1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 1997 08 31 1997 09 07 Malley Sports Center SUI Lausanne, Switzerland 1996 1999 The 33rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1997. The 1997 Worlds were notable because they were the first major contest to be held after the elimination of compulsory exercises. For this competition, tie-breaker policies were used. When scores were identical, the gymnast with the higher score in the preliminary round was awarded the higher placement in finals. Medalists Men Team all-around#Team all-around ChinaShen JianLi XiaopengHuang XuLu YufuXiao JunfengZhang Jinjing Ivan IvankovVitaly RudnitskyDmitry KasperovichAleksandr ShostakIvan PavlovskiAlexei Sinkevich RussiaDmitri VasilenkoAlexei BondarenkoAlexei VoropaevAlexei NemovEvgeni GhukovNikolai Kryukov Individual all-around#Individual all-around BLR Ivan Ivankov RUS Alexei Bondarenko JPN Naoya Tsukahara Floor#Floor RUS Alexei Nemov FRA Dimitri Karbanenko CHN Li Xiaopeng Pommel horse#Pommel horse GER Valery Belenky FRA Eric Poujade PRK Pae Gil-su Rings#Rings ITA Yuri Chechi HUN Szilveszter Csollány BLR Ivan Ivankov Vault#Vault KAZ Sergei Fedorchenko RUS Nikolai Kryukov ROU Adrian Ianculescu Parallel bars#Parallel bars CHN Zhang Jinjing CHN Li Xiaopeng JPN Naoya Tsukahara Horizontal bar#Horizontal bar FIN Jani Tanskanen ESP Jesús Carballo UKR Alexander Beresh Women Team all-around#Team all-around 2 Simona AmânarClaudia PresăcanGina GogeanAlexandra MarinescuCorina UngureanuMirela Tugurlan RussiaSvetlana KhorkinaYelena ProdunovaYevgeniya KuznetsovaSvetlana BakhtinaElena DolgopolovaElena Grosheva ChinaLiu XuanKui YuanyuanMeng FeiBi WenjingMo HuilanZhou Duan Individual all-around#Individual all-around 2 RUS Svetlana Khorkina ROU Simona Amânar RUS Yelena Produnova Vault#Vault 2 ROU Simona Amânar CHN Zhou Duan ROU Gina Gogean Uneven bars#Uneven Bars RUS Svetlana Khorkina CHN Meng Fei CHN Bi Wenjing Balance beam#Balance Beam ROU Gina Gogean RUS Svetlana Khorkina CHN Kui Yuanyuan Floor#Floor exercise 2 ROU Gina Gogean RUS Svetlana Khorkina RUS Yelena Produnova Medal table Overall 4 1 2 3 5 3 2 3 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 Men flagcountry 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Women flagcountry 4 1 1 2 3 2 0 2 3 Men Team Rank Team Total China 37.861 37.286 36.737 38.586 38.473 37.174 226.117 Huang Xu - 8.862 9.437 9.562 9.237 9.400 Li Xiaopeng 9.612 9.200 - 9.475 9.712 8.762 Lu Yufu 9.412 9.312 8.175 9.687 9.562 9.287 Shen Jian 9.250 9.137 8.850 - 9.462 - Zhang Jinjing 9.437 9.637 9.425 9.537 9.737 9.612 Xiao Junfeng 9.400 - 9.025 9.800 - 8.875 36.549 36.674 37.011 37.748 37.737 