1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Host City	Moskva
Country	URS
Held	22 – 29 November 1981
Competitors	43
Countries	8

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	9	6	5	20
2	East Germany	GDR	5	0	2	7
3	China	CHN	2	4	2	8
4	Japan	JPN	1	1	3	5
5	Germany	GER	0	1	0	1
6	United States	USA	0	0	2	2
7	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	1	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Individual All-Around, Men	Yury Korolyov	URS	Bohdan Makuts	URS	Koji Gushiken	JPN
Floor Exercise, Men	Yury Korolyov Li Yuejiu	URS CHN			Koji Gushiken	JPN
Vault, Men	Ralf-Peter Hemmann	GDR	Artur Akopyan	URS	Bohdan Makuts	URS
Parallel Bars, Men	Koji Gushiken Aleksandr Dityatin	JPN URS			Nobuyuki Kajitani	JPN
Horizontal Bar, Men	Aleksandr Tkachov	URS	Artur Akopyan Eberhard Gienger	URS GER
Rings, Men	Aleksandr Dityatin	URS	Huang Yubin	CHN	Bohdan Makuts	URS
Pommelled Horse, Men	Michael Nikolay Li Xiaoping	GDR CHN			György Guczoghy Yury Korolyov	HUN URS
Team All-Around, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Japan	JPN	China	CHN
Individual All-Around, Women	Olga Bicherova	URS	Mariya Filatova	URS	Yelena Davydova	URS
Floor Exercise, Women	Nataliya Ilyenko	URS	Yelena Davydova	URS	Zoja Grancharova	BUL
Vault, Women	Maxi Gnauck	GDR	Stella Zakharova	URS	Steffi Kräker	GDR
Uneven Bars, Women	Maxi Gnauck	GDR	Ma Yanhong	CHN	Yelena Davydova Julianne McNamara	URS USA
Balance Beam, Women	Maxi Gnauck	GDR	Chen Yongyan	CHN	Tracee Talavera Wu Jiani	USA CHN
Team All-Around, Women	Soviet Union	URS	China	CHN	East Germany	GDR