1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Valladolid, Spain
Start date	10 October 1985
End date	13 October 1985
	← Strasbourg 1983 Varna 1987 →

Last updated August 23, 2025

1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Valladolid, Spain on October 10–13, 1985.

For the third year in a row, Bulgarian gymnasts swept the competition: the three individual Bulgarian gymnasts won all three all-around medals, and the Bulgarian group won gold. Diliana Georgieva won her second consecutive World title, and Lilia Ignatova won her third consecutive all-around silver medal at the World Championships.^[1]

Participants

Gymnasts from 35 countries participated. There were 21 groups and 93 individual competitors.^[1]

The following countries sent competitors: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, The United Kingdom, USA, USSR, West Germany and Yugoslavia.

Individual

Name	Name	Name	Name
Antonietta Guida	Marlene Franzen	Irma Borgsteede	Viktoria Bengtsson
Nicole Higham	Susanne Ravn	Esther Hielckert	Anna Ekholtz
Gundrun Frick	Bianca Dittrich	Sophie Toenbreker	Carina Engdahl
Gerlinde Hemmer	Heide Krause	Patria Hume	Caroline Müller
Gertrude Ramsauer	Heli Honko	Tania Moss	Tuba Akincilar
Laurence Brihaye	Leena Murtamo	Angela Walker	Sebnem Ozcakir
Dominique Thiebaut	Eeva-Liisa Naehri	Ok Sun Djang	Jacqueline Leavy
Sulamita Almeida	Benedicte Augst	Yenn Ran Kang	Peta Machin
Rosane Favila Ferreira	Christel Bruneau	Ellen Gunderson	Lorraine Priest
Sandra Magalhaes	Annette Walle	Victoria Ystborg	Marina Kunyavsky
Diliana Gueorguieva	Maria Alevizou	Schirin Zorriassateiny	Stacy Oversier
Lilia Ignatova	Elena Kaitetzidou	Teresa Folga	Diane Simpson-Bundy
Bianka Panova	Dezi Tsakiri	Izabela Zuravska	Galina Beloglazova
Lori Fung	Andrea Sinko	Margarida Carmo	Tatiana Druchinina
Lise Gautreau	Zsuzsa Turak	Patricia Jorge	Marina Lobatch
Adriane Mark	Einat Argaman	Ana Peleira	Bettina Bothor
Xiaomin He	Shulamit Goldstein	Floretina Butaru	Kristin Frühwirth
Qiong Pang	Liath Haninovlitz	Alina Dragan	Simone Hildebrant
Yanfei Xia	Annalisa Bianchi	Rhin Chae	Natacha Perin
Mirtha Echevarria	Christina Cimino	Sung-Hee Hong	Milena Reljin
Thalia Fung	Giulia Staccioli	In-Wha Kim	Danijela Simić
Roxana Merino-Martinez	Erika Akiyama	Marta Canton
Denisa Sokolovská	Keiko Hamada	Virginia Manzanera
Daniela Záhorovská	Hiroko Otsuka	Montse Manzanares

Groups

Countries who participated in the group competition are as follows.

Nation	Nation	Nation	Nation
Austria	Finland	New Zealand	United States
Brazil	France	North Korea	USSR
Bulgaria	Hungary	Norway	West Germany
Canada	Italy	Spain
China	Japan	Sweden
East Germany	Netherlands	The United Kingdom

Medal table

Place	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	8	1	3	12
2	USSR	1	2	2	5
3	North Korea	0	1	0	1
4	East Germany	0	0	1	1

