2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The competition schedule was as follows (Local time, CEST): Saturday, 16 October 2010 10:00 – 22:00 Women's qualifying competition Sunday, 17 October 2010 10:00 – 19:15 Women's qualifying competition Monday, 18 October 2010 09:00 – 22:15 Men's qualifying competition Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:00 – 22:15 Men's qualifying competition Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:00 – 19:00 Women's team final Thursday, 21 October 2010 17:00 – 20:00 Men's team final Friday, 22 October 2010 16:00 – 18:30 Men's all-round final 19:30 – 22:00 Women's all-round final Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:00 – 18:00 Women's event finals: vault, bars 14:00 – 18:00 Men's event finals: floor, pommel horse, rings Sunday, 24 October 2010 14:00 – 18:00 Women's event finals: beam, floor 14:00 – 18:00 Men's event finals: vault, bars, high bar ==Participating Countries==

Some of the countries that participated. • • • • • • • • Bulgaria • • • • • • • • • • Great Britain • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • == Gymnasts ==

More than 70 countries were expected to compete in the event. Oldest and youngest competitors ==Medalists==

Qualification Team all-around Oldest and youngest competitors The top three scores from each country for each apparatus was counted towards the total. In the qualifying round, the top four were counted. In all, 45 nations entered the qualifying round. Unlike the women's team event, They were ahead of Great Britain by only 0.059. Great Britain came first in floor and pommel but were only ninth and tenth in parallel bars and rings respectively. Germany was fifth, followed by Russia, who came first in vault but were eighth or worse in three disciplines. The last two teams to qualify were Korea and France, the latter denying Romania qualification by 0.150, or 0.04%. Oldest and youngest competitors Floor Oldest and youngest competitors Pommel horse Oldest and youngest competitors Rings Oldest and youngest competitors Vault Oldest and youngest competitors Thomas Bouhail became the first French gymnast to become a world champion. Parallel bars Oldest and youngest competitors Horizontal bar Oldest and youngest competitors Zhang Chenglong of China edged out local favorite Epke Zonderland by 0.133 to win this event. == Women's results ==

Qualification Team all-around Oldest and youngest competitors As with the men, the top three scores from each country for each apparatus was counted towards the total. In the qualifying round, the top four scores were included. In all, 34 nations entered the qualifying round. Russia came second in each of the four disciplines to qualify first overall. China came first in the uneven bars and third and fourth in the remaining apparatus, to qualify second overall. The United States was first in vault and beam, but only fifth in floor, and came third overall. Less than one point separated the top three. Romania came first in floor to qualify fourth, more than five points behind the US. There were more than 3 points down to the next two qualifiers, Great Britain and Australia. The host nation missed qualification by 1.6 points. Russia won their first ever women's team title. It was a close-run contest with the result hinging on Russia's final floor performer. In the final, the US came sixth in the floor, losing 2.666 to Russia and 1.566 to China on this apparatus. The US' third-best floor score was the lowest of the 24 included scores for the apparatus. After qualifying in last place, Japan improved to finish fifth in the final. Oldest and youngest competitors Vault Oldest and youngest competitors Tatiana Nabieva's assistant coach Alexander Kiryashov contested Nabieva's reduced start value on her first vault. Nabieva's 1st vault's S.V. was a 6.5, attempting a 2.5 twist, but was brought down to a 5.8 when she did not complete the twist. Her 2nd vault had originally had a 6.1 start value, but then she was penalized once again for piking her form and landing out of bounds and was brought down to a 5.7. Uneven bars Oldest and youngest competitors Balance beam Oldest and youngest competitors Floor Oldest and youngest competitors Lauren Mitchell became the first Australian female world champion in gymnastics, posting the highest score after being last to perform in the final. Defending champion Beth Tweddle of Great Britain failed to qualify, she was a reserve for the final. == Medal table ==

Women's all-around champion Aliya Mustafina won three individual apparatus medals, accounting for four of Russia's five medals in individual events. Men's all-around champion Kōhei Uchimura was involved in all of Japan's four medals, one of them a silver in the teams event. Overall Men Women == See also ==