World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics

Note: From 1903 to 1930 only men's competitions were held.

1903

Team : France
All around : Joseph Martinez (FRA)

1905

Team : France
High bar : Marcel Lalue (FRA)
Parallel : Josef Martinez (FRA)
Pommel horse : Georges Dejagere (FRA)

1907

Team : Bohemia
High bar : Georges Charmoilles (FRA)
Parallel : Joseph Lux (FRA)
Pommel horse : Frantisek Erben (BOH)
All round : Josef Cada (BOH)

1909

Team : France
Rings : Marco Torres (FRA)
Parallel bars : Josef Martinez (FRA)
Horizontal bars : Josef Martinez (FRA)

1911 in Luxembourg

Team all-around : Bohemia
All-around : Ferdinand Steiner (TCH)
Pommel horse : Osvaldo Palazzi (ITA)
Rings : Ferdinand Steiner (TCH)
Parallel bars : Giorgio Zampori (ITA)
Horizontal bars : Josef Cada (TCH)

1913 in Paris

Team all-around : Bohemia
All-around : Marco Torres (FRA)
Pommel horse : Giorgio Zampori (ITA)
Rings : Laurent Grech (FRA)
Parallel bars : Giorgio Zampori (ITA)
Horizontal bars : Marco Torres (FRA)

1922 in Ljubljana

Team all-around : Czechoslovakia
All-round : Peter Sumi (YUG)
Pommel horse : Miroslav Klinger (TCH)
Rings : Leon Stukelj (YUG)
Parallel bars : Leon Stukelj (YUG)
Horizontal bars : Leon Stukelj (YUG)

1926 in Lyon

Team all-around : Czechoslovakia
All-around : Peter Sumi (YUG)
Pommel horse : Jan Karafiat (TCH)
Rings : Leon Stukelj (YUG)
Parallel bars : Ladislav Vacha (TCH)
Horizontal bars : Leon Stukelj (YUG)

1930 in Luxembourg

Team all-around : Yugoslavia
All-around : Josip Primozic (YUG)
Floor exercise : Posip Primozic (YUG)
Pommel horse : Josip Primozic (YUG)
Rings : Emanuel Loffler (TCH)
Parallel bars : Josip Primozic (YUG)
Horizontal bars : Istvan Pelle (HUN)
Team final : Czechoslovakia

1934 in Budapest

Men

All-around : Switzerland
Floor exercise : Georges Miez
Pommel horse : Eugen Mack (SUI)
Rings : Alois Hudec (TCH)
Parallel bars : Eugen Mack (SUI)
Horizontal bars : Ernst Winter (GER)
Vault : Eugen Mack (SUI)
Team final : Switzerland

Women

All-around : Vlasta Dekanova (TCH)
Team final : Czechoslovakia

1938 in Prague

Men

All-around : Jan Gajdos (TCH)
Floor exercise : Jan Gajdos (TCH)
Pommel horse : Michael Reusch (SUI)
Rings : Alois Hudec (TCH)
Parallel bars : Michael Reusch (SUI)
Horizontal bars : Michael Reusch (SUI)
Vault : Eugen Mack (SUI)
Team final : Czechoslovakia

Women

All-around : Vlasta Dekanova (TCH)
Team final : Czechoslovakia

1950 in Basel

Men

All-around : Walter Lehmann (SUI)
Floor exercise : Josef Stalder (SUI)
Pommel horse : Josef Stalder (SUI)
Rings : Walter Lehmann (SUI)
Vault : Ernst Gebendinger (SUI)
Parallel bars : Hans Eugster (SUI)
Horizontal bars : Paavo Aaltonen (FIN)
Team final : Switzerland

Women

All-around : Helena Rakoczy (POL)
Vault : Helena Rakoczy (POL)
Uneven bars : Anna Pettersson (SWE)
Balance beam : Helena Rakoczy (POL)
Floor exercise : Helena Rakoczy (POL)
Team final : Sweden

1954 in Rome

Men

All-around : Viktor Chukarin (URS)
Floor exercise : Masao Takemoto (JPN)
Pommel horse : Grant Shaginyan (URS)
Rings : Albert Azarian (URS)
Vault : Leo Sotornik (TCH)
Parallel bars : Viktor Chukarin (URS)
Horizontal bars : Valentin Muratov (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

Women

All-around : Galina Rud'ko (URS)
Vault : Anna Pettersson (SWE)
Uneven bars : Agnes Keleti (HUN)
Balance beam : Keiko Tanaka (JPN)
Floor exercise : Tamara Manina (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

