At the beginning
of women's world championships history (1924, Budapest) Czech and Polish
gymnasts were on the international to.
This changed with the start of the Soviet sports entrance into world
sports from 1954 (Roma) on:
Strating with the success of Galina
Rudiko the Soviet
women won 11 all-around gol medals - only interrupted in 1966 by
Vera
Caslavska (CSSR) in
Dortmund and 1987 by the Romanian Aurelia
Dobre in Rotterdam.
After the political changes stron gymnasts from USA came on top, so
Kim
Zmeskal and
Shannon
Miller dominated
1991 to 1994 . Lilia Podkopaeva
from Kraine won the first Ukraine all-around gold and in Tianjin 1999
Maria
Olaru won the
second aa gold for Romania.
But than came the times
of the incomparably Svetlana
Khorkina:
After 1997 in Lausanne and Ghent 2001 Khorkina was the very first
gymnast in the world, who won all-around gold to the third time
(2003, Anaheim).... Chellsie
Memmel is the
third USA all-around champion, the difference (1/1000 !!) is the
smallest in gymnastics history and also the double success (2nd
placed A.
Liukin) is
the first for USA. Australia won with
Monette
Russo the
very first all-around medal for her country. Vanessa Ferrari won
in Aarhus 2006 the very first medal for Italy - and immediately a
golden!
Shawn JOHNSON won the fifth gold for USA in
Stuttgart 2007, and Bridget Sloan
the sixth in London...
AA
Women's Champions, medallists and more ... (- from 1934 on)
Year
-
more Finalists
2009 London
GBR
Bridget SLOAN
USA
Rebecca BROSS
(USA)
Koko TSURUMI
(JPN)
4. L. Mitchell (AUS)
5. Y. Dufournet (FRA)
6. YANG, Yilin (CHN)
