2009 Belgrade Summer Universiade

2009 Belgrade Summer Universiade
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City	Belgrade, Serbia
Team Gold Medalist	China Cheng Fei He Ning Jiang Yuyuan Zhou Zhuoru Liu Nanxi
All-Around Gold Medalist	Jiang Yuyuan (CHN)
Vault Gold Medalist	Hong Un-Jong (PRK)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Beth Tweddle (GBR)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Jiang Yuyuan (CHN)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Beth Tweddle (GBR)
Preceded by	2007 Bangkok Summer Universiade
Succeeded by	2011 Shenzhen Summer Universiade

The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade were celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from 1 July to 12 July 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina (Serbian Autonomous Province), close to Belgrade. It was the largest sporting event ever to be organized by the city. The gymnastics competition was held at the Belgrade Arena.

Format of Competition

All participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

• The team competition, in which the eight highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. Each team of six gymnasts could only have three gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and all three scores counted toward the team total.
• The all-around competition, in which only the twenty-four highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. For the first time, each country was limited to only two gymnasts in the all-around final.
• The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Competition Schedule

July 2	Team Final & Qualifications
July 4	All-Around
July 5	Vault Event Final
	Uneven Bars Event Final
	Balance Beam Event Final
	Floor Exercise Event Final

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	China Cheng Fei He Ning Jiang Yuyuan Zhou Zhuoru Liu Nanxi	Russia Olga Alexeeva Elena Zamolodchikova Svetlana Klyukina Maria Chibiskova Tatiana Kazantseva	Japan Tanaka Rie Okabe Sakiko Takeuchi Serina Takeya Kana Furukawa Shoko
All-Around	Jiang Yuyuan China (CHN)	He Ning China (CHN)	Kim Un-Hyang North Korea (PRK)
Vault	Hong Un-Jong North Korea (PRK)	Cheng Fei China (CHN)	Tatiana Kazantseva Russia (RUS)
Uneven Bars	Beth Tweddle Great Britain (GBR)	Jiang Yuyuan China (CHN)	Hong Un-Jong North Korea (PRK)
Balance Beam	Jiang Yuyuan China (CHN)	He Ning China (CHN)	Dariya Zgoba Ukraine (UKR)
Floor Exercise	Beth Tweddle Great Britain (GBR)	Jiang Yuyuan China (CHN)	He Ning China (CHN)

Controversy

• In September 2014, Cha Yong-Hwa was discovered to be underage in 2009, and her results were canceled. She was stripped of her individual silver on uneven bars, and the North Korean team were stripped of their team bronze medal.

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	China	3	4	2	9
2	North Korea	1	0	2	3
3	Great Britain	2	0	0	2
4	Russia	0	1	1	2
5	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
6	Japan	0	0	1	1