1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Venue	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
Location	Stuttgart, West Germany
Start date	October 14, 1989 (1989-10-14)
End date	October 22, 1989 (1989-10-22)
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The 25th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1989 from October 14 to October 22.

The scoring rule New Life was introduced. This meant that gymnasts' scores were not carried over to the all-around and the event finals from the team competition.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Igor Korobchinsky Vladimir Artemov Valentin Mogilny Vitaly Marinich Valery Belenky Vladimir Novikov	East Germany Andreas Wecker Sven Tippelt Sylvio Kroll Jörg Behrend Jens Milbradt Enrico Ambros	China Li Chunyang Li Jing Ma Zheng Li Ge Guo Linxian Wang Chongsheng
Individual all-around details	Igor Korobchinsky	Valentin Mogilny	Li Jing
Floor details	Igor Korobchinsky	Vladimir Artemov	Li Chunyang
Pommel horse details	Valentin Mogilny	Andreas Wecker	Li Jing
Rings details	Andreas Aguilar	Andreas Wecker	Yuri Chechi Vitaly Marinich
Vault details	Jörg Behrend	Sylvio Kroll	Vladimir Artemov
Parallel bars details	Vladimir Artemov Li Jing	none awarded	Andreas Wecker
Horizontal bar details	Li Chunyang	Vladimir Artemov	Yukio Iketani
Women
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Natalia Laschenova Olga Strazheva Svetlana Boginskaya Olesya Dudnik Elena Sazonenkova Svetlana Baitova	Romania Daniela Silivaș Gabriela Potorac Cristina Bontaș Eugenia Popa Lăcrămioara Filip Aurelia Dobre	China Yang Bo Chen Cuiting Fan Di Li Yan Wang Wenjing Ma Ying
Individual all-around details	Svetlana Boginskaya	Natalia Laschenova	Olga Strazheva
Vault details	Olesya Dudnik	Cristina Bontaș Brandy Johnson	none awarded
Uneven bars details	Daniela Silivaș Fan Di	none awarded	Olga Strazheva
Balance beam details	Daniela Silivaș	Olesya Dudnik	Gabriela Potorac
Floor details	Svetlana Boginskaya Daniela Silivaș	none awarded	Cristina Bontaș

