# 2021 in artistic gymnastics

Below is a list of notable men's and women's artistic gymnastics international events held in 2021, as well as the medalists.

## Retirements

Gymnasts who announced retirements in 2021 :
| Gymnast | Country | Date |
| Nile Wilson | Great Britain | January 14, 2021 |
| Krisztián Berki | Hungary | February 4, 2021 |
| Daria Spiridonova | Russia | February 17, 2021 |
| Leah Grießer | Germany | May 9, 2021 |
| Aliya Mustafina | Russia | June 8, 2021 |
| Kenzo Shirai | Japan | June 16, 2021 |
| Zoé Allaire-Bourgie | Canada | June 19, 2021 |
| Epke Zonderland | Netherlands | June 24, 2021 |
| MyKayla Skinner | United States | August 1, 2021 |
| Sam Mikulak | United States | August 9, 2021 |
| Maria Holbură | Romania | August 10, 2021 |
| Naoto Hayasaka | Japan | September 24, 2021 |
| Giulia Steingruber | Switzerland | October 1, 2021 |
| Deng Shudi | China | October 2, 2021 |
| Mai Murakami | Japan | October 24, 2021 |
| Ümit Şamiloğlu | Turkey | November 19, 2021 |
| Victoria-Kayen Woo | Canada | November 24, 2021 |
| Alexander Shatilov | Israel | December 2, 2021 |
| Shogo Nonomura | Japan | December 12, 2021 |
| Larisa Iordache | Romania | December 16, 2021 |

