2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

39th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Aarhus, Denmark from October 13 to October 21, 2006 in NRGi Arena.

The International Gymnastics Federation, which celebrated the 125th anniversary of its foundation in 2006, introduced the new Code of Points into the World Championships for the first time. The new open-ended code consists of separate scores for the difficulty and execution of an exercise, removing the "perfect 10" as the standard.

2006 brought the first ever gold medal to the Italian women's program, for Vanessa Ferrari in the individual all-around.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around	China Chen Yibing Feng Jing Liang Fuliang Xiao Qin Yang Wei Zou Kai	Russia Maxim Deviatovski Dimitri Gogotov Sergei Khorokhordin Nikolai Kryukov Yury Ryazanov Alexander Safoshkin	Japan Hisashi Mizutori Takehito Mori Takuya Nakase Eichi Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Tomita Naoya Tsukahara
Individual all-around	Yang Wei (CHN)	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
Floor	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	Kyle Shewfelt (CAN)
Pommel horse	Xiao Qin (CHN)	Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS)	Alexander Artemev (USA)
Rings	Chen Yibing (CHN)	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	Yuri van Gelder (NED)
Vault	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	Dimitri Kaspiarovich (BLR)	Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
Parallel bars	Yang Wei (CHN)	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)  Yoo Won-chul (KOR)	none awarded
Horizontal bar	Philippe Rizzo (AUS)	Aljaž Pegan (SLO)	Vlasios Maras (GRE)
Women
Team all-around	China Zhou Zhuoru Zhang Nan Cheng Fei Pang Panpan He Ning Li Ya	United States Jana Bieger Chellsie Memmel Alicia Sacramone Nastia Liukin Natasha Kelley Ashley Priess	Russia Anna Grudko Svetlana Klyukina Polina Miller Anna Pavlova Kristina Pravdina Elena Zamolodchikova
Individual all-around	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)	Jana Bieger (USA)	Sandra Izbaşa (ROU)
Vault	Cheng Fei (CHN)	Alicia Sacramone (USA)	Oksana Chusovitina (GER)
Uneven bars	Beth Tweddle (GBR)	Nastia Liukin (USA)	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)
Balance beam	Iryna Krasnianska (UKR)	Sandra Izbaşa (ROU)	Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (CAN)
Floor	Cheng Fei (CHN)	Jana Bieger (USA)	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)

