2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
Venue	Arena Armeec
Location	Sofia, Bulgaria
Start date	10 September 2018
End date	16 September 2018
Nations	61
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The 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, the 36th edition, were held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 10 September to 16 September 2018.^[1] Russia was the most successful nation of the competition with seven gold medals, and Bulgaria and Italy each won a title.

Participating nations[]

Medal winners[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team Competition
Team All-Around details	Russia Arina Averina Dina Averina Aleksandra Soldatova	Bulgaria Boryana Kaleyn Katrin Taseva Neviana Vladinova	Italy Alexandra Agiurgiuculese Milena Baldassarri Alessia Russo
Individual Finals
Hoop details	Dina Averina (RUS)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)	Arina Averina (RUS)
Ball details	Dina Averina (RUS)	Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese (ITA)
Clubs details	Dina Averina (RUS)	Katsiaryna Halkina (BLR)	Arina Averina (RUS)
Ribbon details	Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)	Milena Baldassarri (ITA)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)
All-Around details	Dina Averina (RUS)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)	Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)
Groups Finals
Group All-Around details	Russia Mariia Kravtsova Evgeniia Levanova Ksenia Poliakova Anastasia Shishmakova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva	Italy Anna Basta Martina Centofanti Letizia Cicconcelli Agnese Duranti Alessia Maurelli Martina Santandrea	Bulgaria Elena Bineva Simona Dyankova Stefani Kiryakova Madlen Radukanova Laura Traets
5 hoops details	Bulgaria Elena Bineva Simona Dyankova Stefani Kiryakova Madlen Radukanova Laura Traets	Japan Rie Matsubara Sakura Noshitani Sayuri Sugimoto Ayuka Suzuki Kiko Yokota	Italy Martina Centofanti Letizia Cicconcelli Agnese Duranti Alessia Maurelli Martina Santandrea
3 balls and 2 ropes details	Italy Anna Basta Martina Centofanti Agnese Duranti Alessia Maurelli Martina Santandrea	Russia Mariia Kravtsova Evgeniia Levanova Ksenia Poliakova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva	Ukraine Tetiana Dovzhenko Valeriya Khanina Diana Myzherytska Anastasiya Voznyak Valeriya Yuzviak

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	2	3	12
2	Italy	1	2	3	6
3	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
4	Israel	0	2	1	3
5	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
7	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		9	9	9	27

Individual medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Dina Averina	4	0	0	4
2	Aleksandra Soldatova	1	1	1	3
3	Linoy Ashram	0	2	1	3
4	Katsiaryna Halkina	0	1	0	1
	Milena Baldassarri	0	1	0	1
6	Arina Averina	0	0	2	2
7	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		5	5	5	15

• Individual Finals only

Individual[]

Individual Qualification[]

