2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

The 2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held from 27 to 31 October 2021 in Kitakyushu, Japan.[1][2]

2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
VenueWest Japan General Exhibition Center
LocationJapan Kitakyushu, Japan
Dates27–31 October 2021
Champions
Women180 from 47 countries

Dina Averina broke the record for the most medals won at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships with 22 total medals and also became the first gymnast to win four World all-around titles.[3][4] Alina Harnasko won the gold medal in the ribbon, becoming the first non-Russian individual World Champion since 2013 and the first Belarusian individual World Champion since 1996.[5] The Russian group won their fifth consecutive World all-around title.[6]

Participating countries

ParticipantsNations
Group + 3 individuals  Azerbaijan  Italy  Japan  Spain  Ukraine  United States
Group + 2 individuals  Belarus  Brazil  China  Hungary  Kazakhstan RGF[a]
Group + 1 individual  Estonia  Finland  France  Germany  Great Britain  India
3 individuals  Mexico
2 individuals  Bulgaria  Georgia  Romania  South Korea  Uzbekistan
1 individual  Angola  Armenia  Australia  Austria  Bolivia  Canada  Chile  Colombia  Croatia  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Ghana
 Greece  Guatemala  Kyrgyzstan  Latvia  Lithuania  Norway  Poland  Portugal  South Africa  Slovenia  San Marino  Turkey

Schedule

  • Wednesday, October 27
    • 10:00 - 17:40 Individual Qualification - Hoop and Ball
    • 19:15 - 19:50 Individual Hoop Final
    • 20:00 - 20:40 Individual Ball Final
  • Thursday, October 28
    • 10:00 - 17:45 Individual Qualification - Clubs and Ribbon
    • 19:15 - 19:50 Individual Clubs Final
    • 20:00 - 20:40 Individual Ribbon Final
  • Friday, October 29
    • 16:50 - 20:00 Group All Around
  • Saturday, October 30
    • 14:30 - 16:40 Individual All Around (group B)
    • 17:00 - 19:10 Individual All Around (group A)
  • Sunday, October 31
    • 17:30 - 18:15 Group 5 Balls Final
    • 18:20 - 19:10 Group 3 Hoops and 2 Pairs of Clubs Final
    • 20:20 - 20:40 Closing Ceremony

Medal summary

EventGoldSilverBronze
Team Competition
Team All-Around
details
RGF
Individuals
Arina Averina
Dina Averina
Group
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Polina Orlova
Angelina Shkatova
Alisa Tishchenko
Maria Tolkacheva
 Italy
Individuals
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese
Milena Baldassarri
Sofia Raffaeli
Group
Martina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea
 Belarus
Individuals
Alina Harnasko
Anastasiia Salos
Group
Hanna Haidukevich
Anastasiya Malakanava
Anastasiya Rybakova
Arina Tsitsilina
Karyna Yarmolenka
Individual Finals
All-Around
details
Dina Averina Alina HarnaskoArina Averina
Hoop
details
Dina Averina Alina Harnasko Sofia Raffaeli

Ball
details

Dina AverinaArina Averina Alina Harnasko
Clubs
details
Dina AverinaArina Averina Anastasiia Salos
Ribbon
details
Alina HarnaskoDina AverinaArina Averina
Groups Finals
Group All-Around
details
RGF
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Polina Orlova
Angelina Shkatova
Alisa Tishchenko
Maria Tolkacheva
 Italy
Martina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea
 Belarus
Hanna Haidukevich
Anastasiya Malakanava
Anastasiya Rybakova
Arina Tsitsilina
Karyna Yarmolenka
5 Balls

details

RGF
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Polina Orlova
Angelina Shkatova
Alisa Tishchenko
Maria Tolkacheva
 Italy
Martina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea
 Japan
Rina Imaoka
Rinako Inaki
Rie Matsubara
Sayuri Sugimoto
Ayuka Suzuki
3 Hoops 4 Clubs

details

 Italy
Martina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea
RGF
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Polina Orlova
Angelina Shkatova
Alisa Tishchenko
Maria Tolkacheva
 Japan
Rina Imaoka
Rinako Inaki
Rie Matsubara
Sayuri Sugimoto
Ayuka Suzuki