## Calendar of events

| Date | Location | Event | Men's winners | Women's winners |
| April 21–25 | Basel | European Championships | AA: Nikita Nagornyy FX: Nikita Nagornyy PH: Artur Davtyan SR: Eleftherios Petrounias VT: Igor Radivilov PB: Ferhat Arıcan HB: David Belyavskiy | AA: Viktoria Listunova VT: Giulia Steingruber UB: Angelina Melnikova BB: Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos FX: Jessica Gadirova |
| May 21 | Gold Coast | Oceania Championships | AA: Mikhail Koudinov | AA: Emily Whitehead |
| May 22–27 | Cairo | African Championships | AA: Omar Mohamed | AA: Zeina Ibrahim |
| May 27–30 | Varna | FIG World Challenge Cup | FX: Aurel Benović PH: Illia Kovtun SR: Vinzenz Höck VT: Nazar Chepurnyi PB: Illia Kovtun HB: Tin Srbić | VT: Coline Devillard UB: Uliana Perebinosova BB: Anastasia Bachynska FX: Dildora Aripova & Hanna Szujó |
| June 3–6 | Cairo | FIG World Challenge Cup | FX: Illia Kovtun PH: Illia Kovtun SR: Ali Zahran VT: Nazar Chepurnyi PB: Robert Tvorogal HB: Illia Kovtun | VT: Nancy Taman UB: Diana Varinska BB: Larisa Iordache FX: Zója Székely |
| June 4–6 | Rio de Janeiro | Pan American Championships | TF: Brazil AA: Caio Souza FX: Israel Chiriboga PH: Santiago Mayol SR: Caio Souza VT: Caio Souza PB: Caio Souza HB: Javier Sandoval | TF: Brazil AA: Rebeca Andrade VT: Natalia Escalera UB: Lorrane Oliveira BB: Luciana Alvarado FX: Ana Luiza Lima |
| June 10–13 | Osijek | FIG World Challenge Cup | FX: Milad Karimi PH: Matvei Petrov SR: Salvatore Maresca VT: Igor Radivilov PB: Ferhat Arıcan HB: Tin Srbić | VT: Csenge Bácskay UB: Nina Derwael BB: Nina Derwael FX: Ana Đerek |
| June 18–20 | Guadalajara | Junior Pan American Championships | TF: United States AA: Fred Richard FX: Yuri Guimarães PH: Ángel Barajas SR: Jabiel Polanco VT: Fred Richard PB: Ian Lasic-Ellis HB: Fred Richard | TF: United States AA: Katelyn Jong VT: Katelyn Jong & Kaliya Lincoln UB: Katelyn Jong BB: Madray Johnson FX: Kaliya Lincoln |
| March 10–13 June 23–26 | Doha | FIG World Cup | FX: Artem Dolgopyat PH: Saeid Reza Keikha SR: Eleftherios Petrounias VT: Hidenobu Yonekura PB: Ferhat Arıcan HB: Marios Georgiou | VT: Oksana Chusovitina UB: Rebeca Andrade BB: Diana Varinska FX: Vanessa Ferrari |
| July 23–August 8 | Tokyo | Olympic Games | TF: ROC AA: Daiki Hashimoto FX: Artem Dolgopyat PH: Max Whitlock SR: Liu Yang VT: Shin Jae-hwan PB: Zou Jingyuan HB: Daiki Hashimoto | TF: ROC AA: Sunisa Lee VT: Rebeca Andrade UB: Nina Derwael BB: Guan Chenchen FX: Jade Carey |
| September 2–5 | Koper | FIG World Challenge Cup | FX: Kirill Prokopev PH: Matvei Petrov SR: Vinzenz Höck VT: Andrey Medvedev PB: Sercan Demir HB: Maxime Gentges | VT: Tjaša Kysselef UB: Barbora Mokošová BB: Cassandra Lee FX: Claudia Fragapane |
| September 9–12 | Mersin | FIG World Challenge Cup | FX: Félix Dolci PH: Ahmad Abu al Soud SR: Grigorii Klimentev VT: William Emard PB: Illia Kovtun HB: Dávid Vecsernyés | VT: Csenge Bácskay UB: Zója Székely BB: Maria Ceplinschi FX: Maria Ceplinschi |
| October 18–24 | Kitakyushu | World Championships | AA: Zhang Boheng FX: Nicola Bartolini PH: Stephen Nedoroscik SR: Lan Xingyu VT: Carlos Yulo PB: Hu Xuwei HB: Hu Xuwei | AA: Angelina Melnikova VT: Rebeca Andrade UB: Wei Xiaoyuan BB: Urara Ashikawa FX: Mai Murakami |
| November 9–15 | Cochabamba | Junior South American Championships | TF: Chile AA: Luciano Letelier | TF: Argentina AA: Isabella Ajalla |
| October 27–31 | Dhaka | South Central Asian Championships | TF: Uzbekistan AA: Utkirbek Juraev FX: Abdulaziz Mirvaliev PH: Debang Dey SR: Omkar Shinde VT: Abdulaziz Mirvaliev PB: Omkar Shinde HB: Utkirbek Juraev | TF: Uzbekistan AA: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko VT: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko UB: Dildora Aripova BB: Dildora Aripova FX: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko |
| November 12–14 | Cardiff | Northern European Championships | TF: Wales AA: Joe Cemlyn-Jones FX: Joe Cemlyn-Jones PH: Joe Cemlyn-Jones SR: Daniel Fox VT: Ewan Mcateer PB: Brinn Bevan HB: Sofus Heggemsnes | TF: England AA: Emily Bremner VT: Sara Jacobsen UB: Iida Haapala BB: Megan Bridge FX: Tara Donnelly |
| November 25–December 5 | Cali | Junior Pan American Games | TF: United States AA: Vahe Petrosyan FX: Tobias Liang PH: David Shamah SR: Jabiel Polanco VT: Ricardo Torres PB: David Shamah HB: Diogo Paes | TF: United States AA: Katelyn Jong VT: Tiana Sumanasekera UB: Madray Johnson BB: Madray Johnson FX: Kailin Chio |
| December 8–13 | San Juan | South American Championships | TF: Brazil AA: Gabriel Faria FX: Santiago Mayol PH: Gabriel Faria SR: Daniel Villafañe VT: Josué Heliodoro PB: Julian Jato HB: Patrick Sampaio | TF: Brazil AA: Júlia Soares VT: Franchesca Santi UB: Brisa Carraro BB: Júlia Soares FX: Júlia Soares |

### Canceled events

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several events were canceled.
| Scheduled Date | Location | Event |
| February 25–28 | Cottbus | FIG World Cup |
| March 4–7 | Baku | FIG World Cup |
| March 20–21 | Stuttgart | FIG All-Around World Cup |
| March 27 | Birmingham | FIG All-Around World Cup |
| May 4 | Tokyo | FIG All-Around World Cup |
| May 29–June 1 | Hangzhou | Asian Championships |

