1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Venue	Malley Sports Center
Location	Lausanne, Switzerland
Start date	August 31, 1997 (1997-08-31)
End date	September 7, 1997 (1997-09-07)
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The 33rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1997.

The 1997 Worlds were notable because they were the first major contest to be held after the elimination of compulsory exercises. For this competition, tie-breaker policies were used. When scores were identical, the gymnast with the higher score in the preliminary round was awarded the higher placement in finals.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around details	China Shen Jian Li Xiaopeng Huang Xu Lu Yufu Xiao Junfeng Zhang Jinjing	Belarus Ivan Ivankov Vitaly Rudnitsky Dmitry Kasperovich Aleksandr Shostak Ivan Pavlovski Alexei Sinkevich	Russia Dmitri Vasilenko Alexei Bondarenko Alexei Voropaev Alexei Nemov Evgeni Ghukov Nikolai Kryukov
Individual all-around details	Ivan Ivankov	Alexei Bondarenko	Naoya Tsukahara
Floor details	Alexei Nemov	Dimitri Karbanenko	Li Xiaopeng
Pommel horse details	Valery Belenky	Eric Poujade	Pae Gil-su
Rings details	Yuri Chechi	Szilveszter Csollány	Ivan Ivankov
Vault details	Sergei Fedorchenko	Nikolai Kryukov	Adrian Ianculescu
Parallel bars details	Zhang Jinjing	Li Xiaopeng	Naoya Tsukahara
Horizontal bar details	Jani Tanskanen	Jesús Carballo	Alexander Beresh
Women
Team all-around details	Romania Simona Amânar Claudia Presăcan Gina Gogean Alexandra Marinescu Corina Ungureanu Mirela Tugurlan	Russia Svetlana Khorkina Yelena Produnova Yevgeniya Kuznetsova Svetlana Bakhtina Elena Dolgopolova Elena Grosheva	China Liu Xuan Kui Yuanyuan Meng Fei Bi Wenjing Mo Huilan Zhou Duan
Individual all-around details	Svetlana Khorkina	Simona Amânar	Yelena Produnova
Vault details	Simona Amânar	Zhou Duan	Gina Gogean
Uneven bars details	Svetlana Khorkina	Meng Fei	Bi Wenjing
Balance beam details	Gina Gogean	Svetlana Khorkina	Kui Yuanyuan
Floor details	Gina Gogean	Svetlana Khorkina	Yelena Produnova

Medal table

Overall

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	4	1	2	7
2	Russia (RUS)	3	5	3	11
3	China (CHN)	2	3	4	9
4	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	1	3
5	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
9	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
10	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
12	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
13	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	1	1	4
2	Russia	1	2	1	4
3	Belarus	1	1	1	3
4	Finland	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
8	France	0	2	0	2
9	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
11	Japan	0	0	2	2
12	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	8	24

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	4	1	1	6
2	Russia	2	3	2	7
3	China	0	2	3	5
Totals (3 entries)		6	6	6	18

