1988 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships

Host City	Antwerpen
Country	BEL
Held	1 – 4 December 1988
Competitors	61
Countries	8

Events

Event	Gender	Held	Status	Competitors	Countries
Pair All-Around	Men	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Balance	Men	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Dynamic	Men	—	Medal	6	3
Group All-Around	Men	—	Medal	12	3
Group Balance	Men	—	Medal	12	3
Group Dynamic	Men	—	Medal	12	3
Tumbling Overall	Men	—	Medal	3	3
Tumbling Straight Somersault	Men	—	Medal	3	3
Tumbling Twist	Men	—	Medal	3	3
Pair All-Around	Women	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Balance	Women	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Dynamic	Women	—	Medal	6	3
Group All-Around	Women	—	Medal	9	3
Group Balance	Women	—	Medal	9	3
Group Dynamic	Women	—	Medal	9	3
Tumbling Overall	Women	—	Medal	3	3
Tumbling Straight Somersault	Women	—	Medal	3	3
Tumbling Twist	Women	—	Medal	3	3
Pair All-Around	Mixed	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Balance	Mixed	—	Medal	6	3
Pair Dynamic	Mixed	—	Medal	6	3

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	BUL	12	1	3	16
2	Soviet Union	URS	10	4	2	16
3	China	CHN	8	4	9	21
4	Poland	POL	0	2	0	2
5	United States	USA	0	1	2	3
6	Germany	GER	0	0	2	2
=	Great Britain	GBR	0	0	2	2
8	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Pair All-Around, Men	Sergey Chizhevsky / Valery Lyapunov	URS	Chen Yun / Chen Baohuang	CHN	Rumen Lachkov / Nedelcho Nedelchev	BUL
Pair Balance, Men	Chen Yun / Chen Baohuang Sergey Chizhevsky / Valery Lyapunov	CHN URS			Rumen Lachkov / Nedelcho Nedelchev	BUL
Pair Dynamic, Men	Chen Yun / Chen Baohuang	CHN	Robert Wultański / Mariusz Polański	POL	Robert Jilg / Alexander Grassmann	GER
Group All-Around, Men	China Soviet Union	CHN URS			Bulgaria	BUL
Group Balance, Men	China	CHN	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER
Group Dynamic, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Poland	POL	China	CHN
Tumbling Overall, Men	Feng Tao	CHN	Sergey Pogiba	URS	Steve Elliott	USA
Tumbling Straight Somersault, Men	Feng Tao	CHN	Yordan Tsintsarski	BUL	Steve Elliott	USA
Tumbling Twist, Men	Feng Tao	CHN	Steve Elliott	USA	Sergey Pogiba	URS
Pair All-Around, Mixed	Miglena Bacheva / Svetoslav Zhelyaskov Svetlana Makharicheva / Yevgeny Makhalichev	BUL URS			Lu Jia / Qi Lijun	CHN
Pair Balance, Mixed	Miglena Bacheva / Svetoslav Zhelyaskov Svetlana Makharicheva / Yevgeny Makhalichev	BUL URS			Lu Jia / Qi Lijun	CHN
Pair Dynamic, Mixed	Miglena Bacheva / Svetoslav Zhelyaskov Svetlana Makharicheva / Yevgeny Makhalichev	BUL URS			Lu Jia / Qi Lijun	CHN
Pair All-Around, Women	Milena Dacheva / Nikolina Koleva	BUL	Wang Li / Zang Xiurong	CHN	Alison Tout / Emma Carlisle	GBR
Pair Balance, Women	Milena Dacheva / Nikolina Koleva	BUL	Marina Tkachenko / Yelena Kandyuba	URS	Wang Li / Zang Xiurong	CHN
Pair Dynamic, Women	Milena Dacheva / Nikolina Koleva	BUL	Wang Li / Zang Xiurong	CHN	Marina Tkachenko / Yelena Kandyuba	URS
Group All-Around, Women	Bulgaria Soviet Union	BUL URS			China	CHN
Group Balance, Women	Bulgaria Soviet Union	BUL URS			China	CHN
Group Dynamic, Women	Bulgaria Soviet Union	BUL URS			China	CHN
Tumbling Overall, Women	Maria Dimova	BUL	Yao Zhihua	CHN	Philippa Musikant	GBR
Tumbling Straight Somersault, Women	Maria Dimova	BUL	Lyudmila Gromova	URS	Yao Zhihua	CHN
Tumbling Twist, Women	Maria Dimova Yao Zhihua	BUL CHN			Valeria Kis	HUN