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2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

36th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships

Arena Armeec
Sofia, Bulgaria
10 September 2018
16 September 2018
362 from 61 nations

The 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 10 to 16 September 2018 at Arena Armeec. The top three countries in the group all-around, Russia, Italy, and Bulgaria won the first three spots for the 2020 Olympic Games. Russia was the most successful nation of the competition with seven of the nine gold medals, and Bulgaria and Italy each won a title.

On 11 September, Russia's Dina Averina won the first two gold medals of the competition, in the hoop and ball event finals. In the hoop final, Linoy Ashram won the silver medal, the best-ever result for Israel at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, and in the ball final, Alexandra Agiurgiuculese won Italy's first individual medal in twenty-seven years. Then on 13 September, Averina won the clubs gold medal, and Aleksandra Soldatova won the ribbon gold medal. Milena Baldassarri won the silver medal in the ribbon final, the best-ever result for Italy in the individual events of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. In the team final, Russia won the gold medal, Bulgaria won a team medal for the first time since 2001 with the silver, and Italy won its first-ever team medal with the bronze. On 14 September, Averina defended her World all-around title ahead of Ashram and Soldatova. Russia won the gold medal in the group all-around, ahead of Italy and Bulgaria. In the group event finals, Bulgaria won gold in 5 hoops, and Italy won gold in 3 balls + 2 ropes.

Participants	Nations
Belarus Egypt Spain South Korea
Austria Azerbaijan Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Estonia Finland Hungary Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Mexico Poland Russia Slovenia Serbia Ukraine United States Uzbekistan
Australia Czech Republic Germany India Turkey
France Georgia Greece New Zealand North Korea
Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina Lithuania South Africa
Andorra Armenia Belgium Croatia Great Britain Latvia Malaysia Norway Portugal Romania Slovakia
Chile Denmark Kyrgyzstan Moldova Puerto Rico San Marino Thailand
Cyprus Lebanon Montenegro Sri Lanka

Event	Gold	Silver
Team Competition
Russia
Arina Averina
Dina Averina
Aleksandra Soldatova	Bulgaria
Boryana Kaleyn
Katrin Taseva
Neviana Vladinova	Italy
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese
Milena Baldassarri
Alessia Russo
Individual Finals
Dina Averina (RUS)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)	Arina Averina (RUS)
Dina Averina (RUS)	Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)	Alexandra Agiurgiuculese (ITA)
Dina Averina (RUS)	Katsiaryna Halkina (BLR)	Arina Averina (RUS)
Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)	Milena Baldassarri (ITA)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)
Dina Averina (RUS)	Linoy Ashram (ISR)	Aleksandra Soldatova (RUS)
Groups Finals
Russia Mariia KravtsovaEvgeniia LevanovaKsenia PoliakovaAnastasia ShishmakovaAnastasiia TatarevaMaria Tolkacheva	Italy Anna BastaMartina CentofantiLetizia CicconcelliAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliMartina Santandrea	Bulgaria Elena BinevaSimona DyankovaStefani KiryakovaMadlen RadukanovaLaura Traets
Bulgaria Elena BinevaSimona DyankovaStefani KiryakovaMadlen RadukanovaLaura Traets	Japan Rie MatsubaraSakura NoshitaniSayuri SugimotoAyuka SuzukiKiko Yokota	Italy Anna Basta*Martina CentofantiLetizia CicconcelliAgnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliMartina Santandrea
Italy Anna BastaMartina CentofantiLetizia Cicconcelli*Agnese DurantiAlessia MaurelliMartina Santandrea	Russia Mariia KravtsovaEvgeniia LevanovaKsenia PoliakovaAnastasia Shishmakova*Anastasiia TatarevaMaria Tolkacheva	Ukraine Alina Bykhno*Tetiana DovzhenkoValeriya KhaninaDiana MyzherytskaAnastasiya VoznyakValeriya Yuzviak

reserve gymnast

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	7	2	3	12
2	1	2	3	6
3	1	1	1	3
4	0	2	1	3
5	0	1	0	1
0	1	0	1
7	0	0	1	1
9	9	9	27

Individual Finals only

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	4	0	0	4
2	1	1	1	3
3	0	2	1	3
4	0	1	0	1
0	1	0	1
6	0	0	2	2
7	0	0	1	1
5	5	5	15

The team event took in account the individual qualification results.

