2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships October 24, 2001 November 4, 2001 Flanders Sports Arena BEL Ghent, Belgium 1999 2002 The 35th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2001 at the Flanders Sports Arena. This was the first Worlds at which the 6-3-3—six athletes per team, three compete, all three scores count—format was used in team finals. 2001 Worlds was also the last World Championships in which three gymnasts per country were permitted to advance to the all-around finals. Results Men Team all-around#Team all-around Ivan IvankovAlexei SinkevichDmitry KasperovichVitali ValinchukAleksandr KruzhilovDenis Savenkov United StatesSean TownsendStephen McCainGuard YoungRaj BhavsarBrett McClurePaul Hamm Alexander BereshSergei VyaltsevRoman ZozulyaAndrei LipskyRuslan MezentsevAndrei Mikhailichenko Individual all-around#Individual all-around CHN Feng Jing BLR Ivan Ivankov BUL Yordan Yovchev Floor#Floor BUL Yordan YovchevROU Marian Drăgulescu none awarded LAT Igors Vihrovs Pommel horse#Pommel horse ROU Marius Urzică CHN Xiao Qin UKR Alexander Beresh Rings#Rings BUL Yordan Yovchev HUN Szilveszter Csollány ITA Andrea Coppolino Vault#Vault ROU Marian Drăgulescu LAT Jevgēņijs Saproņenko CUB Charles Tamayo Parallel bars#Parallel bars USA Sean Townsend CUB Erick López BLR Ivan Ivankov Horizontal bar#Horizontal bar GRE Vlasios Maras UKR Alexander BereshAUS Philippe Rizzo none awarded Women Team all-around#Team all-around 2 Andreea RăducanSabina CojocarAndreea UlmeanuSilvia StroescuCarmen IonescuLoredana Boboc RussiaSvetlana KhorkinaNatalia ZiganshinaLudmila EzhovaMaria ZasypkinaElena Zamolodchikova United StatesTasha SchwikertAshley MilesTabitha YimRachel TiddMohini BhardwajKatie Heenan Individual all-around#Individual all-around 2 RUS Svetlana Khorkina RUS Natalia Ziganshina ROU Andreea Răducan Vault#Vault 2 RUS Svetlana Khorkina UZB Oksana Chusovitina ROU Andreea Răducan Uneven bars#Uneven Bars RUS Svetlana Khorkina NED Renske Endel USA Katie Heenan Balance beam#Balance Beam ROU Andreea Răducan RUS Ludmila Ezhova CHN Sun Xiaojiao Floor#Floor exercise 2 ROU Andreea Răducan BRA Daniele Hypólito RUS Svetlana Khorkina Medal table Overall 6 0 2 3 3 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Men flagcountry 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Women flagcountry 3 3 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 Men Team Final Rank Team Total 27.562 28.075 28.625 28.061 28.762 28.537 169.622 Ivan Ivankov - 9.275 9.700 - 9.725 9.600 Dmitri Kasperovich 9.450 - 9.375 9.512 9.312 - Alexei Sinkevich - 9.400 - 9.262 9.725 - Denis Savenkov 9.162 9.400 - - - 9.500 Aleksandr Kruzhilov 8.950 - - 9.287 - 9.437 Vitali Kalinchuk - - 9.550 - - - United States 26.974 26.924 28.062 28.175 27.849 28.861 166.845 Paul Hamm 8.925 8.412 9.350 9.425 - 9.737 Brett McClure - 9.350 - 9.350 9.425 9.612 Sean Townsend 8.662 - 9.475 - 9.637 9.512 Raj Bhavsar - 9.162 9.237 - 8.787 - Stephen McCain 9.387 - - 9.400 - - Guard Young - - - - - - 26.962 27.712 27.049 27.674 27.412 28.674 165.483 Alexander Beresch 8.662 - 9.475 - 9.637 9.512 Ruslan Mezentsev 8.400 8.925 8.150 9.025 - - Andrei Lipski 9.312 - - - 9.175 9.512 Andrei Mikhailichenko - 9.275 - 9.462 9.125 - Roman Zozulya - - 9.337 - 9.112 9.387 Sergei Vyaltsev - - 9.562 - - - 4 France 26.974 28.211 27.112 27.637 27.775 27.574 165.283 Florent Marée 9.275 - 8.325 9.225 9.200 9.187 Cedric Guille 9.212 - - 9.312 - 9.437 Yann Cucherat - - - 9.100 9.350 8.950 Johan Mounard 8.487 9.312 - - 9.225 - François Ruffier - 9.537 9.312 - - - Sebastien Tayac - 9.362 9.475 - - - 5 China 27.187 27.374 27.000 28.212 28.125 27.362 165.260 Feng Jing 9.050 8.362 8.625 - 9.525 9.537 Deng Weiwei 8.875 - - 9.387 9.050 8.900 Liu Jinyu - - 9.125 9.400 - 8.925 Li Rongjie 9.262 8.200 - 9.425 - - Zhang Shangwu - - 9.250 - 9.550 - Xiao Qin - 9.812 - - - - 6 26.911 28.311 27.624 28.650 25.162 26.262 162.920 Marian Drăgulescu 8.787 - 9.137 9.675 8.625 - Dan Potra 9.212 9.312 9.500 - 7.925 - Marius Urzică - 9.762 - - 8.612 9.500 Ioan Suciu 8.912 9.237 - 9.575 - - Rareș Orzața - - - 9.400 - 9.437 Razvan Selariu - - 8.987 - - 7.325 7 Russia 26.999 25.312 27.237 28.275 26.812 26.286 160.921 Alexei Bondarenko 8.487 - 8.562 9.450 8.925 8.537 Alexei Nemov 9.475 - - 9.375 9.437 9.062 Gregory Grebenkov 9.037 8.425 9.200 - - 8.687 Evgeny Krylov - - 9.475 9.450 - - Nikolai Kryukov - 9.550 - - 8.450 - Yury Tikhonovsky - 7.337 - - - - 8 25.600 27.862 18.687 28.149 26.662 26.962 153.922 Yang Tae-Young 8.775 8.775 9.212 9.587 9.125 9.187 Lee Jang-Hyung 8.300 9.437 - 9.412 - 8.850 You Won-Kil 8.525 - 9.475 9.150 8.837 - Shing Hyung-Ook - 9.650 - - 8.700 8.925 Kim Dong-Hwa - - - - - - All-around Rank Gymnast Total Feng Jing CHN 9.287 9.425 9.125 9.300 9.612 9.462 56.211 Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.000 8.825 9.612 9.400 9.687 9.600 56.124 Yordan Yovchev BUL 9.687 8.837 9.787 9.337 9.150 9.287 56.085 4 Dan Potra ROU 9.412 9.550 9.575 9.325 9.112 8.925 55.899 5 Erick López CUB 8.562 9.087 9.687 9.462 9.687 9.237 55.722 6 Yernar Yerimbetov KAZ 8.937 9.200 9.125 9.587 9.387 9.350 55.586 7 Paul Hamm USA 9.425 9.312 9.362 9.337 9.112 8.787 55.335 8 Sean Townsend USA 9.687 8.862 9.437 9.387 9.650 8.250 55.273 9 Marian Drăgulescu ROU 9.637 9.550 9.175 9.762 7.775 9.325 55.224 10 Roman Zozulya UKR 9.312 8.725 9.350 8.950 9.187 9.425 54.949 11 Ioan Suciu ROU 9.425 9.650 8.787 9.637 8.500 8.625 54.624 12 Pavel Gofman ISR 8.975 9.150 9.062 9.150 8.950 9.150 54.437 13 Yang Tae-Young KOR 8.487 8.787 9.287 9.562 8.862 9.287 54.272 14 Johan Mounard FRA 9.025 9.287 8.637 9.187 9.112 8.975 54.223 15 Andrei Mikhailichenko UKR 9.025 9.300 8.575 9.462 9.075 8.525 53.962 16 Stephan Zapf GER 9.025 9.025 9.237 9.150 8.637 8.712 53.786 17 Igor Cassina ITA 8.537 8.725 8.762 9.237 8.562 9.437 53.260 18 Alexei Bondarenko RUS 9.675 8.312 9.150 9.212 8.237 8.637 53.223 19 Sven Kwiatkowski GER 8.412 9.312 8.375 9.162 8.825 9.075 53.161 20 Dominik Daeppen SUI 8.800 8.387 8.975 9.062 8.937 8.975 53.136 21 Charles Tamayo CUB 9.262 7.512 9.562 9.550 9.337 7.675 52.898 22 Grant Golding CAN 8.687 8.950 8.987 9.162 9.025 7.925 52.736 23 Liu Jinyu CHN 8.812 7.587 8.925 9.437 8.912 9.012 52.685 24 Florent Marée FRA 9.200 8.500 8.475 8.925 7.987 9.537 52.624 25 Victor Cano ESP 8.800 9.050 9.200 9.250 8.150 8.150 52.600 26 Roman Schweizer SUI 8.237 8.262 8.800 9.475 8.800 9.000 52.574 27 Abel Driggs Santos CUB 8.487 8.837 8.900 9.425 9.012 7.800 52.461 28 Stephen McCain USA 8.975 7.187 9.100 9.400 8.912 8.712 52.286 29 Matteo Morandi ITA 8.850 8.525 9.625 8.950 7.625 8.625 52.200 30 Erik Revelinsh LAT 8.500 8.387 8.825 8.837 8.237 9.187 51.973 31 Christoph Schaerer SUI 8.225 8.800 8.487 9.025 8.250 9.000 51.787 Floor Exercise Rank Gymnast Total Marian Drăgulescu ROU 9.550 Yordan Yovchev BUL 9.550 Igors Vihrovs LAT 9.425 4 Stephen McCain USA 9.312 5 Jevgēņijs Saproņenko LAT 8.962 6 Alexei Bondarenko RUS 8.937 7 Yernar Yerimbetov KAZ 8.712 8 Alexander Beresh UKR 7.862 Pommel Horse Rank Gymnast Total Marius Urzică ROU 9.800 Xiao Qin CHN 9.775 Alexander Beresh UKR 9.662 4 Nikolai Kryukov RUS 9.650 5 Alberto Busnari ITA 9.562 6 François Ruffier FRA 8.987 7 Feng Jing CHN 8.837 8 Ioan Suciu ROU 8.775 Rings Rank Gymnast Total Yordan Yovchev BUL 9.775 Szilveszter Csollány HUN 9.712 Andrea Coppolino ITA 9.650 4 Demosthenes Tampakos GRE 9.600 5 Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.575 6 Walid el Deriny EGY 9.562 7 You Won-Kil KOR 9.500 8 Herodotos Giorgallas CYP 9.100 Vault Rank Gymnast Total Marian Drăgulescu ROU 9.668 Jevgēņijs Saproņenko LAT 9.643 Charles Tamayo CUB 9.624 4 Alexei Bondarenko RUS 9.456 5 Yernar Yerimbetov KAZ 9.450 6 Leszek Blanik POL 9.212 7 Tue Lodahl DEN 9.156 8 Igors Vihrovs LAT 9.075 Parallel Bars Rank Gymnast Total Sean Townsend USA 9.700 Eric Lopez CUB 9.675 Ivan Ivankov BLR 9.637 4 Feng Jing CHN 9.537 5 Alexei Sinkevich BLR 9.525 6 Zhang Shangwu CHN 9.512 7 Vasileios Tsolakidis GRE 9.500 8 Marius Urzică ROU 9.375 Horizontal Bar Rank Gymnast Total Vlasios Maras GRE 9.737 Alexander Beresh UKR 9.725 Philippe Rizzo AUS 9.725 4 Igor Cassina ITA 9.550 5 Andrei Lipski UKR 9.525 6 Christoph Schaerer SUI 8.812 7 Jari Monkkonen FIN 8.737 8 Ivan Ivankov BLR 7.300 Women Team Final Rank Team Total 28.061 (1) 25.874 (5) 28.462 (1) 27.812 (1) 110.209Andreea Răducan 9.425 8.525 9.675 9.562 Sabina Cojocar 9.399 8.587 9.175 Andreea Ulmeanu 9.237 9.075 Silvia Stroescu 8.762 9.400 Carmen Ionescu 9.387 Loredana Boboc Russia 27.024 (6) 27.325 (1) 27.487 (2) 27.187 (5) 109.023 Svetlana Khorkina 8.656 9.700 8.862 9.250 Natalia Ziganshina 9.056 8.400 9.175 8.950 Ludmila Ezhova 9.225 9.450 8.987 Maria Zasypkina 9.312 Elena Zamolodchikova United States 27.729 (2) 26.712 (2) 26.324 (3) 27.749 (2) 108.514 Tasha Schwikert 9.087 9.237 9.350 Ashley Miles 9.174 8.625 8.987 Tabitha Yim 8.937 9.412 Rachel Tidd 9.168 8.150 Mohini Bhardwaj 9.387 Katie Heenan 9.000 4 Spain 27.117 (4) 25.787 (6) 26.049 (4) 27.625 (3) 106.578 Sara Moro 9.043 8.950 9.262 9.200Elena Gómez 8.237 9.062 9.500Marta Cusidó 9.043 8.925 Esther Moya 9.031 7.725 Alba Planas 8.600 Ana Parera 5 Netherlands 27.286 (3) 26.249 (4) 25.674 (6) 27.286 (4) 106.495 Verona van de Leur 9.212 9.387 8.450 9.087Gabriëlla Wammes 9.131 7.762 8.337 9.162 Rikst Valentijn 8.887 9.037 Renske Endel 9.100 Monique Nuijten 8.943 Kimberly Viola 6 26.817 (8) 26.262 (3) 25.975 (5) 25.262 (8) 104.316 Natalia Sirobaba 9.099 8.250 9.100 7.550 Alona Kvasha 8.981 8.625 9.012 Tatiana Yarosh 8.737 9.050 8.700 Irina Yarotska 8.962 8.250 Olga Roschupkina Nataliya Horodniy 7 Australia 27.104 (5) 24.200 (8) 24.524 (8) 27.049 (6) 102.877 Allana Slater 9.037 9.000 7.525 9.437 Alexandra Croak 8.874 8.362 9.037 Jacqui Dunn 6.475 8.637 Allison Johnston 9.193 Jessica Zarnay 8.725 Kylie Tanner 8.575 8 Germany 26.825 (7) 25.074 (7) 25.437 (7) 25.512 (7) 102.848Lisa Brüggemann 9.000 8.712 8.250 8.625 Birgit Schweigert 8.875 8.037 8.587 8.387 Gabi Weller 8.950 Katja Abel 8.600 Gritt Hofmann 8.500 Conny Schütz 8.325 All Around Final Svetlana Khorkina won her second title, only the fifth female gymnast to achieve this feat. At age 22, she became the oldest women's all-around champion since Nellie Kim in 1979, the last time the event had been won by a gymnast in her 20s. Daniele Hypólito became the first Latin American gymnast to ever place in the top five. As of 2026, this is the most recent Women's All Around final where none of the medals were won by an American gymnast. Rank Gymnast Total Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.368 9.537 9.237 9.475 37.617 Natalia Ziganshina RUS 9.343 9.200 9.375 9.387 37.305 Andreea Răducan ROU 9.350 8.862 9.475 9.262 36.949 4 Daniele Hypólito BRA 9.056 8.912 9.375 9.562 36.905 5 Tasha Schwikert USA 9.231 8.950 9.350 9.350 36.881 6 Sabina Cojocar ROU 9.356 8.625 9.337 9.462 36.780 7 Tabitha Yim USA 9.143 8.950 9.125 9.462 36.680 8 Sara Moro ESP 8.675 9.225 9.475 9.287 36.662 9 Verona van de Leur NED 9.093 9.400 8.550 9.350 36.393 10 Sun Xiaojiao CHN 8.868 8.875 9.487 9.062 36.292 11 Silvia Stroescu ROU 9.031 8.575 9.387 9.225 36.218 12Marta Cusidó ESP 9.043 8.837 8.925 9.112 35.917 13Gabriëlla Wammes NED 9.124 8.562 9.025 9.137 35.848 14 Holly Murdock GBR 8.918 8.750 8.862 9.012 35.524 15 Evgeniya Kuznetsova BUL 9.025 8.787 8.937 8.625 35.374 16 Kate Richardson CAN 8.968 8.662 8.687 8.975 35.292 17Elena Gómez ESP 8.818 8.425 8.837 9.200 35.280 18 Mohini Bhardwaj USA 9.362 8.487 8.275 8.912 35.036 19 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 9.362 8.237 8.387 9.037 35.023 20 Alona Kvasha UKR 8.812 8.312 8.725 9.112 34.961 21 Olga Roschupkina UKR 8.731 8.662 9.075 8.487 34.955 22 Allana Slater AUS 8.868 9.050 8.212 8.812 34.942 23 Delphine Regease FRA 8.962 8.312 8.800 8.850 34.924 24 Elizabeth Tweddle GBR 8.918 8.937 8.362 8.675 34.892 25Janerky de la Peña CUB 8.937 8.800 8.562 8.525 34.824 26 Ludmila Ezhova RUS 6.900 9.312 9.587 8.975 34.774 27 Birgit Schweigert GER 9.049 8.537 8.587 8.462 34.635 28 Rikst Valentijn NED 8.756 8.700 8.475 8.662 34.593 29 Jacqui Dunn AUS 8.737 8.837 8.387 8.325 34.286 30Tatiana Zharganova BLR 8.449 8.137 8.787 8.550 33.923 31 Tatiana Yarosh UKR 8.562 7.762 8.175 8.950 33.449 32 Ashley Peckett CAN 8.718 8.550 7.125 8.850 33.243 Vault Final Rank Gymnast Vault 1 Vault 2 Total Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.350 9.475 9.412 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 9.287 9.412 9.349 Andreea Răducan ROU 9.125 9.362 9.243 4 Jana Komrsková CZE 9.237 9.175 9.206 5 Andreea Ulmeanu ROU 9.287 8.950 9.118 6 Verona van de Leur NED 9.375 8.850 9.112 7 Mohini Bhardwaj USA 9.375 8.700 9.037 8 Ashley Miles USA 9.312 8.225 8.768 Uneven Bars Final Rank Gymnast S.V. Total Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.8 9.437 Renske Endel NED 10.0 9.425 Katie Heenan USA 9.8 9.212 4 Sara Moro ESP 9.8 8.850 5Tatiana Zharganova BLR 9.8 8.825 6 Ludmila Ezhova RUS 9.9 8.625 6 Jacqui Dunn AUS 9.8 8.625 8 Verona van de Leur NED 9.4 8.412 Balance Beam Final Rank Gymnast S.V. Total Andreea Răducan ROU 10.0 9.662 Ludmila Ezhova RUS 10.0 9.650 Sun Xiaojiao CHN 10.0 9.575 4 Sabina Cojocar ROU 9.9 9.475 5 Tasha Schwikert USA 9.9 9.350 6Elena Gómez ESP 9.6 9.025 7 Esther Moya ESP 9.6 8.975 8 Rachel Tidd USA 9.5 8.375 Floor Exercise Final Rank Gymnast S.V pen. Total Andreea Răducan ROU 9.9 9.550 Daniele Hypólito BRA 9.9 9.487 Svetlana Khorkina RUS 9.8 9.375 4 Allana Slater AUS 9.9 9.337 5Daiane dos Santos BRA 9.8 9.325 6 Tabitha Yim USA 9.7 9.187 7 Silvia Stroescu ROU 9.6 9.012 8 Tasha Schwikert USA 9.6 0.1 8.900 References FIG Official Results: 35th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships G G W