1998 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup final

International gymnastics competition The 1998 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Final was held in Sabae, Japan in 1998. This edition marked the first time the World Cup Final was held. In 1997, the World Cup was revived, after a 7-year hiatus, as a series of qualifying events for a period of two years, culminating in a final event, the World Cup Final. The different stages, sometimes referred to as World Cup Qualifiers, mostly served the purpose of awarding points to individual gymnasts and groups according to their placements. These points would be added up over the two-year period to qualify a limited number of athletes to the biennial World Cup Final event.http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/page/view?id=393 https://web.archive.org/web/20170626170611/http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/site/page/view?id=393 dead 2017-06-26 International Gymnastics Federation Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique-World Cup Finals 2019-02-26 Medal winners Event Gold Silver Bronze Ref. Men's floor exercise CHN Li Xiaopeng RUS Aleksei Nemov JPN Isao Yoneda Men's pommel horse FRA Eric PoujadeROU Marius UrzicăCHN Zhang Jingjin None awarded None awarded Men's still rings HUN Szilveszter Csollány BLR Ivan Ivankov JPN Shigeru Kurihara Men's vault RUS Aleksei Nemov RUS Aleksei Bondarenko KAZ Sergei Fedorchenko Men's parallel bars KAZ Aleksey DmitrienkoCHN Li XiaopengCHN Zhang Jingjin None awarded None awarded Men's horizontal bar BLR Ivan Ivankov KAZ Sergei Fedorchenko HUN Zoltán Supola Women's vault ROU Simona Amânar ROU Gina Gogean CHN Kui Yuanyuan Women's uneven bars CHN Bi Wenjing RUS Svetlana Khorkina CHN Liu Xuan Women's balance beam CHN Liu Xuan CHN Kui Yuanyuan ROU Gina Gogean Women's floor exercise ROU Simona Amânar ROU Gina Gogean BLR Alena Polozkova1975–2008 Artistic WC References 1998 Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Category:International gymnastics competitions hosted by Japan Category:1998 in Japanese sport