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.
Oksana Chusovitina
break a world record: 7
WCh medals on vault only! But
CHENG, Fei
made a Hattrick in
Stuttgart and won her third title in sequence!
2009 London Kyla
Williams won the
very first Gold medal for the USA; 2010 in the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam
folloed the second one by Alicia SACRAMONE ...! In Tokyo she
was injured before but
McKayla MARONEY
ensored the leadung position of USA at the vaulting table again ...
World Champions ALL, Women
(1950 - 2011)
Year
-
more finalists
2011
Tokyo
JPN
McKayla
MARONEY
(USA)
Oksana CHUSOVITINA
(GER)
PHAN, Thi Ha Thanh
(VIE)
4.
J. F. Barbosa (BRA)
5. G. Steingruber (SUI)
6. T. Nabieva (RUS)
7. A.C. Moreno M. (MEX)
8. Y. Pena Brey (DOM)
2010 Rotterdam
NED
Alicia SACRAMONE (USA)
Aliya MUSTAFINA (RUS)
BARBOSA, Jade (BRA)
4. A. Kaeslin (SUI)
5. T. Nabieva (RUS)
6. JO, Hyonjoo (KOR)
7. D. Chelaru (ROU)
8. I. Cairns (GBR)
2009 London
GBR
Kayla
Williams
(USA)
Ariella Kaeslin
(SUI)
Youna Dufournet
(FRA)
4.
E. Kurbanova (RUS)
5. Hong, Un Jong (PRK)
6. A. Myzdrikova (RUS)
7. Br. Rogers (CAN)
8. B.Garcia Rodr. (MEX)
2007
Stuttgart
GER
CHENG,
Fei
(CHN)
HONG,
Su Jong (PRK)
Alicia
Sacramone (USA)
4.
HONG, Un Jong (PRK)
5. Jade BARBOSA (BRA)
6. O. CHUSOVITINA (GER)
7. Jana KOMRSKOVA (CZE)
8. El. Zamolodchikova (RUS)
2006 Aarhus
DEN
CHENG,
Fei
(CHN)
Alicia
Sacramone (USA)
Oksana
Chusovitina (GER)
4.
Lais SOUZA (BRA)
5. Anna PAVLOVA (RUS)
6. El. Zamolodchikova (RUS)
7. HONG, Su Jong (PRK)
8. Sandra IZBASA (ROU)
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
Swetlana Khorkina
(RUS)
O.
Chusovitina (UZB)
A.
Raducan (ROU)
-
1999
E.
Zamolodchikova (RUS)
S.
Amanar (ROU)
M.
Olaru (ROU)
-
1997
Simona Amanar (ROU)
Zhou,
Duan (CHN)
G.
Gogean (ROU)
-
1996
Gina Gogean
(ROU)
S.
Amanar
(ROU)
-
1995
Simona Amanar (ROU)
Lilya Podkopayeva (UKR)
-
G.
Gogean (ROU)
-
1994
Gina Gogean
(ROU)
S.
Khorkina (RUS)
L.
Milosovici (ROU)
-
1993
Elena Piskun
(BLR)
L.
Milosovici
(ROU)
O.
Chusovitina (UZB)
-
1992
Henrietta Onodi (HUN)
S.
Boginskaya (GUS)
O.
Chusovitina
(GUS)
(Hf)
Gaby Weller (GER)
1991
Lavinia
Milosovici (ROU)
O.
Chusovitina (GUS) H. Onodi (HUN)
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