2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Venue	Főnix Hall
Location	Debrecen, Hungary
Start date	November 20, 2002 (2002-11-20)
End date	November 24, 2002 (2002-11-24)
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The 36th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2002 at Főnix Hall.

The team and all-around events were not contested at the 2002 Worlds. The format was similar to that of the 1992 and 1996 Worlds, with medals being awarded for the individual WAG and MAG apparatus. There were three rounds of competition: the preliminary round open to everyone; the semi-finals open to the top sixteen qualifiers; and the finals for the top eight gymnasts.

Results[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Floor details	Marian Drăgulescu	Yordan Yovchev	Paul Hamm
Pommel horse details	Marius Urzică	Xiao Qin	Takehiro Kashima
Rings details	Szilveszter Csollány	Yordan Yovchev	Matteo Morandi
Vault details	Li Xiaopeng	Leszek Blanik	Yang Wei
Parallel Bars details	Li Xiaopeng	Mitja Petkovšek	Alexei Sinkevich
Horizontal bar details	Vlasios Maras	Ivan Ivankov Aljaž Pegan	none awarded
Women
Vault details	Elena Zamolodchikova	Natalia Ziganshina	Oksana Chusovitina
Uneven bars details	Courtney Kupets	Oana Petrovschi	Ludmila Ezhova
Balance beam details	Ashley Postell	Oana Ban	Irina Yarotska
Floor details	Elena Gómez	Verona van de Leur	Samantha Sheehan

Men[edit]

Floor Exercise[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	9.712
	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	9.675
	Paul Hamm (USA)	9.625
4	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	9.575
5	Ioan Suciu (ROU)	9.562
5	Roman Zozulya (UKR)	9.562
7	Yang Wei (CHN)	8.550
DQ	Gervasio Deferr (ESP)*	9.700

• In July 2003, Gervasio Deferr was stripped of his silver medal after testing positive for marijuana prior to the 2002 World Championships.^[1]

Pommel Horse[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Marius Urzică (ROU)	9.787
	Xiao Qin (CHN)	9.750
	Takehiro Kashima (JPN)	9.687
4	Teng Haibin (CHN)	9.662
5	Eric Casimir (FRA)	9.650
6	Nikolai Kryukov (RUS)	9.625
6	Ioan Suciu (ROU)	9.625
8	Paul Hamm (USA)	9.050

Rings[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Szilveszter Csollány (HUN)	9.725
	Yordan Yovchev (BUL)	9.675
	Matteo Morandi (ITA)	9.650
4	Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN)	9.637
5	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.637
6	Andrea Coppolino (ITA)	9.625
7	Timur Kurbanbayev (KAZ)	9.600
8	Jeffrey Johnson (USA)	9.550

Vault[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Li Xiaopeng (CHN)	9.818
	Leszek Blanik (POL)	9.675
	Yang Wei (CHN)	9.631
4	Kyle Shewfelt (CAN)	9.512
5	Benoit Caranobe (FRA)	9.474
6	Yernar Yerimbetov (KAZ)	9.400
7	Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)	9.374
8	Róbert Gál (HUN)	9.212

Parallel Bars[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Li Xiaopeng (CHN)	9.812
	Mitja Petkovšek (SLO)	9.787
	Alexei Sinkevich (BLR)	9.712
4	Huang Xu (CHN)	9.612
5	Brett McClure (USA)	9.562
6	Ilia Giorgadze (GEO)	9.550
7	Andreu Vivó (ESP)	9.487
8	Runar Alexandersson (ISL)	7.500

Horizontal Bar[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Vlasios Maras (GRE)	9.725
	Ivan Ivankov (BLR)	9.700
	Aljaž Pegan (SLO)	9.700
4	Cédric Guille (FRA)	9.675
5	Isao Yoneda (JPN)	9.662
6	Philippe Rizzo (AUS)	9.650
7	Paul Hamm (USA)	8.887
8	Yang Tae-Seok (KOR)	5.900

Women[edit]

Vault[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Vault 1	Vault 2	Total
	Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)	9.450	9.437	9.443
	Natalia Ziganshina (RUS)	9.412	9.375	9.393
	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.462	9.312	9.387
4	Oana Petrovschi (ROU)	9.387	9.337	9.362
5	Sabina Cojocar (ROU)	9.287	9.387	9.337
6	Ashley Postell (USA)	9.337	9.125	9.231
7	Verona van de Leur (NED)	9.262	9.112	9.187
8	Alona Kvasha (UKR)	9.262	8.912	9.087

Uneven Bars[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Courtney Kupets (USA)	9.550
	Oana Petrovschi (ROU)	9.525
	Ludmila Ezhova (RUS)	9.375
4	Elizabeth Tweddle (GBR)	9.312
5	Laura van Leeuwen (NED)	8.612
6	Tatiana Zharganova (BLR)	8.187
7	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	7.387
8	Irina Yarotska (UKR)	7.000

Balance Beam[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Ashley Postell (USA)	9.537
	Oana Ban (ROU)	9.350
	Irina Yarotska (UKR)	9.212
4	Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)	9.125
5	Evgeniya Kuznetsova (BUL)	9.075
6	Ludmila Ezhova (RUS)	8.975
7	Ilaria Colombo (ITA)	8.750
8	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	8.312

Floor Exercise[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Elena Gómez (ESP)	9.487
	Verona van de Leur (NED)	9.350
	Samantha Sheehan (USA)	9.325
4	Oana Ban (ROU)	9.275
5	Daniele Hypólito (BRA)	9.237
6	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	9.137
7	Natalia Ziganshina (RUS)	8.862
8	Brenda Magana (MEX)	8.462

Medal count[edit]

Overall[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	2	2	0	4
2	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
3	United States (USA)	2	0	2	4
4	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
5	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	2	0	2
10	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
11	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
13	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		10	11	9	30

Men[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	1	1	4
2	Romania	2	0	0	2
3	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
5	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia	0	2	0	2
7	Belarus	0	1	1	2
8	Poland	0	1	0	1
9	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		6	7	5	18

Women[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	2	0	1	3
2	Russia	1	1	1	3
3	Spain	1	0	0	1
4	Romania	0	2	0	2
5	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

References[edit]

• FIG Official Results: 36th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships