Uneven bars World Champions all
 In the history book of this apparatus, Gertrud Kolar from Austria and Ann-Sofie Petterson from Sweden are the first World Champions, the Polish Helena Rakoczy achieved the third place in 1950 in Basel. Two more Austrians, Schramm and Ruckser, were in this very first uneven bars final at World Championships.
After that, Hungarian (Keleti) and Soviet (Latynina, Perwukhina) gymnasts dominated this apparatus, but with the victory of the German Karin Janz   (1970) a dominance of the GDR-gymnasts started and lasted for almost two decades.
They gained the World Champion’s title at the “double horizontal bar” seven times- with Annelore Zinke (1974), three times Maxi Gnauck (1979-1983), Gabriele Fähnrich and Dörthe Thümmler, only once interrupted by Marcia Frederick (USA) in 1978 in Strasbourg.  Romania, the USA and China were the dominating nations afterwards until Swetlana Khorkina, starting in 1995, climbed the throne of the uneven bars queen five  times in a row, but in 2002 came Courney Kupets, nine years after the last American success of Shannon Miller....but than came the double winners of Anaheim Chellsie Memmel and Holie Vise...and 2005 followed the fifth u.bars champion, coming from USA! Beth Tweddle won the very first title for Great Britain in Aarhus 2006.


German
 WCh Women- Uneven bars
  
Jahr  - deutsche Finalistinnen
2006
Aarhus		        
2005
Melbourne		  Anastasia Liukin (USA)  C. Memmel (USA)  E. Tweddle (GBR)  
2003
Anaheim		 Chellsie Memmel (USA)
Holie Vise (USA)		 - E. Tweddle (GBR)
2002
 Debrecen		 C. Kupets (USA) A. Petrovshi (ROM) L. Eshova (RUS)  
2001
Ghent		 S. Khorkina (RUS) R. Endel (NED)     Heenan (USA)
1999 S. Khorkina (RUS) Huang, Mandan (CHN) Lin, Jie (CHN) -
1997 S. Khorkina (RUS) Meng, Fei (CHN) Bi, Wenjing (CHN) -
1996 S. Khorkina (RUS)
E. Piskun (BLR)		 - ? 6. Kathleen Stark (GER)
1995 S. Khorkina (RUS) Mo, Huilan (CHN)
L. Podkopaeva (UKR)		 -
1994 Luo, Li (CHN) S. Khorkina (RUS) D. Kochetkova (RUS) -
1993 S. Miller (USA) D. Dawes (USA) A. Cacovean (ROM) -
1992 L. Milosivici (ROM) E. Okino (USA)   Pascu (ROM) (Q) Peggy Wuensche (GER)
(Q) Gabi Weller (GER)
1991 Kim, Kwan Suk (PRK) T. Gutsu (URS)
S. Miller (USA) 		 - -

    -  b e f o r e  the political changes at the beginning of the Nineties:
  
Jahr  - deutsche Finalisten
1989 Fan, Di (CHN)
D. Silivash		 - O. Strasheva (URS)
1987 D. Thuemmler (GDR)
D. Silivash (ROM)		 - E. Shushunova (URS) 7. Martina Jentsch (GDR)
1985 G. Faehnrich (GDR) D. Kersten (GDR) H. Ricna (TCH)
1983 M. Gnauck (GDR) L. Agache (ROM)
E. Szabo (ROM) 		 - 5. Gabriele Faehnrich (GDR)
1981 M. Gnauck (GDR) Ma, Yanhong (CHN)  E. Davydova (URS)
    McNamara (USA)		 -
1979 M. Gnauck (GDR)
Ma, Yanhong (CHN)   		 - E. Eberle (ROM) 4. Steffi Kraeker (GDR)
1978 M. Frederick (USA) E. Muchina (URS)   E. Eberle (ROM) 6. Steffi Kraeker (GDR)
8. Birgit Suess (GDR)
1974 A. Zinke (GDR)  O. Korbut (URS)   L. Turishtsheva (URS)  4. Angelika Hellmann (GDR) 
5. Ricarda Schmeisser (GDR)
1970 Janz (GDR) L. Turishtsheva (URS)  S. Voronina (URS)  6. Erika Zuchold (GDR)
1966 N. Kuchinskaya (URS) K. Ikeda (JPN)      Mitsukuri (JPN) -
1962   Pervukhina (URS)  E. Bosakova (TCH)    L. Latynina (URS)
1958 L. Latynina (URS)  E. Bosakowa (TCH)     P. Astachova (URS)
1954 Keleti (HUN)     Rudko (URS)  H. Rakoczy (POL) 
1950   Kolar (AUT)
  Pettersson (SWE)     		 H. Rakoczy (POL)   - -
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