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ALL AROUND
crown of gymnastics
ALL-AROUND WORLD CHAMPIONS, WOMEN's all
 SAt 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.


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 AA Women's Champions, medallists and more ... (- from 1934 on)
  
Year  -  more Finalists
2005
 Melbourne		 Chellsie Memmel (USA) Anastasia Liukin (USA) Monette Russo (AUS) 4. Beth Tweddle (GBR)
5. Emelie Lepennec (FRA)
6. Florica Leonida (ROM)
2003
 Anaheim		 Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) Carly Pattersson (USA) Zhang, Nan (CHN) 4. Irina Yarodskaya (UKR)
5. Elena Gomez (ESP)
6. Oana Ban (ROM)
2001
Ghent
BEL		 Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) Natalia Ziganshina (RUS) Andreea Raducan (ROM) 4. Daniele Hypolito (BRA)
5. Tasha Schwikert (USA)
6. Sabina Cojocar (ROM)
1999
 Tianjin		 Maria Olaru (ROM) Victoria Karpenko (UKR) Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS) 4. Elena Produnova (RUS)
5. Andreea Raducan (ROM)
6. Dong, Fangxiao (CHN)
1997
 Lausanne
SUI		 Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) Simona Amanar (ROM) Elena Produnova (RUS) 4. Gina Gogean (ROM)
5. Meng, Fei (CHN)
6. Lubov Sheremeta (UKR)
1995
 Sabae
JPN		 Lilia Podkopaeva (UKR) Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) Lavinia Milosovici (ROM) 4. Simona Amanar (ROM)
5. Dominique Moceanu (USA)
6. Mo, Huilan (CHN)
1994
 Brisbane
AUS		 Shannon Miller (USA) Lavinia Milosovici (ROM) Dina Kochetkova (URS) 4. Gina Gogean (ROM)
5. Dominique Dawes (USA)
6. Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR)
1993
 Birmingham
GBR		 Shannon Miller (USA) Gina Gogean (ROM) Tatiana Lyssenko (UKR) 4. Dominique Dawes (USA)
5. Oksana Fabrichnova (RUS)
6. Roza Galieva (UZB)
1991
 Indianapolis
USA		 Kim Zmeskal (USA) Svetlana Boginskaya (URS) Cristina Bontas (ROM) 4. Elizabeth Okino (USA)
5. Tatiana Gutsu (URS)
6. Shannon Miller (URS)
     
 -  b e f o r e  the political changes at the beginning of the Nineties:
Year  - deutsche Finalisten
1989 Svetlana Boginskaya (URS) Natalia Lashtyonova (URS) Olga Strasheva (URS) 4. Cristina Bontas (ROM)
5. Yang, Bo (CHN)
6. Chen, Cuiting (CHN)
1987 Aurelia Dobre (ROM) Elena Shushunova (URS) Daniela Silivsh (ROM) 4. Svetlana Baitova (URS)
5. Oksana Omilyantchik (URS)
6. Doerte Thuemmler (GDR)
1985 Elena Shushunova
Oksana Omilyanchik  (URS)		 - Dagmar Kersten (GDR) 4. Gabriele Faehnrich (GDR)
5. Ecaterina Szabo (ROM)
6. Natalia Yurtchenko (URS)
1983 Natalia Yurchenko (URS) Olga Mostepanova (URS) Ecaterina Scabo (ROM) 4. Boriana Stoyanova (BUL)
5. Tatiana Frolova (URS)
6. Lavinia Agache (ROM)
7. Maxi Gnauck (GDR)
1981 Olga Bicherova (URS) Maria Filatova (URS) Elena Davydova (URS) 4. Ma, Yanhong (CHN)
5. Cristina Grigoras (ROM)
6. Rodica Dunca (ROM)
1979 Nelli Kim (URS) Maxi Gnauck (GDR) Melitta Ruehn (ROM) 4. Maria Filatova (URS)
5. Rodica Dunca (ROM)
6. Vera Cerna (CSR) 
7. Steffi Kraeker (GDR)
1978 Elena Mukhina (URS) Nelli Kim (URS) Natalia Shaposhnikova (URS) 4. Nadia Comaneci (ROM)
5. Emilia Eberle (ROM)
6. Vera Cerna (CSR)
7. Steffi Kräker (GDR)
1974 Ludmilla Turishtcheva (URS) Olga Korbut (URS) Angelika Hellmann (GDR) 4. Elvira Saadi (URS)
5. Rusudan Sikharulidse (URS)
6. Annelore Zinke (GDR)
1970 Ludmilla Turishtcheva (URS) Erika Zuchold (GDR) Sinaida Voronina (URS) 4. Karin Janz (GDR)
5. Lubov Burda (URS)
6. Larissa Petrik (URS)
1966 Vera Càslavskà (CZE) Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) Keiko Ikeda (JPN) 4. Erika Zuchold (GDR)
5. Jaroslava Sedlackovà (CZE)
6. Larissa Petrik (URS)
1962 Larissa Latynina (URS) Vera Càslavskà (CZE) Irina Perwushhina (URS) 4. Eva Bsàkova (CZE)
5. Tamara Manina (URS)
6. Keiko Ikeda (JPN)
7. Ingid Föst (GDR)
1958 Larissa Latynina (URS) Eva Bosàkovà (CZE) Tamara Manina (URS) 4. Sofia Muratova (URS)
5. Keiko Tanaka (JPN)
6. Lydia Kalinina (URS)
1954 Galina Rudko (URS) Eva Bosàkovà (CZE) Helena Rakoczy (POL) 4. Edit Perènyi (HUN)
5. Elena Leustean (ROM)
6. Maria Gochorovskaya (URS)
1950 Helena Rakoczy (POL) Ann-Sofi Pettersson (SWE) Gertrud Kolar (AUT) 4. Evy Berggreen (SWE)
5. Alexandrine Lemoine (FRA)
6.  Durand FRA)
1938 Vlasta Dekanovà (CZE) Zdenka Vermirovska (CZE) Matykla Palffyova (CZE) -
1934 Vlasta Dekanovà (CZE) Margit Kalocsai (HUN) Janina Skirlinska (POL) -

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