified for the Olympics, as an individual, by medaling on this event.

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	7.100	8.733	15.833
02 !	Danell Leyva (USA)	7.300	8.400	15.700
03 !	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	7.000	8.600	15.600
4	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	6.500	8.666	15.166
5	Andreas Bretschneider (GER)	7.200	7.766	14.966
6	Chris Brooks (USA)	6.400	7.400	13.800
7	Fabian Hambüchen (GER)	7.200	6.300	13.500
7	Oliver Hegi (SUI)	6.000	7.500	13.500

Women's results

Team competition

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Fan Yilin	China	November 11, 1999	15 years
Oldest	Ksenia Afanasyeva	Russia	September 13, 1991	24 years

Rank	Team					Total
01 !	United States	46.665 (1)	45.433 (2)	43.432 (1)	45.808 (1)	181.338
	Simone Biles	15.966		15.200	15.733
	Maggie Nichols	15.466	14.800	13.966	15.000
	Gabby Douglas	15.233	15.333
	Aly Raisman			14.266	15.075
	Madison Kocian		15.300
	Brenna Dowell
02 !	China	45.233 (3)	45.632 (1)	42.300 (2)	42.999 (3)	176.164
	Shang Chunsong		15.233	14.600	14.366
	Wang Yan	15.200		13.300	14.633
	Tan Jiaxin	15.200	15.133
	Fan Yilin		15.266	14.400
	Mao Yi	14.833			14.000
	Chen Siyi
03 !	Great Britain	45.049 (4)	42.299 (5)	41.733 (3)	43.299 (2)	172.380
	Ellie Downie	15.133	13.033	14.133	14.133
	Claudia Fragapane	14.833		13.800	14.733
	Amy Tinkler	15.083			14.433
	Becky Downie		14.833	13.800
	Ruby Harrold		14.433
	Kelly Simm
4	Russia	45.766 (2)	43.874 (3)	40.133 (6)	42.191 (6)	171.964
	Maria Paseka	15.600	14.733		13.766
	Viktoria Komova	15.100	14.000	13.300
	Ksenia Afanasyeva	15.066			14.500
	Seda Tutkhalyan			13.300	13.925
	Daria Spiridonova		15.141
	Maria Kharenkova			13.533
5	Japan	44.832 (5)	42.424 (4)	40.066 (7)	42.565 (5)	169.887
	Asuka Teramoto	14.600	14.225	13.900	13.966
	Mai Murakami	15.066	13.966	12.200	13.966
	Sae Miyakawa	15.166			14.633
	Aiko Sugihara		14.233
	Sakura Yumoto			13.966
	Natsumi Sasada
6	Canada	44.533 (6)	40.666 (7)	41.032 (5)	41.466 (7)	167.697
	Ellie Black	15.100		13.566	14.223
	Brittany Rogers	15.000	13.200	13.700
	Isabela Onyshko		13.933	13.766	13.900
	Sydney Townsend	14.433
	Victoria-Kayen Woo		13.533
	Audrey Rousseau				13.333
7	Italy	43.699 (7)	41.766 (6)	39.399 (8)	42.733 (4)	167.597
	Carlotta Ferlito	14.466		14.300	14.033
	Erika Fasana	14.800			14.500
	Elisa Meneghini	14.433			14.200
	Enus Mariani		14.166	12.566
	Lara Mori		13.800	12.533
	Tea Ugrin		13.800
8	Netherlands	41.599 (8)	38.432 (8)	41.500 (4)	41.199 (8)	162.730
	Eythora Thorsdottir		13.066	13.800	13.400
	Lieke Wevers		11.133	14.200	13.866
	Tisha Volleman	14.100			13.933
	Sanne Wevers		14.233	13.500
	Mara Titarsolej	14.066
	Lisa Top	13.433

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Wang Yan	China	October 30, 1999	15 years
Oldest	Lieke Wevers	Netherlands	September 17, 1991	24 years

Rank	Gymnast					Total
01 !	Simone Biles (USA)	15.833	14.900	14.400	15.266	60.399
02 !	Gabby Douglas (USA)	15.300	15.033	14.400	14.583	59.316
03 !	Larisa Iordache (ROU)	15.066	14.800	14.766	14.475	59.107
4	Shang Chunsong (CHN)	13.866	15.166	14.700	14.533	58.265
5	Giulia Steingruber (SUI)	15.600	13.900	13.333	14.500	57.333
6	Mai Murakami (JPN)	14.966	13.800	14.033	14.333	57.132
7	Ellie Black (CAN)	15.033	14.000	13.300	14.425	56.758
8	Laura Jurca (ROU)	15.133	13.733	13.966	13.900	56.732
9	Asuka Teramoto (JPN)	15.166	14.366	13.233	13.366	56.131
10	Elisabeth Seitz (GER)	14.133	15.233	13.433	12.966	55.765
11	Wang Yan (CHN)	14.875	13.566	13.800	13.500	55.741
12	Carlotta Ferlito (ITA)	14.066	13.600	14.441	13.633	55.740
13	Lieke Wevers (NED)	13.733	14.333	14.200	13.366	55.632
14	Tea Ugrin (ITA)	14.066	14.000	13.766	13.733	55.565
15	Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS)	14.866	14.300	12.700	13.566	55.432
16	Isabela Onyshko (CAN)	14.233	14.400	13.066	13.633	55.332
17	Lisa Verschueren (BEL)	14.133	13.900	13.600	13.666	55.299
18	Lorrane Oliveira (BRA)	15.166	13.733	12.966	13.166	55.031
19	Pauline Schäfer (GER)	14.633	13.433	13.133	13.766	54.965
19	Rune Hermans (BEL)	14.033	13.466	13.866	13.600	54.965
21	Noémi Makra (HUN)	13.933	14.266	12.833	13.833	54.865
22	Ruby Harrold (GBR)	14.633	14.533	12.433	13.100	54.699
23	Amy Tinkler (GBR)	14.866	13.033	12.233	13.966	54.098
24	Flávia Saraiva (BRA)	14.233	13.700	12.266	13.033	53.232

Vault

Medaling on the event allowed North Korea's Hong Un-jong to qualify to the Olympics as an individual.