Rank	Team	Floor		Pommel Horse		Rings		Vault		Parallel Bars		Horizontal Bar		Total
		C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O
	Soviet Union (URS)	97.550		98.550		97.750		97.800		97.700		97.900		587.250
	Igor Korobchinsky	9.850	9.850	9.900	9.950	9.750	9.750	9.800	9.900	9.750	9.700	9.800	9.800	117.800
	Vladimir Artemov	9.900	9.500	9.800	9.900	9.800	9.750	9.700	9.850	9.800	9.900	9.900	9.850	117.650
	Valentin Mogilny	9.700	9.700	9.700	10.000	9.800	9.800	9.700	9.800	9.750	9.850	9.800	9.500	117.100
	Vitaly Marinich	9.800	9.750	9.750	9.800	9.750	9.900	9.700	9.800	9.650	9.700	9.700	9.650	116.950
	Valery Belenky	9.550	9.700	9.800	9.900	9.700	9.700	9.650	9.900	9.550	9.750	9.750	9.700	116.650
	Vladimir Novikov	9.800	9.200	9.750	9.250	9.600	9.750	9.650	9.700	9.750	9.800	9.800	9.850	115.900
	East Germany (GDR)	96.550		96.200		97.350		97.800		96.300		96.700		580.850
	Andreas Wecker	9.650	9.700	9.800	9.900	9.850	9.800	9.700	9.700	9.500	9.850	9.800	9.750	117.000
	Sven Tippelt	9.800	9.650	9.800	9.700	9.750	9.900	9.700	9.900	9.550	9.900	9.750	9.400	116.800
	Sylvio Kroll	9.700	9.700	9.750	9.400	9.600	9.800	9.850	9.900	9.500	9.800	9.650	9.800	116.450
	Jörg Behrend	9.400	9.750	9.500	9.350	9.650	9.800	9.750	9.800	9.500	9.750	9.500	9.700	115.450
	Jens Milbradt	9.550	9.550	9.400	9.600	9.550	9.650	9.550	9.750	9.150	9.450	9.150	9.700	114.050
	Enrico Ambros	9.300	9.650	9.400	9.150	9.400	9.400	9.650	9.800	9.400	9.550	9.350	9.700	113.750
	China (CHN)	95.400		97.350		96.700		96.600		96.400		96.800		579.300
	Li Chunyang	9.750	9.900	9.700	9.850	9.700	9.800	9.600	9.650	9.800	9.750	9.750	9.900	117.150
	Li Jing	9.500	9.450	9.750	9.950	9.700	9.550	9.700	9.800	9.500	9.800	9.700	9.750	116.150
	Ma Zheng	9.650	9.700	9.700	9.650	9.550	9.550	9.500	9.800	9.400	9.550	9.650	9.750	115.450
	Li Ge	9.300	9.000	9.650	9.750	9.650	9.700	9.400	9.700	9.450	9.750	9.500	9.550	114.400
	Guo Linxian	9.250	9.600	9.550	9.600	9.450	9.600	9.450	9.700	9.500	9.500	9.700	9.350	114.250
	Wang Chongsheng	9.550	0.000	9.750	0.000	9.700	9.750	9.550	9.800	9.600	9.700	9.700	3.000	90.100
4	Japan (JPN)	94.900		95.850		96.760		96.100		95.300		96.650		575.550
	Toshiharu Sato	9.550	9.600	9.600	9.900	9.800	9.800	9.600	9.800	9.500	9.400	9.800	9.700	116.050
	Yukio Iketani	9.400	9.750	9.300	9.600	9.700	9.500	9.650	9.750	9.300	9.550	9.700	9.800	115.000
	Yoshikazu Nakamura	9.350	9.550	9.700	9.800	9.550	9.500	9.600	9.700	9.450	9.550	9.600	9.400	114.750
	Daisuke Nishikawa	9.350	9.600	9.000	9.750	9.650	9.600	9.650	9.250	9.400	9.600	9.600	9.700	114.150
	Hiroyuki Kato	9.250	9.500	9.300	9.350	9.450	9.750	9.450	9.650	9.550	9.700	9.300	9.450	113.700
	Masayuki Matsunaga	9.200	0.000	9.550	9.000	9.700	9.700	9.000	0.000	9.450	9.550	9.600	9.700	94.450

Rank	Gymnast							Total
	Igor Korobchinsky (URS)	9.900	9.900	9.750	10.000	9.900	9.800	59.250
	Valentin Mogilny (URS)	9.700	10.000	9.850	9.900	9.800	9.900	59.150
	Li Jing (CHN)	9.700	9.850	9.750	9.800	9.800	9.900	58.800
4	Yukio Iketani (JPN)	9.800	9.600	9.800	9.900	9.700	9.900	58.700
4	Andreas Wecker (GDR)	9.700	9.900	9.750	9.650	9.800	9.900	58.700
6	Vladimir Artemov (URS)	9.600	9.900	9.850	9.900	9.950	9.350	58.550
7	Li Ge (CHN)	9.750	9.550	9.800	9.700	9.800	9.900	58.500
8	Gyula Takacs (HUN)	9.800	9.600	9.650	9.850	9.650	9.900	58.450
8	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.750	9.750	9.650	9.800	9.700	9.800	58.450
10	Sylvio Kroll (GDR)	9.550	9.900	9.850	9.900	9.800	9.300	58.300
10	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.550	9.750	9.900	9.850	9.500	9.750	58.300
12	Toshiharu Sato (JPN)	9.550	9.850	9.550	9.800	9.700	9.800	58.250
13	Sven Tippelt (GDR)	9.300	9.800	9.800	9.350	9.850	9.800	57.900
14	Csaba Fajkusz (HUN)	9.450	9.750	9.250	9.700	9.800	9.900	57.850
15	Paolo Bucci (ITA)	9.550	9.650	9.600	9.600	9.700	9.600	57.700
16	Alfonso Rodriguez (ESP)	9.300	9.650	9.750	9.650	9.400	9.800	57.550
16	Kalofer Hristozov (BUL)	9.750	9.750	9.550	9.700	9.800	9.900	57.550
18	Mike Beckmann (FRG)	9.150	9.700	9.600	9.750	9.550	9.750	57.500
18	Yoshikazu Nakamura (JPN)	9.700	9.800	9.700	9.800	8.700	9.750	57.450
20	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.450	9.550	9.400	9.600	9.700	9.700	57.400
21	Marian Stoican (ROU)	9.450	9.650	9.300	9.800	9.500	9.650	57.350
22	Toth Balazs (HUN)	9.250	9.700	9.450	9.600	9.600	9.600	57.200
23	Li Chunyang (CHN)	9.600	9.000	9.700	9.700	9.800	9.300	57.100
24	Marian Rizan (ROU)	9.400	9.800	9.150	9.200	9.700	9.700	56.950
25	Ju Young-Sam (KOR)	9.650	9.600	9.350	9.250	9.600	9.300	56.750
26	Felix Aguilera (CUB)	8.850	9.500	9.200	9.600	9.800	9.700	56.650
27	James May (GBR)	9.350	9.250	9.300	9.750	9.200	9.700	56.550
27	Johan Jonasson (SWE)	9.450	9.750	9.450	9.500	8.800	9.600	56.550
29	Lance Ringnald (USA)	9.400	8.550	9.450	9.550	9.700	9.800	56.450
30	Conrad Voorsanger (USA)	9.050	9.450	9.550	9.500	9.100	9.550	56.200
31	Casimiro Suarez (CUB)	9.350	8.650	9.400	9.700	9.500	9.550	56.150
32	Dimitar Taskov (BUL)	9.250	9.250	8.950	9.800	9.400	9.250	55.900
33	Rene Plüss (SUI)	9.200	8.450	9.350	9.300	9.300	9.800	55.450
34	Patrice Casimir (FRA)	9.200	9.300	9.150	9.700	9.250	8.550	55.150
35	Kevin Davis (USA)	-	9.450	9.250	8.650	-	-	27.350
36	Ruggero Rossato (ITA)	-	-	9.300	-	-	-	9.300

