World Champions all, Women, Balance Beam
At the third women's world championships 1950 in Basel the most successful woman came from Poland. Helena Rakoci got not only the first balance beam title, but also the gold medals all around, on vault, and floor, and sho won silver on bars.
The most successful nation on beam is Romania: from Nadia Comaneci 1976 to Andreea Raducan 2001 in Ghent the Romanian gymnasts won 7 gold medals, the URS won five and the USA three titles, .at last Ashley Postell.
.Specially on beam the Chinese gymnastics is going forward with the titleholder FAN, Ye.
but 2005 strong American gymnasts got  gold and silver, LIUKIN and MEMMEL ...


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  WCh Women, Balance Beam
  
Year

 - notices

2006
Aarhus
2005
Melbourne
Anastasia Liukin (USA) Chellsie Memmel (USA) Catalina Ponor (ROM)  
2003
Anaheim
FAN, Ye (CHN) Catalina Ponor (ROM) Ludmilla Eshova (RUS) -
2002
Debrecen
A. Postell (USA) O. Ban (ROM) I. Yarotska (UKR) -
2001
Ghent
A. Raducan (ROM) L. Eshova (RUS) SUN, Xiaojiao (CHN) -
1999 LING, Jie (CHN) A. Raducan (ROM) O. Roshupkina (UKR) -
1997 G. Gogean (ROM) S. Khorkina (RUS) KUI, Yuanyuan (CHN) -
1996 D. Kochetkova (RUS) A. Marinescu (ROM) D. Dawes (USA)
LIU, Xuan (CHN)
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1995 MO, Huilan (CHN) L. Podkopayeva (UKR) D. Moceanu (USA)
1994 S. Miller (USA) L. Podkopayeva (UKR) O. Fabrichnova (RUS) 8. Julia Stratmann (GER)
1993 L. Milosovici (ROM) D. Dawes (USA)     Bobrova (RUS)
1992 K. Zmeskal (USA) LI, Yifang (CHN)
     Neculita (ROM) 
- (Q) - Gabi Weller (GER)
1991 S. Boginskaya (URS) T. Gutsu (URS) E. Okino (USA)
L. Milosovici (ROM)

     -  b e f o r e  the political changes at the beginning of the Nineties:

   
Year

 - German finalists

1989 D. Silivash (ROM) A. Dudnik (URS) -
1987 A. Dobre (ROM)  E. Shushunova (URS)   5. Ulrike Klotz (GDR)
7. Klaudia Rapp (GDR)
1985 D. Silivash (ROM) E. Szabo (ROM) E. Shushunova (URS) 8. Dagmar Kersten (GDR)
1983 O. Mostepanova (URS) H. Ricna (CZE)  L. Agache (ROM) 4. Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
5. Sylvia Rau (GDR)
8. Anja Wilhelm (FRG)
1981 M. Gnauck (GDR) CHEN, Wenyan (CHN)  T. Talavera (USA)
WU, Jiani (CHN)
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1979 E. Cerna (CZE)  N. Kim (URS) R. Grabolle (GDR) 6. Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
1978 N. Comaneci (ROM)   E. Muchina (URS) 6. Sylvia  Hindorff (GDR)
1974 L. Turischeva (URS)  O. Korbut (URS)   N. Kim (URS) 6. Angelik Hellmann (GDR)
1970 E. Zuchold (GDR) A. Rigby (USA)  Chr. Schmitt (GDR)
L. Petrik (URS) 
5. Angelik Hellmann (GDR)
1966 N. Kuchinskaya (URS) V. Cáslavská (CZE)  L. Petrik (URS) -
1962 E. Bosŕkova (CZE)  L. Latynina (URS)     K. Ikeda (JPN)
A. Dusza (HUN)
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1958 L. Latynina (URS) Muratova (URS)  K. Tanaka (JPN) -
1954 K. Tanaka (JPN) E. Bosáková (CZE)  A. Keleti (HUN)  -
1950 H. Rakoczy (POL)          Nutti (ITA)  L. Macchini (ITA)
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