Men

Team Final

Rank	Team							Total
01 !	China	44.575 (6)	44.775 (2)	47.625 (1)	48.900 (1)	47.125 (1)	44.775 (3)	277.775
	Yang Wei		13.600	16.150	16.575	16.100
	Feng Jing		15.100	14.975		15.400	15.125
	Chen Yibing	15.200		16.500	16.250
	Xiao Qin		16.075			15.625	15.050
	Liang Fuliang	15.325			16.075
	Zou Kai	14.050					14.600
02 !	Russia	44.125 (8)	45.350 (1)	46.325 (4)	47.900 (4)	46.900 (2)	44.800 (2)	275.400
	Maxim Deviatovski	14.150	15.000	14.850	16.175	15.400
	Nikolai Kryukov		15.600		15.975	15.775	15.425
	Sergei Khorokhordin	14.800	14.750			15.725	14.950
	Yury Ryazanov			15.075	15.750
	Dimitri Gogotov	15.175					14.425
	Alexander Safoshkin			16.400
03 !	Japan	44.425 (7)	44.775 (2)	47.150 (2)	47.175 (7)	46.225 (3)	45.050 (1)	274.800
	Hiroyuki Tomita	14.575	15.350	15.975		15.500	13.850
	Eichi Sekiguchi	15.050			16.050		15.700
	Naoya Tsukahara		14.675	15.575		15.500
	Hisashi Mizutori		14.750		15.275		15.500
	Takehito Mori				15.850	15.225
	Takuya Nakase	14.800		15.600
4	Romania	46.175 (1)	44.700 (4)	45.175 (6)	48.500 (3)	44.975 (5)	42.700 (8)	272.225
	Marian Drăgulescu	15.850			16.500	14.775	15.125
	Flavius Koczi	15.050	14.800		15.675		14.550
	Ilie Daniel Popescu		15.575		16.325	14.900
	Dan Potra		14.325	15.400		15.300
	Razvan Selariu	15.275		14.925			13.025
	Robert Stănescu			14.850
5	Belarus	45.325 (3)	44.125 (6)	46.450 (3)	47.000 (8)	46.100 (4)	43.050 (7)	272.050
	Ivan Ivankov		14.450	15.975		15.875	15.225
	Dimitri Kaspiarovich	14.975		15.375	15.600	15.150
	Dimitri Savitski	15.025	14.625	15.100	15.725
	Denis Savenkov	15.325			15.675		14.700
	Aliaksandr Tsarevich		15.050			15.075	13.125
6	Canada	46.050 (2)	42.725 (8)	44.575 (7)	48.825 (2)	44.725 (7)	43.450 (5)	270.350
	Nathan Gafuik		14.675	14.075	16.275		14.200
	Brandon O'Neill	15.375			16.300	15.050
	Kyle Shewfelt	15.600			16.250		14.675
	David Kikuchi		14.500	15.500			14.575
	Adam Wong	15.075		15.000		14.350
	Ken Ikeda		13.550			15.325
7	Germany	44.625 (5)	44.450 (5)	45.300 (5)	47.375 (6)	44.975 (5)	43.300 (6)	270.025
	Fabian Hambuechen	15.475		15.025	16.225	15.350	14.600
	Thomas Andergassen		15.000	15.450		14.575
	Robert Juckel		14.600	14.825			15.000
	Philipp Boy	14.400			15.600		13.700
	Marcel Nguyen				15.550	15.050
	Eugen Spiridonov	14.750	14.850
8	Switzerland	44.750 (4)	42.875 (7)	44.550 (8)	47.675 (5)	43.875 (8)	44.300 (4)	268.025
	Claudio Capelli	15.175	14.675		15.800	14.525	13.975
	Nicolas Boeschenstein	14.925			15.875	15.325
	Mark Ramseier		14.475	14.675	16.000
	Roger Sager	14.650		14.850			15.250
	Andreas Schweizer			15.025		14.025
	Daniel Groves		13.725				15.075

All-around

Rank	Gymnast							Total
01 !	Yang Wei (CHN)	15.125	15.350	16.450	16.625	16.000	14.850	94.400
02 !	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	15.275	14.975	15.900	15.850	15.725	15.450	93.175
03 !	Fabian Hambuechen (GER)	15.725	14.575	15.250	16.400	15.350	15.675	92.975
4	Chen Yibing (CHN)	15.225	14.925	16.500	16.200	15.050	14.725	92.625
5	Maxim Deviatovski (RUS)	15.250	15.250	15.375	16.225	15.550	14.900	92.550
6	Takuya Nakase (JPN)	15.525	14.475	15.700	15.350	15.175	15.425	91.650
7	Yang Tae-Young (KOR)	15.300	14.650	15.050	14.975	15.900	14.825	90.700
8	Razvan Selariu (ROU)	15.250	14.375	15.400	16.175	14.700	14.700	90.600
9	Adam Wong (CAN)	15.225	14.650	15.125	15.625	14.975	14.725	90.325
9	Rafael Martínez (ESP)	15.150	15.300	15.025	15.025	15.050	14.775	90.325
11	Dmitri Savitski (BLR)	14.650	15.050	15.150	15.775	14.975	14.500	90.100
12	Joshua Jefferis (AUS)	14.875	14.075	15.175	15.500	14.925	14.700	89.250
13	Roman Zozulya (UKR)	15.050	13.625	15.950	15.325	15.225	13.925	89.100
14	Dan Potra (ROU)	15.200	14.225	15.575	15.825	13.600	14.575	89.000
15	Dmitri Karbonenko (FRA)	15.400	14.475	14.575	15.300	15.050	14.125	88.925
16	Yury Ryazanov (RUS)	14.525	13.725	14.925	15.725	14.975	15.025	88.900
17	Nathan Gafuik (CAN)	15.150	13.925	14.325	16.150	14.350	14.350	88.250
18	Guillermo Alvarez (USA)	15.375	13.775	14.550	15.725	14.525	14.225	88.175
19	Christos Lympanovnos (GRE)	14.850	14.475	15.025	15.625	14.000	14.025	88.000
20	Luis Vargas (PUR)	15.125	13.625	14.300	15.650	15.225	13.525	87.450
21	Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR)	14.225	14.775	14.350	15.700	14.950	13.425	87.425
22	Alexander Artemev (USA)	15.075	14.475	14.250	15.750	15.525	12.150	87.225
23	Claudio Capelli (SUI)	14.650	12.525	14.100	15.875	13.875	14.225	85.250

Floor Exercise

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	6.9	9.350		16.250
02 !	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.7	9.450		16.150
03 !	Kyle Shewfelt (CAN)	6.2	9.500		15.700
4	Gervasio Deferr (ESP)	6.2	9.475		15.675
5	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	6.1	9.500		15.600
6	Zou Kai (CHN)	6.5	9.050		15.550
7	Alexander Shatilov (ISR)	6.2	9.325		15.525
8	Isaac Botella Perez (ESP)	6.0	8.600		14.600

Pommel Horse

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Xiao Qin (CHN)	6.3	9.725		16.025
02 !	Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS)	6.4	9.350		15.750
03 !	Alexander Artemev (USA)	5.9	9.600		15.500
4	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	6.1	9.350		15.450
5	Feng Jing (CHN)	6.1	9.275		15.375
6	Flavius Koczi (ROU)	6.2	9.150		15.350
7	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	5.9	9.325		15.225
8	Robert Seligman (CRO)	6.2	8.550		14.750

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Chen Yibing (CHN)	7.0	9.525		16.525
02 !	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	7.1	9.225		16.325
03 !	Yuri van Gelder (NED)	6.9	9.400		16.300
4	Yang Wei (CHN)	7.1	9.275		16.275
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	6.9	9.325		16.225
6	Alexander Safoshkin (RUS)	7.0	8.850		15.850
7	Andrea Coppolino (ITA)	7.0	8.625		15.625
8	Matteo Angioletti (ITA)	6.6	8.900		15.500

Vault

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Score 2	Total
01 !	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	7.0	9.500		16.500	7.0	9.475		16.475	16.487
02 !	Dmitri Kaspiarovich (BLR)	7.0	9.275		16.275	7.0	9.350		16.350	16.312
03 !	Fabian Hambuechen (GER)	6.6	9.475		16.075	6.2	9.375		15.575	15.825
4	Yernar Yerimbetov (KAZ)	6.6	9.450	0.1	15.950	7.0	8.575	0.1	15.475	15.712
5	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.6	9.550		16.150	6.6	8.875	0.3	15.175	15.662
6	Leszek Blanik (POL)	7.0	8.900	0.1	15.800	7.0	8.500		15.500	15.650
7	Jevgēņijs Saproņenko (LAT)	7.0	8.150	0.3	14.850	7.0	8.975		15.975	15.412
8	Raphael Wignanitz (FRA)	7.0	8.000	0.3	14.700	6.6	9.175		15.775	15.237

Parallel Bars

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Yang Wei (CHN)	6.6	9.475		16.075
02 !	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	6.3	9.650		15.950
02 !	Yoo Won-Chul (KOR)	6.4	9.550		15.950
4	Vasileios Tsolakidis (GRE)	6.4	9.525		15.925
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	6.5	9.350		15.850
6	Yang Tae-Young (KOR)	6.6	9.125		15.725
7	Takehito Mori (JPN)	6.2	9.500		15.700
8	Anton Fokin (UZB)	6.4	9.050		15.450

Horizontal Bar

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Philippe Rizzo (AUS)	6.6	9.525		16.125
02 !	Aljaž Pegan (SLO)	6.5	9.400		15.900
03 !	Vlasios Maras (GRE)	6.2	9.600		15.800
4	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	6.2	9.350		15.550
5	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	6.0	9.525		15.525
6	Takehito Mori (JPN)	6.1	8.775		14.875
7	Kim Seung-Il (KOR)	5.9	8.475		14.375
8	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	4.0	7.325		11.325

