1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 33rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1997.

The 1997 Worlds were notable because they were the first major contest to be held after the elimination of compulsory exercises.

Contents

1 Results
- 1.1 Men
  - 1.1.1 All-round
  - 1.1.2 Apparatus
- 1.2 Women
  - 1.2.1 All-Around
  - 1.2.2 Apparatus

Results

Men

All-round

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Ivan Ivankov (BLR) 56.887	Alexei Bondarenko (RUS) 56.061	Naoya Tsukahara (JPN) 56.023
Team details	China (CHN) Jian Shen Xiaopeng Li Huang Xu Yu-Fu Lu Junfeng Xiao Zhang Jinjing 226.117	Belarus (BLR) Ivan Ivankov Vitali Rudnitski Dimitri Kaspiarovich Alexander Shostak Ivan Pavlovski Alexei Sinkevich 221.568	Russia (RUS) Dmitri Vasilenko Alexei Bondarenko Alexei Voropaev Alexei Nemov Evgeni Ghukov Nikolai Kryukov 220.682

Apparatus

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Floor exercise details	Alexei Nemov (RUS) 9.625	Dmitri Karbanenko (FRA) 9.550	Xiaopeng Li (CHN) 9.537
Pommel horse details	Valery Belenky (GER) 9.700 †	Eric Poujade (FRA) 9.700 †	Pae Gil Su (PRK) 9.700 †
Rings details	Yuri Chechi (ITA) 9.775	Szilveszter Csollány (HUN) 9.687	Ivan Ivankov (BLR) 9.662
Vault details	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ) 9.581	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS) 9.556	Adrian Ianculescu (ROU) 9.437
Parallel bars details	Jinjing Zhang (CHN) 9.775	Xiaopeng Li (CHN) 9.737	Naoya Tsukahara (JPN) 9.562
Horizontal bar details	Jani Tanskanen (FIN) 9.700	Jesus Carballo (ESP) 9.675	Alexander Beresh (UKR) 9.625

Women

All-Around

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) 38.636	Simona Amânar (ROU) 38.587	Elena Produnova (RUS) 38.549
Team details	Romania (ROU) Simona Amânar Gina Gogean Alexandra Marinescu Claudia Presăcan Mirela Ţugurlan Corina Ungureanu 153.720	Russia (RUS) Svetlana Bakhtina Elena Dolgopolova Elena Grosheva Svetlana Khorkina Yevgeniya Kuznetsova Elena Produnova 153.197	China (CHN) Wenjing Bi Yuanyuan Kui Xuan Liu Fei Meng Huilan Mo Duan Zhou 152.001

Apparatus

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Vault details	Simona Amânar (ROU) 9.712	Duan Zhou (CHN) 9.606	Gina Gogean (ROU) 9.600
Uneven bars details	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) 9.875	Fei Meng (CHN) 9.800	Wenjing Bi (CHN) 9.787
Balance beam details	Gina Gogean (ROU) 9.800	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) 9.787	Yuanyuan Kui (CHN) 9.787
Floor exercise details	Gina Gogean (ROU) 9.800	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) 9.800	Elena Produnova (RUS) 9.775

NB: For this competition, tie-breaker policies were used. When scores were identical, the gymnast with the higher score in the preliminary round was awarded the higher placement in finals.

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