35.849 221.568 Alexander Shostak 8.825 8.462 9.312 - 9.425 8.050 Ivan Ivankov - 9.537 9.550 9.512 9.600 9.337 Vitaly Kasperovich 8.187 - 8.987 9.662 9.087 - Ivan Pavlovski 9.175 9.012 8.675 9.175 9.200 8.912 Vitaly Rudnitski 9.337 8.900 9.162 9.337 9.512 8.750 Alexei Sinkevich 9.212 9.225 - 9.237 - 8.850 Russia 37.474 37.012 36.624 38.462 36.961 34.149 220.682 Alexei Bondarenko 9.437 9.412 9.250 9.337 9.662 7.625 Evgeni Ghukov 9.312 8.962 8.987 - 9.200 8.987 Nikolay Krukov 9.075 9.350 9.212 9.750 9.062 8.550 Alexei Nemov 9.650 9.225 - 9.675 - 8.225 Dmitri Vasilenko 8.512 9.025 8.887 9.475 9.037 - Alexei Voropaev - - 9.175 9.562 8.687 8.387 4 Japan 36.099 37.423 36.787 37.549 36.848 35.937 220.643 Kenichi Fujita 9.050 9.212 9.050 9.462 9.012 8.162 Yoshiaki Hatakeda 8.950 9.437 8.525 9.225 9.112 8.875 Takuya Kishimoto 8.912 9.075 - - - 8.862 Shigeru Kurihara - - 9.375 9.200 8.575 - Naoya Tsukahara 8.875 9.337 9.412 9.325 9.162 9.025 Yoshihiro Saito 9.187 9.437 8.950 9.537 9.562 9.175 5 United States 36.586 35.849 36.249 37.987 36.887 36.248 219.806 Mike Dutka 9.187 8.862 - 9.512 8.800 - Jason Gatson 9.062 8.650 8.775 9.500 9.375 8.375 John Macready 9.062 8.612 - - - 9.087 John Roethlisberger - 9.050 8.937 9.450 8.800 9.087 Jay Thornton 9.225 - 8.950 9.175 9.112 8.637 Blaine Wilson 9.112 9.287 9.587 9.525 9.600 9.437 6 Germany 34.787 36.712 37.137 36.574 37.049 35.575 217.834 Valeri Belenki 8.450 9.550 9.575 9.262 9.387 - Uwe Billerbeck - - 9.275 - 9.237 8.650 Daniel Farago 8.575 9.075 8.812 9.037 8.950 8.612 Sergei Charkov 8.712 8.775 9.475 9.250 9.400 9.175 Dimitri Nonin 7.950 9.312 - 9.025 - 9.050 Sergej Pfeifer 9.050 8.600 8.775 8.662 9.025 8.700 All-around Rank Gymnast Total Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.362 9.100 9.625 9.575 9.700 9.525 56.887 Alexei Bondarenko RUS 9.462 9.437 9.025 9.737 9.375 9.025 56.061 Naoya Tsukahara JPN 9.187 9.437 9.162 9.600 9.425 9.212 56.023 4 Dmitri Karbanenko FRA 9.525 9.487 8.887 9.625 9.200 9.212 55.936 5 Huang Xu CHN 8.537 9.625 9.362 9.525 9.237 9.512 55.798 6 Nikolai Kryukov RUS 8.562 9.437 9.275 9.650 9.037 9.662 55.623 7 Jesús Carballo ESP 9.000 8.975 9.487 9.162 9.362 9.500 55.486 8 Eric López Ríos CUB 8.975 9.100 9.350 9.437 9.312 8.887 55.061 9 Alexander Beresh UKR 8.462 9.550 9.062 9.812 8.525 9.525 54.936 10 Blaine Wilson USA 8.675 8.712 9.550 9.562 9.562 8.850 54.911 11 Yoshiaki Hatakeda JPN 8.887 9.500 8.375 9.100 9.362 9.487 54.711 12 Lu Yufu CHN 8.800 9.462 8.425 9.712 8.825 9.462 54.686 13 Roman Zozulia UKR 8.862 9.087 9.400 9.712 8.862 8.737 54.660 14 Zhang Jinjing CHN 9.375 8.950 8.412 9.487 9.675 8.700 54.599 15 Sergei Kharkov GER 8.662 