1958 in Moscow

Men

All-around : Boris Shakhlin (URS)
Floor exercise : Masao Takemoto (JPN)
Pommel horse : Boris Shakhlin (URS)
Rings : Albert Azarian (URS)
Vault : Yuri Titov (URS)
Parallel bars : Boris Shakhlin (URS)
Horizontal bars : Boris Shakhlin (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

Women

All-around : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Vault : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Uneven bars : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Balance beam : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Floor exercise : Eva Bosakova (TCH)
Team final : Soviet Union

1962 in Prague

Men

All-around : Yuri Titov (URS)
Floor exercise : Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN) & Yukio Endo (JPN)
Pommel horse : Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
Rings : Yuri Titov (URS)
Vault : Premysel Krbec (TCH)
Parallel bars : Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
Horizontal bars : Takashi Ono (JPN)
Team all-round : Japan

Women

All-around : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Vault : Vera Caslavska (TCH)
Uneven bars : Irina Pervushina (URS)
Balance beam : Eva Bosakova (TCH)
Floor exercise : Larisa Latynina (URS)
Team all-round : Soviet Union

1966 in Dortmund

Men

All-around : Mikhail Voronin (URS)
Floor exercise : Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
Pommel horse : Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
Rings : Mikhail Voronin (URS)
Vault : Haruhiro Matsuda (JPN)
Parallel bars : Sergei Diomidov (URS)
Horizontal bars : Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
Team final : Japan

Women

All-around : Vera Caslavska (TCH)
Vault : Vera Caslavska (TCH)
Uneven bars : Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)
Balance beam : Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)
Floor exercise : Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)
Team final : Czechoslovakia

1970 in Ljubljana

Men

All-around : Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)
Floor exercise : Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
Pommel horse : Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
Rings : Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
Vault : Mitsuo Tsukahara (JPN)
Parallel bars : Akinori Nakayama (JPN)
Horizontal bars : Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)
Team final : Japan

Women

All-around : Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)
Vault : Erika Zuchold (GDR)
Uneven bars : Karin Janz (GDR)
Balance beam : Erika Zuchold (GDR)
Floor exercise : Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

1974 in Varna

Men

All-around : Shigero Kasamatsu (JPN)
Floor exercise : Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)
Pommel horse : Zoltan Magyar (HUN)
Rings : Danut Grecu (ROU)
Vault : Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)
Parallel bars : Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)
Horizontal bars : Eberhard Gienger (FRG)
Team final : Japan

Women

All-round : Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)
Vault : Olga Korbut (URS)
Uneven bars : Annelore Zinke (GDR)
Balance beam : Ludmilla Tourischeva (URS)
Floor exercise : Ludmilla Tourscheva (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

1978 in Strasbourg

Men

All-around : Nikolai Andrianov (URS)
Floor exercise : Kurt Thomas (USA)
Pommel horse : Zoltan Magyar (HUN)
Rings : Nikolai Andrianov (URS)
Vault : Junichi Shimizu (JPN)
Parallel bars : Eizo Kenmotsu (JPN)
Horizontal bars : Shigeru Kasamatsu (JPN)
Team final : Japan

Women

All-around : Elena Mukhina (URS)
Vault : Nellie Kim (URS)
Uneven bars : Marcia Frederick (USA)
Balance beam : Nadia Comaneci (ROU)
Floor exercise : Nellie Kim (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

1979 in Fort Worth

Men

All-around : Alexander Dityatin (URS)
Floor exercise : Roland Bruckner (GDR)
Pommel horse : Zoltan Magyar (HUN)
Rings : Alexander Dityatin (URS)
Vault : Alexander Dityatin (URS)
Parallel bars : Bart Conner (USA)
Horizontal bars : Kurt Thomas (USA)
Team final : Soviet Union

Women

All-around : Nellie Kim (URS)
Vault : Dumitrita Turner (ROU)
Uneven bars : Ma Yanhong (CHN)
Balance beam : Vera Cerna (TCH)
Floor exercise : Emilia Eberle (ROU)
Team final : Romania

1981 in Moscow

Men

All-around : Yuri Korolev (URS)
Floor exercise : Li Yuejiu (CHN)
Pommel horse : Li Xiaoping (CHN) & Michael Nikolay (GDR)
Rings : Alexander Dityatin (URS)
Vault : Ralf-Peter Hemman (GDR)
Parallel bars : Koji Goshiken (JPN)
Horizontal bars : Alexander Tkachyov (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

Women

All-around : Olga Bicherova (URS)
Vault : Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Uneven bars : Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Balance beam : Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Floor exercise : Natalia Ilienko (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union

1983 in Budapest

Men

All-around : Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
Floor exercise : Tong Fei (CHN)
Pommel Horse : Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
Rings : Koji Gushiken (JPN)
Vault : Arthur Akopian (URS)
Parallel bars : Lou Yun (CHN)
Horizontal bar : Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
Team final : People's Republic of China (CHN)