Men

Team

Rank	Team							Total
	China	37.861	37.286	36.737	38.586	38.473	37.174	226.117
	Huang Xu	-	8.862	9.437	9.562	9.237	9.400
	Li Xiaopeng	9.612	9.200	-	9.475	9.712	8.762
	Lu Yufu	9.412	9.312	8.175	9.687	9.562	9.287
	Shen Jian	9.250	9.137	8.850	-	9.462	-
	Zhang Jinjing	9.437	9.637	9.425	9.537	9.737	9.612
	Xiao Junfeng	9.400	-	9.025	9.800	-	8.875
	Belarus	36.549	36.674	37.011	37.748	37.737	35.849	221.568
	Alexander Shostak	8.825	8.462	9.312	-	9.425	8.050
	Ivan Ivankov	-	9.537	9.550	9.512	9.600	9.337
	Vitaly Kasperovich	8.187	-	8.987	9.662	9.087	-
	Ivan Pavlovski	9.175	9.012	8.675	9.175	9.200	8.912
	Vitaly Rudnitski	9.337	8.900	9.162	9.337	9.512	8.750
	Alexei Sinkevich	9.212	9.225	-	9.237	-	8.850
	Russia	37.474	37.012	36.624	38.462	36.961	34.149	220.682
	Alexei Bondarenko	9.437	9.412	9.250	9.337	9.662	7.625
	Evgeni Ghukov	9.312	8.962	8.987	-	9.200	8.987
	Nikolay Krukov	9.075	9.350	9.212	9.750	9.062	8.550
	Alexei Nemov	9.650	9.225	-	9.675	-	8.225
	Dmitri Vasilenko	8.512	9.025	8.887	9.475	9.037	-
	Alexei Voropaev	-	-	9.175	9.562	8.687	8.387
4	Japan	36.099	37.423	36.787	37.549	36.848	35.937	220.643
	Kenichi Fujita	9.050	9.212	9.050	9.462	9.012	8.162
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	8.950	9.437	8.525	9.225	9.112	8.875
	Takuya Kishimoto	8.912	9.075	-	-	-	8.862
	Shigeru Kurihara	-	-	9.375	9.200	8.575	-
	Naoya Tsukahara	8.875	9.337	9.412	9.325	9.162	9.025
	Yoshihiro Saito	9.187	9.437	8.950	9.537	9.562	9.175
5	United States	36.586	35.849	36.249	37.987	36.887	36.248	219.806
	Mike Dutka	9.187	8.862	-	9.512	8.800	-
	Jason Gatson	9.062	8.650	8.775	9.500	9.375	8.375
	John Macready	9.062	8.612	-	-	-	9.087
	John Roethlisberger	-	9.050	8.937	9.450	8.800	9.087
	Jay Thornton	9.225	-	8.950	9.175	9.112	8.637
	Blaine Wilson	9.112	9.287	9.587	9.525	9.600	9.437
6	Germany	34.787	36.712	37.137	36.574	37.049	35.575	217.834
	Valeri Belenki	8.450	9.550	9.575	9.262	9.387	-
	Uwe Billerbeck	-	-	9.275	-	9.237	8.650
	Daniel Farago	8.575	9.075	8.812	9.037	8.950	8.612
	Sergei Charkov	8.712	8.775	9.475	9.250	9.400	9.175
	Dimitri Nonin	7.950	9.312	-	9.025	-	9.050
	Sergej Pfeifer	9.050	8.600	8.775	8.662	9.025	8.700

All-around

Rank	Gymnast							Total
	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.362	9.100	9.625	9.575	9.700	9.525	56.887
	Alexei Bondarenko (RUS)	9.462	9.437	9.025	9.737	9.375	9.025	56.061
	Naoya Tsukahara (JPN)	9.187	9.437	9.162	9.600	9.425	9.212	56.023
4	Dmitri Karbanenko (FRA)	9.525	9.487	8.887	9.625	9.200	9.212	55.936
5	Huang Xu (CHN)	8.537	9.625	9.362	9.525	9.237	9.512	55.798
6	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	8.562	9.437	9.275	9.650	9.037	9.662	55.623
7	Jesús Carballo (ESP)	9.000	8.975	9.487	9.162	9.362	9.500	55.486
8	Eric López Ríos (CUB)	8.975	9.100	9.350	9.437	9.312	8.887	55.061
9	Alexander Beresh (UKR)	8.462	9.550	9.062	9.812	8.525	9.525	54.936
10	Blaine Wilson (USA)	8.675	8.712	9.550	9.562	9.562	8.850	54.911
11	Yoshiaki Hatakeda (JPN)	8.887	9.500	8.375	9.100	9.362	9.487	54.711
12	Lu Yufu (CHN)	8.800	9.462	8.425	9.712	8.825	9.462	54.686
13	Roman Zozulia (UKR)	8.862	9.087	9.400	9.712	8.862	8.737	54.660
14	Zhang Jinjing (CHN)	9.375	8.950	8.412	9.487	9.675	8.700	54.599
15	Sergei Kharkov (GER)	8.662	8.962	9.537	9.300	8.900	9.187	54.548
16	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	9.375	9.375	7.850	9.725	8.575	9.462	54.362
17	Cristian Leric (ROU)	9.262	9.575	9.025	9.525	9.037	7.877	54.311
18	Omar Cortes (ESP)	8.437	9.137	9.462	9.137	8.987	9.150	54.310
19	Andrei Kravtsov (AUS)	9.250	9.487	8.362	9.037	9.025	9.025	54.186
20	Sergei Pfeifer (GER)	9.225	9.375	8.737	8.612	9.137	8.987	54.073
21	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	8.537	9.562	9.137	9.275	8.862	8.600	53.973
22	Jason Gatson (USA)	8.925	8.587	8.787	9.487	9.087	9.062	53.935
23	Igors Vihrov (LAT)	9.075	8.550	9.312	9.450	8.537	8.925	53.849
24	Lazaro Lamela (CUB)	8.650	8.675	8.775	9.400	8.925	9.125	53.550
25	Alexei Dmitrenko (KAZ)	7.900	9.175	8.700	9.525	9.225	9.025	53.550
26	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.550	9.225	6.825	9.725	9.000	9.062	53.387
27	Vitaly Rudnitsky (BLR)	8.175	9.000	9.175	9.150	9.212	8.612	53.324
28	Dorin Petcu (ROU)	9.037	9.487	8.225	9.587	8.350	8.475	53.161
29	Mitja Petkovšek (SLO)	8.300	8.562	8.900	8.962	9.425	8.875	53.024
30	Lee Joo-Hyung (KOR)	8.425	8.512	8.550	9.562	8.750	9.125	52.924
31	Giovanni D'Innocenzo (ITA)	8.750	8.362	8.712	9.212	8.787	8.987	52.810
32	Valeri Goncharov (UKR)	8.350	9.025	8.387	9.212	9.275	8.462	52.711
33	Dieter Rehm (SUI)	8.525	8.637	8.250	9.637	8.225	8.950	52.224
34	Felipe Andres (SUI)	8.587	8.200	8.325	9.387	8.550	8.875	51.924
35	Kenichi Fujita (JPN)	9.175	8.737	9.075	9.212	8.950	6.625	51.774

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Alexei Nemov (RUS)	9.625
	Dmitri Karbanenko (FRA)	9.550
	Li Xiaopeng (CHN)	9.537
4	Evgeny Zhukov (RUS)	9.412
5	Valeri Pereshkura (UKR)	9.275
6	Vitaly Rudnitski (BLR)	9.262
7	Gervasio Deferr (ESP)	8.887
8	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	8.625

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Valeri Belenki (GER)	9.700
	Eric Poujade (FRA)	9.700
	Pae Gil Su (PRK)	9.700
4	Zhang Jinjing (CHN)	9.662
5	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	9.612
6	Zoltán Supola (HUN)	9.600
7	Adrian Ianculescu (ROU)	9.487
8	Marius Urzică (ROU)	9.112

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.775
	Szilveszter Csollány (HUN)	9.687
	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.662
4	Valeri Belenki (GER)	9.587
5	Roberto Galli (ITA)	9.575
6	Dimosthenis Tampakos (GRE)	9.562
7	Alexei Demyanov (CRO)	9.537
8	Yoshihiro Saito (JPN)	9.500

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	9.581
	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	9.556
	Adrian Ianculescu (ROU)	9.437
4	Xiao Junfeng (CHN)	9.325
5	Alexei Bondarenko (RUS)	9.218
6	Roman Zozulia (UKR)	8.999
7	Valeri Goncharov (UKR)	8.981
8	Vitaly Kasperovich (BLR)	8.956