8.962 9.537 9.300 8.900 9.187 54.548 16 Sergei Fedorchenko KAZ 9.375 9.375 7.850 9.725 8.575 9.462 54.362 17 Cristian Leric ROU 9.262 9.575 9.025 9.525 9.037 7.877 54.311 18 Omar Cortes ESP 8.437 9.137 9.462 9.137 8.987 9.150 54.310 19 Andrei Kravtsov AUS 9.250 9.487 8.362 9.037 9.025 9.025 54.186 20 Sergei Pfeifer GER 9.225 9.375 8.737 8.612 9.137 8.987 54.073 21 Zoltán Supola HUN 8.537 9.562 9.137 9.275 8.862 8.600 53.973 22 Jason Gatson USA 8.925 8.587 8.787 9.487 9.087 9.062 53.935 23 Igors Vihrov LAT 9.075 8.550 9.312 9.450 8.537 8.925 53.849 24 Lazaro Lamela CUB 8.650 8.675 8.775 9.400 8.925 9.125 53.550 25 Alexei Dmitrenko KAZ 7.900 9.175 8.700 9.525 9.225 9.025 53.550 26 Alexei Nemov RUS 9.550 9.225 6.825 9.725 9.000 9.062 53.387 27 Vitaly Rudnitsky BLR 8.175 9.000 9.175 9.150 9.212 8.612 53.324 28 Dorin Petcu ROU 9.037 9.487 8.225 9.587 8.350 8.475 53.161 29 Mitja Petkovšek SLO 8.300 8.562 8.900 8.962 9.425 8.875 53.024 30 Lee Joo-Hyung KOR 8.425 8.512 8.550 9.562 8.750 9.125 52.924 31 Giovanni D'Innocenzo ITA 8.750 8.362 8.712 9.212 8.787 8.987 52.810 32 Valeri Goncharov UKR 8.350 9.025 8.387 9.212 9.275 8.462 52.711 33 Dieter Rehm SUI 8.525 8.637 8.250 9.637 8.225 8.950 52.224 34 Felipe Andres SUI 8.587 8.200 8.325 9.387 8.550 8.875 51.924 35 Kenichi Fujita JPN 9.175 8.737 9.075 9.212 8.950 6.625 51.774 Floor exercise Rank Gymnast Total Alexei Nemov RUS 9.625 Dmitri Karbanenko FRA 9.550 Li Xiaopeng CHN 9.537 4 Evgeny Zhukov RUS 9.412 5 Valeri Pereshkura UKR 9.275 6 Vitaly Rudnitski BLR 9.262 7 Gervasio Deferr ESP 8.887 8 Sergei Fedorchenko KAZ 8.625 Pommel horse Rank Gymnast Total Valeri Belenki GER 9.700 Eric Poujade FRA 9.700 Pae Gil Su PRK 9.700 4 Zhang Jinjing CHN 9.662 5 Nikolai Kryukov RUS 9.612 6 Zoltán Supola HUN 9.600 7 Adrian Ianculescu ROU 9.487 8 Marius Urzică ROU 9.112 Rings Rank Gymnast Total Yuri Chechi ITA 9.775 Szilveszter Csollány HUN 9.687 Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.662 4 Valeri Belenki GER 9.587 5 Roberto Galli ITA 9.575 6 Dimosthenis Tampakos GRE 9.562 7 Alexei Demyanov CRO 9.537 8 Yoshihiro Saito JPN 9.500 Vault Rank Gymnast Total Sergei Fedorchenko KAZ 9.581 Nikolai Kryukov RUS 9.556 Adrian Ianculescu ROU 9.437 4 Xiao Junfeng CHN 9.325 5 Alexei Bondarenko RUS 9.218 6 Roman Zozulia UKR 8.999 7 Valeri Goncharov UKR 8.981 8 Vitaly Kasperovich BLR 8.956 Parallel bars Rank Gymnast Total Zhang Jinjing CHN 9.775 Li Xiaopeng CHN 9.737 Naoya Tsukahara JPN 9.562 4 Sergei Kharkov GER 9.500 5 Mitja Petkovšek SLO 9.487 6 Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.450 7 Jesús Carballo ESP 9.325 8 Alexander Shostak BLR 9.262 Horizontal bar Rank Gymnast