1905 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 2nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Bordeaux, France, in conjunction with the 31st Federal Festival of France, on April 22–23, 1905.

The championships consisted at the time only of a team event. The individual all-round scores were introduced in 1922. Individual apparatus scores were recognised subsequently retrospectively. As such no actual individual medals were awarded at these games, the below rankings were conferred retrospectively.

Conversely, contemporaneous, detailed coverage – beyond merely team totals – of select World Championships prior to World War I exists both in the pages of “Slovenski Sokol” magazine (via the Digital Library of Slovenia) and in reproductions of apparently original and contemporaneous Czech source materials (via Gymnastics-History.com) for both the 3rd (1907) and 6th (1913){{cite news|editor-last=Murnik |editor-first=Viktor (Dr.) |title=Slovenci na mednarodni tekmi v Parizu |trans-title=Slovenians at an international competition in Paris

An article published in the 10 June 2024 issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport (a peer-reviewed journal) claimed that the BFEG’s (the FIG’s predecessor) archives from before 1950 appear to have been lost.{{cite web |last1=Vonnard |first1=Philippe |last2=Mayencourt |first2=Gil |title=Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–1913