## Medalists
### Women
#### International events

| Competition | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Olympics | Team | ROC Lilia Akhaimova Viktoria Listunova Angelina Melnikova Vladislava Urazova | United States Simone Biles Jordan Chiles Sunisa Lee Grace McCallum | Great Britain Jennifer Gadirova Jessica Gadirova Alice Kinsella Amelie Morgan |
| Olympics | All-Around | Sunisa Lee | Rebeca Andrade | Angelina Melnikova |
| Olympics | Vault | Rebeca Andrade | MyKayla Skinner | Yeo Seo-jeong |
| Olympics | Uneven Bars | Nina Derwael | Anastasia Ilyankova | Sunisa Lee |
| Olympics | Balance Beam | Guan Chenchen | Tang Xijing | Simone Biles |
| Olympics | Floor Exercise | Jade Carey | Vanessa Ferrari | Mai Murakami Angelina Melnikova |
| World Championships | All-Around | Angelina Melnikova | Leanne Wong | Kayla DiCello |
| World Championships | Vault | Rebeca Andrade | Asia D'Amato | Angelina Melnikova |
| World Championships | Uneven Bars | Wei Xiaoyuan | Rebeca Andrade | Luo Rui |
| World Championships | Balance Beam | Urara Ashikawa | Pauline Schaefer-Betz | Mai Murakami |
| World Championships | Floor Exercise | Mai Murakami | Angelina Melnikova | Leanne Wong |

#### Regional championships

| Competition | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| African | All-Around | Zeina Ibrahim | Farah Hussein | Naveen Daries |
| European | All-Around | Viktoria Listunova | Angelina Melnikova | Jessica Gadirova |
| European | Vault | Giulia Steingruber | Jessica Gadirova | Angelina Melnikova |
| European | Uneven Bars | Angelina Melnikova | Vladislava Urazova | Amelie Morgan |
| European | Balance Beam | Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos | Sanne Wevers | Anastasia Bachynska |
| European | Floor Exercise | Jessica Gadirova | Angelina Melnikova | Vanessa Ferrari |
| Oceania | All-Around | Emily Whitehead | Georgia-Rose Brown | Brianna Scott |
| Pan American | Team | Brazil | Mexico | Argentina |
| Pan American | All-Around | Rebeca Andrade | Luciana Alvarado | Lorrane Oliveira |
| Pan American | Vault | Natalia Escalera | Hillary Heron | Alaís Perea |
| Pan American | Uneven Bars | Lorrane Oliveira | Christal Bezerra | Daniela Briceño |
| Pan American | Balance Beam | Luciana Alvarado | Paulina Campos | Júlia Soares |
| Pan American | Floor Exercise | Ana Luiza Lima | Christal Bezerra | Abigail Magistrati |

#### World Cup series
### Men
#### International events

| Competition | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Olympics | Team | ROC Denis Ablyazin David Belyavskiy Artur Dalaloyan Nikita Nagornyy | Japan Daiki Hashimoto Kazuma Kaya Takeru Kitazono Wataru Tanigawa | China Lin Chaopan Sun Wei Xiao Ruoteng Zou Jingyuan |
| Olympics | All-Around | Daiki Hashimoto | Xiao Ruoteng | Nikita Nagornyy |
| Olympics | Floor Exercise | Artem Dolgopyat | Rayderley Zapata | Xiao Ruoteng |
| Olympics | Pommel Horse | Max Whitlock | Lee Chih-kai | Kazuma Kaya |
| Olympics | Rings | Liu Yang | You Hao | Eleftherios Petrounias |
| Olympics | Vault | Shin Jae-hwan | Denis Ablyazin | Artur Davtyan |
| Olympics | Parallel Bars | Zou Jingyuan | Lukas Dauser | Ferhat Arıcan |
| Olympics | Horizontal Bar | Daiki Hashimoto | Tin Srbić | Nikita Nagornyy |
| World Championships | All-Around | Zhang Boheng | Daiki Hashimoto | Illia Kovtun |
| World Championships | Floor Exercise | Nicola Bartolini | Kazuki Minami | Emil Soravuo |
| World Championships | Pommel Horse | Stephen Nedoroscik | Weng Hao Kazuma Kaya | none awarded |
| World Championships | Rings | Lan Xingyu | Marco Lodadio | Salvatore Maresca Grigorii Klimentev |
| World Championships | Vault | Carlos Yulo | Hidenobu Yonekura | Andrey Medvedev |
| World Championships | Parallel Bars | Hu Xuwei | Carlos Yulo | Shi Cong |
| World Championships | Horizontal Bar | Hu Xuwei | Daiki Hashimoto | Brody Malone |