Total Jani Tanskanen FIN 9.700 Jesús Carballo ESP 9.675 Alexander Beresh UKR 9.625 4 Evgeny Zhukov RUS 9.562 5 Yoshiaki Hatakeda JPN 9.312 6 Sergei Fedorchenko KAZ 8.850 7 Ivan Ivankov BLR 8.762 8 Marius Urzică ROU 8.750 Women Team Rank Team Total 38.236 (1) 38.348 (2) 38.475 (1) 38.661 (2) 153.720 Simona Amânar 9.681 9.712 9.525 9.737 Claudia Presăcan 9.481 9.687 9.675 9.562 Gina Gogean 9.587 8.100 9.725 9.787 Alexandra Marinescu 9.487 9.587 9.550 9.287 Corina Ungureanu 9.306 9.300 9.575 Mirela Țugurlan 9.362 Russia 37.998 (2) 38.274 (3) 38.250 (2) 38.675 (1) 153.197 Svetlana Khorkina 9.637 9.762 9.700 9.775 Yelena Produnova 9.431 9.525 9.700 9.550 Yevgeniya Kuznetsova 9.443 9.525 9.475 9.675 Svetlana Bakhtina 9.462 9.375 9.675 Elena Dolgopolova 9.487 9.225 Elena Grosheva 8.950 9.200 9.387 China 37.655 (4) 38.774 (1) 38.111 (3) 37.461 (5) 152.001 Liu Xuan 9.512 9.737 9.512 9.625 Kui Yuanyuan 9.018 9.575 9.687 9.500 Meng Fei 9.406 9.687 8.625 9.662 Bi Wenjing 9.800 9.462 Mo Huilan 9.325 9.562 9.325 8.837 Zhou Duan 9.437 8.837 4 36.992 (5) 38.174 (4) 37.262 (4) 38.375 (3) 150.803 Liubov Sheremeta 9.306 9.625 9.175 9.750 Olga Teslenko 9.293 9.725 9.150 9.625 Inha Shkarupa 9.200 9.362 9.412 9.675 Galina Tyryk 9.193 9.462 9.525 9.325 5 France 36.860 (6) 37.049 (5) 36.649 (5) 37.811 (4) 148.369 Isabelle Severino 9.462 9.562 9.025 9.612 Elvire Teza 9.193 9.400 9.375 9.237 Magalie Ruffato 9.012 9.025 8.837 9.312 Ludivine Furnon 9.193 8.862 9.412 9.650 Emilie Volle 8.912 9.062 Cecile Canqueteau 8.825 6 United States 37.687 (3) 36.212 (6) 36.636 (6) 37.362 (6) 147.897 Kristy Powell 9.231 9.350 9.075 9.125 Kristen Maloney 9.556 9.287 9.537 8.700 Kendall Beck 9.450 9.387 9.225 Dominique Moceanu 9.093 8.800 8.637 9.512 Mohini Bhardwaj 9.450 8.775 Jennie Thompson 8.175 8.000 9.500 All-around Rank Gymnast Total Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.549 9.850 9.562 9.675 38.636 Simona Amânar ROU 9.675 9.387 9.750 9.775 38.587 Yelena Produnova RUS 9.412 9.687 9.750 9.700 38.549 4 Gina Gogean ROU 9.618 9.375 9.800 9.750 38.543 5 Meng Fei CHN 9.418 9.637 9.375 9.612 38.042 6 Liubov Sheremeta UKR 9.256 9.637 9.425 9.575 37.893 7 Liu Xuan CHN 9.237 9.675 9.412 9.537 37.861 8 Claudia Presăcan ROU 9.443 8.937 9.675 9.662 37.717 9 Olga Teslenko UKR 8.806 9.550 9.662 9.587 37.605 10 Isabelle Severino FRA 9.312 9.612 8.950 9.425 37.299 11 Kui Yuanyuan CHN 9.487 8.937 9.612 9.262 37.298 12 Inha Shkarupa UKR 9.318 9.537 8.712 9.650 37.217 13 Kristen Maloney USA 9.443 8.862 9.487 9.262 37.054 14 Dominique Moceanu USA 9.249 9.050 9.237 9.425 36.961 15 Alena Polozkova BLR 9.250 9.237 8.762 9.537 36.786 16 Yevgeniya Kuznetsova