1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 16 to 20 April 1996.

1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Venue	Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Location	San Juan, Puerto Rico
Start date	April 16, 1996 (1996-04-16)
End date	April 20, 1996 (1996-04-20)
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The team and all-around events were not contested at the 1996 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. The format was similar to that of the 1992 and 2002 Worlds, with medals being awarded for the individual WAG and MAG apparatus. There were three rounds of competition: the preliminary round open to everyone; the semi-finals open to the top sixteen qualifiers; and the finals for the top eight gymnasts. Until 2021, the 1996 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were also the last to be held in the same year as a Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Floor details	Vitaly Scherbo	Alexei Voropaev	Grigory Misutin
Pommel horse details	Pae Gil-Su	Donghua Li	Alexei Nemov
Rings details	Yuri Chechi	Yordan Yovchev Szilveszter Csollány	none awarded
Vault details	Alexei Nemov	Yeo Hong-Chul Andrea Massucchi	none awarded
Parallel Bars details	Rustam Sharipov	Alexei Nemov Vitaly Scherbo	none awarded
Horizontal bar details	Jesús Carballo	Krasimir Dunev	Vitaly Scherbo
Women
Vault details	Gina Gogean	Simona Amânar	Annia Portuondo
Uneven bars details	Svetlana Khorkina Elena Piskun	none awarded	Isabelle Severino
Balance beam details	Dina Kochetkova	Alexandra Marinescu	Dominique Dawes Liu Xuan
Floor details	Kui Yuanyuan Gina Gogean	none awarded	Lavinia Miloșovici Liubov Sheremeta

Medal table

Overall

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	3	2	1	6
2	Romania (ROU)	2	2	1	5
3	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	1	4
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	2	3
6	China (CHN)	1	0	1	2
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
10	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
13	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		12	11	9	32

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	1	2	1	4
2	Belarus	1	1	1	3
3	Italy	1	1	0	2
4	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
5	North Korea	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
7	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
8	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	9	3	18

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	2	2	1	5
2	Russia	2	0	0	2
3	China	1	0	1	2
4	Belarus	1	0	0	1
5	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	2	6	14

Men

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.787
	Alexei Voropaev (RUS)	9.700
	Grigory Misutin (UKR)	9.625
4	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	9.562
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.550
5	Thierry Aymes (FRA)	9.525
7	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)	9.450
8	Evgeni Podgorni (RUS)	9.125

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Pae Gil Su (PRK)	9.825
	Donghua Li (SUI)	9.812
	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.787
4	Kim Hyon Il (PRK)	9.762
5	Patrice Casimir (FRA)	9.725
6	Eric Poujade (FRA)	9.700
7	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.625
8	Grigory Misutin (UKR)	8.200

Still rings

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.825
	Szilveszter Csollány (HUN)	9.737
	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	9.737
4	Dan Burinca (ROU)	9.712
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.675
5	Damian Merino (CUB)	9.675
7	Chris Lamorte (USA)	9.637
7	Alexei Voropaev (RUS)	9.637

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.756
	Yeo Hong-Chul (KOR)	9.743
	Andrea Massucchi (ITA)	9.743
4	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	9.643
4	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.643
6	Dieter Rehm (SUI)	9.556
7	Valeri Belenki (GER)	9.437
8	Alexei Voropaev (RUS)	9.431
9	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	9.400

Parallel bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Rustam Sharipov (UKR)	9.750
	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.737
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.737
4	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.725
4	Jung Jin-Soo (KOR)	9.725
6	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)	9.650
7	Pae Gil Su (PRK)	9.625
8	Valeri Belenky (GER)	9.587

Horizontal bar

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Jesús Carballo (ESP)	9.800
	Krasimir Dunev (BUL)	9.775
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.762
4	Aljaz Pegan (SLO)	9.750
5	Chainey Umphrey (USA)	9.712
6	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	9.475
7	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	9.375
8	Richard Ikeda (CAN)	8.075

Women

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.800
	Simona Amânar (ROU)	9.787
	Annia Portuondo (CUB)	9.756
4	Elisabeth Valle (ESP)	9.668
5	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.637
6	Joana Juárez (ESP)	9.537
7	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou (GRE)	9.518
8	Leyva Bermudez (CUB)	9.456

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.787
	Elena Piskun (BLR)	9.787
	Isabelle Severino (FRA)	9.775
4	Elvire Teza (FRA)	9.750
4	Liubov Sheremeta (UKR)	9.750
6	Anna Mirgorodskaya (UKR)	9.725
6	Kathleen Stark (GER)	9.725
8	Jaycie Phelps (USA)	9.712
9	Liu Xuan (CHN)	9.700
10	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.687
11	Dominique Dawes (USA)	8.787

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Dina Kochetkova (RUS)	9.887
	Alexandra Marinescu (ROU)	9.812
	Dominique Dawes (USA)	9.800
	Liu Xuan (CHN)	9.800
5	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou (GRE)	9.675
6	Mercedes Pacheco (ESP)	9.637
7	Jaycie Phelps (USA)	9.187
8	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.075

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.850
	Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)	9.850
	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.800
	Liubov Sheremeta (UKR)	9.800
5	Gemma Paz (ESP)	9.775
5	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou (GRE)	9.775
7	Ludivine Furnon (FRA)	9.712
8	Roza Galieva (RUS)	9.637