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The 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Birmingham, Great Britain.^[1] There was no team competition at this meet; gymnasts competed in the all-around and event finals only.

The opening ceremony took place on 12 April at the National Indoor Arena, and the competition took place from 13–18 April at the National Exhibition Centre. Fifty-seven nations participated, more than at any previous edition of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The member states of the Soviet Union competed under their own flags for the first time.

This was the first world championships to allow only 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, with 2 gymnasts per nation instead of 3. This format returned at the 2003 World Championships and has remained ever since.

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Individual all-around details	Vitaly Scherbo	Sergey Kharkov	Andreas Wecker
Floor details	Hrihoriy Misyutin	Vitaly Scherbo Neil Thomas	none awarded
Pommel horse details	Pae Gil-su	Andreas Wecker	Károly Schupkégel
Rings details	Jury Chechi	Andreas Wecker	Ivan Ivankov
Vault details	Vitaly Scherbo	Chang Feng-chih	Yoo Ok-ryul
Parallel bars details	Vitaly Scherbo	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Valery Belenky*
Horizontal bar details	Sergey Kharkov	Marius Gherman	Zoltán Supola
Women
Individual all-around details	Shannon Miller	Gina Gogean	Tatiana Lysenko
Vault details	Elena Piskun	Lavinia Miloșovici	Oksana Chusovitina
Uneven bars details	Shannon Miller	Dominique Dawes	Andreea Cacovean
Balance beam details	Lavinia Miloșovici	Dominique Dawes	Gina Gogean
Floor details	Shannon Miller	Gina Gogean	Natalia Bobrova

* Because Belenky's home country, Azerbaijan, did not have a gymnastics federation, he competed at this event as an independent (UNA) athlete.

Medals

Overall


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Belarus (BLR)	4	1	1	6
2	United States (USA)	3	2	0	5
3	Romania (ROU)	1	4	2	7
4	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
4	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	1	3
6	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
6	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
8	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
11	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
12	International Olympic Committee (IOC)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		12	13	11	36

Men


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Belarus (BLR)	3	1	1	5
2	Russia (RUS)	1	1	0	2
2	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
4	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	North Korea	1	0	0	1
6	Germany	0	2	1	3
7	Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1
	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
10	Hungary	0	0	2	2
11	International Olympic Committee	0	0	1	1
11	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	8	6	21

Women

Participants

Men

Country	Gymnast
Argentina	Sebastián Álvarez
	Fernando Menghi
	Gustavo Pisos
Armenia	Achot Gasparian
	Vakhtang Movsesian
	Norair Sarkisian
Australia	Brennon Dowrick
	Peter Hogan
	Bret Hudson
Austria	Catalin Mircan
Austria	Thomas Zimmermann
Belarus (BLR)	Ivan Ivankov
	Andrey Kan
	Vitaly Scherbo
Belgium	Laurent Jonas
Belgium	Jurgen van Eetvelt
Bolivia	Ignacio Morales
Bulgaria	Krasimir Dunev
	Ivan Ivanov
	Yordan Yovchev
Canada	Kris Burley
	Curtis Hibbert
	Richard Ikeda
China	Huang Huadong
	Huang Liping
	Wang Feng
Chinese Taipei	Chang Feng-chih
	Chen Dong-jiang
	Chen Jia-lin
Cuba	Erick López
Cuba	Irving Torres
Czech Republic	Arnold Bugár
	Martin Riesner
	Miroslav Smetana
Denmark	Rasmus Brandtoft
Denmark	Kaspar Fardan
Dominican Republic	Geraldo Sánchez
Dominican Republic	Milciades Santiago
Ecuador	Manuel Rojas
Finland	Joni Koivunen
	Jari Monkkonen
	Jani Winterhalter
France	Fabrice Guelzec
	Jean-Claude Legros
	Éric Poujade
Georgia (GEO)	Vladimir Gogoladze
	Nugzar Gviniashvili
	Levan Sisauri
Germany	Jörg Behrend
	Jan-Peter Nikiferow
	Andreas Wecker
Greece	Ioannis Melissanidis
	Georgios Papadimakis
	Stauros Tsiaglis
Hungary	Csaba Fajkusz
	Károly Schupkégel
	Zoltán Supola
India	Rajesh Kumar
	Debnath Ratan
	Vikas Sabharwal
Israel	Ron Kaplan
Italy	Paolo Bucci
	Jury Chechi
	Boris Preti
Japan	Takashi Chinen
	Daisuke Nishikawa
	Hikaru Tanaka
Kazakhstan	Sergey Fedorchenko
	Valeri Liukin
	Dmitry Rybalko
Mexico	Francisco López
Mexico	José Solano
Morocco	Eddyanne Abdelwahed
	Alaoui Driss
	Sader Khalid
Netherlands	Alexander Selk
Netherlands	Christian Selk
North Korea	Pae Gil-su
North Korea	Kim Sok-chol
Norway	Espen Jansen
Norway	Flemming Solberg
Portugal	João Chu
Portugal	Hélder Pinheiro
Puerto Rico	Carlos Latorre
	Diego Lizardi
	Pedro Tort
Romania	Dan Burincă
	Alexandru Ciuca
	Marius Gherman
Russia (RUS)	Dimitri Karbanenko
	Sergey Kharkov
	Alexei Nemov
Slovenia	Enis Hodzic
	Dejan Ločnikar
	Aljaž Pegan
South Africa	Anton Goldman
	Adrian Steyn
	Johan van Heerden
South Korea	Chung Jin-soo
	Yoo Ok-ryul
	Han Yun-su
Spain	Alberto Bravo
	Antonio Fernández
	Francisco Merchan
Sweden	Per Brändström
	Jorgen Jonasson
	Andreas Jonsson
Switzerland	Daniel Giubellini
	Oliver Grimm
	Rene Pluss
Thailand	Valsang Amornthep
Thailand	Puangmanee Taweesak
Ukraine	Ihor Korobchynskyi
	Hrihoriy Misyutin
	Rustam Sharipov
International Olympic Committee (IOC)	Valery Belenky*
Great Britain	Paul Bowler
	Marvin Campbell
	Neil Thomas
United States	Scott Keswick
	Lance Ringnald
	Chris Waller
Uzbekistan	Khikmatoulla Tokhtaev