RUS 8.493 8.875 9.687 9.675 36.730 17 Irina Evdokimova KAZ 9.168 8.862 9.062 9.500 36.592 18 Adrienn Varga HUN 9.037 9.162 9.250 9.100 36.549 19 Elvire Teza FRA 9.124 8.787 9.500 9.100 36.511 20 Yvonne Tousek CAN 9.187 9.600 8.262 9.412 36.461 21 Elena Savko BLR 9.206 8.662 8.787 9.500 36.155 22 Ludivine Furnon FRA 9.006 8.637 9.162 9.325 36.130 23 Kristy Powell USA 9.337 9.137 8.525 9.100 36.099 24 Sarah Deegan CAN 9.100 8.987 8.400 9.450 35.937 25 Risa Sugawara JPN 8.949 8.925 8.775 9.200 35.849 26 Svetlana Bakhridinova UZB 9.362 9.362 7.625 9.450 35.799 27 Yvonne Pioch GER 8.900 9.075 9.500 8.237 35.712 28 Veronique Leclerc CAN 9.262 9.275 8.137 8.950 35.624 29 Lisa Skinner AUS 8.981 8.812 9.000 8.750 35.543 30 Elena Piskun BLR 8.962 9.162 9.025 8.325 35.474 31 Masumi Okawa JPN 8.906 8.525 8.837 9.000 35.268 32 Alexandra Gordeeva UZB 8.887 8.550 8.550 9.275 35.262 33 Anastasia Dzyundzyak UZB 9.168 8.862 8.400 8.800 35.230 34 Rebecca Wilson AUS 8.499 8.612 8.850 9.200 35.161 35 Mok Un-ju PRK 8.918 8.025 8.837 8.762 34.542 36 Vasiliki Tsavdaridou GRE 4.212 8.975 8.837 9.525 31.549 Vault Rank Gymnast Total Simona Amânar ROU 9.712 Zhou Duan CHN 9.606 Gina Gogean ROU 9.600 4 Adrienn Varga HUN 9.543 5 Mohini Bhardwaj USA 9.512 6 Kui Yuanyuan CHN 9.350 7 Elena Dolgopolova RUS 9.331 8 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 4.537 Uneven bars Rank Gymnast Total Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.875 Meng Fei CHN 9.800 Bi Wenjing CHN 9.787 4 Liubov Sheremeta UKR 9.750 5 Claudia Presăcan ROU 9.725 6 Alexandra Marinescu ROU 9.712 7 Olga Teslenko UKR 9.675 8 Yevgeniya Kuznetsova RUS 9.412 Balance beam Rank Gymnast Total Gina Gogean ROU 9.800 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.787 Kui Yuanyuan CHN 9.787 4 Ludivine Furnon FRA 9.725 5 Olga Teslenko UKR 9.662 6 Elvire Teza FRA 9.650 7 Kristen Maloney USA 9.512 8 Yelena Produnova RUS 9.412 Floor exercise + Rank Gymnast Total Gina Gogean ROU 9.800 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.800 Yelena Produnova RUS 9.775 4 Meng Fei CHN 9.675 5 Vasiliki Tsavdaridou GRE 9.650 6 Claudia Presăcan ROU 9.600 7 Liubov Sheremeta UKR 8.937 8 Zhou Duan CHN 8.787 References 33rd World Championships Artistic Gymnastics https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/worlds_artistic_results_1997.pdf USA Gymnastics 5 July 2022 5 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230405143423/https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/worlds_artistic_results_1997.pdf dead Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships G W Category:International gymnastics competitions hosted by Switzerland