Rank	Nation
Russia	60.475	60.450	40.250	33.700	161.325
Bulgaria	56.600	56.100	37.950	34.675	150.975
Italy	54.000	54.500	36.500	35.400	147.550
Israel	57.350	53.150	34.850	36.050	147.200
Ukraine	54.125	53.800	34.900	32.150	145.225
Belarus	53.300	53.800	36.200	33.900	143.550
United States	53.450	51.800	34.700	33.675	140.925
Japan	48.200	49.750	34.450	34.950	140.350
Azerbaijan	49.575	49.450	32.675	26.950	131.700
Uzbekistan	44.625	48.300	32.850	30.150	130.425
Slovenia	45.550	42.600	31.500	32.650	129.600
Kazakhstan	50.000	47.725	31.000	29.575	129.500
South Korea	47.750	47.350	32.825	30.325	128.175
China	48.850	48.250	28.700	30.500	127.950
Canada	47.500	48.000	29.500	29.600	125.850
Poland	46.600	46.350	28.875	30.650	124.925
Spain	43.400	49.350	28.400	27.450	123.250
Mexico	46.500	44.350	30.400	27.750	123.100
Finland	46.050	43.725	29.900	27.750	121.575
Estonia	40.125	46.325	29.700	29.250	121.300
Romania	42.350	43.700	29.900	29.075	120.175
Hungary	45.400	44.450	25.450	27.625	118.675
Brazil	44.250	43.550	29.200	29.450	118.650
Portugal	43.550	42.850	28.500	28.600	117.300
Egypt	43.000	42.050	29.400	23.950	116.600
Austria	42.500	38.900	29.300	25.950	114.900
Great Britain	43.250	37.250	26.700	28.450	111.800
Malaysia	39.750	44.000	27.250	24.200	111.000
Armenia	38.925	40.600	26.750	26.800	110.125
Norway	40.900	38.900	26.550	26.325	108.075
Lithuania	39.900	38.600	24.200	23.750	103.400
Slovakia	36.750	37.300	24.150	22.050	102.500
Serbia	35.750	37.200	27.850	22.50	102.300
Belgium	35.900	33.050	26.100	21.700	97.500
Croatia	30.800	34.400	24.300	21.350	91.350
South Africa	32.700	33.350	21.300	16.500	87.700
Andorra	29.500	28.100	19.650	20.400	81.350
Bosnia and Herzegovina	30.650	28.600	16.100	14.600	75.600

The top eight scores in individual apparatus qualified for the apparatus finals, and the top twenty-four total scores advanced to the all-around final.
Only the three best results (bold) are counted in the total score
Only the two highest ranking gymnasts from each country can qualify to each one of the finals.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}D Score	E Score	Pen.
Dina Averina	Russia	11.700	9.150	0,010	20.850
Linoy Ashram	Israel	11.400	8.600		20.000
Arina Averina	Russia	10.700	9.000		19.700
Boryana Kaleyn	Bulgaria	11.100	8.500		19.600
Nicol Zelikman	Israel	11.000	8.500		19.500
Milena Baldassarri	Italy	10.600	8.450		19.050
Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	10.200	8.150		18.350
Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	10.200	7.450	-0.600	17.050

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	Pen.
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
Milena Baldassarri	Italy	11.000	8.500	19.500
Nicol Zelikman	Israel	11.000	8.400	19.400
Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	10.800	8.400	19.200
Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	10.700	8.400	19.100
Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	9.900	7.700	17.600