* Because Belenky's home country, Azerbaijan, did not have a gymnastics federation, he competed at this meet as an unattached (UNA) athlete.

Women

Country	Gymnast
Argentina	Vanessa Baglietti
Argentina	Luciana Peirano
Austria	Liane Zürcher
Belarus (BLR)	Oksana Kozhedub
	Elena Piskun
	Yulia Yurkina
Belgium	Bénédicte Evrard
Brazil	Soraya Carvalho
Bulgaria	Svetlana Ivanova
	Mirela Peneva
	Deliana Vodenicharova
Canada	Marilou Cousineau
	Stacey Galloway
	Stella Umeh
China	Li Li
	Ye Linlin
	He Xuemei
Chinese Taipei	Tsai Shu-huei
Chinese Taipei	Wu Ruey-ping
Cuba	Arazay Jova
Cuba	Annia Portuondo
Czech Republic	Pavla Kinclová
Czech Republic	Klára Kudilková
Denmark	Charlotte Andreasen
Denmark	Annika Hansen
Estonia	Jekaterina Savenkova
	Jelena Selivanova
	Veronika Tsubarko
Finland	Sari Lehmuskallio
	Niina Parjanen
	Leena-Kaisa Piiroinen
France	Eleonore Couffe
France	Mélanie Legros
Germany	Jana Günther
Germany	Gabriele Weller
Greece	Virginia Karentzou
Greece	Sofia Pidoula
Guatemala	Luisa Portocarrero
Hungary	Kinga Horváth
	Andrea Molnár
	Krisztina Molnár
Israel	Einat Kedar
Israel	Maya Shani
Italy	Chiara Ferrazzi
Italy	Veronica Servente
Japan	Yuka Arai
	Mari Kosuge
	Risa Sugawara
Kazakhstan	Olga Kim
	Viktoria Pavlova
	Irina Yevdokimova
Latvia	Ludmila Prince
Mexico	Judith Cavazos
Mexico	Laura del Carmen Moreno
Morocco	Naima El-Rhouati
Morocco	Sanae Khadiri
Netherlands	Wyke Karten
Netherlands	Monique Slootmaker
Norway	Annette Pettersen
Norway	Anita Tomulevski
Poland	Aleksandra Szczesiul
Puerto Rico	Nanette Berrios
	Francine Díaz
	Yariza Yulian
Romania	Andreea Cacovean
	Gina Gogean
	Lavinia Miloșovici
Russia	Natalia Bobrova
Russia	Oksana Fabrichnova
Slovakia	Klaudia Kinská
Slovenia	Lidija Perić
Slovenia	Nataša Retelj
South Africa	Kirsty McClelland
	Heidi Oosthuizen
	Leigh Pra-Levis
South Korea	Han Na-jung
	Heo So-young
	Lee Soo-young
Spain	Mercedes Pacheco
	Silvia Santiago
	Elisabeth Valle
Sweden	Jessica Andreasson
Switzerland	Patricia Giacomini
	Tanja Pechstein
	Natascha Schnell
Ukraine	Tatiana Lysenko
	Lilia Podkopayeva
	Ludmila Stovbchataya
United Kingdom	Jackie Brady
	Zita Lusack
	Laura Timmins
United States	Dominique Dawes
	Shannon Miller
	Kerri Strug
Uzbekistan	Oksana Chusovitina
	Rozalia Galiyeva
	Snezhana Manakova