Individual Final

Individual All-Around

Place	Name	Rope	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total
1	Diliana Guerguieva	10.000	9.950	10.000	9.950	39.900
2	Lilia Ignatova	9.900	9.950	10.000	9.950	39.800
3	Bianka Panova	9.900	9.950	9.900	10.000	39.750
4	Galina Beloglazova	9.850	9.900	9.850	10.000	39.600
5	Bianca Dittrich	9.800	9.950	9.850	9.950	39.550
6	Tatiana Druchinina	9.850	9.800	9.950	9.900	39.500
7	Marina Lobatch	9.900	9.850	9.800	9.900	39.450
8	Florentina Butaru	9.700	9.800	9.800	9.800	39.100
9	Lori Fung	9.700	9.750	9.750	9.750	38.950
10	Yenn Ran Kang	9.750	9.700	9.750	9.700	38.900
11	Milena Reljin	9.700	9.600	9.800	9.700	38.800
11	Daniela Záhorovská	9.650	9.750	9.650	9.750	38.800
13	Zsuzsa Turak	9.600	9.650	9.700	9.800	38.750
14	Heide Krause	9.750	9.800	9.350	9.800	38.700
15	Andrea Sinko	9.700	9.650	9.650	9.650	38.650
15	Ok Sun Djang	9.450	9.750	9.750	9.700	38.650
17	Teresa Folga	9.700	9.600	9.500	9.750	38.550
17	Monserrat Manzanares	9.600	9.600	9.650	9.700	38.550
19	Marta Canton	9.800	9.750	9.700	9.150	38.400
19	Alina Dragan	9.700	9.750	9.300	9.650	38.400
19	Hiroko Otsuka	9.450	9.750	9.550	9.650	38.400
22	Virginia Manzanera	9.550	9.750	9.550	9.500	38.350
22	Izabela Zuravska	9.600	9.650	9.500	9.600	38.350
24	Kristin Frühwirth	9.400	9.550	9.600	9.600	38.150
24	Simone Hildebrant	9.300	9.700	9.600	9.550	38.150
26	Marina Kunyavsky	9.400	9.600	9.600	9.450	38.050
27	Yanfei Xia	9.400	9.400	9.600	9.600	38.000
28	Mirtha Echvarria	9.400	9.400	9.550	9.550	37.900
29	Giulia Staccioli	9.150	9.650	9.600	9.450	37.850
30	Erika Akiyama	9.400	9.650	9.300	9.450	37.800
30	Thalia Fung	9.100	9.500	9.550	9.650	37.800
32	Benedicte Augst	9.050	9.500	9.450	9.600	37.600
32	Xiaomin He	9.250	9.650	9.700	9.000	37.600
32	Annette Walle	9.050	9.450	9.550	9.550	37.600
35	Annalisa Bianchi	9.300	9.350	9.400	9.450	37.500
35	Keiko Hamada	9.250	9.350	9.400	9.500	37.500
37	Denisa Sokolovská	9.450	9.400	9.300	9.300	37.450
38	Christina Cimino	9.400	9.600	9.300	9.100	37.400
38	Lise Gautreau	9.300	9.600	9.450	9.050	37.400
40	Eeva-Liisa Naehri	9.350	9.600	9.000	9.400	37.350
40	Sophie Toenbreker	9.100	9.400	9.450	9.400	37.350
42	Qiong Pang	9.500	9.550	9.200	9.050	37.300
43	Adriane Mark	9.200	9.500	9.300	9.200	37.200
43	Danijela Simić	9.350	8.750	9.550	9.550	37.200
45	Viktoria Bengtsson	9.400	9.450	9.050	9.200	37.100
45	Irma Borgsteede	9.050	9.400	9.300	9.350	37.100
45	Susanne Ravn	9.300	9.250	9.200	9.350	37.100
45	Victoria Ystborg	9.400	9.350	9.100	9.250	37.100
49	Shulamit Goldstein	9.050	9.350	9.350	9.300	37.050
49	Stacy Oversier	9.150	9.300	9.500	9.100	37.050
49	Diane Simpson	9.200	9.450	9.300	9.100	37.050
52	Bettina Bothor	9.000	9.300	9.300	9.400	37.000
53	Heli Honko	9.050	9.600	9.200	9.100	36.950
53	Leena Murtamo	9.050	9.450	9.100	9.350	36.950
55	Christel Bruneau	9.200	9.300	9.400	9.000	36.900
56	Liath Haninovlitz	8.950	9.400	9.150	9.350	36.850
56	Patricia Jorge	9.050	9.100	9.300	9.400	36.850
58	Ellen Gunderson	9.300	9.400	8.850	9.200	36.750
58	Roxana Merino-Martinez	9.050	9.050	9.350	9.300	36.750
58	Shirin Zorriassateiny	9.100	9.150	9.150	9.350	36.750
61	Angela Walker	9.200	8.900	9.150	9.400	36.650
62	Rosane Favila Ferreira	9.000	9.200	9.200	9.200	36.600
63	Margarida Carmo	9.200	9.050	9.100	9.200	36.550
63	Esther Hielckert	9.050	9.400	9.250	8.850	36.550
65	Tania Moss	9.200	9.150	9.150	8.950	36.450
65	Natacha Perin	9.150	9.300	9.000	9.000	36.450
67	Anna Ekholtz	9.200	9.200	9.000	9.000	36.400
67	Antonietta Guida	9.150	9.150	9.000	9.100	36.400
69	Gerlinde Hemmer	8.800	9.450	8.900	9.200	36.350
70	Malene Franzen	9.400	9.400	8.600	8.900	36.300
70	Jacqueline Leavy	8.800	9.200	9.150	9.150	36.300
70	Gertrude Ramsauer	9.000	9.200	8.800	9.300	36.300
73	Sung-Hee Hong	9.200	9.100	8.750	9.200	36.250
73	Ana Peleira	8.800	9.000	9.150	9.300	36.250
75	Gundrun Frick	8.950	9.300	8.700	9.250	36.200
75	Caroline Müller	9.200	9.400	8.750	8.850	36.200
77	Sulamita Almeida	8.850	9.250	9.150	8.850	36.100
77	Carina Engdahl	8.950	9.200	8.650	9.300	36.100
77	Sandra Magalhaes	8.800	9.050	9.000	9.250	36.100
80	Maria Alevizou	9.150	9.000	8.850	9.000	36.000
81	Elena Kaitetzidou	8.800	8.950	9.100	8.900	35.750
82	Einat Argaman	8.900	9.150	8.600	9.000	35.650
82	Lorraine Priest	8.950	9.350	8.700	8.650	35.650
84	Patria Hume	9.200	8.500	9.150	8.700	35.550
84	Peta Machin	8.800	9.250	8.450	9.050	35.550
86	Nicole Higham	9.000	9.100	8.400	8.800	35.300
87	In-Wha Kim	8.750	9.000	8.700	8.600	35.050
88	Tuba Akincilar	8.650	8.800	8.800	8.750	35.000
88	Laurence Brihaye	8.800	8.550	8.700	8.950	35.000
90	Dezi Tsakiri	8.450	8.850	8.650	8.700	34.650
91	Sebnem Ozcakir	8.600	8.700	8.700	8.550	34.550
92	Dominique Thiebaut	8.500	9.100	8.900	8.000	34.500
93	Rhin Chae	8.250	7.950	8.700	8.800	33.700