Individual

Individual Qualification

  • The top 8 scores in individual apparatus qualify to the apparatus finals and the top 18 in overall qualification scores advance to the all-around final.
  • Only the 3 best results are counted in the total score
  • Only the 2 highest ranking players from each country can qualify to each one of the finals.
RankGymnastNation Total
1Dina AverinaRGF27.850 (1)28.875 (1)28.450 (1)23.800 (1)85.175 (Q)
2Arina AverinaRGF27.150 (3)28.550 (2)27.950 (2)23.600 (2)83.650 (Q)
3Alina Harnasko  Belarus27.250 (2)27.225 (3)27.200 (3)23.500 (3)81.675 (Q)
4Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria25.200 (4)26.550 (4)27.150 (4)23.100 (4)78.900 (Q)
5Milena Baldassarri  Italy25.100 (5)25.850 (6)25.800 (7)76.750 (Q)
6Viktoriia Onopriienko  Ukraine24.050 (8)26.200 (5)26.150 (6)20.700 (12)76.400 (Q)
7Khrystyna Pohranychna  Ukraine24.450 (7)25.100 (9)25.550 (8)21.750 (6)75.100 (Q)
8Sumire Kita  Japan23.950 (9)25.650 (7)24.400 (10)21.475 (9)74.000 (Q)
9Tatyana Volozhanina  Bulgaria23.550 (13)25.450 (8)23.700 (11)21.650 (7)72.700 (Q)
10Anastasiia Salos  Belarus14.000 (62)23.750 (14)26.550 (5)21.000 (11)71.300 (Q)
11Jelizaveta Polstjanaja  Latvia23.950 (10)22.800 (18)23.450 (12)16.500 (40)70.200 (Q)
12Sofia Raffaeli  Italy24.650 (6)25.100 (9)20.400 (16)70.150 (Q)
13Barbara Domingos  Brazil23.550 (12)23.750 (13)22.500 (17)20.500 (14)69.800 (Q)
14Fanni Pigniczki  Hungary23.600 (11)24.450 (11)21.500 (28)21.050 (10)69.550 (Q)
15Andreea Verdes  Romania22.900 (15)22.400 (24)23.450 (13)19.450 (24)68.750 (Q)
16Margarita Kolosov  Germany22.025 (19)23.875 (12)22.550 (15)20.200 (18)68.450 (Q)
17Ekaterina Vedeneeva  Slovenia22.750 (16)22.850 (17)22.800 (14)22.150 (5)68.400 (Q)
18Chisaki Oiwa  Japan20.750 (28)24.450 (10)22.150 (20)67.350 (Q)
19Zhao Yue  China23.100 (14)22.450 (23)21.800 (25)19.550 (22)67.350
20Maelle Millet  France22.700 (17)22.050 (29)22.550 (16)20.050 (20)67.300
21Elzhana Taniyeva  Kazakhstan21.650 (21)23.450 (15)21.450 (29)18.300 (31)66.550
22Annaliese Dragan  Romania22.350 (18)21.750 (31)22.450 (18)18.600 (28)66.550
23Arzu Jalilova  Azerbaijan21.350 (23)22.600 (21)21.700 (27)65.650
24Zohra Aghamirova  Azerbaijan21.400 (22)21.150 (35)22.050 (21)19.950 (21)60.050
25Polina Berezina  Spain20.450 (31)21.400 (32)21.900 (24)19.450 (23)63.750
26Malgorzata Roszatycka  Poland21.200 (24)20.850 (36)21.350 (30)16.550 (39)63.400
27Kamelya Tuncel  Turkey20.900 (25)20.500 (38)21.900 (23)20.200 (19)63.300
28Wang Zilu  China19.700 (35)21.150 (34)22.400 (19)18.250 (32)63.250
29Takhmina Ikromova  Uzbekistan20.750 (27)20.650 (37)21.800 (26)20.250 (17)63.200
30Evita Griskenas  United States19.950 (33)22.500 (22)19.950 (36)20.550 (13)63.000
31Dilnaz Bailenova  Kazakhstan18.950 (45)22.700 (19)20.950 (31)19.000 (27)62.650
32Viktoria Bogdanova  Estonia15.650 (59)22.350 (25)20.850 (32)18.550 (30)61.750
33Maria Dervisi  Greece20.000 (32)22.650 (20)18.450 (46)19.100 (26)61.750
34Ketevan Arbolishvili  Georgia19.850 (34)22.050 (28)19.750 (39)19.100 (25)61.650
35Ana Luisa Passos  Brazil20.900 (26)22.150 (27)17.850 (51)17.200 (38)60.900
36Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva  Australia20.750 (29)20.000 (42)19.050 (42)17.550 (33)59.800
37Josephine Juul Møller  Norway18.925 (46)20.450 (39)20.250 (33)17.375 (37)59.625
38Teresa Gorospe  Spain18.400 (49)18.650 (50)22.000 (22)17.450 (36)59.050
39Fausta Sostakaite  Lithuania19.050 (43)19.500 (46)20.200 (34)16.025 (46)58.750
40Rita Araujo  Portugal19.575 (37)19.750 (44)19.000 (43)16.200 (44)58.325
41Elisabeth Jamil  Finland19.000 (44)19.200 (47)20.000 (35)15.850 (48)58.200
42Katherine Uchida  Canada20.550 (30)19.750 (43)16.750 (58)17.450 (34)57.750
43Kim Joowon  South Korea19.250 (41)20.100 (41)17.900 (49)16.150 (45)57.250
44Marfa Ekimova  Great Britain19.350 (39)17.800 (53)19.875 (38)11.600 (59)57.025
45Lina Dussan  Colombia18.800 (47)19.150 (48)18.950 (44)16.400 (42)56.900
46Silva Sargsyan  Armenia19.300 (40)16.650 (5)19.900 (37)17.450 (35)56.650
47Seo Goeun  South Korea16.800 (56)21.250 (33)18.200 (47)15.300 (50)56.250
48Aisha Izabekova  Kyrgyzstan18.650 (48)18.450 (51)18.800 (45)14.200 (54)55.900
49Karla Diaz  Mexico19.600 (36)17.650 (54)17.850 (50)15.000 (53)55.100
50Gaia Garoffolo  Czech Republic18.200 (50)20.150 (40)16.400 (59)15.850 (47)54.750
51Javiera Rubilar  Chile16.500 (57)19.650 (45)17.450 (52)15.150 (51)53.600
52Ana Bejiashvili  Georgia17.225 (53)17.850 (52)17.300 (54)16.300 (43)52.375
53Valentina Domenig-Ozimic  Austria18.100 (51)16.150 (59)17.900 (48)10.500 (61)52.150
54Anna Sokolova  Cyprus16.000 (58)18.950 (49)17.050 (55)15.350 (49)52.000
55Antonella Genuzio  Bolivia17.200 (54)17.000 (55)17.400 (53)5.100 (63)51.600
56Lana Sambol  Croatia19.200 (42)15.350 (61)17.000 (56)11.750 (58)51.550
57Lucia Castiglioni  San Marino17.250 (52)16.550 (58)16.900 (57)15.050 (52)50.700
58Shannon Gardiner  South Africa16.850 (55)16.800 (56)16.100 (60)14.000 (55)49.750
59Leslie Porras Osorio  Guatemala15.400 (60)15.450 (60)13.900 (61)10.950 (60)44.750
60Luana Gomes  Angola14.575 (61)14.800 (62)13.900 (62)13.325 (57)43.275
61Bavleen Kaur  India10.750 (63)11.000 (63)13.750 (63)9.800 (62)35.500
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese  Italy23.150 (16)21.525 (8)
Erica Foster  United States22.200 (26)19.200 (41)
Marina Malpica  Mexico22.050 (30)19.300 (40)
Lili Mizuno  United States21.750 (20)18.600 (29)
Kaho Minagawa  Japan20.400 (15)
Ledia Juárez  Mexico19.550 (38)13.850 (56)
Narmin Bayramova  Azerbaijan16.475 (41)

