The very first World Champion on floor was Josip Primozic
from Yugoslavia in 1930 (Luxembourg). All together 24 Champions are coming
from 11 countries. On the top the Japaneses: They won 5 titles unimterrupted
from 1958 to 1974 and the Chineses from 1981 to 1987.
Igor Korobtschinski (1989-1992) and Vitali Scherbo (1994 - 1996) were the only
one athletes who won 3 titles uninterrupted. Kurt Thomas (1979/USA) was
the only one floor world champion from the USA, together in Fort Worth 1979
with the German Roland Brückner (GDR). Neil Thomas from Great Britain won
two silver medals, also Nemov and at last Dragulescu...
After Paul Hamm
& Jordan Jovchev in 2003 the Brazilian Diego
Hypolito won the first gold for his country. After 2001
and 2003 Marian Dragulescu won
his third title in Aarhus 2006. HYPOLITO
won his second title in Stuttgart 2007, but
Marian DRAGULESCU is the first gymnast of the world who won his
fourth gold medal on floor in London 2009...!
2010 Rotterdam saw the first Greece, winning Gold at floor:
Eleftherios Kosmidis ...
2011: Kohei UCHIMURA (JPN) - won his
second gold medal with another perfect performance! With this he reminds of
former times from 1958 - 1974, where Japanese gymnasts with the legends Takemoto, Aihara, Nakayama (2 x) and in the end Kasamatsu
(1974) were the leading nation on this apparatus. After 27 years
Uchimura again won a floor gold medal for Japan!
