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 and also the USA won five titles.
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 ...Liukin again in 2007 Stuttgart
and 2006 Irina KRANSNYANSKA
got the first gold for Ukraine.
Chinese Deng, Linlin won gold in 2009
after a break of six years ...
WCh Women, Balance Beam
(1950 - 2010)
Year
-
last & German finalists
2010
Rotterdam
NED
Ana PORGRAS (ROU)
Rebecca BROSS (USA)
DENG, Linlin (CHN)
-
4. L. Mitchell (AUS)
5. A. Sacramone (USA)
6. A. Dementjewa (RUS)
7. A, Mudtafina (RUS)
8. J. Demjantschuk (UKR)
2009 London
GBR
Deng, Linlin
CHN)
Lauren Mitchell
(AUS)
Ivana Hong
(USA)
4. Kim Un Hyang (PRK)
5. E. Preziosa (ITA)
6. K. Tsurumi (JPN)
7. A. Porgras (ROU)
8. Yang, Linlin (CHN)
2007
Stuttgart
GER
Anastasia
Ljukin (USA)
Steliana Nistor (ROU)
Li, Dhanshan (CHN)
-
4. C. Ponor (ROU)
5. L. Mitchell (AUS)
6. I. Severino (FRA)
7. J. Barbosa (BRA)
8. S. Johnson (USA)
2006 Aarhus
Irina
Krasnyanska (UKR)
Sandra
Izbasa (ROU)
Elyse
Hoepfner-Hibbs (CAN)
2005 Melbourne
Anastasia
Liukin (USA)
Chellsie
Memmel (USA)
Catalina
Ponor (ROU)
2003
Anaheim
FAN,
Ye (CHN)
Catalina
Ponor (ROU)
Ludmilla
Eshova (RUS)
-
2002
Debrecen
A.
Postell
(USA)
O.
Ban (ROU)
I.
Yarotska (UKR)
-
2001 Ghent
A.
Raducan (ROU)
L.
Eshova (RUS)
SUN,
Xiaojiao (CHN)
-
1999
LING,
Jie (CHN)
A.
Raducan (ROU)
O.
Roshupkina
(UKR)
-
1997
G.
Gogean (ROU)
S.
Khorkina (RUS)
KUI,
Yuanyuan (CHN)
-
1996
D.
Kochetkova (RUS)
A.
Marinescu (ROU)
D.
Dawes (USA)
LIU, Xuan (CHN)
-
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 (ROU)
D.
Dawes (USA)
Bobrova
(RUS)
1992
K.
Zmeskal
(USA)
LI,
Yifang (CHN)
Neculita (ROU)
-
(Q)
- Gabi Weller (GER)
1991
S.
Boginskaya
(URS)
T. Gutsu
(URS)
E. Okino
(USA)
L. Milosovici (ROU)
- b e f o r e the political changes at the beginning of
the Nineties:
