2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was the forty-sixth edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.[1][2] The competition was held from 23 October – 1 November 2015 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, United Kingdom, and is the first time that Scotland hosted the event.[3] The competition served as a qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4]
2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships | |
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Venue | The SSE Hydro |
Location | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
Start date | 23 October 2015 |
End date | 1 November 2015 |
Japan won the men's team all-around competition for the first time since 1978, and the United States won the women's team all-around title for the third straight time. In the individual all-around competitions, Kōhei Uchimura and Simone Biles won their sixth and third successive title, respectively. Qualifying in thirteenth place, team Romania failed to automatically qualify to the Olympic Games for the first time since 1966.
On December 4, 2015, British Gymnastics announced that the event had been named "Sporting Event of the Year" by The Sunday Mail.[5]
All times are BST (UTC+1) from 23 to 24 October 2015 and GMT (UTC±0) from 25 October to 1 November 2015.
Date | Time | Round |
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23 October 2015 | 09:40 | Women's qualifying (Day 1 – morning) |
14:40 | Women's qualifying (Day 1 – afternoon) | |
24 October 2015 | 09:40 | Women's qualifying (Day 2 – morning) |
14:40 | Women's qualifying (Day 2 – afternoon) | |
25 October 2015 | 09:40 | Men's qualifying (Day 1 – morning) |
16:10 | Men's qualifying (Day 1 – afternoon) | |
26 October 2015 | 09:40 | Men's qualifying (Day 2 – morning) |
16:10 | Men's qualifying (Day 2 – afternoon) | |
27 October 2015 | 18:15 | Women's team final |
28 October 2015 | 17:30 | Men's team final |
29 October 2015 | 18:25 | Women's all-around final |
30 October 2015 | 17:45 | Men's all-around final |
31 October 2015 | 13:30 | Apparatus finals |
1 November 2015 | 13:30 | Apparatus finals |
The competition was held in The SSE Hydro, which opened in 2013. This arena hosted the Gymnastics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[7]
As is traditional for any World Championships prior to the Olympic year, the Championships served as the first of two qualification rounds for artistic gymnasts to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the qualification round of Worlds, the top 8 teams in both MAG and WAG competitions received an automatic qualification berth to the Games. Teams placed 9–16th at the World Championships were invited to the 2016 Olympic Test Event in Rio and the top 4 teams from that event made up the 12 teams at the Olympics.
The United States led the medal table for second consecutive time, followed by Japan and Russia, while host Great Britain finished 5th with 5 medals.
Medal standings
Overall
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States (USA) | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
2 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
3 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
4 | China (CHN) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
6 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
7 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
8 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Armenia (ARM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (15 entries) | 17 | 13 | 15 | 45 |
Men
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
2 | Great Britain | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | China | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
4 | Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
North Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Cuba | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
8 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Armenia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (12 entries) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 26 |
Women
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | United States | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
2 | Russia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
3 | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
North Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (8 entries) | 9 | 5 | 5 | 19 |