• The top 8 scores in individual apparatus qualifies to the apparatus finals and the top 24 in overall qualification scores advance to the all-around final.
• Only the 3 best results (bold) are counted in the total score
• Only the 2 highest ranking players from each country can qualify to each one of the finals.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation					Total
1	Dina Averina	Russia	20.150 (2)	20.150 (2)	20.500 (1)		60.800
2	Aleksandra Soldatova	Russia	20.125 (3)	20.250 (1)		19.900 (1)	60.275
3	Arina Averina	Russia	20.200 (1)	20.050 (3)	19.750 (2)	13.800 (49)	60.000
4	Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	19.850 (5)	18.800 (10)	19.350 (3)	17.950 (5)	58.000
5	Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	18.850 (8)	19.400 (4)	19.200 (4)	16.550 (13)	57.450
6	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	18.800 (9)	19.250 (6)	18.550 (6)	17.800 (6)	56.600
7	Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	18.700 (11)	19.000 (7)	18.750 (5)		56.450
8	Linoy Ashram	Israel	19.950 (4)	17.000 (24)	17.400 (15)	18.550 (2)	55.900
9	Nicol Zelikman	Israel	19.250 (6)	18.950 (8)	17.450 (14)	17.500 (9)	55.700
10	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	18.300 (14)	19.300 (5)	17.950 (10)	17.600 (7)	55.550
11	Laura Zeng	United States	18.650 (12)	18.500 (11)	18.200 (9)	16.650 (12)	55.350
12	Boryana Kaleyn	Bulgaria	19.050 (7)	17.700 (15)		18.025 (4)	54.775
13	Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	17.400 (23)	18.900 (9)	18.350 (8)	16.400 (15)	54.650
14	Kaho Minagawa	Japan	17.850 (18)	18.400 (12)	17.650 (12)	18.100 (3)	54.350
15	Anastasiia Salos	Belarus	17.250 (26)	17.550 (16)	17.850 (11)	17.500 (8)	52.900
16	Eleni Kelaiditi	Greece	17.600 (20)	18.150 (13)	17.050 (18)	16.050 (18)	52.800
17	Ekaterina Vedeneeva	Slovenia	18.750 (10)	17.450 (17)	16.100 (24)	16.450 (14)	52.650
18	Salome Pazhava	Georgia	16.450 (37)	16.700 (29)	18.400 (7)	13.650 (52)	51.550
19		Japan	17.400 (22)	17.300 (19)	16.800 (20)	16.850 (11)	51.550
20	Sabina Tashkenbaeva	Uzbekistan	17.100 (29)	17.100 (23)	17.250 (16)	16.250 (16)	51.450
21	Evita Griskenas	United States	17.300 (25)	16.200 (39)	16.500 (22)	17.025 (10)	50.825
22	Zohra Aghamirova	Azerbaijan	17.900 (17)	17.250 (20)	15.500 (32)	15.150 (29)	50.650
23	Kseniya Moustafaeva	France	18.250 (15)	16.250 (37)	15.950 (27)	15.350 (26)	50.450
24	Alina Adilkhanova	Kazakhstan	17.200 (27)	16.500 (32)	16.600 (21)	15.175 (28)	50.300
25	Yanika Vartlaan	Ukraine	17.375 (24)	16.900 (25)	15.550 (30)		49.825
26	Nicol Ruprecht	Austria	17.150 (28)	15.700 (51)	16.900 (19)	15.600 (23)	49.750
27		Azerbaijan	16.175 (42)	16.400 (33)	17.175 (17)		49.750
28		Ukraine	16.900 (32)	18.100 (14)		14.200 (41)	49.200
29		South Korea	15.650 (48)	15.700 (50)	17.575 (13)	14.975 (31)	48.925
30		South Korea	17.000 (30)	16.000 (42)	15.250 (35)	15.350 (27)	48.350
31	Rut Castillo Galindo	Mexico	16.450 (36)	15.700 (52)	16.100 (23)	13.100 (60)	48.250
32	Adilya Tlekenova	Kazakhstan	16.800 (33)	16.550 (31)	14.400 (48)	14.400 (39)	47.750
33	Katherine Uchida	Canada	16.150 (43)	16.700 (28)		14.900 (32)	47.750
34	Rebecca Gergalo	Finland	16.700 (34)	15.025 (64)	16.000 (25)	14.100 (44)	47.725
35	Natalia Koziol	Poland	15.550 (50)	15.975 (44)	16.000 (26)	14.900 (33)	47.525
36	Nurinisso Usmanova	Uzbekistan	15.925 (46)	16.000 (43)	15.600 (29)	13.900 (45)	47.525
37	Polina Berezina	Spain	15.550 (51)	16.600 (30)	14.850 (43)	15.350 (25)	47.500
38	Denisa Mailat	Romania	15.600 (49)	16.150 (40)	14.350 (49)	15.650 (22)	47.400
39	Zhao Yating	China	14.650 (69)	16.300 (36)	15.000 (40)	15.850 (19)	47.150