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.
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
Milena Baldassarri	Italy	10.600	7.700		18.300
Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	10.300	7.800		18.100
Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	9.700	7.950		17.650
Salome Pazhava	Georgia	9.300	8.100		17.400
Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	9.700	7.500		17.200

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	D Score	E Score	Pen.
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
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	8.650	8.800		17.450
Anastasiia Salos	Belarus	8.800	8.400		17.200
Boryana Kaleyn	Bulgaria	8.900	8.200		17.100
Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	8.600	7.450		16.050
Kaho Minagawa	Japan	6.300	5.000	-0.700	10.600

Rank	Gymnast	Nation
Dina Averina	Russia	21.000 (2)	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 (1)	20.400	20.450	17.050	79.175
Vlada Nikolchenko	Ukraine	19.150	19.150	19.350	16.900	74.550
Katsiaryna Halkina	Belarus	18.200	18.900	18.675	18.500	74.275
Katrin Taseva	Bulgaria	18.800	19.700	17.600	17.850	73.950
Milena Baldassarri	Italy	19.200	17.800	18.150	18.250	73.400
Laura Zeng	United States	19.450	18.400	18.050	17.450	73.350
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese	Italy	17.950	19.650	18.325	17.300	73.225
Anastasiia Salos	Belarus	19.050	18.400	18.200	16.650	72.300
Nicol Zelikman	Israel	17.275	18.500	18.950	17.100	71.825
Kaho Minagawa	Japan	18.450	18.300	17.250	16.950	70.950
Ekaterina Vedeneeva	Slovenia	18.250	17.800	17.550	16.700	70.300
Eleni Kelaiditi	Greece	18.000	18.250	18.400	15.300	69.950
Neviana Vladinova	Bulgaria	19.350	18.500	14.900	16.600	69.350
Sabina Tashkenbaeva	Uzbekistan	17.000	17.400	17.150	16.250	67.800
Evita Griskenas	United States	16.300	16.800	17.300	16.550	66.950
Kseniya Moustafaeva	France	17.900	15.300	17.000	16.650	66.850
Alina Adilkhanova	Kazakhstan	16.975	16.700	16.200	16.300	66.175
Nicol Ruprecht	Austria	17.200	16.800	16.250	15.450	65.700
Salome Pazhava	Georgia	18.050	15.050	17.450	14.850	65.400
Yanika Vartlaan	Ukraine	17.700	17.000	15.100	13.900	63.700
Chisaki Oiwa	Japan	14.200	17.200	17.250	14.800	63.450
Zohra Aghamirova	Azerbaijan	16.650	16.600	14.500	15.650	63.400