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Igor Korobchinsky (URS)	9.937
	Vladimir Artemov (URS)	9.875
	Li Chunyang (CHN)	9.850
4	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.787
5	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.775
6	Sven Tippelt (GDR)	9.750
7	Sylvio Kroll (GDR)	9.700
8	Toshiharu Sato (JPN)	9.575

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Valentin Mogilny (URS)	10.000
	Andreas Wecker (GDR)	9.962
	Li Jing (CHN)	9.937
4	Marian Rizan (ROU)	9.900
5	Li Chunyang (CHN)	9.875
6	Igor Korobchinsky (URS)	9.687
7	Dimitar Taskov (BUL)	9.100
8	Csaba Fajkusz (HUN)	8.700

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Andreas Aguilar (FRG)	9.875
	Andreas Wecker (GDR)	9.862
	Yuri Chechi (ITA)	9.812
	Vitaly Marinich (URS)	9.812
5	Sven Tippelt (GDR)	9.762
6	Toshiharu Sato (JPN)	9.625
7	Valentin Mogilny (URS)	9.500
8	Kalofer Hristozov (BUL)	9.375

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Jörg Behrend (GDR)	9.881
	Sylvio Kroll (GDR)	9.874
	Vladimir Artemov (URS)	9.868
4	Marius Gherman (ROU)	9.799
5	Gyula Takacs (HUN)	9.737
6	Marian Stoican (ROU)	9.718
7	Igor Korobchinsky (URS)	9.625
8	Li Jing (CHN)	9.593

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Vladimir Artemov (URS)	9.900
	Li Jing (CHN)	9.900
	Andreas Wecker (GDR)	9.887
4	Valentin Mogilny (URS)	9.725
5	Marian Rizan (ROU)	9.625
6	Balazs Toth (HUN)	9.487
7	Gyula Takacs (HUN)	9.475
8	Sven Tippelt (GDR)	9.225

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Li Chunyang (CHN)	9.950
	Vladimir Artemov (URS)	9.900
	Yukio Iketani (JPN)	9.875
4	Vladimir Novikov (URS)	9.850
5	Curtis Hibbert (CAN)	9.825
6	Andreas Wecker (GDR)	9.787
7	Toshiharu Sato (JPN)	9.762
8	Csaba Fajkusz (HUN)	9.237