40		Estonia	15.375 (53)	15.725 (49)	15.000 (39)	15.850 (20)	46.950
41	Aleksandra Podgoršek	Slovenia	15.100 (61)	14.150 (83)	15.400 (34)	16.200 (17)	46.700
42		Poland	15.900 (47)	14.675 (71)	12.875 (72)	15.750 (21)	46.325
43	Shang Rong	China	16.350 (39)	15.200 (63)	13.700 (60)	14.650 (36)	46.200
44		North Korea	14.900 (63)	16.300 (35)	15.000 (38)	12.950 (63)	46.200
45		Canada	14.850 (65)	15.850 (57)	15.450 (33)	14.700 (34)	46.150
46	Jouki Tikkanen	Finland	16.000 (45)	16.200 (38)	13.900 (58)	13.650 (53)	46.100
47		Canada	16.500 (35)	15.450 (56)	14.050 (55)		46.000
48	Natalia Gaudio	Brazil	14.850 (65)	15.400 (57)	13.950 (57)	15.600 (24)	45.550
49		Czech Republic	13.450 (94)	16.400 (34)	15.625 (28)	12.950 (64)	45.475
50	Karla Diaz	Mexico	14.800 (67)	15.850 (46)		14.650 (35)	45.300
51	Andreea Verdes	Romania	14.700 (68)	15.850 (57)	15.550 (31)	13.425 (55)	45.000
52		Portugal	15.300 (55)	14.900 (66)	14.150 (42)	14.700 (34)	44.950
53		Turkey	14.300 (79)	15.300 (59)	15.200 (37)	12.900 (65)	44.800
54	Barbara Domingos	Brazil	15.250 (56)	14.200 (82)	15.250 (36)	13.850 (47)	44.700
55		Portugal	15.150 (58)	14.850 (68)	13.750 (59)	14.450 (38)	44.450
56		Moldova	16.200 (41)	14.600 (74)	12.500 (76)	13.600 (54)	44.400
57		Armenia	14.600 (72)	14.600 (73)	14.950 (41)	14.300 (40)	44.150
58	Fanni Pigniczki	Hungary	15.350 (54)	14.900 (67)	10.550 (96)	13.825 (48)	44.075
59	Habiba Marzouk	Egypt	14.900 (64)	14.450 (78)	14.700 (45)		44.050
60		Hungary	13.700 (89)	15.000 (65)	14.900 (42)	13.800 (50)	43.700
61	Mariam Selim	Egypt	13.700 (90)	15.250 (60)	14.700 (46)		43.650
62		Spain	13.250 (97)	16.750 (27)	13.550 (64)	12.100 (73)	43.550
63		Estonia	10.700 (134)	15.350 (58)	14.700 (47)	13.400 (56)	43.450
64	Darya Sorokina	Azerbaijan	15.500 (52)	15.800 (48)		11.800 (78)	43.100
65	Laura Halford	United Kingdom	14.850 (66)	13.100 (100)	13.050 (69)	15.150 (30)	43.100
66		Turkey	16.400 (38)	14.400 (79)	12.200 (82)	12.050 (74)	43.000
67		Malaysia	12.900 (104)	15.600 (55)	14.150 (52)		42.650
68		Mexico	15.250 (56)	12.800 (105)	14.300 (50)		42.350
69		Puerto Rico	14.150 (83)	14.475 (76)	9.250 (104)	13.700 (51)	42.325
70		Germany	15.050 (62)	14.450 (77)	12.500 (77)	12.400 (71)	42.000
71		Slovakia	14.400 (77)	13.650 (90)	12.600 (75)	13.850 (46)	41.900
72		Norway	14.250 (81)	14.300 (81)		13.250 (59)	41.800
73	Kwan Dict Weng	Malaysia	14.450 (74)	13.750 (88)	13.100 (68)	12.400 (70)	41.300
74		United Kingdom	14.650 (70)	13.350 (95)		13.300 (58)	41.300
75		Puerto Rico	13.900 (86)	13.950 (86)	13.000 (70)	13.300 (57)	41.150
76	Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva	Australia	13.100 (101)	13.750 (87)	14.100 (54)	12.850 (66)	40.950
77	Anna-Marie Ondaatje	Sri Lanka	14.275 (80)	13.400 (94)	12.900 (71)	11.150 (83)	40.575
78		Lebanon	13.750 (87)	13.100 (99)	13.600 (62)	11.600 (79)	40.450
79		Latvia	12.500 (110)	13.650 (91)	14.150 (53)	12.500 (68)	40.300
80	Julia Stavickaja	Germany	14.250 (82)	11.500 (122)	11.900 (85)	14.100 (43)	40.250
81		Serbia	11.850 (120)	13.550 (93)	13.600 (63)	13.000 (62)	40.150
82		Norway	13.650 (91)	12.600 (109)	13.100 (67)	13.075 (61)	39.825
83		Australia	13.275 (96)	13.550 (92)	12.000 (83)	12.775 (67)	39.600
84	Sie Yan Koi	Malaysia	12.400 (113)	14.650 (72)		11.800 (76)	38.850
85		Lithuania	14.050 (84)	12.700 (107)		11.950 (75)	38.700
86		Norway	13.000 (102)	12.000 (115)	13.450 (65)		38.450
87		Armenia	13.175 (98)	12.700 (108)	11.800 (87)	12.500 (69)	38.375
88		United Kingdom	13.750 (88)	10.800 (136)	13.650 (61)		38.200
89		Serbia	12.350 (114)	11.500 (124)	14.250 (51)	9.450 (95)	38.100
90		Lithuania	14.350 (78)	11.550 (120)	11.850 (86)	11.800 (77)	38.000

Hoop[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Total
	Dina Averina	Russia	11.700	9.150		20.850
	Linoy Ashram	Israel	11.400	8.600		20.000
	Arina Averina	Russia	10.700	9.000		19.700
4	Boryana Kaleyn	Bulgaria	11.100	8.500		19.600
5	Nicol Zelikman	Israel	11.000	8.500		19.500
6	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	10.600	8.450		19.050
7	Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	10.200	8.150		18.350
8	Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	10.200	7.450	-0.600	17.050

Ball[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Total
	Dina Averina	Russia	11.200	9.100		20.300
	Aleksandra Soldatova	Russia	11.000	9.200		20.200
	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	11.200	8.700		19.900
4	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	11.000	8.500		19.500
5	Nicol Zelikman	Israel	11.000	8.400		19.400
6	Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	10.800	8.400		19.200
7	Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	10.700	8.400		19.100
8	Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	9.900	7.700		17.600

Clubs[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Total
	Dina Averina	Russia	10.800	8.250	-0.050	19.000
	Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	10.000	8.900		18.900
	Arina Averina	Russia	10.700	8.150		18.850
4	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	10.600	7.700		18.300
5	Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	10.300	7.800		18.100
6	Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	9.700	7.950		17.650
7	Salome Pazhava	Georgia	9.300	8.100		17.400
8	Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	9.700	7.500		17.200

Ribbon[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Total
	Aleksandra Soldatova	Russia	9.300	9.300		18.600
	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	9.900	8.650		18.550
	Linoy Ashram	Israel	9.700	8.800		18.500
4	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	8.650	8.800		17.450
5	Anastasiia Salos	Belarus	8.800	8.400		17.200
6	Boryana Kaleyn	Bulgaria	8.900	8.200		17.100
7	Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	8.600	7.450		16.050
8	Kaho Minagawa	Japan	6.300	5.000	-0.700	10.600

All-Around[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation					Total
	Dina Averina	Russia	21.000	20.650	20.800	19.000	81.450
	Linoy Ashram	Israel	20.400	19.750	20.650	18.900	79.700
	Aleksandra Soldatova	Russia	21.275	20.400	20.450	17.050	79.175
4	Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	19.150	19.150	19.350	16.900	74.550
5	Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	18.200	18.900	18.675	18.500	74.275
6	Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	18.800	19.700	17.600	17.850	73.950
7	Milena Baldassarri	Italy	19.200	17.800	18.150	18.250	73.400
8	Laura Zeng	United States	19.450	18.400	18.050	17.450	73.350
9	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	17.950	19.650	18.325	17.300	73.225
10	Anastasiia Salos	Belarus	19.050	18.400	18.200	16.650	72.300
11	Nicol Zelikman	Israel	17.275	18.500	18.950	17.100	71.825
12	Kaho Minagawa	Japan	18.450	18.300	17.250	16.950	70.950
13	Ekaterina Vedeneeva	Slovenia	18.250	17.800	17.550	16.700	70.300
14	Eleni Kelaiditi	Greece	18.000	18.250	18.400	15.300	69.950
15	Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	19.350	18.500	14.900	16.600	69.350
16	Sabina Tashkenbaeva	Uzbekistan	17.000	17.400	17.150	16.250	67.800
17	Evita Griskenas	United States	16.300	16.800	17.300	16.550	66.950
18	Kseniya Moustafaeva	France	17.900	15.300	17.000	16.650	66.850
19	Alina Adilkhanova	Kazakhstan	16.975	16.700	16.200	16.300	66.175
20	Nicol Ruprecht	Austria	17.200	16.800	16.250	15.450	65.700
21	Salome Pazhava	Georgia	18.050	15.050	17.450	14.850	65.400
22	Yanika Vartlaan	Ukraine	17.700	17.000	15.100	13.900	63.700
23	Chisaki Oiwa	Japan	14.200	17.200	17.250	14.800	63.450
24	Zohra Aghamirova	Azerbaijan	16.650	16.600	14.500	15.650	63.400

