| France at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships | |
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| IOC code | FRA |
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France has been participating at the World Championships in artistic gymnastics since its inception in 1903. [1] [2] Their men's team won the first ever team gold medal. [3] Women first competed at the World Championships in 1934; the French women's team placed fourth. [4] They would win their first team medal, a silver, in 1950.
| Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Men | 25 | 29 | 20 | 74 |
| Women | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's horizontal bar | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| Men's parallel bars | 5 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| Men's individual all-around | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| Men's rings | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Men's pommel horse | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| Men's team | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Men's vault | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Men's floor exercise | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Women's team | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Women's vault | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Women's floor exercise | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Women's uneven bars | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Women's balance beam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Women's individual all-around | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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 Bronze | Ming van Eijken |  2023 Antalya | Girls' vault |
The 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rome, the capital of Italy, on June 28 - July 1, 1954. It was the first World Championships at which the Soviet Union competed, winning 20 medals overall. Other major changes at this championships included: 1) it was the first world championships at which a Code of Points was used; and 2) it was the last world championships that would be held "in open air" (outdoors).
The 1st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium, in conjunction with the 27th Belgian Federal Festival, on 14-18 August 1903.
The 2nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Bordeaux, France, in conjunction with the 31st Federal Festival of France, on April 22-23, 1905.
The 3rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Prague, Bohemia, in conjunction with the 5th Czech Sokol Slet on 30 June 1907.
The 4th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Luxembourg, in conjunction with the 9th Federal Festival of Luxembourg, on August 1, 1909.
The 5th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Turin, Italy, in conjunction with the 8th Italian Federal Festival of Gymnastics, on May 13, 1911.
The 6th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Paris, France, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the "Union des Societes des Gymnastique de France", on November 16, 1913.
The 8th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Lyon, in conjunction with that year's French Federal Festival, on May 22–23, 1926.
The 12th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Basel, the second largest city of Switzerland, on July 14-16, 1950. 20,000 spectators watched the championships, held for the first time in Switzerland, and the Swiss team was very successful in front of the home crowd.
The 10th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation, on June 1–2, 1934.
Giulia Steingruber is a Swiss retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic and 2017 World bronze medalist on vault. Additionally, she is the 2015 European all-around champion, a four-time European vault champion and the 2016 European floor exercise champion.
Sanne Wevers is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic champion on the balance beam and was the first Dutch female gymnast to become an Olympic champion in an individual event. She is the 2018 and 2023 European champion on the balance beam. She is also the 2015 World and 2021 European silver medalist on the balance beam and the 2015 European bronze medalist on the uneven bars. She was a member of the Dutch team that won the bronze medal at the 2018 and 2023 European Championships.
İbrahim Çolak is a Turkish artistic gymnast who is primarily a rings specialist. He is the 2019 World champion on the rings and the first Turkish gymnast to medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He also became Turkey's first European champion in artistic gymnastics when he won gold on the rings at the 2020 European Championships. He is also the 2018 European silver medalist on the rings and the 2020 European silver medalist with the Turkish team. He is the 2022 Mediterranean Games champion on the rings and in the team event. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Games and the silver medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games on the rings. He represented Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics where he finished fifth in the rings final.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Federation of Gymnastics which was founded in 1881, a commemorative competition was held in Paris, on July 11 & 12, in conjunction with that year's Bastille Day. Although it has at times been referred to as the "First Artistic Men's World Championships", its results often seem to be ignored by various authorities in the sport.
Italy first participated at the fourth World Championships held in 1909, while it was a men's-only competition. Italian women first competed in 1950.
Czechoslovakian men first competed at the 1907 World Championships as Bohemia. They started competing as Czechoslovakia at the 1922 World Championships. Women didn't start competing at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1934, where the Czechoslovakian women's team won gold. At the start of 1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate nations: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Antwerp, Belgium at the Sportpaleis, from 30 September to 8 October 2023. Antwerp hosted the event for the third time; previously the city hosted the first ever World Championships in 1903 and again in 2013.
East Germany first competed as its own team at the World Championships in 1958 where the men's and women's teams both placed ninth. The men would win their first team medal, a bronze, in 1966. The women would win their first team medal, a silver, at the following iteration of the World Championships in 1970. In 1989 East and West Germany were reunified; therefore in 1991 they began competing as a unified German team.
Yoo Ok-ryul won South Korea their first medal at the World Championships in artistic gymnastics in 1991. In 2023 Yeo Seo-jeong became the first South Korean woman to win a World Championship medal, winning bronze on vault.
Although Hungarian gymnasts competed at numerous Olympic Games as early as 1896, they competed as Austria-Hungary at the early World Championships in artistic gymnastics. At the 1930 World Championships Hungary competed for the first time as its own nation.
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