Team
Alannah Mathews Himeka OnodaNikita RosendahlAlexandra TeixeiraFelicity White	Franziska HerzogLisa HofmannFlorentina MarchartLeona MarchartRomana Nagler	Ayshan BayramovaDiana DomanZeynab HummatovaAliya PashayevaSiyana Vasileva	Hanna HaidukevichLalita MatskevichDziyana MisiuchenkaAnastasiya RybakovaHanna Shvaiba	Vitoria GuerraJessica MaierGabrielle MoraesNicole PircioKarine WalterGabriela Ribeiro	Elena BinevaSimona DyankovaStefani KiryakovaMadlen RadukanovaLaura Traets
Canada (CAN)	China (CHN)	Czech Republic (CZE)	Egypt (EGY)	Spain (ESP)	Estonia (EST)
Elizabet Belittchenko Vanessa PanovAnastasia ShankoAlexandra UdachinaAlexandra Zilyuk	Ding ZiyiHu YuhuiHuang ZhangjiayangLiu XinXu Yanshu	Gabriela FiedlerovaAndrea KozovaDaniela NemeckovaDaniela PeslovaAdela PlchovaJohana Marie Vondrakova	Sara AhmedNadine AzizMalak HusseinFarida KafafiNour MazarMarla Philips	Monica AlonsoVictoria CuadrilleroClara EsquerdoAna GayánAlba PoloSara Salarrullana	Helena JaeeVisilina KuksovaCarmely ReiskaMaria SusiLera TeinoMaria Trofimov
Finland (FIN)	France (FRA)	Georgia (GEO)	Germany (GER)	Greece (GRE)	Hungary (HUN)
Elisa Liinavuori Milja NaerevaaraAda OikariEmma RantalaJuulia VainioAmanda Virkkunen	Danae Collard Helene Deconninck Iliona Prioux Astrid Rabette Elisabeth Rachid Chloe Sivadier	Natela Bolataeva Irina Kakabadze Tamar Kheladze Mariam Kupunia Natalia Tabagari Salome Urushadze	Viktoria Burjak Daniela Huber Nathalie Koehn Anni Qu Alexandra Tikhonovich Sina Tkaltschewitsch	Chrysanthi Athanasakopoulou Myrto Athanasoulaki Chrysi Moutafi Zoi Ntitsiou Avra Ntouro Ioanna Anna Tziatzia	Zsofia Arkai Patricia Borsanyi Cintia Vivien Foeldi Jazmin Kovacs Virag Nemeth Vivien Wehovszky
India (IND)	Israel (ISR)	Italy (ITA)	Japan (JPN)	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	South Korea (KOR)
Nirja ChavanDivya DaveRadhika DharapDisha NidreJanhavi Vartak	Shai Ben Ruby Ofir Dayan Natalie Raits Bar Shapochnikov Eli Toledo Karin Vexman	Anna Basta Martina Centofanti Letizia Cicconcelli Agnese Duranti Alessia Maurelli Martina Santandrea	Rie Matsubara Sakura Noshitani Sayuri Sugimoto Ayuka Suzuki Kiko Yokota	Jessika Budnik Zhanerke Dauletkulova Aiza Rustamkyzy Regina Sultanova Anel Talgatbek Dayana Zhakupova	Baek Sujin Hwang Seoyoung Kim Chaeyul Kim Min Kim Minju Yang Hyun-jin
Mexico (MEX)	New Zealand (NZL)	POL (POL)	North Korea (PRK)	Russia (RUS)	Slovenia (SLO)
Mildred MaldonadoMarcela QuijanoSara RuizBrittany SainzKaren Villanueva	Paige Grant Huggett Izabella Jurlina Hannah Kelly Fleur Lyons Katherine Paton Abbey Retter	Julia Chochol Alicja Guja Aleksandra Majewska Agata Malisiewicz Michalina Nicpon Aleksandra Wlazlak	Kang Jin-a Pak Un-gyong Ri Hye-song Ryang Yong-mi Sim Ye-gyong Sin Su-rim	Mariia Kravtsova Evgeniia Levanova Ksenia Poliakova Anastasia Shishmakova Anastasiia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva	Masa Bizjak Zoja Marija Ivancic Ana Kragulj Sara Kragulj Neža Kopitar Lara Nemes
Serbia (SRB)	Switzerland (SUI)	Turkey (TUR)	Ukraine (UKR)	United States (USA)	Uzbekistan (UZB)
Iva AndricTeodora JakovljevicLana RadovicUna RadovicMarija StefanovicNada Vlahovic	Tania Cardinale Gina Duenser Jasmin Frieden Tamara Stanisic Julia Wymann	Duygu Dogan Basak Nida Karaevli Aleksandra Mitrovich Emiliya Radicheva Ipek Vardar	Alina Bykhno Tetiana Dovzhenko Valeriya Khanina Diana Myzherytska Anastasiya Voznyak Valeriya Yuzviak	Daria Baltovick Isabelle Connor Ugne Dragunas Connie Du Elizaveta Pletneva Nicole Sladkov	Kseniia Aleksandrova Kamola Irnazarova Safiyabonu Kasimova Sinara Ravshanbekova Sevara Safoeva Nilufar Shomuradova

The top eight scores in each apparatus qualified for the group apparatus finals. The top twenty-four groups in the all-around qualified for the 2019 World Championships in Baku, and the top three groups automatically qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games.

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

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

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

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