Groups[]

Group All-Around[]

The top 8 scores in the apparatus qualifies to the group apparatus finals and the top 8 in overall qualification scores advance to the group all-around final. The top 24 groups in the All-Around qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Baku. The top 3 groups in the All-Around automatically qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Place	Nation	5	2 + 3	Total
	Russia	23.250 (1)	23.050 (1)	46.300
	Italy	22.775 (2)	22.050 (3)	44.825
	Bulgaria	19.700 (6)	22.350 (2)	42.050
4	Ukraine	19.900 (4)	21.250 (4)	41.150
5	Japan	19.750 (5)	20.900 (5)	40.650
6	Belarus	20.000 (3)	19.200 (7)	39.200
7	Azerbaijan	19.200 (7)	19.900 (6)	39.100
8	France	18.700 (8)	18.350 (12)	37.050
9	Mexico	18.300 (11)	18.650 (9)	36.950
10	Finland	18.650 (9)	18.100 (15)	36.750
11	China	17.550 (15)	18.550 (10)	36.100
12	Germany	18.550 (10)	17.450 (16)	36.000
13	Estonia	17.600 (14)	18.275 (13)	35.875
14	United States	17.300 (19)	18.500 (11)	35.800
15	Israel	17.550 (17)	18.100 (14)	35.650
16	Poland	18.100 (12)	16.800 (20)	34.900
17	Uzbekistan	17.500 (18)	17.200 (17)	34.700
18	Brazil	16.800 (21)	16.975 (18)	33.775
19	Hungary	18.000 (13)	15.700 (22)	33.700
20	Spain	14.450 (29)	19.150 (8)	33.600
21	North Korea	17.550 (16)	15.450 (24)	33.000
22	Greece	17.300 (20)	15.000 (27)	32.300
23	Canada	16.700 (22)	15.550 (23)	32.250
24	Kazakhstan	15.050 (26)	16.800 (19)	31.850
25	Switzerland	15.350 (24)	16.200 (21)	31.550
26	Egypt	15.450 (23)	15.050 (26)	30.500
27	Slovenia	14.500 (28)	14.650 (29)	29.150
28	Czech Republic	14.000 (30)	15.150 (25)	29.150
29	Australia	14.725 (27)	14.200 (30)	28.925
30	Turkey	15.250 (25)	13.650 (32)	28.900
31	South Korea	13.850 (31)	14.775 (28)	28.625
32	Austria	13.400 (32)	13.850 (31)	27.250
33	Georgia	10.700 (34)	11.900 (33)	22.600
34	New Zealand	11.700 (33)	10.150 (35)	21.850
35	Serbia	10.200 (35)	11.550 (34)	21.750
36	India	8.000 (36)	8.450 (36)	16.450

5 Hoops[]

Source:^[2]

Rank	Nation	E Score	D Score	Pen.	Total
	Bulgaria	8.600	14.700		23.300
	Japan	8.200	14.600		22.800
	Italy	8.450	14.100		22.550
4	Russia	6.825	13.500		20.325
5	Azerbaijan	6.700	13.400		20.100
6	France	7.500	12.200		19.700
7	Ukraine	7.000	12.800	-0.30	19.500
8	Belarus	6.500	12.400	-0.30	18.600

3 Balls + 2 Ropes[]

Source:^[3]

Rank	Nation	E Score	D Score	Pen.	Total
	Italy	8.750	13.800		22.550
	Russia	8.500	13.700		22.200
	Ukraine	7.800	13.600		21.400
4	Japan	8.150	13.200		21.350
5	Belarus	7.750	13.200		20.950
6	Bulgaria	7.350	13.400		20.750
7	Azerbaijan	7.600	12.800		20.400
8	Spain	7.400	12.400		19.800

References[]

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