1991 Indianapolis World Championships | |
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City |
Indianapolis, USA |
Venue |
Hoosier Dome |
Team Gold Medalist |
USSR |
All-Around Gold Medalist |
Kim Zmeskal (USA) |
Vault Gold Medalist |
Lavinia Miloşovici (ROU) |
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Kim Gwang-Suk (PRK) |
Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR) |
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Cristina Bontaş (ROU) |
Preceded by |
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Succeeded by |
The 26th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Indianapolis, USA, in the Hoosier Dome, September 6 to 15, 1991. These World Championships also served as qualifications to the 1992 Olympics.
Format of Competition[]
The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:
- Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Only the five highest scores earned by team members on each apparatus during each round were used to determined the overall team total. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight 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 determined by adding the scores earned by him or her on each of the six apparatuses in the men's competition and each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.
- 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 determined solely by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.
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 | ![]() Svetlana Boginskaya |
![]() Shannon Miller |
![]() Cristina Bontaş |
All-Around | ![]() United States of America (USA) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Romania (ROU) |
Vault | ![]() Romania (ROU) |
![]() Hungary (HUN)
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N/A |
Uneven Bars | ![]() North Korea (PRK) |
![]() United States of America (USA) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
Balance Beam | ![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() Soviet Union (USSR) |
![]() United States of America (USA)
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Floor Exercise | ![]() Romania (ROU)
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N/A | ![]() United States of America (USA) |
Notable Moments[]
- Kim Zmeskal became the first American to win the World All-Around title.
- Kim Gwang-Suk scored the last perfect ten in World Championship history, during the uneven bars event final.
Medal Count[]
Rank | Country | ![]() |
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Total |
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1 | ![]() |
2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
2 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
3 | ![]() |
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
4 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |