2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships


The 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was the 46th edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. 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. The competition served as a qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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 4 December 2015, British Gymnastics announced that the event had been named "Sporting Event of the Year" by The Sunday Mail.

Competition schedule

All times are BST from 23 to 24 October 2015 and GMT from 25 October to 1 November 2015.
DateTimeRound
23 October 201509:40Women's qualifying
23 October 201514:40Women's qualifying
24 October 201509:40Women's qualifying
24 October 201514:40Women's qualifying
25 October 201509:40Men's qualifying
25 October 201516:10Men's qualifying
26 October 201509:40Men's qualifying
26 October 201516:10Men's qualifying
27 October 201518:15Women's team final
28 October 201517:30Men's team final
29 October 201518:25Women's all-around final
30 October 201517:45Men's all-around final
31 October 201513:30Apparatus finals
1 November 201513:30Apparatus finals

Venue

The competition was held in The SSE Hydro, which opened in 2013. This arena hosted the Gymnastics events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Olympic qualification

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.

Medal table

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.

Men's results

Team competition

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestBrinn Bevan16 June 1997
OldestYoo Won-chul20 July 1984

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestKazuma KayaJapanAge in years, months and days|1996|11|19|2015|10|30BLRAge in years, months and days|1986|6|23|2015|10|30

Floor

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestKenzo ShiraiJapanAge in years, months and days|1996|8|24|2015|11|1

Pommel horse

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestKazuma KayaJapanARM

Rings

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestDonnell WhittenburgUnited States

Vault

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestKenzo ShiraiJapanROU

Parallel bars

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestManrique Larduet10 July 199619 years
OldestYusuke TanakaJapan

Horizontal bar

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestManrique Larduet10 July 199619 years
OldestChris BrooksUnited States

Women's results

Team competition

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestSydney TownsendCanada

Individual all-around

Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestWang YanChina

Vault

Medaling on the event allowed North Korea's Hong Un-jong to qualify to the Olympics as an individual.
Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestWang YanChinaPRK

Uneven bars

This was the first four-way tie in history for gold at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but this is unlikely to happen again because the World Championships has instituted a tie-breaking procedure since then similar to the Olympics to prevent a situation like this from happening again.
Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestFan YilinChina

Balance beam

Simone Biles of the USA defended her beam title from 2014, becoming the first back-to-back world champion on beam. With her ninth career world championships gold medal, she tied the record held by Larisa Latynina, Gina Gogean, and Svetlana Khorkina. Sanne Wevers of the Netherlands and Pauline Schäfer of Germany won the first medals for their countries on the balance beam. Schäfer also qualified as an individual to the Olympics by medaling.
Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestWang YanChina

Floor

Due to an elbow injury prior to the final, Erika Fasana withdrew from the final, being replaced by Shang Chunsong. Additionally, Swiss gymnast Giulia Steingruber sustained a knee injury during the vault final the day before, rendering her unable to participate in the floor final. She was replaced by Lieke Wevers of the Netherlands. Simone Biles won a record 10th career world championships gold medal.
Oldest and youngest competitors
NameCountryDate of birthAge
YoungestSae MiyakawaJapan