#### Regional championships

| Competition | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| African | All-Around | Omar Mohamed | Ziad Khater | Uche Eke |
| European | All-Around | Nikita Nagornyy | David Belyavskiy | Illia Kovtun |
| European | Floor Exercise | Nikita Nagornyy | Benjamin Gischard | Nicola Bartolini |
| European | Pommel Horse | Artur Davtyan | Nikita Nagornyy | Joe Fraser |
| European | Rings | Eleftherios Petrounias | Nikita Nagornyy | Salvatore Maresca |
| European | Vault | Igor Radivilov | Andrey Medvedev | Giarnni Regini-Moran |
| European | Parallel Bars | Ferhat Arıcan | David Belyavskiy | Christian Baumann Lukas Dauser |
| European | Horizontal Bar | David Belyavskiy | Andreas Toba | Adem Asil |
| Oceania | All-Around | Mikhail Koudinov | Mitchell Morgans | Jesse Moore |
| Pan American | Team | Brazil | United States | Colombia |
| Pan American | All-Around | Caio Souza | Paul Juda | Diogo Soares |
| Pan American | Floor Exercise | Israel Chiriboga | Tomás Florêncio | Julian Jato |
| Pan American | Pommel Horse | Santiago Mayol | Javier Sandoval | Francisco Barretto |
| Pan American | Rings | Caio Souza | Federico Molinari | Kristopher Bohórquez |
| Pan American | Vault | Caio Souza | Fabián de Luna | Daniel Villafañe |
| Pan American | Parallel Bars | Caio Souza | Javier Sandoval | Diogo Soares |
| Pan American | Horizontal Bar | Javier Sandoval | José Manuel Martínez | Santiago Mayol |

#### World Cup series
## Season's best scores
### Women

Note: Only the scores of senior gymnasts from international events have been included below. Only one score per gymnast is included.

#### All-around

| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Event |
| 1 | Simone Biles | United States | 57.731 | Olympic Games QF |
| 2 | Sunisa Lee | United States | 57.433 | Olympic Games AA |
| 3 | Rebeca Andrade | Brazil | 57.399 | Olympic Games QF |
| 4 | Angelina Melnikova | Russia | 57.199 | Olympic Games AA |
| 5 | Vladislava Urazova | Russia | 57.099 | Olympic Games QF |
| 6 | Viktoria Listunova | Russia | 56.932 | Olympic Games QF |
| 7 | Nina Derwael | Belgium | 56.598 | Olympic Games QF |
| 8 | Tang Xijing | China | 56.432 | Olympic Games QF |
| 9 | Leanne Wong | United States | 56.340 | World Championships AA |
| 10 | Jade Carey | United States | 56.265 | Olympic Games QF |
| 11 | Mai Murakami | Japan | 56.032 | Olympic Games AA |
| 12 | Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos | France | 55.966 | Olympic Games TF |
| 13 | Kayla DiCello | United States | 55.700 | World Championships QF |
| 14 | MyKayla Skinner | United States | 55.398 | Olympic Games QF |
| 15 | Jessica Gadirova | Great Britain | 55.199 | Olympic Games QF |
| 16 | Grace McCallum | United States | 55.166 | Olympic Games TF |
| 17 | Lu Yufei | China | 55.066 | Olympic Games QF |
| 18 | Zhang Jin | China | 54.932 | Olympic Games QF |
| 19 | Zsófia Kovács | Hungary | 54.732 | Olympic Games QF |
| 20 | Jennifer Gadirova | Great Britain | 54.699 | Olympic Games QF |

#### Vault

| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Event |
| 1 | Simone Biles | United States | 15.183 | Olympic Games QF |
| 2 | Jade Carey | United States | 15.166 | Olympic Games QF |
| 3 | Rebeca Andrade | Brazil | 15.100 | Olympic Games QF |
| 4 | MyKayla Skinner | United States | 14.916 | Olympic Games EF |
| 5 | Giulia Steingruber | Switzerland | 14.823 | European Championships EF |
| 6 | Yeo Seo-jeong | South Korea | 14.800 | Olympic Games QF |
| 7 | Alexa Moreno | Mexico | 14.716 | Olympic Games QF |
| 8 | Shallon Olsen | Canada | 14.699 | Olympic Games QF |
| 9 | Lilia Akhaimova | Russia | 14.699 | Olympic Games QF |
| 10 | Angelina Melnikova | Russia | 14.683 | Olympic Games EF |

