2006 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships

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9th Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Nanjing, China from 1 to 3 June 2006.

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Results

Women's Individual

RankGymnastCountryPoint
Gold medal icon.svg Marcela Lopez Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 21.600
Silver medal icon.svg Huang Jinxuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 20.350
Bronze medal icon.svg Elmira Dassaeva Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 20.250
4 Arianna Ciucci Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 20.000
5 Angela McMillian Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 19.850
6 Ekaterina Cherepanova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.800
7 Cristina Simona Nedelcu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 19.650
8 Tania Mihaela Pohoata Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 19.300

Men's Individual

RankGymnastCountryPoint
Gold medal icon.svg Ao Jinping Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 21.700
Silver medal icon.svg Ivan Parejo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 21.200
Bronze medal icon.svg Mircea Zamfir Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 21.050
4 Vito Iaia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 20.850
5 Popa Bogdan Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 20.700
6 Grégory Alcan Flag of France.svg  France 20.700
7 Jonatan Canada Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 19.900
8 Song Bo Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 19.750

Mixed Pair

RankGymnastsCountryPoint
Gold medal icon.svg Tudorel-Valentin Mavrodineanu, Tania Mihaela Pohoata Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 20.450
Silver medal icon.svg Wilkie Satti Sanchez, Giovanna Lecis Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 20.250
Bronze medal icon.svg Aurélie Joly, Julien Chaninet Flag of France.svg  France 20.200
4 Cristina Antonescu, Mircea Brinzea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 20.150
5 Huang Jinxuan, He Shijian Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 19.550
6 Israel Carrasco, Saray Martin Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 19.400
7 Margarita Stoyanova, Radoslov Zhivkov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 19.400
8 Fan Jie, Ni Zhen Hua Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 19.250

Trio

RankGymnastsCountryPoint
Gold medal icon.svg Mircea Brinzea, Tudorel-Valentin Mavrodineanu, Mircea Zamfir Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 21.500
Silver medal icon.svg Zhang Peng, Qin Yong, Yu Wei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 21.350
Bronze medal icon.svg Raluca Elena Babaligea, Constantina Madalina Cioveie, Cristina Simona Nedelcu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 20.600
4 Cosimo D, Vito Iaia, Emanuele Pagliuca Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 20.350
5 Margarita Stoyanova, Assia Ramizova, Galina Lazarova Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 20.300
6 Liu Pengcheng, Zhang Xiaolong, Tian Kun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 20.150
7 Jonatan Canada, Israel Carrasco, Ivan Parejo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 19.800
8 Eugenia Anisimova, Irina Klopova, Julia Amosova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.750

Group All-Around

RankGymnastCountryPoint
Gold medal icon.svg Yan Song, Qin Yong, Xiong De Liang, He Shijian, Ao Jinping, Yu Wei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 21.600
Silver medal icon.svg Gaylord Oubrier, Xavier Julien, Morgan Jacquemin, Adrien Galo, Vivien Peralta, Nicolas Garavel Flag of France.svg  France 20.850
Bronze medal icon.svg Tang Peng, Wu Yongjun, Zhang Zhuo, Zhang Xue, Guo Xiaoping, Li Jia Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 20.350
4 Raluca Elena Babaligea, Cristina Antonescu, Constantina Madalina Cioveie, Cristina Marin, Cristina Simona Nedelcu, Izabela Lăcătuș Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 20.300
5 Denis Karepov, Konstantin Nekrasov, Vladimir Vorobyev, Roman Tymko, Sergei Konstantinov, Danila Shohin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.750
6 Lora Bertone, Arianna Ciucci, Daniela Tosci, Cinzia Galletti, Lisa Milani, Alice Capitani Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 19.400
7 Jonatan Canada, Israel Carrasco, Saray Martin, Alexandra Torres, Ivan Parejo, Toni Leyva Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 19.300
8 Elena Kurochkina, Eugenia Anisimova, Ekaterina Cherepanova, Anastasia Akhmadieva, Irina Klopova, Julia Amosova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.250

Medal table

RankNation Med 1.png Med 2.png Med 3.png Total
1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2215
2Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2024
3Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1001
4Flag of France.svg  France 0112
4Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 0112
6Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 0101

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