1974 Varna World Championships

1974 Varna World Championships
City	Varna, Bulgaria
Team Gold Medalist	USSR Nina Dronova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Rusudan Sikharulidze Ludmilla Tourischeva
All-Around Gold Medalist	Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)
Vault Gold Medalist	Olga Korbut (USSR)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Annelore Zinke (GDR)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Ludmilla Tourischeva (USSR)
Preceded by	1970 Ljubljana World Championships
Succeeded by	1978 Strasbourg World Championships

The 18th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1974.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six overall highest scoring gymnasts qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her in Competition II.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by him or her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	USSR Nina Dronova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Rusudan Sikharulidze Ludmilla Tourischeva	East Germany Richarda Schmeißer Bärbel Röhrich Heike Gerisch Irene Abel Angelika Hellmann Annelore Zinke	Hungary Krisztina Medveczky Zsuzsa Nagy Marta Egervari Monika Csaszar Zsuzsa Matulai Agnes Banfai
All-Around	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Angelika Hellmann East Germany (GDR)
Vault	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)	Bozena Perykulova Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Uneven Bars	Annelore Zinke East Germany (GDR)	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)
Balance Beam	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Nellie Kim Soviet Union (USSR)
Floor Exercise	Ludmilla Tourischeva Soviet Union (USSR)	Olga Korbut Soviet Union (USSR)	Elvira Saadi Soviet Union (USSR) Rusudan Sikharulidze Soviet Union (USSR)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	USSR	5	5	4	14
2	East Germany	1	1	1	3
3	Hungary	0	0	1	1
4	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1