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All-around

RankGymnastNation Total
Dina AverinaRGF28.00028.25028.70023.450108.400
Alina Harnasko  Belarus27.15027.90027.40022.850105.300
Arina AverinaRGF24.15028.05027.45023.550103.200
4Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria26.40027.70025.85022.500102.450
5Viktoriia Onopriienko  Ukraine25.25025.20026.40022.80099.650
6Sofia Raffaeli  Italy25.55025.95025.90022.12599.525
7Tatyana Volozhanina  Bulgaria24.70024.60025.20022.10096.600
8Sumire Kita  Japan25.10025.45024.30021.60096.450
9Milena Baldassarri  Italy24.45025.80026.05019.80096.100
10Anastasiia Salos  Belarus20.25026.40026.50022.30095.450
11Khrystyna Pohranychna  Ukraine23.35024.22525.10022.35095.025
12Ekaterina Vedeneeva  Slovenia23.15024.00023.90022.45093.500
13Chisaki Oiwa  Japan23.95024.30023.35021.80093.400
14Fanni Pigniczki  Hungary23.40024.20021.90020.95090.450
15Jelizaveta Polstjanaja  Latvia23.95023.35021.95019.20088.450
16Margarita Kolosov  Germany21.80023.00022.80020.45088.050
17Barbara Domingos  Brazil22.75023.00022.70019.30087.750
18Andreea Verdes  Romania21.50020.95022.45020.25085.150