Parallel bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Zhang Jinjing (CHN)	9.775
	Li Xiaopeng (CHN)	9.737
	Naoya Tsukahara (JPN)	9.562
4	Sergei Kharkov (GER)	9.500
5	Mitja Petkovšek (SLO)	9.487
6	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.450
7	Jesús Carballo (ESP)	9.325
8	Alexander Shostak (BLR)	9.262

Horizontal bar

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Jani Tanskanen (FIN)	9.700
	Jesús Carballo (ESP)	9.675
	Alexander Beresh (UKR)	9.625
4	Evgeny Zhukov (RUS)	9.562
5	Yoshiaki Hatakeda (JPN)	9.312
6	Sergei Fedorchenko (KAZ)	8.850
7	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	8.762
8	Marius Urzică (ROU)	8.750

Women

Team

Rank	Team					Total
	Romania	38.236 (1)	38.348 (2)	38.475 (1)	38.661 (2)	153.720
	Simona Amânar	9.681	9.712	9.525	9.737
	Claudia Presăcan	9.481	9.687	9.675	9.562
	Gina Gogean	9.587	8.100	9.725	9.787
	Alexandra Marinescu	9.487	9.587	9.550	9.287
	Corina Ungureanu	9.306		9.300	9.575
	Mirela Țugurlan		9.362
	Russia	37.998 (2)	38.274 (3)	38.250 (2)	38.675 (1)	153.197
	Svetlana Khorkina	9.637	9.762	9.700	9.775
	Yelena Produnova	9.431	9.525	9.700	9.550
	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	9.443	9.525	9.475	9.675
	Svetlana Bakhtina		9.462	9.375	9.675
	Elena Dolgopolova	9.487	9.225
	Elena Grosheva	8.950		9.200	9.387
	China	37.655 (4)	38.774 (1)	38.111 (3)	37.461 (5)	152.001
	Liu Xuan	9.512	9.737	9.512	9.625
	Kui Yuanyuan	9.018	9.575	9.687	9.500
	Meng Fei	9.406	9.687	8.625	9.662
	Bi Wenjing		9.800	9.462
	Mo Huilan	9.325	9.562	9.325	8.837
	Zhou Duan	9.437			8.837
4	Ukraine	36.992 (5)	38.174 (4)	37.262 (4)	38.375 (3)	150.803
	Liubov Sheremeta	9.306	9.625	9.175	9.750
	Olga Teslenko	9.293	9.725	9.150	9.625
	Inga Shkarupa	9.200	9.362	9.412	9.675
	Galina Tyryk	9.193	9.462	9.525	9.325
5	France	36.860 (6)	37.049 (5)	36.649 (5)	37.811 (4)	148.369
	Isabelle Severino	9.462	9.562	9.025	9.612
	Elvire Teza	9.193	9.400	9.375	9.237
	Magalie Ruffato	9.012	9.025	8.837	9.312
	Ludivine Furnon	9.193	8.862	9.412	9.650
	Emilie Volle	8.912	9.062
	Cecile Canqueteau			8.825
6	United States	37.687 (3)	36.212 (6)	36.636 (6)	37.362 (6)	147.897
	Kristy Powell	9.231	9.350	9.075	9.125
	Kristen Maloney	9.556	9.287	9.537	8.700
	Kendall Beck	9.450		9.387	9.225
	Dominique Moceanu	9.093	8.800	8.637	9.512
	Mohini Bhardwaj	9.450	8.775
	Jennie Thompson		8.175	8.000	9.500