Rank	Team									Total
		C	O	C	O	C	O	C	O
	Soviet Union	99.473		98.874		98.961		99.485		396.793
	Natalia Laschenova	9.987	10.000	9.887	9.950	9.762	9.962	9.925	9.987	79.460
	Olga Strazheva	9.925	9.862	9.962	9.950	9.775	9.925	9.937	9.987	79.323
	Svetlana Boginskaya	9.975	9.950	9.925	10.000	9.950	9.475	9.987	10.000	79.262
	Olesya Dudnik	9.962	10.000	9.362	9.862	9.900	10.000	10.000	9.950	79.036
	Elena Sazonenkova	9.875	9.837	9.850	9.950	9.837	9.925	9.837	9.875	78.986
	Svetlana Baitova	9.862	9.937	9.800	9.900	9.650	9.925	9.775	9.837	78.686
	Romania	99.311		98.599		98.173		98.848		394.931
	Daniela Silivaș	10.000	9.962	9.912	10.000	9.825	9.900	9.962	10.000	79.561
	Gabriela Potorac	9.950	9.975	9.950	9.925	9.800	9.887	9.850	9.900	79.237
	Cristina Bontaș	9.925	9.975	9.625	9.900	9.687	9.937	9.837	9.987	78.873
	Eugenia Popa	9.912	9.850	9.825	9.912	9.600	9.837	9.675	9.887	78.498
	Lăcrămioara Filip	9.750	9.875	9.650	9.900	9.675	9.862	9.775	9.850	78.337
	Aurelia Dobre	9.837	9.900	8.925	9.887	9.650	9.950	9.800	8.987	76.936
	China	98.236		98.135		98.760		96.985		392.116
	Yang Bo	9.825	9.875	9.937	9.925	9.950	9.975	9.937	9.837	79.261
	Chen Cuiting	9.687	9.925	9.700	9.912	9.837	9.987	9.775	9.925	78.748
	Fan Di	9.900	9.825	9.850	9.962	9.737	9.850	9.800	9.737	78.661
	Li Yan	9.587	9.887	9.700	9.875	9.800	9.825	9.587	9.600	77.861
	Wang Wenjing	9.800	9.487	9.862	9.412	9.762	9.912	9.675	9.037	76.947
	Ma Ying	9.700	9.812	9.562	9.325	9.650	9.950	9.662	8.900	76.561
4	United States	98.036		97.748		96.637		97.510		389.925
	Sandy Woolsey	9.800	9.812	9.837	9.900	9.537	9.900	9.662	9.825	78.273
	Wendy Bruce	9.837	9.875	9.725	9.762	9.512	9.875	9.662	9.862	78.110
	Brandy Johnson	9.900	9.900	9.887	9.362	9.750	9.762	9.850	9.350	77.761
	Christy Henrich	9.762	9.750	9.825	9.937	9.087	9.787	9.725	9.750	77.749
	Chelle Stack	9.637	9.750	9.675	9.800	9.337	9.812	9.600	9.887	77.949
	Kim Kelly	9.650	9.737	9.550	9.400	9.362	9.175	9.550	9.687	76.111