Men's results

All-around

Rank	Gymnast							Total
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.325	9.350	9.125	9.537	9.462	9.375	56.174
	Sergey Kharkov (RUS)	9.200	9.075	9.375	9.150	9.450	9.375	55.625
	Andreas Wecker (GER)	9.175	9.275	9.500	9.225	9.250	9.025	55.450
4	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.000	9.275	9.325	9.375	9.250	9.200	55.425
5	Dmitri Karbanenko (RUS)	9.300	9.350	8.875	9.525	9.375	8.850	55.275
6	Valeri Liukin (KAZ)	8.925	9.225	9.350	9.350	9.100	9.275	55.255
6	Valery Belenky (UNA)	9.125	9.300	9.300	9.175	9.375	8.950	55.255
8	Ihor Korobchynskyi (UKR)	9.250	9.250	9.075	8.875	9.450	9.200	55.100
9	Scott Keswick (USA)	8.950	9.000	9.325	8.925	9.225	9.450	54.875
10	Jury Chechi (ITA)	8.950	9.175	9.612	9.050	8.925	9.250	54.737
11	Csaba Fajkusz (HUN)	8.950	9.175	8.925	9.100	9.075	9.100	54.350
12	Hrihoriy Misyutin (UKR)	9.375	9.275	9.150	9.550	8.325	8.575	54.250
13	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	8.800	8.450	9.150	9.300	9.250	9.225	54.175
13	Huang Huadong (CHN)	8.850	9.400	8.550	9.200	9.050	9.125	54.175
15	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.125	8.625	8.625	9.450	8.925	9.350	54.100
16	Hikaru Tanaka (JPN)	9.100	9.300	8.925	9.175	9.075	8.475	54.050
17	Paolo Bucci (ITA)	9.025	9.075	8.900	9.075	8.850	9.000	53.925
18	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	8.925	8.950	8.925	9.200	9.100	8.550	53.650
19	Alexandru Ciuca (ROU)	8.800	9.400	8.875	8.950	8.875	8.675	53.575
20	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)	9.200	8.925	8.825	9.200	8.825	8.425	53.400
21	Daniel Giubellini (SUI)	8.775	8.600	8.750	9.100	8.950	9.000	53.175
22	Dmitry Rybalko (KAZ)	8.550	8.125	8.775	9.150	8.750	9.225	52.575
23	Jan-Peter Nikiferow (GER)	7.900	9.200	8.950	8.850	8.150	9.025	52.075
24	Pae Gil-su (PRK)	7.950	9.762	8.750	9.200	8.175	7.725	51.562

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Hrihoriy Misyutin (UKR)	9.400
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.350
	Neil Thomas (GBR)	9.350
4	Ihor Korobchynskyi (UKR)	9.275
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.150
5	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.150
5	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.150
8	Ivan Ivanov (BUL)	8.750

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Pae Gil-su (PRK)	9.750
	Andreas Wecker (GER)	9.425
	Károly Schupkégel (HUN)	9.400
4	Valeri Liukin (KAZ)	9.350
5	Huang Liping (CHN)	9.225
6	Chris Waller (USA)	8.650
7	Alexandru Ciuca (ROU)	8.575
8	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	8.125

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Jury Chechi (ITA)	9.625
	Andreas Wecker (GER)	9.575
	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.500
4	Valeri Liukin (KAZ)	9.475
5	Dan Burincă (ROU)	9.400
5	Rustam Sharipov (UKR)	9.400
7	Scott Keswick (USA)	9.300
8	Yoo Ok-ryul (KOR)	9.125

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Vault 1	Vault 2	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.662	9.562	9.612
	Chang Feng-chih (TPE)	9.450	9.525	9.487
	Yoo Ok-ryul (KOR)	9.512	9.325	9.418
4	Wang Feng (CHN)	9.425	9.325	9.375
5	Sergey Kharkov (RUS)	9.525	9.100	9.312
6	Valeri Liukin (KAZ)	9.250	9.325	9.287
7	Erick López (CUB)	8.850	9.375	9.112
8	Valery Belenky (UNA)	9.225	8.925	9.075