#### Uneven bars

| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Event |
| 1 | Nina Derwael | Belgium | 15.400 | Olympic Games TF |
| 1 | Sunisa Lee | United States | 15.400 | Olympic Games TF |
| 3 | Rebeca Andrade | Brazil | 15.100 | World Championships QF |
| 4 | Anastasia Ilyankova | Russia | 14.966 | Olympic Games QF |
| 5 | Angelina Melnikova | Russia | 14.933 | Olympic Games QF |
| 6 | Viktoria Listunova | Russia | 14.900 | Olympic Games TF |
| 7 | Vladislava Urazova | Russia | 14.866 | Olympic Games QF |
| 8 | Wei Xiaoyuan | China | 14.733 | World Championships QF |
| 9 | Lu Yufei | China | 14.700 | Olympic Games QF |
| 9 | Elisabeth Seitz | Germany | 14.700 | Olympic Games QF |

#### Balance beam

| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Event |
| 1 | Guan Chenchen | China | 14.933 | Olympic Games QF |
| 2 | Luo Rui | China | 14.566 | World Championships QF |
| 3 | Viktoria Listunova | Russia | 14.333 | Olympic Games TF |
| 3 | Tang Xijing | China | 14.333 | Olympic Games QF |
| 5 | Sunisa Lee | United States | 14.200 | Olympic Games QF |
| 5 | Vladislava Urazova | Russia | 14.200 | Olympic Games AA |
| 7 | Giorgia Villa | Italy | 14.150 | Flanders International Team Challenge |
| 8 | Larisa Iordache | Romania | 14.133 | Olympic Games QF |
| 9 | Urara Ashikawa | Japan | 14.100 | World Championships EF |
| 9 | Ellie Black | Canada | 14.100 | Olympic Games QF |
| 9 | Lu Yufei | China | 14.100 | Olympic Games QF |

#### Floor exercise

| Rank | Name | Country | Score | Event |
| 1 | Jade Carey | United States | 14.366 | Olympic Games EF |
| 2 | Angelina Melnikova | Russia | 14.300 | European Championships QF |
| 3 | Vanessa Ferrari | Italy | 14.266 | Doha World Cup EF |
| 4 | Viktoria Listunova | Russia | 14.166 | Olympic Games TF |
| 4 | Mai Murakami | Japan | 14.166 | Olympic Games EF |
| 6 | Simone Biles | United States | 14.133 | Olympic Games QF |
| 7 | Rebeca Andrade | Brazil | 14.066 | Olympic Games QF |
| 8 | Jessica Gadirova | Great Britain | 14.066 | Olympic Games QF |
| 8 | Leanne Wong | United States | 14.066 | World Championships AA |
| 10 | Kayla DiCello | United States | 13.800 | World Championships QF |
| 10 | Jennifer Gadirova | Great Britain | 13.800 | Olympic Games QF |

### Men
#### Single vault

| No. | Gymnast | Nation | Score | Event |
| 1 | Wataru Tanigawa | Japan | 15.533 | NHK Trophy |
| 2 | Hidenobu Yonekura | Japan | 15.500 | All Japan Championships Tryout |
| 3 | Keisuke Asato | Japan | 15.300 | All Japan Championships VT QF |
| 4 | Adem Asil | Turkey | 15.266 | Olympic VT Final |
| 5 | Daiki Hashimoto | Japan | 15.233 | All Japan Championships AA QF |
| 6 | Chen Yilu | China | 15.200 | Chinese National Games VT Final |
| 7 | Andrey Medvedev | Israel | 15.133 | Doha World Cup VT Final |
| 8 | Shin Jea-hwan | South Korea | 15.100 | Olympic QF |
| 9 | Carlos Yulo | Philippines | 15.066 | All Japan Team Championships |
| 10 | Zhang Boheng | China | 15.033 | Chinese Championships AA QF |

#### Horizontal bar

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Japan, China, and Russia only