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Hoop

RankGymnastNationD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Dina AverinaRGF18.8009.000-0.05

27.750

Alina Harnasko  Belarus17.2008.750

25.950

Sofia Raffaeli  Italy17.5008.350

25.850

4Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria17.2008.500

25.700

5Milena Baldassarri  Italy17.0008.450

25.450

6Arina AverinaRGF16.8008.150

24.950

7Khrystyna Pohranychna  Ukraine16.6008.200

24.800

8Viktoriia Onopriienko  Ukraine16.0008.350

24.350

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Ball

RankGymnastNationD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Dina AverinaRGF20.1009.025

29.125

Arina AverinaRGF18.7008.975

27.675

Alina Harnasko  Belarus18.3009.000

27.300

4Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria18.1008.300-0.05

26.350

5Sumire Kita  Japan17.8008.250

26.050

6Milena Baldassarri  Italy17.7008.150

25.850

7Tatyana Volozhanina  Bulgaria17.4008.100-0.15

25.350

8Viktoriia Onopriienko  Ukraine14.4005.600-0.90

19.100

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Clubs

RankGymnastNationD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Dina AverinaRGF18.2008.900

27.100

Arina AverinaRGF18.1008.650

26.750

Anastasiia Salos  Belarus17.8008.600

26.400

4Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria18.3007.900

26.200

5Alina Harnasko  Belarus17.6008.500

26.100

6Milena Baldassarri  Italy17.3008.700

26.000

7Viktoriia Onopriienko  Ukraine17.5008.050

25.550

8Khrystyna Pohranychna  Ukraine17.3007.575-0.30

24.575

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Ribbon

RankGymnastNationD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Alina Harnasko  Belarus15.0008.950

23.950

Dina AverinaRGF14.7009.200

23.900

Arina AverinaRGF14.4009.050

23.450

4Khrystyna Pohranychna  Ukraine13.6008.350

21.950

5Tatyana Volozhanina  Bulgaria13.8008.100

21.900

6Alexandra Agiurgiuculese  Italy14.0007.500

21.500

7Ekaterina Vedeneeva  Slovenia13.3008.150

21.450

8Boryana Kaleyn  Bulgaria13.6007.400

21.000

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Group

Squads

Team  Azerbaijan (AZE)  Belarus (BLR)  Brazil (BRA)  China (CHN)  Spain (ESP)  Estonia (EST)
MembersGullu Aghalarzade
Laman Alimuradova
Zeynab Hummatova
Yelyzaveta Luzan
Darya Sorokina
Hanna Haidukevich
Anastasiya Malakanava
Anastasiya Rybakova
Arina Tsitsilina
Karyna Yarmolenka
Maria Arakaki
Vitoria Guerra[b]
Deborah Medrado[c]
Nicole Pircio
Beatriz Silva
Barbara Urquiza
Guo Qiqi
Hao Ting
Huang Zhangjiayang
Liu Xin
Xu Yanshu
Ines Bergua
Ana Gayán
Valeria Márquez
Mireia Martínez
Uma Mendez[c]
Patricia Pérez[b]
Laurabell Kabrits
Evelin Naptal
Arina Okamanchuk
Carmely Reiska
Alina Vesselova
Team  Finland (FIN)  France (FRA)  Great Britain (GBR)  Germany (GER)  Hungary (HUN)  India (IND)
MembersAssi Johansson[b]
Elisa Liinavuori
Milja Naerevaara
Emma Rantala
Viliina Sipilae[c]
Amanda Virkkunen
Emma Delaine
Manelle Inaho
Celia Joseph-Noel
Ashley Julien[b]
Eloise Marchon[c]
Lozea Vilarino
Emily Austin
Alida Bogdanova[c]
Rosina Cheale
Atanaska Kirilova
Isabella Mason-Iran
Phillipa Museva[b]
Viktoria Burjak
Nathalia Koehn
Daniella Kromm
Alina Oganesyan
Noemi Peschel
Julia Farkas[b]
Anita Fekete[c]
Nadin Fodor
Mandula Virag Meszaros
Reka Somhegyi
Monika Urban-Szabo
Vaibhavi Bapat
Nirja Chavan[c]
Aditee Dandekar
Angelica Fernandes[b]
Disha Nidre
Janhavi Vartak
Team  Italy (ITA)  Japan (JPN)  Kazakhstan (KAZ) RGF  Ukraine (UKR)  United States (USA)
MembersMartina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea
Rina Imaoka
Rinako Inaki
Rie Matsubara
Sayuri Sugimoto
Ayuka Suzuki
Milana Budnik[b]
Alina Chernyshova
Sagina Muratkyzy
Aislu Murzagaliyeva
Aidana Shayakhmetova[c]
Dayana Shayakhmetova
Anastasia Bliznyuk
Polina Orlova
Angelina Shkatova
Alisa Tishchenko
Maria Tolkacheva
Diana Baieva
Diana Dovganiuk
Daryna Duda
Alina Melnyk
Mariia Vysochanska
Camilla Feeley
Isabella Ivanova[b]
Nicole Khoma[c]
Gergana Petkova
Karolina Saverino
Emily Wilson

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All-Around

The top 8 scores in the apparatus qualifies to the group apparatus finals.

PlaceNation5 3 + 2 Total
RGF46.250 (1)42.100 (1)88.350
 Italy44.350 (4)41.650 (2)86.000
 Belarus44.900 (3)40.500 (3)85.400
4  Japan45.000 (2)39.900 (5)84.900
5  China42.250 (5)39.950 (4)82.200
6  Azerbaijan39.600 (6)38.000 (8)77.600
7  Germany38.050 (9)37.700 (9)75.750
8  Ukraine37.350 (11)38.350 (7)75.700
9  Brazil39.450 (7)36.000 (11)75.450
10  United States37.500 (10)36.600 (10)74.100
11  France38.600 (8)35.400 (12)74.000
12  Spain34.800 (12)39.150 (6)73.950
13  Estonia34.450 (13)34.550 (13)69.000
14  Hungary33.150 (14)33.250 (15)66.400
15  Finland29.800 (15)34.150 (14)63.950
16  Kazakhstan28.500 (16)29.950 (16)58.450
17  Great Britain27.200 (17)27.100 (17)54.300
18  India16.650 (18)13.450 (18)30.100

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5 Balls

RankNationE ScoreD ScorePen.Total
RGF8.60037.40046.000
 Italy8.70036.90045.600
 Japan8.20036.30044.500
4  Belarus7.60036.50044.100
5  China8.65033.80042.450
6  Azerbaijan7.05031.10038.050
7  Brazil7.45030.20037.650
8  France6.80029.10035.900

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3 Hoops + 4 Clubs

RankNationE ScoreD ScorePen.Total
 Italy8.57533.70042.275
RGF7.75033.20040.950
 Japan7.20033.70040.900
4  China8.55032.30040.850
5  Spain7.00031.900-0.0538.850
6  Azerbaijan7.05031.70038.750
7  Ukraine7.45031.10038.550
8  Belarus6.95030.20037.150

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Team

Combined Team Ranking

PlaceNation 5 3 + 2 Total
RGF55.00057.42556.40047.40046.25042.100304.575
 Italy49.75049.00050.90041.92544.35041.650277.575
 Belarus41.25050.97553.75044.50044.90040.500275.875
4  Ukraine48.50051.30051.70042.45037.35038.350269.650
5  Japan44.70050.10046.55041.87545.00039.900268.125
6  China42.80043.60044.20037.80042.25039.950250.600
7  Azerbaijan42.75043.75043.75036.42539.60038.000244.275
8  Brazil44.45045.90040.35037.70039.45036.000243.850
9  USA41.70044.70039.15039.15037.50036.600238.800
10  Spain38.85040.05043.90036.90034.80039.150233.650
11  Kazakhstan40.60046.15042.40037.30028.50029.950224.900

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Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1RGF74213
2  Italy1315
3  Belarus1247
4  Japan*0022
Totals (4 entries)99927

Notes

References