Women

Team Final

Rank	Team					Total
01 !	China	44.250 (4)	45.300 (1)	46.775 (1)	45.875 (2)	182.200
	Pang Panpan		15.150	15.550	15.425
	Zhang Nan	14.525		15.950	14.800
	Cheng Fei	15.275			15.650
	He Ning		15.000	15.275
	Zhou Zhuoru	14.450	15.150
	Li Ya
02 !	United States	44.600 (2)	45.275 (2)	45.575 (3)	45.900 (1)	181.350
	Chellsie Memmel	15.075	14.475	15.050	15.500
	Jana Bieger	13.950	15.100	15.175	15.150
	Alicia Sacramone	15.575		15.350	15.250
	Nastia Liukin		15.700
	Ashley Priess
	Natasha Kelley
03 !	Russia	45.325 (1)	42.300 (7)	45.750 (2)	43.950 (5)	177.325
	Anna Pavlova	15.100		15.375	14.225
	Kristina Pravdina		13.675	15.075	14.600
	Elena Zamolodchikova	15.125			15.125
	Svetlana Klyukina		14.825	15.300
	Anna Grudko	15.100
	Polina Miller		13.800
4	Romania	44.450 (3)	41.550 (8)	45.225 (4)	44.225 (3)	175.450
	Sandra Izbaşa	15.225	14.400	15.275	15.425
	Steliana Nistor	14.700	14.100	15.375	14.450
	Daniela Druncea	14.525	13.050		14.350
	Elena Chiric			14.575
	Loredana Sucar
	Florica Leonida
5	Ukraine	42.800 (7)	43.950 (3)	44.325 (5)	43.175 (6)	174.250
	Olga Shcherbatykh	14.325		14.650	13.850
	Iryna Krasnianska		15.125	15.550
	Dariya Zgoba		15.200	14.125
	Alina Kozich	13.725			14.750
	Marina Proskurina	14.750	13.625
	Marina Kostiuchenko				14.575
6	Australia	43.050 (6)	43.550 (5)	43.875 (6)	42.750 (7)	173.225
	Daria Joura	14.725	14.500	14.875	14.175
	Hollie Dykes	14.325	14.150	14.500	14.300
	Georgia Bonora	14.000			14.275
	Olivia Vivian		14.900
	Karen Nguyen			14.500
	Melody Hernandez
7	Brazil	43.650 (5)	42.800 (6)	42.425 (7)	44.100 (4)	172.975
	Laís Souza	15.000	14.625	14.400	14.375
	Daniele Hypolito	13.950	13.850	15.100	14.700
	Daiane dos Santos	14.700	14.325		15.025
	Bruna Da Costa			12.925
	Camila Comin
	Juliana Santos
8	Spain	42.450 (8)	43.900 (4)	42.025 (8)	42.100 (8)	170.475
	Thais Escolar	14.100		15.200	14.500
	Lenika de Simone		14.750	14.275	14.300
	Laura Campos	14.650	14.575	12.550
	Tania Gener	13.700	14.575
	Patricia Moreno				13.300
	Melodie Pulgarin

All-around

Rank	Gymnast					Total
01 !	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)	14.800	15.825	14.900	15.500	61.025
02 !	Jana Bieger (USA)	14.725	15.350	15.300	15.375	60.750
03 !	Sandra Izbaşa (ROM)	15.025	14.225	15.475	15.525	60.250
4	Steliana Nistor (ROM)	14.275	15.275	15.800	14.600	59.950
5	Daria Joura (AUS)	14.500	15.100	15.000	15.275	59.875
6	Pang Panpan (CHN)	14.025	15.425	14.800	15.425	59.675
7	Hollie Dykes (AUS)	14.350	14.975	15.625	14.550	59.500
8	Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR)	14.550	14.700	14.950	15.250	59.450
9	Oksana Chusovitina (GER)	15.000	14.700	14.375	14.875	58.950
10	Ashley Priess (USA)	14.450	15.425	15.325	13.600	58.800
11	Isabelle Severino (FRA)	14.600	14.100	14.925	15.000	58.625
12	Zhou Zhuoru (CHN)	14.300	15.150	14.425	14.700	58.575
13	Alina Kozich (UKR)	14.500	13.875	15.175	14.650	58.200
14	Laura Campos (ESP)	14.825	14.550	14.575	14.150	58.100
15	Mayu Kuroda (JPN)	13.400	15.550	15.100	13.925	57.975
16	Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (CAN)	13.950	14.325	15.125	14.300	57.700
16	Lenika de Simone (ESP)	13.725	14.900	14.650	14.425	57.700
18	Ariella Käslin (SUI)	13.575	14.675	15.075	14.350	57.675
19	Anna Pavlova (RUS)	14.925	13.900	14.225	14.575	57.625
20	Katheleen Lindor (FRA)	14.450	14.125	14.725	14.300	57.600
21	Daniele Hypólito (BRA)	13.750	14.150	14.575	14.700	57.175
22	Dariya Zgoba (UKR)	13.650	15.600	14.075	13.600	56.925
23	Hong Su Jong (PRK)	15.700	13.350	13.275	13.750	56.075
24	Kristina Pravdina (RUS)	13.675	13.275	14.850	13.725	55.525

