1997 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships

Host City	Manchester
Country	GBR
Held	18 – 21 September 1997
Competitors	74
Countries	8

Events

Event	Gender	Held	Status	Competitors	Countries
Pair All-Around	Men	—	Medal	8	4
Pair Balance	Men	—	Medal	10	5
Pair Dynamic	Men	—	Medal	6	3
Group All-Around	Men	—	Medal	16	4
Group Balance	Men	—	Medal	16	4
Group Dynamic	Men	—	Medal	16	4
Tumbling Overall	Men	—	Medal	4	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	15	5
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	Russia	RUS	13	3	1	17
2	Ukraine	UKR	6	6	5	17
3	China	CHN	5	1	7	13
4	Great Britain	GBR	2	3	2	7
5	Belarus	BLR	1	1	0	2
6	Poland	POL	0	2	4	6
7	France	FRA	0	1	2	3
8	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	7	7

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Pair All-Around, Men	Li Renjie / Song Min	CHN	Aleksandr Vlasov / Vyacheslav Volkov	RUS	Nikolay Nikolov / Marin Marinov Mark Flores / Martyn Smith	BUL GBR
Pair Balance, Men	Li Renjie / Song Min	CHN	Mark Flores / Martyn Smith	GBR	Nikolay Nikolov / Marin Marinov Aleksandr Vlasov / Vyacheslav Volkov Ihor Kozhin / Oleksandr Volohdin	BUL RUS UKR
Pair Dynamic, Men	Li Renjie / Song Min Aleksandr Vlasov / Vyacheslav Volkov	CHN RUS			Nikolay Nikolov / Marin Marinov	BUL
Group All-Around, Men	Russia Ukraine	RUS UKR			Bulgaria China	BUL CHN
Group Balance, Men	Ukraine	UKR	Russia	RUS	Bulgaria China	BUL CHN
Group Dynamic, Men	Russia	RUS	Poland	POL	China Ukraine	CHN UKR
Tumbling Overall, Men	Vladimir Ignatenkov	RUS	Aleksey Kryzhanovsky	RUS	Chen Bo Hryhoriy Duchenko	CHN UKR
Tumbling Straight Somersault, Men	Vladimir Ignatenkov	RUS	Adrian Sienkiewicz	POL	Craig Filmer	GBR
Tumbling Twist, Men	Aleksey Kryzhanovsky	RUS	Chen Bo	CHN	Adrian Sienkiewicz	POL
Pair All-Around, Mixed	Oksana Yatsenko / Eduard Perelygin	RUS	Emily Crocker / Neil Griffiths Valeriya Maltchenko / Dmytro Klymenko	GBR UKR
Pair Balance, Mixed	Oksana Yatsenko / Eduard Perelygin Valeriya Maltchenko / Dmytro Klymenko	RUS UKR			Wu Zhengdan / Wei Baohua	CHN
Pair Dynamic, Mixed	Emily Crocker / Neil Griffiths Oksana Yatsenko / Eduard Perelygin	GBR RUS			Valeriya Maltchenko / Dmytro Klymenko	UKR
Pair All-Around, Women	Liao Xinxin / Lao Peiling	CHN	Iryna Vishnevskaya / Liudmyla Kovalchuk	UKR	Antoniya Stoyanova / Galia Penkova	BUL
Pair Balance, Women	Liao Xinxin / Lao Peiling	CHN	Iryna Vishnevskaya / Liudmyla Kovalchuk	UKR	Brygida Sakowska / Iwona Gargala	POL
Pair Dynamic, Women	Yuliya Karayeva / Anna Smirnova	RUS	Yekaterina Raktcheyeva / Oksana Feoktistova Iryna Vishnevskaya / Liudmyla Kovalchuk	BLR UKR
Group All-Around, Women	Russia Ukraine	RUS UKR			Bulgaria China Poland	BUL CHN POL
Group Balance, Women	Russia Ukraine	RUS UKR			China	CHN
Group Dynamic, Women	Russia	RUS	Ukraine	UKR	Poland	POL
Tumbling Overall, Women	Kathryn Peberdy	GBR	Olena Chabanenko	UKR	Chrystel Robert	FRA
Tumbling Straight Somersault, Women	Tatsiana Morozova	BLR	Chrystel Robert	FRA	Olena Chabanenko	UKR
Tumbling Twist, Women	Olena Chabanenko	UKR	Kathryn Peberdy	GBR	Chrystel Robert	FRA