Parallel bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.600
	Ihor Korobchynskyi (UKR)	9.525
	Valery Belenky (UNA)	9.475
4	Rustam Sharipov (UKR)	9.450
5	Andrey Kan (BLR)	9.350
6	Dimitri Karbanenko (RUS)	9.050
7	Sergey Kharkov (RUS)	8.700
8	Huang Huadong (CHN)	8.650

Horizontal bar

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Sergey Kharkov (RUS)	9.450
	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.375
	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	9.350
4	Vitaly Scherbo (BLR)	9.325
4	Rustam Sharipov (UKR)	9.325
6	Ihor Korobchynskyi (UKR)	9.250
7	Scott Keswick (USA)	8.900
8	Dimitri Karbanenko (RUS)	8.325

Women's results

All-around

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Shannon Miller (USA)	9.787	9.825	9.625	9.825	39.062
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.718	9.812	9.725	9.800	39.055
	Tatiana Lysenko (UKR)	9.824	9.725	9.712	9.750	39.011
4	Dominique Dawes (USA)	9.493	9.762	9.775	9.800	38.830
5	Oksana Fabrichnova (RUS)	9.643	9.712	9.750	9.525	38.630
6	Rozalia Galiyeva (UZB)	9.599	9.775	9.575	9.637	38.586
7	Elena Piskun (BLR)	9.718	9.487	9.787	9.562	38.554
8	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.756	9.512	9.337	9.787	38.392
9	Li Li (CHN)	9.543	9.600	9.837	9.250	38.230
10	Annia Portuondo (CUB)	9.637	9.612	9.412	9.537	38.198
11	Andrea Molnár (HUN)	9.637	9.487	9.325	9.600	38.049
12	Luisa Portocarrero (GUA)	9.493	9.575	9.225	9.475	37.768
13	Eleonore Couffe (FRA)	9.549	9.437	9.137	9.612	37.735
14	Ludmila Stovbchataya (UKR)	9.468	8.812	9.600	9.775	37.655
15	Stella Umeh (CAN)	9.637	9.300	8.937	9.700	37.574
16	Yulia Yurkina (BLR)	9.568	9.287	9.087	9.587	37.529
17	Ludmila Prince (LAT)	9.468	9.025	9.612	9.225	37.330
18	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.581	8.912	9.050	9.662	37.205
19	Natalia Bobrova (RUS)	9.300	9.262	8.612	9.800	36.974
20	Mari Kosuge (JPN)	9.468	9.550	8.887	9.250	36.930
21	Stacey Galloway (CAN)	9.568	9.275	8.750	9.325	36.918
22	Bénédicte Evrard (BEL)	9.425	9.237	8.525	9.475	36.662
23	Krisztina Molnár (HUN)	9.368	8.637	8.862	8.687	35.554
24	He Xuemei (CHN)	4.725	9.575	9.375	9.187	32.862

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Vault 1	Vault 2	Total
	Elena Piskun (BLR)	9.837	9.687	9.762
	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.700	9.775	9.737
	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.750	9.687	9.718
4	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.750	9.625	9.687
5	Kerri Strug (USA)	9.775	9.550	9.662
6	Klára Kudilková (TCH)	9.587	9.437	9.512
7	Arazay Jova (CUB)	8.925	9.762	9.343
8	Lilia Podkopayeva (UKR)	8.225	9.562	8.893

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	S.V.	Total
	Shannon Miller (USA)	10.0	9.887
	Dominique Dawes (USA)	10.0	9.800
	Andreea Cacovean (ROU)	10.0	9.787
4	He Xuemei (CHN)	10.0	9.712
5	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.9	9.500
5	Annia Portuondo (CUB)	9.8	9.500
5	Tatiana Lysenko (UKR)	9.7	9.500
8	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.9	8.325

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	S.V	pen.	Total
	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	10.0		9.850
	Dominique Dawes (USA)	9.9		9.725
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.8		9.650
4	Li Li (CHN)	10.0	0.2	9.600
5	Ludmila Prince (LAT)	9.8		9.475
6	Oksana Fabrichnova (RUS)	9.9		9.212
7	He Xuemei (CHN)	9.8		9.012
8	Shannon Miller (USA)	9.5		7.850

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	S.V.	Total
	Shannon Miller (USA)	9.9	9.787
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.9	9.737
	Natalia Bobrova (RUS)	10.0	9.712
4	Elena Piskun (BLR)	9.9	9.687
5	Lavinia Miloșovici (ROU)	9.8	9.675
6	Kerri Strug (USA)	9.8	9.587
7	Irina Yevdokimova (KAZ)	9.8	9.462
8	Stella Umeh (CAN)	9.6	9.237

References

↑ "1993 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships". usagym.org. Retrieved 21 February 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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