1991 Indianapolis World Championships

1991 Indianapolis World Championships
City	Indianapolis, USA
Venue	Hoosier Dome
Team Gold Medalist	USSR Svetlana Boginskaya Tatiana Gutsu Tatiana Lysenko Oksana Chusovitina Roza Galiyeva Natalia Kalinina
All-Around Gold Medalist	Kim Zmeskal (USA)
Vault Gold Medalist	Lavinia Miloşovici (ROU)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Kim Gwang-Suk (PRK)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Svetlana Boginskaya (USSR)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Cristina Bontaş (ROU) Oksana Chusovitina (USSR)
Preceded by	1989 Stuttgart World Championships
Succeeded by	1992 Paris World Championships

The 26th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Indianapolis, USA, in the Hoosier Dome, September 6 to 15, 1991. These World Championships also served as qualifications to the 1992 Olympics.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Only the five highest scores earned by team members on each apparatus during each round were used to determined the overall team total. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was determined by adding the scores earned by him or her on each of the six apparatuses in the men's competition and each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast determined solely by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	USSR Svetlana Boginskaya Tatiana Gutsu Tatiana Lysenko Oksana Chusovitina Roza Galiyeva Natalia Kalinina	USA Shannon Miller Kim Zmeskal Betty Okino Kerri Strug Michelle Campi Hilary Grivich	Romania Cristina Bontaş Mirela Paşca Lavinia Miloşovici Vanda Hădărean Maria Neculiţă Eugenia Popa
All-Around	Kim Zmeskal United States of America (USA)	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Cristina Bontaş Romania (ROU)
Vault	Lavinia Miloşovici Romania (ROU)	Henrietta Ónodi Hungary (HUN) Oksana Chusovitina Soviet Union (USSR)	N/A
Uneven Bars	Kim Gwang-Suk North Korea (PRK)	Shannon Miller United States of America (USA)	Tatiana Gutsu Soviet Union (USSR)
Balance Beam	Svetlana Boginskaya Soviet Union (USSR)	Tatiana Gutsu Soviet Union (USSR)	Betty Okino United States of America (USA) Lavinia Miloşovici Romania (ROU)
Floor Exercise	Cristina Bontaş Romania (ROU) Oksana Chusovitina Soviet Union (USSR)	N/A	Kim Zmeskal United States of America (USA)

Notable Moments

• Kim Zmeskal became the first American to win the World All-Around title.
• Kim Gwang-Suk scored the last perfect ten in World Championship history, during the uneven bars event final.

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	USSR	2	4	1	7
2	Romania	2	0	3	5
3	USA	1	2	2	5
4	North Korea	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary	0	1	0	1