Vault

Position	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Score 2	Total
01 !	Cheng Fei (CHN)	5.8	9.625		15.425	6.5	9.500		16.000	15.712
02 !	Alicia Sacramone (USA)	6.3	9.175		15.475	5.8	9.375		15.175	15.325
03 !	Oksana Chusovitina (GER)	6.3	8.975		15.275	5.7	9.225		14.925	15.100
4	Lais Souza (BRA)	5.8	9.325		15.125	5.6	9.250		14.850	14.987
5	Anna Pavlova (RUS)	5.8	9.300		15.100	5.6	9.250		14.850	14.975
6	Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)	5.8	9.300		15.100	5.6	9.225		14.825	14.962
7	Hong Su Jong (PRK)	6.5	8.250		14.750	6.5	8.150	0.1	14.550	14.650
8	Sandra Izbaşa (ROM)	5.8	9.150		14.950	5.0	9.175		14.175	14.562

Uneven Bars

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Beth Tweddle (GBR)	6.9	9.300		16.200
02 !	Nastia Liukin (USA)	6.9	9.150		16.050
03 !	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)	6.7	9.075		15.775
4	Mayu Kuroda (JPN)	6.4	9.000		15.400
5	Jana Bieger (USA)	6.4	8.150		14.550
6	Daria Joura (AUS)	6.3	8.075		14.375
7	Steliana Nistor (ROM)	6.8	7.175		13.975
8	Iryna Krasnianska (UKR)	5.8	7.675		13.475

Balance Beam

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Iryna Krasnianska (UKR)	6.5	9.075		15.575
02 !	Sandra Izbaşa (ROM)	6.4	9.100		15.500
03 !	Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (CAN)	6.3	9.175		15.475
4	Anna Pavlova (RUS)	6.2	9.075		15.275
4	Zhang Nan (CHN)	6.2	9.075		15.275
6	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)	6.3	8.375		14.675
7	Steliana Nistor (ROM)	6.3	8.275		14.575
8	Olga Shcherbatykh (UKR)	6.3	8.025		14.325

Floor Exercise

Rank	Gymnast	A Score	B Score	Pen.	Total
01 !	Cheng Fei (CHN)	6.4	9.475		15.875
02 !	Jana Bieger (USA)	6.3	9.250		15.550
03 !	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)	6.1	9.350		15.450
4	Daiane dos Santos (BRA)	6.4	9.025		15.425
4	Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR)	6.0	9.425		15.425
6	Sandra Izbaşa (ROM)	6.3	9.275	0.2	15.375
7	Natasha Kelley (USA)	6.1	9.200		15.300
8	Lais Souza (BRA)	6.0	9.050	0.3	14.750

Medal count

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	8			8
2	Romania	2	1	1	4
3	Australia	1	1		2
4	Italy	1		2	3
5	United Kingdom	1			1
	Ukraine	1			1
7	United States		5	1	6
8	Japan		2	1	3
9	Russia		1	1	2
10	Belarus		1		1
	Brazil		1		1
	Bulgaria		1		1
	South Korea		1		1
	Slovenia		1		1
15	Germany			3	3
16	Canada			2	2
17	Netherlands			1	1
	Greece			1	1

References

• FIG official site

External links

• Official website of the championships