Women

All-around : Natalia Yurchenko (URS)
Vault : Boriana Stoyanova (BUL)
Unieven bars : Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
Balance beam : Olga Mostepanova (URS)
Floor exercise : Ecaterina Szabo (ROU)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

1985 in Montreal

Men

All-around : Yuri Korolev (URS)
Floor exercise : Tong Fei (CHN)
Pommel horse : Valentin Mogilny (URS)
Rings : Li Ning (CHN)
Vault : Yuri Korolev (URS)
Parallel bars : Sylvio Kroll (GDR)
Horizontal bar : Tong Fei (CHN)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

Women

All-around : Elena Shushunova (URS)
Vault : Elena Shushunova (URS)
Uneven bars : Gabriele Faehnrich (GDR)
Balance beam : Daniela Silivas (ROU)
Floor exercise : Oksana Omelianchik (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

1987 in Rotterdam

Men

All-around : Dimitry Bilozerchev (URS)
Floor exercise : Lou Yun (CHN)
Pommel horse : Zolt Borkai (HUN)
Rings : Yuri Korolev (URS)
Vault : Lou Yun (CHN)
Parallel bars : Vladimir Artemov (URS)
Horizontal bar : Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

Women

All-around : Aurelia Dobre (ROU)
Vault : Elena Shushunova (URS)
Uneven bars : Doerte Thuemmler (GDR)
Balace beam : Aurealia Dobre (ROU)
Floor exercise : Daniela Silivas (ROU)
Team final : Romania (ROU)

1989 in Stuttgart

Men

All-around : Igor Korobchinsky (URS)
Floor exercise : Igor Korobchinsky (URS)
Pommel horse : Valentin Mogilny (URS)
Rings : Andreas Aguilar (FRG)
Vault : Jorg Behrend (GDR)
Parallel bars : Li Jing (CHN)
Horizontal bar : Li Chunyang (CHN)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

Women

All-around : Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)
Vault : Olesya Dudnik (URS)
Uneven bars : Daniela Silivas (ROU)
Balance beam : Daniela Silivas (ROU)
Floor exercise : Daniela Silivas (ROU)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

1991 in Indianapolis

Men

All-around : Grigory Misutin (URS)
Floor exercise : Igor Korobchinsky (URS)
Horizontal bar : Li Chunyang (CHN)
Parallel bars : Li Jing (CHN)
Pommel horse : Valery Belenky (URS)
Rings : Grigory Misutin (URS)
Vault : Yoo Ok-ryul (KOR)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

Women

All-around : Kim Zmeskal (USA)
Balance beam : Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)
Floor exercise : Cristina Bontas (ROU)
Uneven bars : Kim Gwang-suk (PRK)
Vault : Lavinia Milosovici (ROU)
Team final : Soviet Union (URS)

1992 in Paris

Men

Floor exercise : Igor Korobchinsky (CIS)
High bar : Grigory Misutin (CIS)
Parallel bars : Alexei Voropaev (CIS) and Li Jing (CHN)
Pommel Horse : Li Jing (CHN), Vitaly Scherbo (CIS), and Pae Gil Su (PRK)
Rings : Vitaly Scherbo (CIS)
Vault : You Ok Youl (KOR)

Women

Vault : Henrietta Onodi (HUN)
Uneven bars : Lavinia Milosovici (ROU)
Balance beam : Kim Zmeskal (USA)
Floor exercise : Kim Zmeskal (USA)

1993 in Birmingham

Men

All-around : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
Floor exercise : Grigory Misutin (UKR)
Pommel horse : Pae Gil Su (PRK)
Rings : Yuri Chechi (ITA)
Vault : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
Parallel bars : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
Horizontal bar : Sergei Kharkov (RUS)

Women

All-around : Shannon Miller (USA)
Vault : Elena Piskun (BLR)
Uneven bars : Shannon Miller (USA)
Balance beam : Lavinia Milosovici (ROU)
Floor exercise : Shannon Miller (USA)

1994 in Brisbane

Men

All-around : Ivan Ivankov (BLR)
Floor exercise : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
Pommel horse : Marius Urzica (ROU)
Rings : Yuri Chechi (ITA)
Vault : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)
Parallel bars : Huang Liping (CHN)
Horizontal bar : Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)

Women

All-around : Shannon Miller (USA)
Vault : Gina Gogean (ROU)
Uneven bars : Luo Li (CHN)
Balance beam : Shannon Miller (USA)
Floor exercise : Dina Kochetkova (RUS)

...to be continued....