Individual Rope

Place	Name	All Around	Rope	Total
1	Diliana Guerguieva	10.000	10.000	20.000
2	Marina Lobatch	9.900	10.000	19.900
3	Lilia Ignatova	9.900	9.950	19.850
4	Tatiana Druchinina	9.850	9.950	19.800
5	Marta Canton	9.800	9.850	19.650
5	Bianca Dittrich	9.800	9.850	19.650
7	Heide Krause	9.750	9.800	19.550
7	Yenn Ran Kang	9.750	9.800	19.550

Individual Ball

Place	Name	All Around	Hoop	Total
1	Diliana Guerguieva	9.950	10.000	19.950
1	Lilia Ignatova	9.950	10.000	19.950
3	Galina Beloglazova	9.900	10.000	19.900
3	Bianca Dittrich	9.950	9.950	19.900
5	Marina Lobatch	9.850	9.900	19.750
6	Florentina Butaru	9.800	9.850	19.650
7	Heide Krause	9.800	9.800	19.600
8	Lori Fung	9.750	9.800	19.550

Individual Clubs

Place	Name	All Around	Clubs	Total
1	Diliana Guerguieva	10.000	10.000	20.000
1	Lilia Ignatova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3	Tatiana Druchinina	9.950	9.950	19.900
4	Galina Beloglazova	9.850	9.900	19.750
5	Milena Reljin	9.800	9.800	19.600
6	Florentina Butaru	9.850	9.700	19.550
6	Bianca Dittrich	9.800	9.750	19.550
6	Lori Fung	9.750	9.800	19.550

Individual Ribbon

Place	Name	All Around	Ribbon	Total
1	Galina Beloglazova	10.000	10.000	20.000
1	Bianka Panova	10.000	10.000	20.000
3	Diliana Guerguieva	9.950	10.000	19.950
4	Tatiana Druchinina	9.900	9.900	19.800
5	Bianca Dittrich	9.950	9.800	19.750
6	Florentina Butaru	9.800	9.800	19.600
6	Zsuzsa Turak	9.800	9.800	19.600
8	Heide Krause	9.800	9.700	19.500

Group

Preliminaries

Place	Nation	First Exercise	Second Exercise	Total
1	Bulgaria	19.750	19.850	39.600
2	USSR	19.700	19.850	39.550
3	North Korea	19.500	19.850	39.350
4	Spain	19.700	19.600	39.300
5	China	19.200	19.350	38.550
6	Japan	19.050	19.300	38.350
7	East Germany	18.950	19.200	38.150
8	Norway	18.850	19.100	37.950
9	Italy	18.850	19.000	37.850
9	West Germany	18.700	19.150	37.850
11	Finland	18.700	19.100	37.800
11	Austria	18.950	18.850	37.800
13	Canada	18.750	18.750	37.500
13	France	18.900	18.600	37.500
15	Hungary	18.500	18.900	37.400
16	The Netherlands	18.500	18.650	37.150
17	Sweden	18.350	18.400	36.750
18	USA	18.150	18.550	36.700
19	New Zealand	18.150	18.150	36.300
20	The United Kingdom	17.650	18.100	35.750
21	Brazil	17.900	17.050	34.950

Finals

Place	Nation	Average	Final	Total
1	Bulgaria	19.800	20.000	39.800
2	USSR	19.775	19.800	39.575
2	North Korea	19.675	19.900	39.575
4	China	19.275	19.450	38.725
5	East Germany	19.075	19.550	38.625
6	Japan	19.175	19.250	38.425
7	Spain	19.650	18.650	38.300
8	Norway	18.975	19.250	38.225

References

1 2 Hitzel, Nora (December 1985). "Total Domination Makes Bulgarian World Championships Easy". USA Gymnastics. Vol. 14, no. 6. pp. 38–42. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
"12. World Championships from 10.-13. October 1985". rsg.net. Retrieved 2025-05-26.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Hitzel, Nora (December 1985). "Total Domination Makes Bulgarian World Championships Easy". USA Gymnastics. Vol. 14, no. 6. pp. 38–42. Retrieved 2025-05-26.

[RSG-2] "12. World Championships from 10.-13. October 1985". rsg.net. Retrieved 2025-05-26.

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