1981 Moscow World Championships | |
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City |
Moscow, USSR |
Team Gold Medalist |
USSR |
All-Around Gold Medalist |
Olga Bicherova (USSR) |
Vault Gold Medalist |
Maxi Gnauck (GDR) |
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Maxi Gnauck (GDR) |
Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Maxi Gnauck (GDR) |
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Natalia Ilienko (USSR) |
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The 21st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Moscow, the capital of the USSR, in 1981. Moscow had previously hosted the World Championships in 1958 and the Olympic Games the previous year.
Format of Competition[]
The artistic 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 highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around 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.
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Results[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team | ![]() Elena Davydova |
![]() Ma Yanhong |
![]() Steffi Kraker |
All-Around | ![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
Vault | ![]() East Germany (GDR) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() East Germany (GDR) |
Uneven Bars | ![]() East Germany (GDR) |
![]() China (CHN) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR)
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Balance Beam | ![]() East Germany (GDR) |
![]() China (CHN) |
![]() China (CHN)
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Floor Exercise | ![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Bulgaria (BUL) |
Notable Moments[]
- Romania did not medal at these World Championships.
- Zoja Grancharova became the first Bulgarian woman to win a World Championship medal
Medal Count[]
Rank | Country | ![]() |
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Total |
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1 | ![]() |
3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
2 | ![]() |
3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
3 | ![]() |
0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
4 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
5 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |