1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Birmingham, England in 1993. There was no team competition at this meet; gymnasts competed in the all-around and event finals only.

The competition took place between the 13th April and the 18th April. The opening ceromoney took place on the 12th April. For the first time the opening ceromeney took place at a different venue to the actual competition. The opening ceromoney took place at the National Indoor Arena and the competition took place at the National Exhibition Centre. 57 nations took part. This was the most countries that any gymnastics world championships had had at the time. This was the first time that the nations which formed the Soviet Union competed under their own state. This was the first time that the artistic world championships had been held in Great Britain. Another significant format was that this was the first world championships to have only 24 gymnasts in the all around with 2 gymnasts per nation instead of 3. This format happened again in a world championships at the 2003 world championships and has remained at this format ever since.

Participating Countries

Here are some of the countries that competed.

•  Argentina
•  Austria
•  Australia
•  Belarus
•  Belgium
•  Brazil
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  China
•  Cuba
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Estonia
•  Finland
•  France
•  Germany
•  Greece
•  Hungary
•  India
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Korea
•  Latvia
•  Mexico
•  Morocco
•  North Korea
•  Puerto Rico
•  Poland
•  Romania
•  Russia
•  Slovenia
•  South Africa
•  Spain
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Ukraine
•  United Kingdom
•  United States
•  Uzbekistan

Men

All-around

1st	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	56.174
2nd	Sergei Kharkov (RUS)	55.625
3rd	Andreas Wecker (GER)	55.450

Floor exercise

1st	Grigory Misutin (UKR)	9.400
2nd	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.350
2nd	Neil Thomas (GBR)	9.350

Pommel horse

1st	Pae Gil Su (PRK)	9.750
2nd	Andreas Wecker (GER)	9.425
3rd	Karoly Schupkegel (HUN)	9.400

Rings

1st	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.625
2nd	Andreas Wecker (GER)	9.575
3rd	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.500

Vault

1st	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.612
2nd	Feng Chih Chang (TPE)	9.487
3rd	You Ok Youl (KOR)	9.418

Parallel bars

1st	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.600
2nd	Igor Korobchinsky (UKR)	9.525
3rd	Valery Belenky (UNA**)	9.475

Horizontal bar

1st	Sergei Kharkov (RUS)	9.450
2nd	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.375
3rd	Zoltan Supola (HUN)	9.350

• • NB: Because Belenky's home country of Azerbaijan did not have a gymnastics federation, he competed at this meet as an unattached (UNA) athlete.

Women

All-around

1st	Shannon Miller (USA)	39.062
2nd	Gina Gogean (ROU)	39.055
3rd	Tatiana Lysenko (UKR)	39.011

Vault

1st	Elena Piskun (BLR)	9.762
2nd	Lavinia Miloşovici (ROU)	9.737
3rd	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.718
4th	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.687
5th	Kerri Strug (USA)	9.662
6th	Klara Kudilkova (CZE)	9.512
7th	Arasoy Jova (CUB)	9.343
8th	Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR)	8.893

Uneven bars

1st	Shannon Miller (USA)	9.887
2nd	Dominique Dawes (USA)	9.800
3rd	Andreea Cacovean (ROU)	9.737

Balance beam

1st	Lavinia Miloşovici (ROU)	9.850
2nd	Dominique Dawes (USA)	9.725
3rd	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.650

Floor exercise

1st	Shannon Miller (USA)	9.787
2nd	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.737
3rd	Natalia Bobrova (RUS)	9.712

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