All-around

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.549	9.850	9.562	9.675	38.636
	Simona Amânar (ROU)	9.675	9.387	9.750	9.775	38.587
	Yelena Produnova (RUS)	9.412	9.687	9.750	9.700	38.549
4	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.618	9.375	9.800	9.750	38.543
5	Meng Fei (CHN)	9.418	9.637	9.375	9.612	38.042
6	Liubov Sheremeta (UKR)	9.256	9.637	9.425	9.575	37.893
7	Liu Xuan (CHN)	9.237	9.675	9.412	9.537	37.861
8	Claudia Presăcan (ROU)	9.443	8.937	9.675	9.662	37.717
9	Olga Teslenko (UKR)	8.806	9.550	9.662	9.587	37.605
10	Isabelle Severino (FRA)	9.312	9.612	8.950	9.425	37.299
11	Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)	9.487	8.937	9.612	9.262	37.298
12	Inga Shkarupa (UKR)	9.318	9.537	8.712	9.650	37.217
13	Kristen Maloney (USA)	9.443	8.862	9.487	9.262	37.054
14	Dominique Moceanu (USA)	9.249	9.050	9.237	9.425	36.961
15	Alena Polozkova (BLR)	9.250	9.237	8.762	9.537	36.786
16	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (RUS)	8.493	8.875	9.687	9.675	36.730
17	Irina Evdokimova (KAZ)	9.168	8.862	9.062	9.500	36.592
18	Adrienn Varga (HUN)	9.037	9.162	9.250	9.100	36.549
19	Elvire Teza (FRA)	9.124	8.787	9.500	9.100	36.511
20	Yvonne Tousek (CAN)	9.187	9.600	8.262	9.412	36.461
21	Elena Savko (BLR)	9.206	8.662	8.787	9.500	36.155
22	Ludivine Furnon (FRA)	9.006	8.637	9.162	9.325	36.130
23	Kristy Powell (USA)	9.337	9.137	8.525	9.100	36.099
24	Sarah Deegan (CAN)	9.100	8.987	8.400	9.450	35.937
25	Risa Sugawara (JPN)	8.949	8.925	8.775	9.200	35.849
26	Svetlana Bakhridinova (UZB)	9.362	9.362	7.625	9.450	35.799
27	Yvonne Pioch (GER)	8.900	9.075	9.500	8.237	35.712
28	Veronique Leclerc (CAN)	9.262	9.275	8.137	8.950	35.624
29	Lisa Skinner (AUS)	8.981	8.812	9.000	8.750	35.543
30	Elena Piskun (BLR)	8.962	9.162	9.025	8.325	35.474
31	Masumi Okawa (JPN)	8.906	8.525	8.837	9.000	35.268
32	Alexandra Gordeeva (UZB)	8.887	8.550	8.550	9.275	35.262
33	Anastasia Dzyundzyak (UZB)	9.168	8.862	8.400	8.800	35.230
34	Rebecca Wilson (AUS)	8.499	8.612	8.850	9.200	35.161
35	Mok Un Ju (PRK)	8.918	8.025	8.837	8.762	34.542
36	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou (GRE)	4.212	8.975	8.837	9.525	31.549

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Simona Amânar (ROU)	9.712
	Zhou Duan (CHN)	9.606
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.600
4	Adrienn Varga (HUN)	9.543
5	Mohini Bhardwaj (USA)	9.512
6	Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)	9.350
7	Elena Dolgopolova (RUS)	9.331
8	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	4.537

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.875
	Meng Fei (CHN)	9.800
	Bi Wenjing (CHN)	9.787
4	Liubov Sheremeta (UKR)	9.750
5	Claudia Presăcan (ROU)	9.725
6	Alexandra Marinescu (ROU)	9.712
7	Olga Teslenko (UKR)	9.675
8	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova (RUS)	9.412

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.800
	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.787
	Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)	9.787
4	Ludivine Furnon (FRA)	9.725
5	Olga Teslenko (UKR)	9.662
6	Elvire Teza (FRA)	9.650
7	Kristen Maloney (USA)	9.512
8	Yelena Produnova (RUS)	9.412

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Gina Gogean (ROU)	9.800
	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.800
	Yelena Produnova (RUS)	9.775
4	Meng Fei (CHN)	9.675
5	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou (GRE)	9.650
6	Claudia Presăcan (ROU)	9.600
7	Liubov Sheremeta (UKR)	8.937
8	Zhou Duan (CHN)	8.787