VAULT: World Champions all   (Women)
From the 10th World Championships in 1934, Budapest also women took part in artistic gymnastics.
But at first in Basel / Switzerland 1950 the first World Champion on vault was honoured: Helena Rakocy from Poland is the very firts World Champion in vaulting of history, silver won the Austrian Gertrude Kolar and bronze Alexandrine Lemoine from France.
From 1950 on there are all together 24 world champions on vault, coming from 11 countries, the most of them from the former Soviet Union (7x) and from Romania (6). Titleholder 1999 was the Olympic Champion of Sydney 2000, Elena Zamolodchikova from Russia, 
The first "PEGASES World Champion" in history 2001 was her teammate Svetlana Khorkina and "Zamo" won again in Debrecen 2002.
CHENG, Fei won the very first vault medal for China in 2005 and repeated in Aarhus 2006. Tschussowitina break a world record: 7 WCh medals on vault only!


German
  World Champions ALL, Women (- from 1950 on....)
  
Year

- German finalists
2006
Aarhus		 CHENG, Fei (CHN) Alicia Sacramone (USA) Oksana Tschussowitina (GER) 4. Lais SOUZA (BRA)
5. Anna PAVLOVA (RUS)
6. El. Zamolodchikova (RUS)
7. HONG, Su Jong (PRK)
8. Sandra IZBASA (ROM)
2005
Melbourne		 Cheng, Fei (CHN) O. Chusovitina (UZB) Alicia Sacramone (USA)
2003
Anaheim		 Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) KANG, Yun Mi (PRK)
E. Zamolodshikova (RUS)		 - -
2002
 Debrecen		 E. Zamolodchikova (RUS) N. Zhiganshina (RUS) O. Chusovitina (UZB) -
2001
Ghent

S. Khorkina (RUS)

 O. Chusovitina (UZB) A. Raducan (ROM) -
1999 E. Zamolodchikova (RUS) S. Amanar (ROM) M. Olaru (ROM) -
1997 S. Amanar (ROM) Zhou, Duan (CHN) G. Gogean (ROM) -
1996 G. Gogean (ROM) S. Amanar (ROM)   -
1995 S. Amanar (ROM)
L. Podkopayeva (UKR)		 - G. Gogean (ROM) -
1994 G. Gogean (ROM) S. Khorkina (RUS) L. Milosovici (ROM) -
1993 E. Piskun (BLR) L. Milosovici (ROM) O. Chusovitina (UZB) -
1992 H. Onodi (HUN) S. Boginskaya (GUS)  O. Chusovitina (GUS)  (Hf) Gaby  Weller (GER)
1991 L. Milosovici (ROM)  O. Chusovitina (GUS)
H. Onodi (HUN)		 - -

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

 - German finalists
1989 A. Dudnik (URS)  C. Bontas (ROM)
B. Johnson (USA)		 - -
1987 E. Chuchunova (URS)     Golea (ROM) A. Dobre (ROM) 8. Martina Jentsch (GDR)
1985 E. Chuchunova (URS) E. Szabo (ROM)   D. Kersten (GDR) -
1983 B. Stoyanova (BUL)    L. Agache (ROM)
E. Szabo (ROM)     		 - 4.  Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
6. Sylvia Rau (GDR)
1981 M. Gnauck (GDR S. Sakharova (URS) S. Kräker (GDR)
1979 Turner (ROM) S. Sakharova (URS) S. Kräker (GDR)
N. Kim (URS)		 6. Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
1978 Nelli Kim (URS)  N. Comaneci (ROM)  S. Kräker (GDR) 7.  Heike Kunhardt (GDR)
1974 O. Korbut (URS)  L. Turichtcheva (URS)     Perdykulova (TCH) 5. Angelika Hellmann (GDR)
1970 Zuchold (GDR) K. Janz (GDR) L. Turichtcheva (URS)
    Burda (URS)		 6. Angelika Hellmann (GDR)
1966 V. Cáslavská (TCH) E. Zuchold (GDR) N. Kutchinskaya (URS) 4. Ute Starke (GDR)
1962 V. Cáslavská (TCH)  L. Latynina (URS)    Manina (URS) 4. Birgit Radochla (GDR), 
5. IngridFöst (GDR)
1958 L. Latynina (URS)  S. Muratova (URS)
    Kalinina (URS)
    Manina (URS)		 - -
1954 Manina (URS)
A.- S. Petterson (SWE)		 -   Berggren (SWE) -
1950  Rakoczy (POL)    Kolar (AUT)    Lemoine (FRA)    
 
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