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Wang Yan	China	October 30, 1999	16 years
Oldest	Hong Un-jong	North Korea	March 9, 1989	26 years

Rank	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 2	Total
01 !	Maria Paseka (RUS)	6.400	9.233		15.633	6.300	9.400		15.700	15.666
02 !	Hong Un-jong (PRK)	6.300	9.366		15.666	6.400	9.200		15.600	15.633
03 !	Simone Biles (USA)	6.300	9.600		15.900	5.600	9.583		15.183	15.541
4	Ellie Downie (GBR)	5.800	9.166		14.966	5.600	9.233		14.833	14.899
5	Dipa Karmakar (IND)	7.000	8.300		15.300	6.000	8.366	-0.300	14.066	14.683
6	Wang Yan (CHN)	6.000	9.066		15.066	6.200	7.900		14.100	14.583
7	Giulia Steingruber (SUI)	6.200	9.400	-0.100	15.500	5.300	8.333		13.633	14.566
7	Alexa Moreno (MEX)	6.200	8.566	-0.100	14.666	6.000	8.566	-0.100	14.466	14.566

Uneven bars

This was the first four-way tie for gold at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Fan Yilin	China	November 11, 1999	15 years
Oldest	Viktoria Komova	Russia	January 30, 1995	20 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	Fan Yilin (CHN)	6.900	8.466	15.366
01 !	Viktoria Komova (RUS)	6.600	8.766	15.366
01 !	Daria Spiridonova (RUS)	6.700	8.666	15.366
01 !	Madison Kocian (USA)	6.600	8.766	15.366
5	Gabby Douglas (USA)	6.400	8.733	15.133
6	Shang Chunsong (CHN)	6.700	8.200	14.900
7	Ruby Harrold (GBR)	6.300	8.466	14.766
8	Sophie Scheder (GER)	6.600	8.000	14.600

Balance beam

Simone Biles of the USA defended her beam title from 2014, becoming the first back-to-back world champion on beam. With her ninth career world championships gold medal, she tied the record held by Larisa Latynina, Gina Gogean, and Svetlana Khorkina. Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands and Pauline Schäfer of Germany won the first medals for their countries on the balance beam. Schäfer also qualified as an individual to the Olympics by medaling (she had not directly qualified as Germany failed to make the team final, but made the Test Event).

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Wang Yan	China	October 30, 1999	16 years
Oldest	Sanne Wevers	Netherlands	September 17, 1991	24 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Total
01 !	Simone Biles (USA)	6.400	8.958	15.358
02 !	Sanne Wevers (NED)	5.700	8.633	14.333
03 !	Pauline Schäfer (GER)	5.800	8.333	14.133
4	Viktoria Komova (RUS)	5.700	8.233	13.933
5	Wang Yan (CHN)	6.400	7.233	13.633
6	Seda Tutkhalyan (RUS)	6.000	7.500	13.500
7	Ellie Black (CAN)	6.000	7.466	13.466
8	Eythora Thorsdottir (NED)	5.700	7.033	12.733

Floor

Due to an elbow injury prior to the final, Erika Fasana withdrew from the final, being replaced by Shang Chunsong. Additionally, Swiss gymnast Giulia Steingruber sustained a knee injury during the vault final the day before, rendering her unable to participate in the floor final.^[6] She was replaced by Lieke Wevers of the Netherlands. Simone Biles won a record 10th career world championships gold medal.

Oldest and youngest competitors

	Name	Country	Date of birth	Age
Youngest	Sae Miyakawa	Japan	September 10, 1999	16 years
Oldest	Ksenia Afanasyeva	Russia	September 13, 1991	24 years

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Total
01 !	Simone Biles (USA)	6.800	9.000		15.800
02 !	Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)	6.400	8.700		15.100
03 !	Maggie Nichols (USA)	6.200	8.800		15.000
4	Shang Chunsong (CHN)	6.400	8.533		14.933
4	Sae Miyakawa (JPN)	6.300	8.633		14.933
6	Ellie Downie (GBR)	6.000	8.733		14.733
7	Claudia Fragapane (GBR)	6.200	8.366	-0.100	14.466
8	Lieke Wevers (NED)	5.400	8.700		14.100

References

↑ "Rio 2016". 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
↑ "Glasgow to host 2015 World Artistic Gymnastic Championships". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
↑ https://www.british-gymnastics.org/news-and-events/news/latest-news/6280-2015-world-gymnastics-championships-in-scotland-named-sporting-event-of-the-year
↑ "Overview/Format". 2015 World Gymnastics Championships. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
↑ "The SSE Hydro". 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
↑ https://twitter.com/gymnastics/status/660775264876683264

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