Rank	Gymnast					Total
	Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)	10.000	9.950	9.950	10.000	39.900
	Natalia Laschenova (URS)	10.000	10.000	9.875	9.987	39.862
	Olga Strazheva (URS)	9.962	9.925	9.925	9.962	39.774
4	Cristina Bontaș (ROM)	9.875	9.900	9.987	10.000	39.762
5	Yang Bo (CHN)	9.962	9.875	9.900	9.950	39.687
6	Chen Cuiting (CHN)	9.950	9.875	9.900	9.937	39.662
7	Brandy Johnson (USA)	9.937	9.925	9.887	9.825	39.574
8	Sandy Woolsey (USA)	9.950	9.850	9.775	9.900	39.475
9	Bärbel Wielgoss (GDR)	9.887	9.900	9.800	9.862	39.449
10	Choi Gyong-hui (PRK)	9.887	9.850	9.850	9.812	39.399
11	Wendy Bruce (USA)	9.912	9.687	9.862	9.925	39.386
12	Daniela Silivaș (ROM)	9.925	9.975	9.437	9.975	39.312
13	Eva Rueda (ESP)	9.912	9.787	9.675	9.912	39.286
14	Kim Gwang-suk (PRK)	9.837	9.612	9.850	9.912	39.211
15	Miho Shinoda (JPN)	9.862	9.737	9.712	9.837	39.148
16	Gabriela Potorac (ROM)	9.937	9.400	9.987	9.750	39.074
17	Fan Di (CHN)	9.925	9.950	9.312	9.775	38.962
18	Larissa Lowing (CAN)	9.912	9.875	9.775	9.325	38.887
19	Henrietta Ónodi (HUN)	9.900	9.925	9.175	9.837	38.837
20	Deliana Vodenicharova (BUL)	9.725	9.700	9.550	9.850	38.825
21	Gergana Peeva (BUL)	9.775	9.612	9.512	9.900	38.799
22	Lori Strong (CAN)	9.862	9.475	9.762	9.625	38.724
23	Sarah Mercer (GBR)	9.762	9.687	9.700	9.550	38.699
24	Karine Mermet (FRA)	9.975	9.737	9.250	9.725	38.687
25	Monique Allen (AUS)	9.712	9.637	9.575	9.750	38.674
26	Eszter Óváry (HUN)	9.875	9.650	9.375	9.737	38.637
27	Kim Myong-hwa (PRK)	9.862	9.537	9.587	9.650	38.636
28	Leah Homma (CAN)	9.525	9.700	9.687	9.650	38.562
29	Milena Mavrodieva (BUL)	9.837	9.200	9.612	9.825	38.474
30	Krisztina Kovács (HUN)	9.887	9.775	9.712	9.087	38.461
31	Alicia Fernández (ESP)	9.650	9.775	9.275	9.725	38.425
32	Roberta Kirchmayer (ITA)	9.762	9.712	9.125	9.662	38.261
33	Astrid Heese (GDR)	9.712	9.250	9.650	9.512	38.124
34	Tanya Koste (GDR)	9.412	9.550	8.900	9.775	37.637
35	Iveta Poloková (TCH)	9.862	8.475	9.250	9.862	37.449
36	Giulia Volpi (ITA)	9.650	9.587	8.512	9.612	37.361

Brandy Johnson was awarded scores of 9.937 and 9.950 for her two vaults in competition, giving her an average score of 9.943, enough for third place and the bronze medal, which was presented to her at the medal ceremony. Subsequently, however, the judges accepted a protest from the US and revised her score to an average of 9.950, to share second place with Cristina Bontaș. She returned to the arena to be awarded her silver medal before the medal ceremony for uneven bars.^[1]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Olesya Dudnik (URS)	9.987
	Cristina Bontaș (ROM)	9.950
	Brandy Johnson (USA)	9.950
4	Natalia Laschenova (URS)	9.868
5	Milena Mavrodieva (BUL)	9.812
6	Gabriela Potorac (ROM)	9.763
7	Fan Di (CHN)	9.568
8	Larissa Lowing (CAN)	9.212

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Fan Di (CHN)	10.000
	Daniela Silivaș (ROM)	10.000
	Olga Strazheva (URS)	9.975
4	Christy Henrich (USA)	9.950
5	Gabriela Potorac (ROM)	9.925
6	Yang Bo (CHN)	9.900
7	Sandy Woolsey (USA)	9.800
8	Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)	9.450

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Daniela Silivaș (ROM)	9.950
	Olesya Dudnik (URS)	9.937
	Gabriela Potorac (ROM)	9.887
4	Chen Cuiting (CHN)	9.862
5	Henrietta Ónodi (HUN)	9.837
6	Elena Sazonenkova (URS)	9.825
7	Yang Bo (CHN)	9.800
8	Miho Shinoda (JPN)	9.700

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Svetlana Boginskaya (URS)	10.000
	Daniela Silivaș (ROM)	10.000
	Cristina Bontaș (ROM)	9.962
4	Olesya Dudnik (URS)	9.950
5	Chen Cuiting (CHN)	9.912
6	Milena Mavrodieva (BUL)	9.825
7	Yang Bo (CHN)	9.775
8	Choi Gyong-hui (PRK)	8.950

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	9	5	4	18
2	Romania (ROU)	3	2	2	7
3	China (CHN)	3	0	5	8
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	4	1	6
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
7	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		17	12	14	43

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	5	3	2	10
2	China	2	0	4	6
3	East Germany	1	4	1	6
4	West Germany	1	0	0	1
5	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	7	9	25

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	2	2	8
2	Romania (ROU)	3	2	2	7
3	China	1	0	1	2
4	United States	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 entries)		8	5	5	18

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