2025 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
The 2025 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Barra Olympic Park. This was the first world championships ever to be held in South America.
It was the first world championships held under the new 2025—2028 code of points, providing an early benchmark for national teams and individuals aiming for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. A record number of nations, 76, registered 109 individual gymnasts and 36 groups, with a total of 320 gymnasts registered to compete. Seven countries sent gymnasts for the first time: Aruba, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Paraguay, Peru, Syria, and Tunisia.
Déborah Medrado was selected as the event's gymnastics ambassador.
Nine events were contested: five individual titles, three group titles, and a team title that combined the scores of the individuals and group of each nation in the qualifying round.
In the individual event, reigning all-around World champion Darja Varfolomeev defended her title, with 2022 World bronze medalist Stiliana Nikolova winning silver on her 20th birthday and 2022 World champion Sofia Raffaeli winning bronze. During the medal ceremony, the national anthem for Georgia was mistakenly played rather than that of Varfolomeev's country, Germany. In the apparatus finals, Varfolomeev also won every apparatus title except for hoop, which was won by Raffaeli; she dedicated her medal to Lorenzo Bonicelli, an Italian artistic gymnast who was hospitalized after an accident at the 2025 Summer World University Games. In the ball final, American Rin Keys won silver, which was the first-ever individual World medal won by gymnast from the Americas. Hatice Gokce Emir became the first Turkish gymnast to reach a final after qualifying for both the hoop and all-around finals.
In the group event, the Japanese group received the highest score of the all-around qualification with their second routine and narrowly won gold over the Brazilian group, while the Spanish group won bronze. This was the first medal won by Brazilian gymnasts at the World championships, making them the first gymnasts from the Americas to win a World Championship medal on a group competition. In the mixed final, Ukraine won its second-ever gold medal in the group event, the first since the 2002 World Championships, while the Brazilian team won a second silver and China won bronze. In the five ribbons final, China won gold, followed by Japan and Spain.
Germany won the team event, with Bulgaria winning silver and Ukraine bronze. The Fan Favorite award was given to Wang Zilu, and the Legend Award was given to Carmel Kallemaa, due to her being the oldest competitor at the event.
Due to technical issues with a new system for submitting scores, the group all-around scores were revised after the competition, leading to a few changes in standing.
Schedule
Source:Wednesday, August 20- * All Day: Individual Qualification - Hoop and BallThursday, August 21
- * All Day: Individual Qualification - Clubs and RibbonFriday, August 22
- * Individual All Around Final Saturday, August 23
- * All Day: Group All AroundSunday, August 24
- * Group 5 Ribbons Final & 3 Balls + 2 Hoops Final
- * Individual Hoop, Ball, Clubs & Ribbon Final
Medal summary
Individual
Individual Qualification
- The top 8 scores in individual apparatus qualify to the apparatus finals and the top 18 in overall qualification scores advance to the all-around final.
| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Total | ! | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Darja Varfolomeev |  GermanyAll-Around Final
|
JapanSilver2